Thursday, December 17, 2020

Trump Supporters Are Getting Crazier And More Dangerous


 Donald Trump refuses to concede the presidential election. He is still claiming that he won in a landslide, and Biden was declared the winner by the electoral college only because of millions of fraudulent ballots -- even though he has no evidence of that.

His constant lies and refusal to concede is believed by many of his far right-wing supporters, and some of them are resorting to violence and threats. Trump has done nothing to stop that. It seems that he wants the violence to happen to soothe his hurt feelings over losing.

The Republican in charge of voting in Georgia has received death threats. The governor of Michigan was the victim in a plot to kidnap and kill her. And now an ex-cop in Houston has stopped a truck at gun point and threatened the driver -- who he believed was transporting hundreds of thousands of fake ballots. It was not true.

Here is how ABC-13 News in Houston covered this crazy story:

A former Houston Police Department Captain was arrested and charged for running a man off the road and pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove claims of a massive voter fraud scheme in Harris County, according to a news release from the Harris County's DA's office.

Mark Anthony Aguirre, 63, was arrested by Houston police Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

"He crossed the line from dirty politics to commission of a violent crime, and we are lucky no one was killed," Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. "His alleged investigation was backward from the start - first alleging a crime had occurred and then trying to prove it happened."

According to court documents, Aguirre told police that he was part of a group of private citizens called the "Liberty Center," who were conducting a civilian investigation into the alleged ballot scheme.

According to Aguirre, he had been conducting surveillance for four days on a man who was allegedly the mastermind of a giant voter fraud scheme. Aguirre told authorities the man was hiding 750,000 fraudulent ballots in a truck he was driving.

Instead, the victim turned out to be an innocent air conditioner repairman, court documents said.

Aguirre ran his SUV into the back of the truck to get the technician to stop and get out, according to court documents.

When the technician got out of the truck, Aguirre pointed a handgun at the technician, forced him to the ground and put his knee on the man's back until police came, the court document said.

Aguirre allegedly directed police to a parking lot nearby where another suspect, who has not been identified, took the truck.

According to court documents, there were no ballots in the truck. The truck was filled with air conditioning parts and tools. . . .

Aguirre allegedly never told police that he had been paid a total of $266,400 by the Houston-based Liberty Center for God and Country, with $211,400 of that amount being deposited into his account the day after the incident. . . .

The case was investigated by HPD, and is being prosecuted by the Public Corruption Division of the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

Aguirre's claims of election fraud were found to be baseless after thorough investigation by HPD and by the Harris County Precinct 1, as part of the Harris County Election Security Task Force.

He is currently in jail on a $30,000 bond.

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