Ignorance Breeds Conspiracy Theories

Greene: There are problems in our elections. We saw many of them in the 2020 election. We saw suitcases pulled out.. We just saw in the news that a.. contract driver vindicated because he had been trying to say that he hauled a trailer of ballots from NY to Pennsylvania pic.twitter.com/rpmlymV2S9

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 7, 2023

I don’t know what time warp MTG is living in, but she’s referring to a story from December 2020, from a witness in one of the 60+ lawsuits that failed. The witness was this guy:

Court records reveal a lengthy history of drug abuse, mental health issues and domestic violence. 

According to court records, his mother, Holly Morgan-Moul, told a judge in 2003 that her son has a “long history of drug and alcohol use” that dated back to when he was 14 or 15.  

Morgan, she said, spent time in treatment and did well. But he later relapsed, she said, adding that “his life has become considerably unmanageable and bizarre.” 

She reported that her son would sleep in the woods behind their home and walk out of school. 

“He needs treatment,” Morgan-Moul told the judge. “He needs behavioral, cognitive, therapeutic attention and he needs mental health attention.” 

Later, Morgan was accepted into York County Drug Treatment Court but did not successfully complete the program. 

Common Pleas Judge Stephen P. Linebaugh remarked that a common theme with Morgan in drug treatment court had been “it was never your fault.” He also “constantly lied,” the judge said. 

In 2006, Morgan pleaded guilty to forgery for a sentence of five years’ probation, with the first 192 days in Adams County Prison. But a judge resentenced him in 2008 to 1 1/2 to five years in prison, according to court records. 

In an email, Maria Bivens, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, said Morgan was paroled in 2009. 

Morgan, she said, was sent back to prison as a parole violator in 2010 and 2013. 

Court documents in custody and protection-from-abuse order cases allege that Morgan has been involuntarily committed “about five times” for mental health issues. He has threatened to kill himself on multiple occasions.

And transporting ballots between states (which is what he says he was doing) for out-of -state voters is a legitimate thing.

So tl:dr (sucker! 🍭 You already got this far!):  Crazy knows crazy. And crazy is wholly unreliable. (And yes: we’ve known this for 2 years; long enough to have forgotten about it. There is indeed nothing new under the sun.)