Mexicon Standoff

Expert Mathematician' on Election Fraud Actually a Swing Set Installer, Lawsuit Claims

A man posing as a math expert with evidence Trump won the election is actually a convicted drug dealer with no college degree who installs swing sets, according to a lawsuit.

On January 27, the pro-Trump channel OAN broadcast a segment interviewing an "expert mathematician" named Ed Solomon who claimed to have found evidence within precinct-level reporting that the election was rigged by an algorithm.

On reddit:

Iweloz:

"You can use the binomial probability formula, and the chance of that event happening is one over ten to an exponent so large there's not enough stars in the universe—there's not enough atoms in the universe to explain the number. It can't happen naturally."

sounds like something Trump would say. Of course, they're both complete frauds so it makes sense...

me:

I feel like the best way to understand the American right, right now, is like a giant Mexican standoff of conmen, who all just have to play along with each other's cons, no matter how ludicrous, lest someone call them out on their own.