Trump's Midterm Blowout Nightmare IS As Bad As It Looks

Nov 4

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PDS Published 11/04/2026

Democrats just dropped a nuke from space on Donald Trump's head.
And we have to go into the details about the craziness from last night, including a lot of what you might have missed and what now, what comes next. We're talking about all that.
Even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show. You daily dive into the news, starting with this. This is so bad. It's comical.
It is so much worse than anyone thought. This is the beginning of the end of the Trump era.
That is just a taste of what Republicans are thinking, feeling and publicly admitting right now. After the biggest election blowout in decades, because there wasn't a blue wave.
Trump got nuked from orbit. we're going to dive into the details. But I did not think I would be alive for a time where Texas turned blue.
and I definitely didn't imagine a time where a Democrat had a chance in Mississippi. right. But top line details. Democrats. They took control of both chambers of Congress with at least 54 Senate seats.
So that might go up to 56. because you have two races. It's still have been called yet in Alaska and Mississippi Alaska.
You have the Democrat Mary Petrolia, currently with a lead of just several hundred votes over the Republican Dana Sullivan. who, of course, is different from Dan J.
Sullivan, the alleged Democrat plant who, is believed to be trying to trick people. And actually, 3500 people voted for him.
but we might not actually get the final results for weeks, because Alaska accepts absentee ballots up to 15 days after Election Day, and it doesn't start the second round of ranked choice voting until that point. then in Mississippi.
The Democrat Scott column is ahead of Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith by just 43 votes out of nearly a million.
also one of the crazy things there is that Mississippi actually doesn't allow recounts. right, even if the candidates want one. So that one's going to be a nail biter. but either way, it is a clear majority for Democrats in the Senate, which is huge.
because there was a worry that even if Democrats got the majority with 51, there's the whole Fetterman situation. What the hell is that guy going to do?
then as far as the House Democrats, you know, they needed at least 218 seats or a majority. But there.
they already have 228 as I'm recording this and the projected to finish with at least 245.
and I mean, in terms of the popular vote total for House races, the margin for Democrats is expected to be 13 points, And that's huge.
That is the largest margin either party has had since at least 1976.
now, with that said, because Republicans have gerrymandered the shit out of congressional maps since the 70s, all those votes, they're not exactly going to translate into as many seats as they would.
And, you know, an actual democracy.
but even despite that, the amount of power gained by the Democrats here, it's historic. I mean, at least for the post-Watergate era.
because on average, the president's party loses about 14 House seats and two Senate seats during these midterms.
but this time, the Democrats have already flipped over two dozen House seats, and there's possibly 7 to 9 Senate seat pickups.
this was supposed to be a horrible cycle to try to pick up Senate seats for the Democrats.
because one of the most stunning things about last night's victory was just how universal it was.
were seeing this up and down the ballot from the east coast to the west, from the Great Plains to the Deep South. the again, one of the most shocking was that Texas went blew.
with James Talarico. Not just beating, but stomping out Ken Paxton for that Senate seat. then Gina, you know, House, she in that governor's mansion from Greg Abbott.
Ryan that makes this the first time that Texas has elected a Democrat to those posts in 38 and 36 years, respectively. and also, you know, Hosa is actually the first Latina governor there ever.
right. But also Texas was not the only GOP stronghold that was thought to be impregnable. That's now cracked.
in Kansas you had Adam Hamilton becoming the first Democrat to win a Senate seat there since 1932, the year FDR became president.
then in South Carolina, you had Lindsey Graham looking up to see Annie Andrews snuffing out Darlene Graham. Turn in that Senate seat blew for the first time since 1998. in North Carolina, too.
Roy Cooper defeated Trump's hand-picked candidate, Michael Whatley.
then in Ohio, even Trump's compliments about his ass couldn't save John Houston from getting the boot from Sherrod Brown.
then over in Maine, Troy Jackson or someone found Susan Collins, his Horcrux through or out after 30 year career in the Senate. then also a huge win for progressives.
