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#electioninterference

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Why Is #ElonMusk Trying to Buy a #Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?

#Musk has given >$20M to orgs supporting Schimel’s election. The race, already the most expensive judicial election in American history, is likely to cost a $100M, acc/to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan campaign-finance watchdog.

#law #ElectionInterference #WisconsinSupremeCourt
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/wh

The New Yorker · Why Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?By Dan Kaufman

CBC does a good job, cueing up the 4 leaders answers on the question of Poillievre not getting security clearance despite reports again today that his own leadership race in 2022 was the victim of Indian influence efforts.

cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory

Poillievre often responds "I WILL NOT BE MUZZZZZLED”...

Meanwhile, Blanchet, Leader of the #BQ, and who does have the clearance, wins this round with his dead-pan answer:

"I never felt muzzled in my whole life” 😂
#Elxn45 #ElectionInterference

#DanielleSmith
#Alberta
#Canada

Danielle Smith committed #electioninterference. It's not that she asked to pause the tariffs. It's that she asked to pause them so that the more favorable to Trump candidates, Pierre Pollievre and the Conservative Party, would be more likely to win. Danielle Smith was quoted as saying her, Pierre Pollievre, and Trump see eye to eye on Trumps vision of North America. It is extremely illegal to ask a foreign entity, never mind a foreign government, to assist in an election, even more so once an election is imminent.

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Danielle Smith's resume and tenure of the UCP in office.

She doubled the cost of healthcare by forcing contracts onto private organizations, all while reducing the amount of service provided.

She spent $5,800 per bottle on children's tylenol. Wasting millions of taxpayers dollars.

She intimidated and fired AHS board members who were investigating the questionable private healthcare contracts to privatized surgeons. She then fired all of them on the day they were to hand their investigation to the RCMP. She then enstated a single person in place of the board, the deputy chief of staff to the health minister.

She handed healthcare deals to the wife of the former health ministers wife.

That same former health minister showed up drunk on the front lawn of a surgeons private residence who criticized him online in an attempt to intimidate him.

She handed the same minister and other former UCP members control rural hospitals after they left party due to losing their seats in the election.

She has spent tax payer money to undercut the unity of Canada to go speak and attend MAGA rallies and events.

Her minister of justice was caught trying to make a deal with a chief of police to get out of speeding tickets.

Her former minister of education said she didn't believe in public education. She was then made the health minister, and yes, she is the one caught up in the current scandals.

Smith has also sided with Alberta separatists according to statements directly from the sepratists.

She is backed by the religious organization Take Back Alberta, who are also under investigation for tax evasion and illegal foreign donations.

She contracted out the medical industry lab testing to Dynalife. They then turned around and filed for insolvency after only 90 days with the contract. Then, Smith paid to buy the company and gave the board of the failing company cushy bonuses for it. All of this after she paid for the cancellation of the construction of a new modern medical public super lab.

One of her members called trans kids the "shit nuggets that ruin the cookies for everyone". Who she let stay as a member even after she proved she still stood by her remarks after "sensitivity training".

She is attempting to pull Alberta's pension plans out of the joint Canadian Pension Plan, the best performing pension plan in the world.

She wants to create a provincial police force that answers to her office so she can kick out the RCMP. Coincidentally, the same police force that is in charge of the numerous investigations of scandals she is involved in.

She tried to get the Justice Minister to pull strings over the criminal case of a religious nut who was involved in the trucker convoy, and had to apologize to the legislature after the ethics commission found she had contravened the Conflicts of Interest Act.

She has promoted anti-vax policies and dedicated funding to alternative snake oil health options. She also called unvaccinated people the "most discriminated group of people she's ever seen."

She canceled fines for those who broke covid restriction laws.

She passed laws that made it law that teachers have to out trans and gay kids to their parents.

She made it illegal for trans kids to receive healthcare.

globalnews.ca/news/11094625/da

Global News · Alberta premier faces backlash for asking America to pause tariffs until after electionBy Karen Bartko
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Some ofcls involved in the working groups said they are concerned that the #Trump admin is de-prioritizing the issue despite #intelligence warnings. The change follows the unwinding of other #Russia-focused projects launched by #Biden’s admin.

The #FBI last month ended an effort to counter US #ElectionInterference by foreign adversaries including Russia & put on leave staff working on the issue at #DHS. The #DOJ also disbanded a team that seized the assets of #RussianOligarchs.

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As America cuts off weapon shipments and intel to embattled Ukrainians, MAGA Officials probe #Zelensky’s opposition leaders in hopes of replacing him with a submissive Russian proxy.

Trump’s rogue administration is also actively supporting Pro Russian candidate Calin Georgescu in Romania.

MAGA Delegates have urged Romanian officials to fast track Calin Georgescu’s confirmation as President.

Election investigations have since uncovered a coordinated Russian campaign, including cyberattacks and payments to influencers to promote Georgescu’s messages on social media.

A follow up raid revealed Georgescu had 1 million in Russian rubles, a cache of weapons, and a plane ticket to Moscow in his possession.

On “X” Musk posted “The candidate in Romania who received the most votes was arrested today” excluding all mention of Russia’s interference.

It was recently announced that Georgescu is now banned from running for President amid surrounding allegations.

With Musk now boosting Pierre Poilievre on X, America’s goal to install a corruptible, subservient Prime Minister becomes clear.

With Democracy itself under constant attack by foreign interference around the World, why does Poilievre not care to be briefed on such threats to his own Country?

#cdnpoli #canpoli #uspolitics #trump #electioninterference #Georgescu #Romania #ManchurianCandidates #CPC #PierrePoilievre #securityclearance

europesays.com/1897037/

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EUROPE SAYS · Romania expels 2 Russian diplomats in connection to Georgescu's case, media reportsRomania said on March 5 that it had expelled Russian military attache Victor Makovskiy and his deputy, Evgeny
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Director of National *Intelligence* #TulsiGabbard has falsely accused Kyiv of canceling the election. (In response to the news in this article, #ElonMusk tweeted: “Ukraine needs to hold an election. Zelensky would lose by a landslide.”) [yeah, sure, okay].

But while the #Trump camp may hope an election will sink #Zelensky, he is still massively more popular than Tymoshenko & Poroshenko.

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The ofcl line from the #US admin is that #Trump is not interfering in #Ukraine’s domestic politics. #Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick denied his boss was “weighing into Ukrainian politics,” adding all that Trump wants is a partner for peace.

But the behavior of Trump & his ofcls suggests quite the opposite. Trump has accused #Zelensky of being a “dictator without elections,” & hinted he would not be “around very long” if he didn’t do a deal w/ #Russia.