Fascist candidates around the world have challenged their own electoral losses as the result of “election fraud,” with their parties and supporters using Trumpian language like “Stop the Steal” and “fake election” in attempts to substantiate their groundless claims.
In Peru, where Marxist socialist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo has eked out a razor-thin margin against the right-wing Keiko Fujimori, charges of election fraud have already been made by Fujimori, the daughter of imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori.
In Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has also cited election fraud in a vain attempt to forestall losing his position to an historic coalition of right wing settler, progressive, religious Zionist, Arab Islamist, and centrist parties.
In Saxony-Anhalt, where Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats defied forecasts to score a victory against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the far right wasted no time in claiming election fraud. They have even concocted a fantasy conspiracy theory that alleges the Christian Democrats and Greens “devalued” AfD votes with votes for the Green Party. The AfD accused election workers sympathetic to the Greens of under counting AfD votes. The former AfD chairman of Saxony-Anhalt, André Poggenburg, claimed a single tweet by an alleged Green Party election worker proved the alleged fraud. It was later pointed out that the tweet was from a troll account. Other AfD members claimed fraud with postal or mail-in ballots. In a charge similar to Republican charges that paper ballots in Arizona were ground up and fed to chickens that were later incinerated, one AfD supporter on YouTube announced that “AfD votes by postal vote were simply burned.”
One thing that is consistent with the scourge of Trump fascism infecting election systems around the world is the tendency to create conspiracies where none exist. Trump’s allegations of election fraud in his drubbing by Joe Biden last November has resulted in a vote recount “fraudit” that has, in violation of federal law, compromised over a million ballots cast in Maricopa County in Arizona. Trumpists have similar plans for ballots cast in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
In a press conference worthy of Trump’s deranged intermittent attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, Keiko Fujimori produced videos and photos that allegedly prove vote counting fraud. With over 96 percent of the vote counted, Castillo led Fujimori with 50.2 percent to 49.7 percent, a 100,000 vote difference. International election observers, including those from the Organization of American States, deemed the election free and fair.
Netanyahu cited fraud in the victory of what he called an “extreme-leftist” coalition in stating, “We are witnessing the greatest election fraud in the history of the country, in my opinion in the history of any democracy.” Netanyahu’s rhetoric echoed the unfounded bombast of Trump in describing his own loss of the U.S. presidential race.
Netanyahu supporters have staged protests at the homes of opposition coalition politicians, something that prompted the head of the Shin Bet domestic security agency to warn users of social media not to encourage violent action. In 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a far-right supporter of Netanyahu.
The Christian Democrats beat the AfD by a whopping 16 points in Saxony-Anhalt, the last such state election before the national election in September. The AfD, which came up short in the three state elections held in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Wurttemberg, and Saxony-Anhalt, has resorted to using the Trump catch-phrase “Stop the Steal” to allege fraud against the AfD in the three elections where the AfD did not do as well as was forecast by pollsters.
Trump fascism is also alive and well in Guatemala, where Vice President Kamala Harris made her first visit abroad as vice president. Protesters in Guatemala City met Harris with signs that read, “Kamala, Trump Won,” “Kamala, Mind Your Own Business,” “Kamala, Go Home,” and “Guatemala is pro-life #momalahelpme.” A day prior to Harris’s arrival in Guatemala, its right-wing President, Alejandro Giammattei, undiplomatically blamed President Biden for the Guatemalan migrant crisis on the U.S. border with Mexico. There are close links between the International Republican Institute (IRI), an arm of the U.S. Republican Party now firmly in the hands of Trump loyalists and attached to the National Endowment for Democracy, and Giammattei’s Vamos (Let’s Go) party. The anti-Harris protest signs were likely produced by IRI-funded activists in Guatemala.
New Zealand election officials were forced to defend that nation’s national election last year amid charges from Trumpist trolls that the election was “fixed” by “vote counting machines.” In New Zealand, all votes are counted by hand, not by machine.
Trump fascism will only be eliminated after the head of the fascist serpent—Trump—is dealt with harshly, preferably with a long prison sentence.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and nationally-distributed columnist. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).