You had Abdul out Siad beating out Mike Rogers in Michigan.
and that, despite Haley Stevens randomly trying to ratfuck him at the end, making himself the first Muslim ever elected to the Senate.
also another first for the Senate. You had Minnesota's Peggy Flanagan becoming the first Native American woman there. then new Hampshire's. Chris Pappas is the first openly gay man there. though openly, of course, being the keyword.
then moving over to the house, you know, there are too many races to, to list all of them, but a few things are worth noting, at least here.
Like I would Democrats took districts that went for Trump by double digit margins just two years ago, picking up seats in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Florida, and on and on.
had Democrats even winning a lot of districts that Republicans gerrymandered earlier this year, including three, maybe four seats in Florida.
and the next up on the state level, you had Democrats winning a majority of the governor's mansions for the first time in 16 years. right. I already mentioned taxes, but in Ohio, too.
You with Amy Acton beating the Ramaswamy then Rob sand won in Iowa. A Ford won in Nevada. David Crowley won in Wisconsin.
Over in Georgia, Keisha Lance bottoms became the first black woman to ever be elected governor in U.S. history. into New Mexico. Deb Haaland is about to be the first Native American woman to govern a state.
also, you had Democrats taking over state legislatures in Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada and Wisconsin. They also broke up GOP control in Georgia, Iowa, Ohio and Texas.
and then can't forget about DC. They just elected a democratic socialist as their mayor. Denise Lewis. George.
and we'll, you know, we're gonna get into exit polls and things like that, and just a little Part of it is seem to be rejection of the billionaire Mega-donors who spent ungodly sums of money to try and buy our elections.
mean, Elon Musk alone spending nearly half $1 billion on a Republican race is just this cycle.
he literally became the single biggest individual political donor in modern American history. The cycle. the ones.
So it's possible the real figures are likely higher because we don't have campaign finance records of the last three weeks, the election, because he also made some dark money donations.
and at least according to reports, the vast majority of that money, $224 million, went solely to Texas. or Musk moved his company from California because apparently it was too liberal.
so not only did he end up just kind of pouring money down the drain, his efforts may have backfired, he would both, you know, host the entire ECA, repeatedly railing against him on the campaign trail,
accusing him of trying to buy the elections and framing the races as a battle between the ultra rich and everyday Americans who just want to afford to live.
and while there are a ton of factors that move these races, it's probably not the best look to spend a quarter of $1 billion on beating Democrats in an election where corruption and the GOP's mishandling of the affordability crisis were the two biggest voting issues.
and just really action after action has some kind of is public enemy number one maybe or maybe two, I guess after Trump or multiple Democrats, they've already vowed to investigate Musk.
His companies is federal contracts, the whole Doge debacle, and even more. mean, it's so bad that Trump even floated giving him a preemptive pardon.
and of course, you know, things rise and fall in the aftermath of the election. We're also seeing shares in SpaceX and Tesla falling.
even as the overall stock market has surged on the news that Democrats won both chambers.
But then also with this news, we got to talk about speaker Mike Johnson, because he told his staff this morning that he's not going to stay on as Republican leader in the new Congress.
then also, as you might have guessed, another person who's having a hard time dealing with the whole end of the MAGA era situation is Mr. Maga himself.
with apparently his watch party in the White House's East Room having a dark and funereal vibe.
you had guests starting to leave before 10 p.m., and other Trump allies saying privately that they were relieved to be out of And as far as Trump's public response, you had a quick to skirt responsibility for the Republicans epic fail writing untruth social.
I wasn't on the ballot, and if I was, we would have won in a landslide. you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. mind you.
This is the same bruised orange glob who spent the last few months trying to convince voters that he was on the ballot and that this election was literally all about him.
maybe the dementia is fully kicked in, or he just thinks his supporters are fucking whatever the reason, you had him echoing this sentiment on a phone call with I'm just wondering, what's your message?
What do you think happened with your party tonight?
I wasn't on the ballot, and we didn't get the people out, but I wasn't on the ballot. If I was on the ballot, we would have one. We would have won it all very easily.
also had accepted the results and saying he's open to working with Dems.
