Trump Is Demanding Audit In Pima County, AZ, w/Help Of ‘N’ Word Defending Mathematician

Being smart is good, being wise is better, but being teachable is a basic necessity in life and Donald Trump doesn’t seem to have that characteristic. He simply cannot learn from the 60-some dismissed lawsuits and from the recent failure in Maricopa County to unearth the fraud that he promised people for many months was there to be found.

Nevertheless, Trump is undaunted. Now he is swiveling his sights and focusing on Pima County. What was that line about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? Oh yeah, that’s the definition of insanity.

As you’ve read through this lunacy you have noticed the name of Dr.  Shiva Ayyadurai. The doctor is quite a piece of work. He’s run for Congress, unsuccessfully, twice, claims to be the inventor of email, is a COVID-19 denier and a defender of the use of he “N” word. Now he’s in the election audit racket. Maybe he’ll try again for Congress. After all, Mike Pence lost twice when he ran for Congress and then he saw the light and realized that becoming born again was the ticket to a lot of votes. Maybe election fraud will do for Ayyadurai what religion did for Pence. It helps to have the right con going in politics, no question about that. Daily Beast:

Although Ayyadurai’s involvement with the audit was not public knowledge until this month, his contracts with the state senate and Cyber Ninjas were among thousands of pages of audit-related documents released during a lawsuit by the transparency group American Oversight. Those contracts, first reported by the Arizona Republic, showed Ayyadurai’s company striking two $50,000 deals to “review” ballots, beginning in July.

Neither Ayyadurai nor a spokesperson for the audit returned requests for comment.

That spokesperson, Randy Pullen, told the Republic that Ayyadurai had first come to his attention when he made a presentation at an event hosted by former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in November 2020. Arizona Rep. Mark Finchem (R) later introduced Ayyadurai to people involved with the Arizona audit, Pullen said. (Finchem, who did not immediately return requests for comment, is a staunch audit supporter, and sold T-shirts this year in support of election fraud claims. He tweeted pictures of himself among a raucous crowd outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and released text messages between himself and an organizer of the Jan. 6 rally, although he has not been accused of a crime and there is no evidence he entered the building.)

Other documents from the American Oversight lawsuit suggest a long-standing relationship between Ayyadurai and pro-audit Arizona legislators.

“‘The Legislature has received voluminous evidence and testimony,” reads a Jan. 1 letter to then-Vice President Mike Pence, signed by 10 Arizona lawmakers (including Finchem). “One example is the testimony of Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, Ph.D. (M.I.T.), on Nov. 30, 2020; Dr. Ayyadurai is one of the most respected mathematicians and experts in pattern recognition in America engaged in the examination of election results in all of the contested states. He concludes that the only explanation for the actual voting results in Arizona is that 130 percent of Democrats voted for candidate Biden and a -30 percent voted for President Trump, and 100 percent of Republicans voted for President Trump, with ‘no party affiliation’ voters split 36 percent for Biden, 58 percent for the president. In his words, such a demographic distribution is ‘highly implausible.’”

In fact, Arizona election officials have repeatedly confirmed Biden’s victory in the state—and Ayyadurai’s reputation is significantly more controversial than the glowing letter suggested.

A tech entrepreneur, Ayyadurai claims to have invented email in the late 1970s. The claim has drawn skepticism from technologists, who note that email technology was already in use at the time. In 2018, Ayyadurai ran for Congress as an independent against Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in a campaign that saw him rub shoulders with far-right figures. During an appearance on a white nationalist’s YouTube show, Ayyadurai repeatedly used the n-word, defending its usage because “we’re all n—ers on the white liberal deep state reservation.” An open neo-Nazi who has called for the murder and torture of Jews was also a guest on the same episode, although not at the same time. Elsewhere during his ill-fated campaign, Ayyadurai retweeted a QAnon slogan. He also participated in a 4chan-flavored ritual with an alt-right personality who had previously attended the deadly Charlottesville white supremacist rally and (the day before meeting with Ayyadurai) had tweeted a Nazi-themed football meme. He won less than 4 percent of the vote.

There you have it, Trump’s newest political bedfellow. And are you ready for this? Reince Priebus might bring the guy in to audit Wisconsin.

“They’re indicating they’re going to bring in Dr. Shiva, as well, to help on the forensic audit,” Priebus said.

As you have probably read, the Republican Accountability Project is displaying Trump Lost signs and calling for an end to these absurd audits. They have their work cut out for them.