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Global fascists seize on Trump’s election fraud dogma
Posted on June 10, 2021 by Wayne Madsen
Fascist candidates around the world have challenged their own electoral losses as the result of “election fraud,” with their parties and supporters using Trumpian language like “Stop the Steal” and “fake election” in attempts to substantiate their groundless claims.
In Peru, where Marxist socialist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo has eked out a razor-thin margin against the right-wing Keiko Fujimori, charges of election fraud have already been made by Fujimori, the daughter of imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori.
In Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has also cited election fraud in a vain attempt to forestall losing his position to an historic coalition of right wing settler, progressive, religious Zionist, Arab Islamist, and centrist parties.
In Saxony-Anhalt, where Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats defied forecasts to score a victory against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the far right wasted no time in claiming election fraud. They have even concocted a fantasy conspiracy theory that alleges the Christian Democrats and Greens “devalued” AfD votes with votes for the Green Party. The AfD accused election workers sympathetic to the Greens of under counting AfD votes. The former AfD chairman of Saxony-Anhalt, André Poggenburg, claimed a single tweet by an alleged Green Party election worker proved the alleged fraud. It was later pointed out that the tweet was from a troll account. Other AfD members claimed fraud with postal or mail-in ballots. In a charge similar to Republican charges that paper ballots in Arizona were ground up and fed to chickens that were later incinerated, one AfD supporter on YouTube announced that “AfD votes by postal vote were simply burned.”
One thing that is consistent with the scourge of Trump fascism infecting election systems around the world is the tendency to create conspiracies where none exist. Trump’s allegations of election fraud in his drubbing by Joe Biden last November has resulted in a vote recount “fraudit” that has, in violation of federal law, compromised over a million ballots cast in Maricopa County in Arizona. Trumpists have similar plans for ballots cast in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
In a press conference worthy of Trump’s deranged intermittent attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, Keiko Fujimori produced videos and photos that allegedly prove vote counting fraud. With over 96 percent of the vote counted, Castillo led Fujimori with 50.2 percent to 49.7 percent, a 100,000 vote difference. International election observers, including those from the Organization of American States, deemed the election free and fair.
Netanyahu cited fraud in the victory of what he called an “extreme-leftist” coalition in stating, “We are witnessing the greatest election fraud in the history of the country, in my opinion in the history of any democracy.” Netanyahu’s rhetoric echoed the unfounded bombast of Trump in describing his own loss of the U.S. presidential race.
Netanyahu supporters have staged protests at the homes of opposition coalition politicians, something that prompted the head of the Shin Bet domestic security agency to warn users of social media not to encourage violent action. In 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a far-right supporter of Netanyahu.
The Christian Democrats beat the AfD by a whopping 16 points in Saxony-Anhalt, the last such state election before the national election in September. The AfD, which came up short in the three state elections held in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Wurttemberg, and Saxony-Anhalt, has resorted to using the Trump catch-phrase “Stop the Steal” to allege fraud against the AfD in the three elections where the AfD did not do as well as was forecast by pollsters.
Trump fascism is also alive and well in Guatemala, where Vice President Kamala Harris made her first visit abroad as vice president. Protesters in Guatemala City met Harris with signs that read, “Kamala, Trump Won,” “Kamala, Mind Your Own Business,” “Kamala, Go Home,” and “Guatemala is pro-life #momalahelpme.” A day prior to Harris’s arrival in Guatemala, its right-wing President, Alejandro Giammattei, undiplomatically blamed President Biden for the Guatemalan migrant crisis on the U.S. border with Mexico. There are close links between the International Republican Institute (IRI), an arm of the U.S. Republican Party now firmly in the hands of Trump loyalists and attached to the National Endowment for Democracy, and Giammattei’s Vamos (Let’s Go) party. The anti-Harris protest signs were likely produced by IRI-funded activists in Guatemala.
New Zealand election officials were forced to defend that nation’s national election last year amid charges from Trumpist trolls that the election was “fixed” by “vote counting machines.” In New Zealand, all votes are counted by hand, not by machine.
Trump fascism will only be eliminated after the head of the fascist serpent—Trump—is dealt with harshly, preferably with a long prison sentence.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and nationally-distributed columnist. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).