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Friday, January 14th, 2022

Republican Who Signed Forged 2020 Certification Ran Russian-style Troll Farm That Paid Teens to Post Pro-Trump Propaganda

Author:     David Badash
Source:     Raw Story / The New Civil
Publication Date:     January 13, 2022
 Link: Republican Who Signed Forged 2020 Certification Ran Russian-style Troll Farm That Paid Teens to Post Pro-Trump Propaganda
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State Representative Jake Hoffman speaking with attendees at a rally in Arizona.
Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr

Arizona Republican State Representative Jake Hoffman made news this week when it was revealed he signed a forged “certification” falsely stating Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, won his state’s Electoral College electors.

Video that’s gone viral of Hoffman shows him defending signing the forged documents in which he falsely identifies himself as a duly elected elector for Trump.

His defense: “in unprecedented times, unprecedented action does occur.” He goes on to claim, “there is no case law, there is no precedent that exists as to whether or not an election that is currently being litigated in the courts has due standing.”

He called the forged electoral documents “dueling opinions” in this video:

The video has been viewed over 800,000 times in just 14 hours.

Hoffman, it turns out, was banned from Twitter after his company, Rally Forge, worked with Charlie Kirk’s far right wing political activist group, Turning Point USA during the 2020 election, establishing “a domestic ‘troll farm’ […]

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