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Trump has…"an odd passivity underneath all the vituperative language.…In the two years prior to election day, Trump repeatedly announced that Democrats were going to try to rig the 2020 election against him.…What did he actually do to reduce the chances of ballot-stuffing, voting machine manipulation, fraudulent mail-in ballots?...The answer is nothing.” He “should have pushed for the abolition of computerized vote-counting machines altogether, since their vulnerability to error has been amply documented for decades.”
2/9/21, “Tal Bachman: A Quick Post-Mortem," by Tal Bachman, The Bachman Beat
“In the two years prior to election day, Trump repeatedly announced that Democrats were going to try to rig the 2020 election against him. He said it at rallies. He said it in interviews and tweets. If we take him at his word, he knew perfectly well an attempt was coming.
And so I ask: What was Team Trump’s fraud prevention plan? What did he actually do to reduce the chances of ballot-stuffing, voting machine manipulation, fraudulent mail-in ballots, Chinese election-tampering, etc.?
From what anyone can tell, the answer is: nothing. There was no fraud prevention plan.
Most conservatives continue to give Trump a pass on this on grounds it is the states, not the federal government, who run the election process. But the fact is, Trump and the RNC could easily have helped coordinate anti-fraud measures among Republican Party machines (and Republican governors and state legislatures) in swing states. Yet they didn’t.
That effort could have, and should have, coordinated legislative and lawfare swing state countermeasures against last minute changes to voting processes designed to make fraud easier. It should have initiated legislative efforts to make voting methods more secure overall. It should have sent RNC money to anti-fraud squads. It should have organized and scheduled designated poll watchers (and local media) at high-risk polling stations. It should have pushed for the abolition of computerized vote-counting machines altogether, since their vulnerability to error has been amply documented for decades. It should have organized state law enforcement supervision at all polling stations. It should have organized federal law enforcement attendance at various polling stations under the rationale they were enforcing federal voting and civil rights laws.
And last, but not least: Trump should have had a top-tier team of legal experts standing by on election night to challenge any dubious results, just in case that national anti-fraud effort failed.
But he didn’t organize anything like that. Instead, as noted, he spent his time trying to get Bob Woodward and Chris Wallace to like him, rambling for hours at Covid press conferences, and, in short, all sorts of other things which just were not as important as ensuring the integrity of the 2020 presidential election.
For Trump supporters, maybe the most heartbreaking thing of all was that even with that dereliction of duty, Trump could conceivably still have salvaged victory. Overstock.com billionaire Patrick Byrne has written an entirely plausible, and perfectly frustrating, account of his own attempts to ensure election integrity after election day. What he found was a shambolic Trump legal team headed by a hard-drinking, disorganized, near-octogenarian Rudy Giuliani, who has no expertise in election law, and whose legal strategies were never going to induce a court to overturn a state vote count.
And even when he could still have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, Trump declined to replace Giuliani, declined to follow Byrne’s sensible suggestions, and declined to fire his own personal lawyer, Pat Cipollone, who by various accounts, held Trump in contempt, leaked constantly, and did everything possible to obstruct Trump’s hopes of winning re-election.
It never seemed to occur to Trump that if, as he claimed, he had proof hostile foreign entities had conspired with domestic traitors to rig the election, that constituted an act of war meriting military response. We are left to wonder whether that proof actually existed. If it did, Trump failed in his first duty of protecting America. If it didn’t, he wasn’t telling the truth during an emotionally fraught, high-stakes time.
Add to all this Trump’s inability to forge a long-term leadership coalition of competent, like-minded people united under his direction; his inability to govern systematically (as opposed to erratically or instinctively); his inability to moderate his coarse communication-style so as to be more “presidential”; and an odd passivity underneath all the vituperative language, and you have a guy who possessed some extraordinary skills…just not the extraordinary skills needed to remain in power.
Now:
Against all this chaos, Team Biden ran a highly organized, highly strategized, highly effective campaign to win. Most Trump supporters believe that effort included outcome-changing fraud; but the point is, if it did, Team Biden got away with it—and one big reason they got away with it is because of what we’ve already discussed: Team Trump, both before and after the election, didn’t do what it could have and should have to enforce the law and ensure election integrity. They let their guard down. The Democrats saw it, and exploited that advantage. Of course they did. That’s what they do. That’s why they win.
And now, the weird alliance of leftist rabble and plutocrats—foreign and domestic—runs everything. They don’t just control
the entire United States military,
the White House,
the Senate, and
the House: They control
the universities. They control
the non-profits. They control
big business. They control
the public schools. They control
Wall Street. They control
the movie studios,
most of mainstream media,
the book publishing houses, and
the cable companies. They control
Big Tech and social media. They control
the newspapers,
the magazines, and
the musicians. They control every, or
nearly every, single institution of influence in the entire country.
And they control them all, because for years, decades, they have outplayed conservatives in a million different ways in the Power Game….Every conservative “victory” for the last century has amounted to nothing more than a speed bump during a relentless slide leftward toward national dissolution.
And so, they control everything, and while the outward trappings of democracy (like elections) are currently being left in place to deceive a largely somnolent public, the real shadow rulers have seized more power than ever.
What can patriots do to retake their beloved nation? That’s a big question, so I’ll take it up next time.”
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Added: Trump is strictly front man for Ivanka’s husband. Trump put his beloved Jared in charge of everything including his scam 2020 campaign:
“The White House effectively became a shell company under Kushner with Trump as its figurehead.”…Jared got rid of pal Brad Parscale for “bringing unwanted attention to what may be the largest campaign finance scandal in American political history.…Kushner “approved the creation of a campaign shell company that secretly paid the president’s family members and spent almost half of the campaign’s $1.26 billion war chest.” The Insider called the operation a “campaign within a campaign,” lifted from Mitt Romney’s playbook….In early October [2020], amid tight midwestern races” Jared pulled “$2 million in ad buys in Michigan and Wisconsin, and $5 million from its projected fall TV budget in Minnesota.“…1/11/21, “Grifting on a Dream,” American Greatness, Pedro Gonzalez
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