Even J.K. Rowling Got Involved
Kris Kobach is the Kansas Secretary of State. He’s also the attorney for the legal a arm of a far right wing anti-imigration group, the Federation for American Immigration Reform. FAIR happens a Southern Poverty Law Center designated active anti-immigrant group. Kobach is also the source of some of President Donald Trump’s more ridiculous claims about voter fraud.
On Sunday, Trump White House senior aide Stephen Miller lied about voter fraud while delivering the most authoritarian statement to come out of a White House official in probably decades. He also cited Kobach as his source of voter fraud claims, including Trump’s lie just last week that “thousands” were bussed in to New Hampshire from Massachusetts, causing him to lose the Granite State to Hillary Clinton.Â
On Monday, CNN’s Kate Bolduan spoke with Kobach, and essentially destroyed his claims.
Kobach actually spent about eight minutes on CNN, with Bolduan giving him every opportunity to prove his claims.
The Daily Beast’s Matt Wilstein put it this way: “The man Stephen Miller said had evidence of voter fraud in New Hampshire came up empty on CNN.”
Rather than skulk away Kobach next took to Twitter to whine about how he was treated:
No – as this keen observer, a journalist, tweeted:
Yes, CNN was talking about Stephen Miller, a senior White House advisor, who spewed chillingly authoritarian remarks on the Sunday talk shows. As CNN’s Brian Stelter confirmed:
Samantha Bee took aim at Kobach:
And even J.K. Rowling got in the game, retweeting Bee:
Others were quick to mock Kobach too:
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