Right wing conspiracy theory mill "True The Vote" has admitted in court that it has no evidence to back up its claims of election fraud in the 2020 election.

True The Vote is the brainchild of hairy spider Catherine Engelbrecht, who spun a web of lies which were then trumpeted nation-wide as facts by Donald Trump, right-wing blowhards Mike Lindel and Danesh D'Souza, disgraced lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell, and other MAGA minions.

Among the lies True The Vote has been spreading about the election are the following:

• that a network of Democratic "mules" were paid $10 for every ballot bearing a vote for Joe Biden;

• that they had an insider informant who took part in the alleged ballot scheme;

• that they had a team of "researchers and investigators" providing evidence of electoral fraud;

• that their "Hotline" had received many calls from Georgia residents reporting voting irregularities.

The Georgia State Board of Elections made many unanswered requests to True The Vote for documentary evidence backing up their claims. Finally, the Board filed suit to make TTV put up or shut up.

In their court filing today, lawyers for True The Vote wrote,

"TTV has no such documents in its possession, custody, or control."

In layman's terms, they got squat.

This stark admission is only the latest in a long string of such moments of truth. Hard on the heels of the 2020 election, Trump lawyers filed over 60 lawsuits alleging electoral fraud in battleground jurisdictions around the country. Trump lost them all. Last year Dominion Voting Systems won a $780 million judgement against Fox "News" for spreading the lie that Dominion's voting machines had been rigged to change votes for Trump into votes for Biden. And Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani got hit with a $148 million judgement for defaming Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shay Moss, falsely claiming the two women committed election fraud on behalf of the Biden
Campaign.

Notwithstanding these setbacks, Trump and his minions continued to peddle their lies, with the result that today nearly 70% of Republican voters say they believe that Democrats stole the 2020 election.

MAGA Republicans have entered a post-truth twilight zone, where independently verifiable evidence is subordinate to "alternative facts." Can a nation riven by such absurdity long endure? We are about to find out. Strap in.

[apnews.com]