Among the Feral Trumpers

[Zorro]

So many people involved in the “voter fraud” sham are simply stone cold liars or the types who play act believing things with some winks and nods to themselves. But the movement also has lots of people who genuinely believe. And now one of them has been indicted for running a guy off the road and putting a gun to his head back in October 2020.

Mark Aguirre is a former Houston PD captain who was hired by a straight-out-of-central-casting “conservative activist” named Steven Hotze. They were operating as what Aguirre identified to police as the “Liberty Center,” which seems to have been a self-styled private Big Lie-centered investigation. (It’s full legal name is The Liberty Center for God and Country, because of course it is.)

Back in October 2020, Aguirre spent four days surveilling an AC repair man named David Lopez Zuniga. He suspected Lopez’s AC business was a cover for a massive voter fraud operation and that his AC repair box truck was actually carrying 750,000 phony ballots. On October 19th he intentionally rear-ended Lopez’s truck to force him to stop. He then pulled a gun on Lopez, forced him to the ground and apparently demanded he confess to the vote rigging scheme he and his team were investigating. He then held Lopez at gun point until police arrived.

According to the indictment, Hotze paid Aguirre a total of $266,400 for his investigation – $211,400 of which was paid the day after he attacked Mr. Lopez. (In March Lopez sued Hotze and his group, The Liberty Center for God and Country.)

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/among-the-feral-trumpers/sharetoken/VNlRwuaIiKsO

[Bayard]

1. Holy Crap!!

Poor AC repair guy, just going about his business repairing AC's when attacked by a complete lunatic. He probably thought he was going to die. Of course, this had nothing to do with him being Hispanic.

[underpants]

2. The Liberty Center for God and Country - God has a country?

Imagine that

[louis-t]

3. These guys really think they're heroes.

Was he wearing his Captain America suit when he held a gun the this man's head? Seriously mentally ill.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. This asshole worked for Steve Hotze who is a major asshole and voter suppressor

Hotze sued to stop the drive through voting in Harris County and has been trying to steal elections/suppress the vote for a long time

Link to tweet

On Oct. 19, Aguirre allegedly ran his SUV into the back of the truck to get Zuniga to stop and get out.
When Zuniga got out of the truck, Aguirre pointed a handgun at him, forced him to the ground and put his knee on his back until police came, the court document said.

At the time of the alleged crime, Aguirre was working as a contract investigator for conservative activist Steven Hotze. Hotze has made a name for himself for alleging widespread voter fraud in Harris County, even when none has been found.

Last fall, Hotze used the "Liberty Center" funds to hire around 20 private investigators and other workers to investigate incidents of alleged fraud.

"We paid our investigators closer to $300,000," said Hotze during an hour long news conference at the time. Hotze and his attorney, Jared Woodfill, spent most of the time rehashing their allegations of massive voter fraud.