Today, details in new reporting from the New York Times cement Jill Stein’s role as a spoiler for Donald Trump. Stein knows that she can help hand the 2024 election to Trump and is unapologetic about helping him in 2016. That’s why she ignored her own family members’ pleas to not run, earned herself the endorsement of former KKK leader David Duke, was praised by Donald Trump, and was helped by Trump’s former lawyers and MAGA allies. 

ICYMI: New York Times: Jill Stein Won’t Stop. No Matter Who Asks.

By: Matt Flegenheimer

• “For her political activities, she does not have the support of the family,” one of Ms. Stein’s adult sons said in an interview, asking not to be identified by name to avoid any personal or professional repercussions from associating with her. “When she told us she was going to run again back in October 2023, we asked her not to.”
• For months, people who know Ms. Stein — friends, relatives, long-lost peers — have discussed privately how best to get through to her. They worried she was aiding Mr. Trump, despite her protestations. They believed that another dead-end campaign would undercut the ideals she claimed to embody.
• While Ms. Stein condemns both “zombie political parties” as tools of Wall Street and war profiteers, her campaign has focused largely on hammering Ms. Harris […]. 
• “The goal is to punish the vice president,” Hassan Abdel Salam, a founder of Abandon Harris, a group dedicated to her defeat, said this month at a rally in Dearborn, Mich., headlined by Ms. Stein. The group has since endorsed her.
• “We are not in a position to win the White House,” another speaker, Kshama Sawant, a former member of the Seattle City Council, told a crowd of about 100 inside an Arab American cultural center. “But we do have a real opportunity to win something historic. We could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan.”
• In Wisconsin, a lawyer who was previously involved in lawsuits seeking to overturn the 2020 election results represented the Green Party. In New Hampshire, a veteran Republican operative submitted signatures for Ms. Stein.
• Jay Sekulow, who defended Mr. Trump at his first impeachment trial, has worked on behalf of the Green Party in Nevada […]
• Ms. Stein’s running mate, Butch Ware […] has called Ms. Harris the “Black face of white supremacy” and likened Barack Obama to a “house negro.” On Oct. 7, one year after the Hamas-led attacks that amounted to the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Mr. Ware recorded a video to “commemorate the one-year anniversary of the modern equivalent of Nat Turner’s rebellion,” invoking the American slave revolt of 1831.
• Ms. Stein’s coalition, such as it is, can be disorienting. Her campaign was recently compelled to disavow an endorsement from the antisemitic white supremacist David Duke, who supported Mr. Trump’s past runs.

On some subjects, Ms. Stein can sound something like Mr. Trump and his associates. She complains of being “shadow-banned” on social media and dismisses “the Russia-gate smear” that ensnared her after Mr. Trump’s election.