Late country music star Dolly Parton’s younger sister Stella Parton condemned President Donald Trump and the Republicans this week in a series of scathing social media posts made following her allegations of rigged voting machines in Tennessee.
“When you are an honest person like most of us are, we try to trust the process but I’m livid over this, not only for myself but for every other voter in this country. I’m so angry by all this division in our country mainly caused by the Republican Party and their lack of accountability,” Stella Parton said in a lengthy post on Facebook Thursday.
“I’m sick of hearing; Blue, Red, far left, extreme right when half this country runs around like blind dogs in a meat house as the saying goes. Trump gets up and rattles on about another man’s physique and people applaud. Have we lost our ever loving minds?” she continued.
Parton’s harsh remarks towards Republicans emerged from claims she made, suggesting a rigged voting machine in Nashville.
She told followers and fans her vote kept defaulting to GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for governor of Tennessee, and that she needed to correct her selection three times.
“I would never vote for her for anything,” Parton wrote, blasting the Trump ally. “I’m putting this out here because when we vote, we take it seriously but we try not to hold up the long lines. Do it anyway. Don’t let them rig this election.”
Parton’s allegations echo those of other voters in Williamson County, Tennessee, who claimed their vote kept defaulting, WSMV reports.
“You try to push the button for the candidate that you’re selecting, and it goes to another candidate,” local voter Toni Fitzgerald told the outlet.
The Tennessee Secretary of State’s office did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for a statement addressing the reports. However, they told WSMV that roughly 400,000 people have voted in the November election period and they’ve received only one complaint matching Parton’s issue.
Parton’s allegations also come amid a series of social media posts of her torching the president, who claimed her late sister “really liked” him, but did not want anyone to know.
She went on to also take jabs at some of Trump’s allies and boldly claimed on Tuesday, “Remember, if you vote Red you are supporting pedophilia.”
Parton wrote, “The horrific things being done to Ukraine by Trump, Musk and Putin is unconscionable. This will soon be at our doorstep and nothing is being done about any of it. Israel is a rogue state and there is no other way to look at it and what Netanyahu has done to Gaza is a horrific crime against humanity!”
She continued, “When I hear clowns in this administration like Pete Hegseth say; ‘we bombed Iran’ I want to throw up. Trump is even worse and out of his mind! This voting issue will turn out like everything else they stick their noses into, a freaking disaster.”