Well, we're going to work with the Democrats to make sure things go well for our country. Very important. They've already called and they want to work with.
Have the right to veto everything. But I don't want to be just sitting there for two years vetoing everything. They want to see things happen to them.
and you also had a making a similar comment to The New York Times saying that he was absolutely willing to accept the results of the midterms which which one is kind of good to hear,
but also two, it's horrifying that this is like newsworthy also but also given the fact that he's the guy behind January 6th.
Understandable why this is big also but then also he kind of went back to his regular programing.
You had Trump calling the Iran war a very wise decision, even as everyone's pointing to it, as one of the reasons that Republicans then and then you also had germ
claiming that he has no regrets about the first two years of his second term, I consider it to be the most successful two year period in the history of any What are you talking about, man?
Meanwhile, meanwhile, you had his right hand man Vance tweeting this morning the reason we lost is the war.
And the president himself said so last if you'd like to argue it was worth it that losing the Senate for the next six years was worth it. Then do Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay.
Agree or disagree?
That's at least But everyone knows why we lost, and any honest conversation about where we go from here must start so it's, saying, you know, that was mixed messaging, though
I think it feels like a pretty transparent effort on Vance's part to distance himself from Trump, but head of his own likely 2028 you know, with this blue tsunami, this blue nuke and Trump's response to it, you have a lot of people asking, well, what happens can write?
What can Democrats do now and what challenges will they run because because well, you have Trump here and they're saying that he'll work with Democrats moving forward.
He's obviously hyper focused on his veto even he even posted a giant picture of a red veto hat on Truth and that's and that's something we're very likely going to see because yes, Congress can override his veto,
but it requires a two thirds majority in both And so and so that would mean that at least some Republicans would need to get Democrats and well, you have Democrats out there having lots of big policy ideas and everything from affordability to AI restrictions to health care to taxes.
It's going to be very difficult for them to enact legislation with Trump still in the even though even that will be important in the lead up to the 2028 Right. Right.
If Republicans in the Senate, they try to stonewall things with the filibuster.
If Trump's vetoing things that are seemingly aimed to help the American and and we're talking about all this as you're already seeing leadership making some big are you are you have Chuck Schumer, at least for now,
likely becoming the Senate majority leader and Hakeem Jeffries likely becoming speaker of though they would say their positions technically won't be 100% guaranteed until formal voting happens in and here's here's a bit of what you had them saying And we have five words for the American people.
Relief is on the way. we understand this House Democrats that we need to deliver dramatic change.
Things are broken. We're going to fight for an affordable America. We're going to end this national nightmare. they're so they're not the best speakers in the world.
And there's a conversation that should probably be had about both of them. But you get the idea, right?
This is a pivotal, pivotal moment in American and you've got and you've got Schumer and Jeffries and the Democrats in general under a ton of pressure to show people what they can actually do, can they get And so
and so then with that, there's a concern out there that Democrats might overpromise and And and you're saying that there's a concern that Schumer and Jeffries to establishment pro-Israel guys aren't up to the task of leading the Democrats, where the
And so it's already had people tweeting things like, don't get me wrong, I'm extremely happy tonight, but I'm going to be really pissed off if Chuck Schumer and Achim Jeffries lead
the saying their ancient tactics aren't ready to meet and and someone else adding, Schumer and Jeffries must be shitting themselves in fear of what they're going to be expected to do with right,
because beyond the veto of it all that's out there, Jeffries and Schumer, they have to deal with this massive split in the Democratic Party between progressives and among and among some of the splits on policy opinions
that you're going to see out there is dem split on the question of how much to go on the offense and go after the Trump Because, right, because or because even before Election Day, there have been conversations
about impeaching Secretary of Defense Pete Seth with Dems thinking that there's a decent shot at and in fact, and in fact, you're even seeing some reports out there that Trump might be looking to replace Seth.
