Democrats accuse President Trump of ‘weaponizing the justice system’ while they are weaponizing the justice system. The arrogance of these actions and allegations is only outmatched by the hypocrisy of it all.
A Nevada judge dismissed the “fake electors” case against six state Republicans Thursday, ruling that prosecutors had not proven the defendants intended to defraud anyone. The six had signed documents claiming Trump carried Nevada and gathered outside the legislature in December 2020 — openly, in plain view, announcing exactly what they were doing and why.
That last detail is the one that keeps killing these prosecutions. You cannot commit fraud in a press conference.
Judge Mary Kay Holthus — a nonpartisan judge — made this explicit in her ruling: “The fact that Defendants openly announced both their actions and their asserted purpose, rather than concealing their conduct or attempting to secretly induce governmental reliance, weighs against a reasonable inference that they acted with fraudulent intent.”
This is now the second time a judge has thrown out a fake electors case on exactly these grounds. Michigan collapsed for the same reason in 2025 — no evidence of fraudulent intent. Georgia’s sprawling prosecution largely disintegrated under its own weight, the district attorney was disqualified, and the charges were ultimately dropped. Arizona has hit repeated procedural walls and is trying to restart from scratch with a new grand jury. Wisconsin’s case involving Trump campaign attorneys remains pending.
Five states. Multiple prosecutorial offices. Years of effort. Taxpayer resources in the millions of dollars wasted. And not a single successful prosecution of the core fake elector cases to conviction.
The “Ds” next to every prosecuting attorney general’s name should be noted — and noted loudly. This was not dispassionate law enforcement. It was political prosecution dressed in legal clothing. Democratic AGs in Nevada, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin all brought cases on the same theory, all failed or are failing, and all involved the same fundamental problem: the defendants didn’t hide what they were doing. They held press conferences. They stood outside legislatures. They sent their certificates to the National Archives under cover letters explaining what they were and why.
The definition of fraud includes concealment and deception. You cannot defraud someone who knows exactly what you’re doing. The fake elector strategy was legally contested — a bad strategy, perhaps, a failed strategy certainly — but it was publicly executed by people who believed they were following a legitimate procedural path. Prosecuting sincere if misguided legal strategies as criminal fraud is not justice. It is political persecution.
Nevada AG Aaron Ford has already said he’ll appeal. Arizona’s Kris Mayes is taking her case to a new grand jury. The prosecutorial machine that Democratic attorneys general built to chase these cases is not going to stop just because the courts keep shutting it down.
But the courts keep shutting it down. In state after state. On the same theory. With the same result.
It’s 2026. Six years after the 2020 election. Zero successful prosecutions. At some point, the people running this operation need to ask whether it was ever really about justice — or just about the calendar.
