Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon Jr. was too preoccupied trying to snag immigrants for voting illegally to notice the election fraud scandal occurring right under his nose in North Carolina’s 9th District.
According to a Sunday Washington Post report, Higdon took his cue from the Trump administration and has both arrested people and requested information about foreign-born workers from state and local agencies—a task officials say will cost millions and be time consuming.
The five people sentenced under Higdon were given minimal penalties and misdemeanor convictions, as they almost all were encouraged by campaign workers to vote and didn’t lie about their statuses.
Higdon’s office reportedly showed much less interest in the bona fide election fraud happening in the same parts of North Carolina, where mail-in ballots were illegally collected and disregarded. Officials dismissed many warnings about the fishy circumstances of the vote count.
The seat for that race in the 9th District is still open amid an ongoing investigation into the many allegations of misconduct surrounding the election.
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If true, these campaign workers should be prosecuted. No one should be putting people at risk like this. It’s unconscionable.
And yes I realize that’s not the point of the article – of which there’s an in-depth write-up at WaPo, btw.
Deja Vue, all over again… Bushie’s administration fired seven U.S. attorneys on a single day. They needed to “produce, manage well, and exhibit loyalty to the President and Attorney General re-voter purges and dropping corruption cases.”
But those ballots were legitimately stolen by white Republican Americans.
Malevolence tempered by incompetence. The fish rots from the head down and, after more than two years of executive putrefaction, the stink is everywhere although, in truth, things have been getting pretty whiffy – with relief from breezes now and then – at least since the 1980’s.
NB: Incompetence has real costs. The US has been using its favored position as ‘super power’ to disguise the costs of managerial incompetence for some time now and it’s unclear if current US political and corporate norms will foster improvement since they now appear to favor various forms of bad management and managers. The choices for us now seem to be pretty much between a slow post-imperial slump, like the UK’s or Spain, or a major social convulsion to get to some other kind of system.