Now, while the Senate still has Republican control to because because once the Dems take over, they can block any new appointees that And then also and then also if some Democrats wanting to pursue a third Trump impeachment, but others are like, saying, right, right.
And so, for example, you have Cory Booker saying, if we make Donald Trump the center of our focus, we will lose this in history saying we need to deal with the American but also but also and this is going to be one of the biggest things.
None of that is going to stop them from launching other Right, come right.
Come January, Dems will take control of key committees that will give them power to launch probes, issue subpoenas, call and they and they have already vowed to use their power to kick off public
corruption investigations into Trump, his family, his administration and others who have abused the power of the presidency for their own then, but then, but then, but then also beyond that,
another big target is going to be Or with Democrats expected to probe Epstein's ties to other powerful people, including Trump himself, as well as the administration's handling of the Epstein files,
which they've long maintained were improperly redacted then all of that, but then but then all of that also looks like maybe just the tip of the iceberg with Representative Robert Garcia, who's expected to share the House Oversight Committee next year, issuing a simple warning on election night.
keep. So there.
So there is a lot that we're going to have to keep our eyes on, and probably a lot that we because these because these next two years are going to be a huge test for everyone.
All while it's laying the groundwork for the so so there. So there are still plenty of challenges ahead.
But for today, dams and pretty much anyone that is not a trump, they are just on a high from this and then with this, the final thing that I want to add, actually, there's there's two things.
The first is I just want to say thank you to everyone that was supportive or tried to help or whatever. With Lindsay's campaign and House district 47 here in Georgia.
when she took on this mountain of a challenge. I couldn't believe It's a district that in 2024, voted for that seat. R plus 23.
It seemed impossible to even make a dent there. But Lindsay was like, we don't do stuff because it's easy.
and last night, while the win was not secured, she made such a big swing to the or she made it a fight.
I think with the last hosts being counted, it's going to end up somewhere with 46 to and the whole journey over those last year, it was a lot of things, but it was also it was inspiring.
meetings, so many other candidates that likewise were going against what felt like an insurmountable and all of them collectively together, getting things to a place where the Georgia house actually fucking
and of course, while let Lindsay speak for herself, just know that this is not and then secondly, two.
I got to say, this morning, I woke up filled with a kind of joy and hope I have not had in a very even and it even got to a point where I started to get choked up when I was trying to,
to communicate it, when I was trying to jot down my notes for today's because I was thinking back to the night after the 2024 election and just how
I tried to compartmentalize things, but how just hopeless I felt and how I looked at the results. And I thought, am I crazy, Am I lost in the world?
Is this how the world works Don't people see now, to now seeing a complete and hopefully not just temporary rebuke of Trump and and and a renewed
hope that we can have politicians that try to focus on affordability and making people's lives better.
And I don't know, I mean, it's probably a fucking pipe dream, but being anti-corruption to a place where people are actually held is it everyone who got the word out, everyone who voted, who got someone else to vote?
Thank you for not being a passenger in granted. granted, they've forced a lot of us.
They forced us to the point where we got excited to vote in a That is not how I imagined my life when And if this was a livestream, I'd ramble on and on.
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Then with us diving right back into the news, you know, it wasn't just candidates that were voted in or out yesterday. also got to talk about the ballot initiatives.
We saw past, the ones that failed and where in these, they covered a wide range of topics, everything from taxes to abortion to the way that elections work in the future.
they just can't hit every single one because there's so many, we're going to hit some of the highlights.
starting out west in California, you had proposition 39, which would have required voters to provide government issued ID at the polls in order to cast their ballot in person
or provide a government issued identification number, like your Social Security for a mail in ballot. And that was shot down with a resounding no. right.
Because with nearly 60% of the vote counted as of this morning, 58% of votes were against it.
And you're the AP calling the and then the other California measure that the AP officially called was prop 37. Right.
And that was a housing proposition that would authorize $25 billion of state bonds to finance loans for new homebuyers, which you had greenlit by 61% of the voters, with just over 58% of the votes
but this is also, as there is, some other big ones in California that haven't been called yet, like prop and if that's ringing a bell, that's because it's one of the big ones.
