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submitted 1 year ago by donuts@kbin.social to c/politics@lemmy.world

The video was filmed before the election results had even been announced.

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[-] davidalso@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's the part that I don't think is a strong argument though. They were crying fraud long before the election, e.g., saying that mail-in ballots were illegal, claiming people were stuffing drop-off, etc. None of it was valid, but their argument was well established before election day.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

There's a difference between vague inflammatory remarks about how people can manipulate mail-in ballots during campaign speeches versus a political consultant to Trump detailing how exactly they plan to interfere and manipulate the results of a fair election if it doesn't go their way.

Any member of a board of directors may give a speech about how stock values might be compromised by valuable information and would likely not be criminally liable for speculation, but if one board member informs the rest about his intention to disclose private company information to the public in order to sway the markets, that is a criminal insider trading conspiracy that all board members could be held criminally liable for.

[-] davidalso@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I'm just pointing out that people need to focus on the latter rather than the former.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
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