This reporter could not hold back from staying in his journalistic role. His commentary on Trump’s attempt to cause distrust in the vote confounded him.
Reporter Jake Sherman could not hold back
Katy Tur‘s segment questioning the president’s rationale for continuing his disingenuous crusade against the 2020 vote. Jake Sherman could not help himself. He said even though he could get in trouble for saying it, what Donald Trump is doing is the height of stupidity.
The problem is that there is an alternate reality that continues to give the Trump myth pseudo legs. And when deep pockets fund that alternate reality, that becomes a problem.
Former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne said that he’s financing “a team of hackers and cybersleuths” in an attempt to prove that President Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election, according to The Daily Beast.
Byrne, who stepped down from his position at Overstock last year after admitting to a relationship with a Russian spy, recently went on the One America News Network (OAN), a conservative news outlet and a favored media destination of Trump, to detail what he described as a “rigged” election process.
Dominion Voting Systems, a company that provided election voting software in several key presidential battlegrounds, has been a target for right-wing grievances about the presidential election. For weeks, the company has sought to fend off debunked and outlandish allegations that the company facilitated voting irregularities.
In the interview, OAN made reference to Dominion machines when discussing election irregularities, which Byrne insisted was the key to Trump’s loss.
While Biden will be President on January 20th, 2021, we will have to live through a country with 74 million delusional people. It is, as the reporter said, the height of stupidity.