It's the one time billionaire tax that was causing such a stir leading up to the you actually had the Uber rich dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into trying to crush it, saying that it would damage California's economy
and cause all of the biggest spenders in the state to move somewhere in fact, it's been reported that the ultra wealthy have outspent the other side of this prop 250 to raising more than $379 million
to defeat the which just by itself, I think for a lot of people is going to be an argument for these people having too much especially as the whole idea behind this tax is that most of the money
would actually go toward offsetting the looming federal health care cuts, with smaller amounts also allocated for food assistance and but it's also been very divisive.
I mean, it even drew opposition from Gavin Newsom.
And it split labor unions like the California State Council, Laborers United Domestic Workers in the California Police Chiefs Association. at least for now, it's looking like voters are not down right.
Prop 40 has been trailing since results started rolling in, and with 60% of the votes counted, the nose are ahead with more than 55%. And with this online, you've had a lot of people angry at the measure.
Doesn't seem like it's passing, saying that Californians voted against their own interests or that they fell for billionaire a lot of people kind of feeling defeated, saying,
If California can't do it, nowhere else and others know that it might be harder to impose a tax in the future, because right now it looks like prop 42 might Right? Right.
And that measure is a billionaire back counter to prompt 40 that was designed to ban all wealth taxes in California.
And as we're recording, the yeses have a nearly ten point lead with around 60% of the votes so and so, of course, then with that, you've had plenty of people cheering the measures Saying, saying,
among other things, was a flawed bill that would have said a bad precedent and would have just ended up hurting Californians by driving businesses away from the actually and actually while we're talking about taxes, let's jump from California
to they're because they're you had voters giving a resounding yes to a constitutional amendment prohibiting the state from imposing property that doesn't mean that there's no property taxes in Tennessee at all.
government, local governments like city and county, they still impose them.
And actually, the state hasn't changed property taxes since 1949, when they just set the rate and up and up to now, all I would take was a majority in the state legislature to change that.
But amendment two closes the door on that, changing the Constitution.
So the state, shall not levy, authorize or otherwise permit any state also and that also isn't the only constitutional amendment Tennessee voters passed yesterday because they also passed a measure
to expand crime victims And then and then actually, another gives judges the power to revoke the right to bail for defendants accused but not yet convicted of certain serious crimes
like terrorism, second degree murder, aggravated assault, human trafficking, or and then and then actually on the topic of criminal justice, we should talk about the ballot measure in
there is there you would amendment one, which is a proposal prohibiting a governor from granting pardons or commuting sentences starting 60 days before gubernatorial election, all the way up to when a new governor state,
with the state senator who proposed the amendment saying it was a way of ending lame duck and actually and actually, it was a direct response to former Governor Matt Bevin's controversial
and to term pardons and commutations in But but also, to be clear, it doesn't strip the governor of the ability to pardon.
It just and there and there, it seemed like voters were very in favor of the idea, with 99% of the vote in the yeses, took it with now, now, also with this, it was it wasn't all big changes.
There were several states that had constitutional amendments on the Idaho for one at a proposed amendment that would declare only the legislature had the power to legalize marijuana and or
or other psychoactive drugs, meaning that it couldn't be done through citizen with that, with that, then getting shot down with 66% In Nebraska, state lawmakers tried getting the okay to serve three consecutive terms instead of two before they're required to sit out at least one.
And voters kind of all but laughed in their faces.
Voting that down with 80% then then in South Dakota, there was a proposed amendment and a medicaid expansion program for lower income adults.
The federal funding share is reduced below and that one was actually a bit tighter, with votes ultimately coming out against ending the program with 55% Right, right.
And then in the interest of not being here all day with this, we're going to kind of speedrun some of the highlights in the categories where we saw several different ballot measures, things like voting in elections, abortion education and trans issues.
Just and so and so in voting, we saw Alaska, Arkansas, Kansas, South Dakota and West Virginia all passing some sort of ballot measure about preventing non-citizens from voting or limiting voting on abortions.
