Top Trump Election Denier Resigns After Getting Busted For Election Fraud

A senior official at Turning Level Motion has resigned after allegedly committing election fraud by forging voter signatures on paperwork.

The Washington Post reported:
State Rep. Austin Smith (R) — who was senior director at Turning Level Motion, the marketing campaign arm of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Level USA — was accused by a Democratic activist of submitting petition sheets with rows of voter names, addresses and signatures that “bear a putting resemblance” to his handwriting, in keeping with a criticism. Smith “personally circulated a number of petition sheets bearing what seem like solid voter signatures,” the criticism mentioned.

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Smith submitted his resignation to Turning Level Motion on Thursday, in keeping with an individual accustomed to the matter who spoke on the situation of anonymity as a result of he was not licensed to speak about it publicly. Smith additionally publicly ended his reelection marketing campaign.

Smith claimed that he bailed on his marketing campaign as a result of he feared {that a} “biased choose” would consider the allegations, however that doesn’t clarify why, if he’s harmless, he resigned from Turning Level.

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Turning Level USA is Charlie Kirk’s group, and they’re the one of many conservative activist teams which have absolutely embraced Trump’s election denialism.

All harmless folks ought to stick it out and struggle to clear their names. The truth that Smith selected not to do that isn’t proof of something, but it surely strongly means that he might have achieved one thing improper.

Republicans maintain speaking about election fraud, however the one election fraud that retains being discovered is being dedicated by Republicans.

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