Tucked inside of an article by The New York Times piecing together how former President Donald Trump’s most loyal foot soldiers tried to keep him in power despite a handy defeat by Joe Biden in the 2020 election, is the tale of a wacky goose chase indulged by Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona and his staff. Gosar’s chief of staff, Tom Van Flein, according to documents filed at the Supreme Court this March, was on the hunt for an airplane headed to the U.S. from South Korea, which Gosar and other election fraud conspiracy theorists believed contained a cache of stolen ballots. According to a lawsuit filed by voter Staci Burk challenging Arizona’s election results, the mythical quest began when Ryan Hartwig, an independent journalist and former contributor to the right-wing group Project Veritas, received a tip that a plane originally dispatched from South Korea had landed in Arizona’s Sky Harbor Airport on the night of the election. It was headed to Seattle, Washington. Read more