Bob Unruh gushed in a March 12 WorldNetDaily article:
President Donald Trump often has charged that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
Democrats and other leftists have joined in a campaign to claim that makes him a threat to “democracy,” although they are the ones skirting the ideology of democracy to censor others’ opinions and to try to keep their own political critics off ballots by putting them in jail.
But now an expert, a top state elections official, has confirmed that’s exactly what happened to President Trump.
It is a report at the Federalist that explains how West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, who is credited with extensive work to clean up and secure his state’s elections, also has been critical of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
“‘When we have our own federal agencies lying to the American people, that’s the most insidious thing that we can do in elections,’ Warner told officials from the FBI and CISA on a panel at the February meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Washington, D.C., according to Wired’s Eric Geller,” the report said.
Unruh did not note whether Warner offered any evidence to back up his claims — perhaps because he didn’t. The Federalist article also did not mention the existence of proof. Indeed, it appears that Warner is simply grandstanding and spreading lies in order to appeal too voters, as a more credible outlet reported (but Unruh never will):
Warner, who has been in his role for eight years and is running for the Republican nomination for governor, made similar conspiratorial claims about the CIA on the debate stage in December. His statements fit into a larger false conspiracy theory that he’s advanced that government agencies such as the CIA had a hand in rigging the 2020 election. The remarks have solidified him among his colleagues as the only sitting election director in the country to openly embrace the election denialism that former President Donald Trump has used to explain his 2020 loss.
“It is problematic when you have a chief election officer of a state embracing conspiracy theories that undermine people’s confidence in the election process for no good reason,” said Rick Hasen, a professor of election law at the UCLA School of Law.
[…]In interviews, three secretaries of state told NBC News they believe his election rhetoric is a political tactic to garner votes, something he disputes.
Unruh made sure to slip in his favorite bogus conspiracy theory: “Warner also noted the $400 million plus handed out by Mark Zuckerberg to elections officials who often used it to recruit Biden supporters.” Despite repeatedly hyping this claim, Unruh has never offered evidence that any of the Zuckerberg money was given specifically to “recruit Biden supporters.”