MIDLIFE CRISIS-19, Monday, January 01, 2024 – Former Staffers Say, “We’re Running Out of [Hoaxes].”
“Three of Donald Trump's former White House staffers issued stark warnings about his potential second term and pleaded for others in power to speak out against the former president.”
“’Fundamentally, a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it,’ Alyssa Farah Griffin, former White House director of strategic communications, said Sunday on ABC’s ‘This Week’” (1.).
On what grounds? None, just a broad and inflammatory statement unsupported by a fact.
This non-news article fails to report the grounds on which, “fundamentally,” a Trump win would result in, “the end of American democracy as we know it” (1.).
Perhaps it is a secret, because even a former, “White House director of strategic communications,” cannot communicate the grounds for such an unsubstantiated and outlandish claim.
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But that was only one whining wolf.
Enter, whining wolf number two.
“Farah Griffin left Trump's White House in December 2020, in the wake of that year's election and the former president's baseless claims of fraudulent results” (1.).
Notice the reference to, “the former president’s baseless claims of fraudulent results.”
That is called editorializing by the writer. The claim was not made by Griffin, but by Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, a non-journalist peddling nonsense.
On several fronts, the results of the 2020 Election were fraudulent. Let us reference three (3) here.
What about the third whining wolf you ask? Does it really matter? Ok, ok, here she is.
“Fellow former top-level White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who delivered bombshell testimony to the House Jan. 6 Committee last summer, echoed Farah Griffin's message and criticism of Trump.
“’The fact that he feels that he needs to lean into being a dictator alone shows that he's a weak and feeble man who has no sense of character and integrity and has no sense of leadership,’ Hutchinson said, referencing recent comments by Trump that he would be a dictator only on ‘day one’ if reelected” (1.).
Fallacy, the proverbial emotional appeal, but fact-less.
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Now back to the former President’s claims that the 2020 Election was fraudulent.
First, pre-election lawsuits.
The 2020 Election was the most litigated election in U.S. history. To unconstitutionally circumvent State Legislatures, Democrats filed approximately two-hundred (200) pre-election lawsuits in a rather successful effort to change voting laws.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to an unprecedented wave of election litigation.
“A FRONTLINE analysis of two databases tracking lawsuits found that more than 400 election-related cases have been filed in the U.S. in 2020 by political parties, campaign committees, activists and individual voters. The majority of cases have focused on voting by mail in the midst of COVID-19, voting in person during the pandemic, and the counting of a historic number of mail-in ballots, FRONTLINE found” (2.).
The majority of lawsuits, made pre-election, were by Democrats and or Democrat-Party front-groups.
“The majority of 2020 election-related lawsuits have sought to remove barriers to voting by mail, aiming to provide alternatives to in-person voting during the pandemic. More than 200 of the Healthy Elections Project’s 418 tracked cases, and 183 of The Brennan Center’s 265, fall into this category.
“The ACLU’s Voting Rights Project has pushed states, such as Missouri and Alabama, to provide universal vote-by-mail options. The ACLU has also filed lawsuits that would make fear of contracting COVID-19 an acceptable reason to request an absentee ballot in states such as in Kentucky” (2.).
The goal was to create a mail-in voting smoke screen for Democrats, with as little accountability as possible, and it worked.
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Second, the suppression of Conservative in-person voting.
“Beyond the expansion of mail-in voting, election administrators are facing the challenges of making in-person voting safe during a resurgent pandemic that has killed 225,000 Americans to date. At least 33 states will require or strongly recommend that voters wear masks in polling places, ABC News reports, although enforcement during early voting has been limited.
“Those safety concerns have also sparked a wave of litigation. The Healthy Elections Project has identified 69 cases that include concerns over in-person voting amid the COVID-19 pandemic, dating back to the primary season.
“A group of Kentucky civil rights organizations sued the state in May over a new in-person voter ID requirement. The complaint noted the disproportionate harm the pandemic had caused to Black, elderly and disabled voters, and alleged that forcing those voters to go to a government office to obtain ID would put them at risk of illness or death” (2.).