We saw Missouri voters rejecting a proposed constitutional amendment that was trying to repeal the right to abortion and actually reinstate an abortion ban, with only a few exceptions.
the amendment would have prohibited gender affirming care and surgeries for minors. So it seems like they were trying to cover a lot of ground with this one.
But regardless, it was shot down with 55% voting against Nevada and Virginia, we saw voters give the okay for constitutional amendments codifying the right to abortion by more than 60% in both states.
though that wasn't the case in Idaho, where proposition one, which would have given the right to make personal reproductive health care decisions, including on contraception, fertility treatments, and abortion up to fetal viability, failed.
with the nose taking 56% of the vote.
And then there were three states Arizona, Colorado and Washington, that saw ballot measures prohibiting trans women from participating in women's sports.
and while as of recording, the AP is only called Arizona for sure, with 58% of votes that have been counted so far. The other two are looking at similar gaps.
Colorado has a little more than 75% of the vote counted, and 52% of voted in favor in Washington is 60% of the vote counted and nearly 57% of that then the last category we're going to hit on is education with the big ones.
They're being in Alabama.
because there were two constitutional amendments on the ballot, one that would require the Star-Spangled banner to be played in schools at least once a and then you'd another that would require schools to begin the day with the pledge of allegiance to the U.S.
flag and allow students to lead prayers, you would both of those passing with roughly 60% of the and actually one of the interesting things about that, that a number of people have pointed out is the the idea of taking on education
and Alabama in this way, because they're actually ranked 44th in the country in education.
and a lot of people going maybe not the biggest priority for the education but hey, at the very least, all of this and even some of the stuff we didn't get to it does paint an interesting
snapshot of the country and also specific states at this point in right, then also with everything that's been going on exit polls, they're so interesting.
They're showing that nearly every demographic move left to power this blue wave. Right.
Overall, when looking at all voters in the House races, Democrats got 56% of the vote, which is a 15 point shift from 2024.
one of the groups that got a ton of attention heading into Election Day was young men, as polls suggested that Republicans and Trump were starting to lose their grip on and as it turned out, that was 100% true, because according to The New York Times, 61% of men aged 18 to 29 voted blue in House races.
and more importantly, they shifted toward Democrats by 38 points compared to 2024, moving left in every single and in fact, compared to 2024, Republicans lost ground with men of all ages.
with times data showing that 51% voted blue in the House, while 48% went and that is NBC generic exit poll also showed men at a very close split, but still with a Democratic
and you had this scaring a lot of people on the right, including Steve Bannon, who on an election livestream right now, per the NBC exit polling from Peter Hamby, we are splitting men only 4948.
That can't be right. 49 man Trump won men by 12 in 2024.
and actually young people in general, they really helped to drive the wave with 70% voting blue in the rain.
Also in those House races, Hispanic majority districts and rural districts, they both moved to the left. And then in Senate races, Democrats did increasingly well with moderates.
and then also a big thing was that voters without college degrees who went for Trump by 12 points this time they voted for Democrats 49 to it when it comes to four of the states that Philip Senate seats Iowa, Kansas,
North Carolina and Texas, about 1 in 10 Trump voters went for the then and then among voters who didn't go to the ballot box in 2024,
which made up 15% of the electorate, Democrats got their support by 20 as far and as far as why they shifted. Right. We knew that Trump was polling poorly. We knew that people were unhappy with the state of the country.
And in fact, according to the Washington Post, the top three issues driving voters were jobs in the economy, healthcare and the war 20 are you at 29% of voters saying that their family's financial situation
was falling behind, while only 12% that they were getting and CBS exit polls found that 57% of voters expect life for the next generation to be worse than life so and so it was clear, like with this election.
Americans are fed up their pessimistic.
They want and a lot of these voters in the exit polls, they place the blame on Trump in fact, in fact, 44% of voters polled by NBC said one reason behind their vote for US House was to express opposition to Trump,
with a vast majority going And in fact, only 40% said that Trump wasn't a factor in And the majority saying that they don't believe that Trump is a strong leader.
