Victor Davis Hanson goes scorched earth on Stacey Abrams

Hoover Institute senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson rebuked former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams for alleged “financial impropriety.”

Abrams’ voting rights advocacy group Fair Fight Action paid approximately $20.2 million between 2019 and 2023 to her close friend’s law firm Lawrence & Bundy, adding to her questionable financial history, tax filings show. Hanson, on “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” said history would record Abrams as a massive “fraud” and crook, ranking among former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter in terms of “grifting,” calling for an investigation into her.

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“She is going to go down, really, when you start to look at this, as one of the biggest fraud and crooks in our generation,” Hanson said. “Twenty million dollars to one of her friends in a law firm — for what? For voting irregularity or something?”

Former Abrams campaign chair Allegra Lawrence-Hardy established Lawrence & Bundy and worked there until departing in February, according to her LinkedIn profile and records initially reported by RealClearInvestigations. The payments were for unspecified “legal services,” according to tax filings reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

He also noted that Abrams-linked Power Forward Communities (PFC) received $2 billion from Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) on Aug. 16. Hanson highlighted how PFC had only reported $100 in revenue in 2023, according to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

“This is a woman who for two years said that she was the governor of Georgia. She lost by 50,000 votes to [Republican Georgia Governor Brian] Kemp. And yet she went around and she was feted by everybody as the real governor,” Hanson added. “So she’s never really won anything since she was a state representative. She’s failed in everything she’s run for. And yet she’s a heartthrob of the left for some reason. I don’t know why that is.”

When Abrams first lost to Kemp in 2018, she denied the election results. “It was not a free and fair election,” she said on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” on Nov. 19, 2018.

While she acknowledged that Kemp would “be certified as the victor of the 2018 gubernatorial election” on Nov. 16, 2018, she also said she was not conceding her defeat, according to The Washington Post.

“She’s not very competent. She’s not an appealing character. She’s hard left. She’s up there with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden in grifting,” Hanson said. “And how she gets away with it, I don’t know … There should be an investigation of her and her financial impropriety.”

Abrams did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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