Basically, more lawsuits insisting on creating ghosts voting, voters with whom there would be little to no accountability nor verifiable ability to attest to their identity.
Additionally, in-person voting – which is favored by Conservative voters – was restricted by the federal government up until the Sunday before the Tuesday Election Day.
As reported – conveniently two days later – by The Washington Post at 7:25 a.m.., on Election Day, Tuesday, November 03, 2020, “Can voters who test positive for the coronavirus still come to the polls on Tuesday [Election Day]?
“Yes, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which on Sunday [November 01 2020] published new guidelines noting that sick voters still have the right to cast a ballot.
“’Voters have the right to vote, regardless of whether they are sick or in quarantine,’ the CDC says on their website. Under federal law, turning someone away from a polling site is considered illegal and an act of voter intimidation” (3.).
So, the obvious question is, when did in-person voting begin in the 2020 Presidential Election, and how many Conservative voters were indirectly discouraged from voting? To the latter, we will not ever know.
The first part of that question regarding early voting is, September 18, 2020, in Minnesota, South Dakoda, Virginia, and Wyoming, while most other states began early voting in early-to-mid October (4.). So, if you were a Conservative, did not trust voting by mail, had been sick, or were concerned about getting sick, what happened to those Conservative voters during those nearly two months leading up to Election Day? Likely, many of them did not vote. While Democrats were executing ballot harvesting campaigns nationwide, Conservatives were being suppressed from participating for fear of illness. Then, the CDC essentially flips script two days before Election Day regarding the implied pandemic threat level, and green-lights in-person voting for sick people.
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Thirdly, dribbling claims of “Trump-Russian ‘collusion.’”
This claim affected both the 2016 and 2020 Presidential Elections, and despite Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s failed 22-month effort to find a shred of evidence to the allegation, there was none, but there are still propaganda grifters who peddle the innuendo to this day.
The fabricated claims – born out of Republican opposition research likely surrounding Administrative State RINO’s running in their failed presidential primary bids against Trump, 2015-2016 – began as early as September 2015.
“SEPTEMBER 2015: Looking to boost one of the other Republicans running for the GOP nomination, the right-leaning Washington Free Beacon retains the Washington-based firm Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Trump” (5.).
Once all Republican primary candidates failed in their efforts to derail Trump in the primaries, the Democrat National Party (DNC) picked up where Republicans left off.
“LATE MAY 2016: Acting on behalf of the DNC, the law firm Perkins Coie hires Fusion GPS to conduct research on Trump. Having known Steele for nearly seven years, Fusion GPS contracts with Steele to conduct the research. The head of Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, has also known Steele’s contact at the Justice Department, Ohr, for several years. Simpson hires Ohr’s wife, a Russian linguist named Nellie, to help with the research and analysis” (5.).
Other than dogging Trump personally, and sandbagging his Administration after the inauguration, Administrative-State actor’s incessant efforts to tie Trump to Russia, failed repeatedly.
“Mueller concluded his 22-month investigation and submitted a report to Attorney General William Barr on Friday, March 22. Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reviewed the report over the weekend and filed a four-page summary of the report to Congress Sunday afternoon that was also released to the public.
“In his letter to Congress, Barr summarizes the Mueller investigation as looking at two areas: Interference by Russia in the 2016 presidential election and obstruction of justice.
“The special counsel found that Russia did interfere with the election, but ‘did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple efforts from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign’” (6.).
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So, sure, the former President has plenty of legitimate reasons to claim that the results of the 2020 Election were fraudulent, while it is also factual that his political opposition attempted to fraud the 2016 Election.
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Former staffers say, “We’re running out of [hoaxes].”
- Matfucius
1.) https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-trump-aides-warn-serious-180955873.html
2.) https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/covid-19-most-litigated-presidential-election-in-recent-us-history/
3.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/03/cdc-covid-19-vote-election/
4.) https://ballotpedia.org/Early_voting_dates,_2020
5.) https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russia-probe-timeline-moscow-mueller/story?id=57427441
6.) https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/03/mueller-concludes-investigation/
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