They don't believe that he fights for people like them.
They don't think that he has the mental capability to serve as president, and they do not think that he is the right again and again, that prompted a lot of Democratic though, I will say worth noting.
We're still waiting for numbers on turnout, so we don't have the full, full also but also like a very important note here is that this is not there is promise for the Democrats with voters that say they trust them more on the economy than Republicans right now.
But that does not mean that voters like Democrats right as right as we've talked about before. There's surveys that point this out. The Democratic Party is not popular.
They're just more popular than Republicans and rightly as they should come next election time, people are going to be asking, what have you done for And then there's even more we got to dive into in just a minute after another quick break with our sponsor.
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We've got two last things to hit Starting with a man in Oklahoma City who had the FBI worried that he was using a weapon of mass destruction to scare people out of voting.
not just this year, but back in 2024 as well.
with investigators saying that 67 year old Robin Patrick Martin was sending letters to election offices, members of Congress and news organizations all across the country, apparently saying things like civil war is coming on November 3rd.
around that same time, he was allegedly emailing members of the DSA, saying they'd be targeted for arrest if they tried to vote. And but those emails would be their only warning.
when an Oklahoma state election board employee opened one of the envelopes that he allegedly sent and noticed a powdery substance, alarms went off and investigators got to eventually they claimed that they linked that letter and more than 700 others to Martin using the return address.
actually, that's just one of the many ways they've connected him to Right.
Because they also got his fingerprints from a letter that they intercepted addressed to Cash Patel.
then there's video and license plate records allegedly placing him near different mail facilities at the times that the letters were being sent off.
then to top it all off, investigators say that they pinned him to the email address used to contact the DSA members, claiming that it was created using a recovery number connected to a prepaid phone that he bought from a nearby Walmart.
actually speaking of Walmart, their records show that he bought turmeric, vinegar and iodine from there, which the FBI said that he used to create an invisible ink that could only be seen with UV light, claiming that he used that
to stamp the envelopes that he sent last month with what they believe were references to the federal law against voter intimidation, along with a few other things. And with that, and is writing from the actual letters.
And FBI handwriting examiners also made preliminary findings that matches stuff he allegedly sent this year to letters people were getting in 2024. though they are still working on a formal forensic comparison.
also as far as the the powdery substance on the letter, so far tests have shown that it was just flour and yeast.
but not every letter has been recovered or tested yet, so we're gonna have to keep an eye on still, with all this, you have officials accusing him of calculated attempt to terrorize public servants.
And so now you've got him facing federal charges of conveying false or misleading information and hoaxes and mailing threatening communications. then finally today.
We should talk about the news that a Jan Sixer who is pardoned after making death threats to officials during that whole thing, well, he's now behind bars for the same exact thing just a few years later, Rick Cleveland Meredith Jr reportedly drove to D.C.
from Colorado on January 6th with some guns and 2500 rounds of ammo, texting his family and friends the whole way there that he was going to collect a ton of traders heads.
while he didn't end up getting there until late that night, the next day, he apparently told his folks that he was considering, quote, putting a bullet in Pelosi's noggin on live TV. right.
But his mom eventually caught wind of those messages and contacted the police.
long story short, from there, he ended up pleading guilty to interstate communication of threats and was sentenced to 28 months in prison plus three years of supervised release.
But then, with Trump's mass executive order that squashed over a thousand J6 cases on his first day back in office, that was Nolan void. then what do you know?
By April of this year, Meredith was back at posting on Facebook, all j six federal judges will be executed.
and while in a lot of cases threatening language like this is actually protected by the First Amendment given as past charges, federal officials are classifying that as a true threat.
Basically saying that he either wanted to make a direct threat, knew it would be taken that way, or just consciously disregarded that it could. and so with that. You got arrested on Monday, charged again with interstate threats.
and actually, it seems like this is just the post that broke the camel's Right.
Because prosecutors are also accusing him of threatening people and institutions like this online for the last 16 months.
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