Hotze paid investigator/gunman Mark Aguirre over 1 / 4 of one million {dollars}, and the overwhelming majority of that was paid to Aguirre the day after the assault.
Anyway, the man is a far-right activist, he is been energetic in Texas Republican politics for roughly endlessly, he is in a position to shell out a very weird sum of money even for an alleged doctor—who the hell throws down a quarter-million bucks for some random gun-toting ex-cop to go on a violent “fraud hunt” based mostly on nothing however web conspiracy claims?—and now he and his ally Ken Paxton are each certified to put on “at the moment indicted for legal acts however nonetheless fairly welcome in all Republican circles” commemorative t-shirts. However now he’ll should spend cash on a couple of extra legal professionals as nicely, which is cash that may’t go towards getting anybody else in Texas almost gunned down over a hoax. It’s the small issues that depend.
The concept which you could pay somebody 1 / 4 of one million {dollars} to “discover” election fraud and the man you are paying follows that order by operating a random automobile off the street at nighttime and holding a person at gunpoint with a view to search his work truck for “ballots” is extraordinarily not good, and yeah, it is fairly clear why a grand jury thought Hotze’s extraordinarily lavish funding of the scheme counts as being concerned with the crime. There is a deeper story right here someplace, and if Hotze needs to argue that he was conned by a violent weirdo he will should have a greater clarification for why he paid $211,000 of the $266,000 offered the day after the assault occurred.
As a result of that does not appear like an “investigation,” that appears like a bounty being paid out for doing “one thing” publicly to maintain the election fraud hoax alive—even when the “one thing” meant pinning that hoax on random and harmless individuals.
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