On Sunday evening, John Oliver dedicated the top of his must-see series last week tonight For the commission’s ongoing hearings on January 6 – specifically the testimony of John Eastman, Trump’s legal counsel at the time of the insurrection.
“It was Eastman who devised the theory that Mike Pence could single-handedly disprove the results of an election,” Oliver explained, adding, “The idea that one person can decide the presidency is completely against the ideals of this country, which is why the Constitution begins with ‘We the people’. Not Mike.
The HBO host proceeded to note that more than 100 GOP primary winners in the midterm elections have backed Trump’s false allegations of election fraud — and most worrisome of these are the secretaries of state, who may be in a position to influence the upcoming presidential election .
For example, Jim Marchant, the Nevada Republican nominee for Secretary of State, is a Waco conspiracy theorist who believes that “the people of Nevada haven’t elected anyone since 2006 – they’ve been installed by the deep state gang” (his words).
“Wonderful. The people of Nevada have not had anyone legally elected since 2006? This is it Nice A bold claim – coming especially from the man who was elected to the State Council there in 2016.
When Marchant was pressed about who exactly was there stealing the election, he replied, “I don’t know, actually. I think it’s a universal thing. People in power want to maintain their power.”
As Oliver pointed out, Marchant is one of a number of candidates who are part of the US Secretary of State’s First Coalition – a group of “Stop the Theft” Republican conspiracy theorists seeking to control future elections. This gang of reality-averse individuals include New Mexico’s Audrey Trujillo, who is a fan of Anti-Semitic conspiracies She said she decided to run for Secretary of State because “a lot of people, whether we can prove it or not, feel that this election was stolen.” There’s also Christina Karamo, the anti-extremist Republican running for Secretary of State in Michigan, who said of the Democrats “their party has completely bypassed a diabolical agenda.” Karamo also believes that if people engage in premarital sex, “it opens the door for us to get to the point where we have people who want to normalize pedophilia.”
“These are just three of the anxious candidates for Secretary of State across the country,” Oliver emphasized. “There are many, many others, who, frankly, should stop, because the January 6 commission reminds everyone of how close we are to a fundamental collapse of democracy. It was a handful of people in the right position choosing to do the right thing that saved us from a constitutional crisis.”
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