Posted on 12/12/2020 7:39:15 AM PST by USA Conservative
Before and after election day Americans are once again scrolling through news feeds full of stories about foreign operations that seek to undermine their country’s electoral process. Some of the reports raise questions about whether the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is politicizing these concerns—and the president himself has cast doubt on the integrity of the election. Americans are left wondering what to make of all the noise.
Sidney Powell did get this rumor up in the air last month when she held a press conference together with Trump’s legal team where she claimed that The Dominion Voting Systems, the Smartmatic technology software, and the software that goes in other computerized voting systems here as well, not just Dominion, were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election after one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want it to come out.”
She also alleged a huge influence on our election that comes from communist money through Venezuela, Cuba, and likely China. Video below:
So far fact-checkers denied these rumors.
But Powell is not alone in these statements according to Attorney General William Barr China is the greatest national security threat facing the United States.
National security officials told lawmakers in March that the intelligence community has not concluded that Russia is backing any particular 2020 candidate but did warn about interference campaigns by multiple countries. The information appeared in an unclassified fact sheet from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
“The IC has not concluded that the Kremlin is directly aiding any candidate’s reelection … nor have we concluded that the Russians will definitely choose to try to do so in 2020,” the ODNI said. “This is not a Russia-only problem. China, Iran, other countries like North Korea and Cuba, and non-state actors all have the opportunity, means, and potential motive to interfere in the 2020 elections as a way to achieve their goals.”
Now why these allegations that were mentioned are important?
Yesterday U.S. Supreme Court rejected Texas lawsuit contesting 2020 election results in four battleground states Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
In a few brief sentences, the high court said it would not consider the case for procedural reasons, because Texas lacked standing to bring it.
Trump supporters were mentioning the famous Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election from 2018 even before this rejection now many of them are claiming that he will use it.
Two years ago Jeff Sessions stated:
Attorney General Sessions today issued the following statement on the Election Security Executive Order: “The American people will not tolerate attempts to undermine the integrity of our electoral process—especially by foreign countries and other bad actors. President Trump is committed to taking definitive action to prevent anyone—foreign or domestic—from illegally interfering in our elections, and the Department of Justice is proud to support him in this mission. “Pursuant to the President’s executive order, the Department will work with our partners at the State Department, Treasury Department, and Department of Homeland Security, in order to identify enemies of our country who put our electoral integrity at risk. Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election
You can read the full executive order on the following link
Will President Trump use this executive order is hard to tell but it seems many people believe he will.
Some of them went one step further and claimed that all of Big Tech will be quickly banning and censoring all support of the 2018 EO.
Elizabeth Goitein’s January 2019 article “The Alarming Scope of the President’s Emergency Powers” written for “The Atlantic” states that “From seizing control of the internet to declaring martial law, President Trump may legally do all kinds of extraordinary things.”
President Trump has clearly discussed and been briefed on a strategy to contest the election via Constitutional means, first through the courts and then through House, saying at a Sept. 26 rally in—where else—Pennsylvania: “And I don’t want to end up in the Supreme Court and I don’t want to go back to Congress either, even though we have an advantage if we go back to Congress — does everyone understand that? I think it’s 26 to 22 or something because it’s counted one vote per state, so we actually have an advantage. Oh, they’re going to be thrilled to hear that.”
So as Sidney Powell indicated, the Kraken has been released, at the time it had no sense but if her allegations are proven to be real then the situation could get serious!
That 2018 EO outlines everything that we’re watching today play out, almost to a tee. Since that’s the case, it’s obvious that Trump knew what was about to happen. The only thing they didn’t grasp worked to their advantage: the blatant scale of the fraud made it so massive that they are using almost laughable means to try to cover up any attempt to expose it.
Seems that what has to happen is the Electors - under the instruction of their state legislators - have to actually vote for Biden and make him “president elect” before Trump can say it was officially stolen. Like shoplifting. A store detective cannot arrest anyone UNTIL they leave the store. None of the election theft is official until the electors actually vote. Then Trump can bring about what he needs to bring about to show it was stolen from him. That’s why he gave Ratcliffe “45 days” to determine foreign influence in this election. That “45” number exceeded the 12/14 date. If Trump was worried about that date closing the door on any hope he had to stay in office, he would have given Ratcliffe 30 days, not 45. The Electors votes are the last act - the shoplifter’s walk out of the store - that might be needed for Trump to invoke anything from that EO in 2018.
That’s not my understanding. He said he’d leave the White House. He never said he’d concede.
Supreme Court fails to obey the constitution!
Biden votes and the courts both appear to be counterfeit.
Speculation in the absence of data is pointless.
John Roberts like Anakin Skywalker has gone to the dark side.
Ratcliffe's report might be enough to do that. Trump concedes and goes away, but Biden and Harris have go into full-time excuse-making mode and are never accepted as legitimate office holders.
Then go ahead, Texas Freeper. Move on. Your word choice is Interesting, too.....
Scott Adams may think Trump will concede, however that’s contrary to what Trump has been quoted on:
WRT the “standing” issue.....the court has entertained state issues elsewhere so that’s no excuse.
Yet, this case was so huge and convoluted——made up of many parts——that it seems to me the court punted.
The court should have been hit over the head over the head w/ the salient issues so that “standing” was a non-starter.
2022 will look like a PHD class making 2020 look like kindergarten.
The dems have a green light to cheat and no one will stop them.
The only date etched in stone is Inauguration Day......
“Amen. One tweet and it’s on. I believe Trump knows that”
I believe he will need to back it up with a order from the Commander in Chief to the militia.
Foolish words. There is no Republic in which to ‘move on’ if this massive sedition is tolerated. The power of the people will be ended with harris in the white house. You want peace at any cost. We are in an undeclared WAR. Maybe your binky can convince you your world is not at war. Go take a nap in the corner and suck your binky, maybe the concussions of this war will pass you by as your GOD given rights are erased by your masters.
Well if Trump has a captured server that has been forensically tested by the 305th cyber warfare unit and it shows that China had a backdoor into the software then Trump has every constitutional right to suspend the election until a complete investigation can be completed.
Well indeed. Are you intending to fire the first shot?
DECLASSIFY
After Monday - nothing else will matter. We already can be assured that NO court will hear or look at the actual evidence. The fix has been in for a long time.
Fool.
It is not so easy to live in a oppressed land. Don't think you will not pay a price in psychological damage.
YOu say it is undeclared - but a lot of DemoCRAPs of name really did declare war - back in November of 2016 - when they said they would literally do ANYTHING to “impeach that M___F____er”. And the Democrat party along with the rest of the deep state swamp (that includes a terrifying number of those with an “R” next to their names - and the bulk of the court system) have been willing participants in the ongoing coup attempt that now appears to be nearly complete.
Where is the accountability for the blatant lies from Russia to Ukraine - to the unlawful FISA garbage to the sham impeachment... there was NONE. It is now proven that you can make blatantly false, baseless accusations against even the lawful POTUS - putting him through the wringer all while a lab-engineered Chinavirus is unleashed on the nation to further destabilize and derail an economy like none other in our history - all as part of the blatant effort to root out the first POTUS in our history to actually attempt to root out the corruption and reveal for the world the truth.
It’s been a war for 4+ years waged directly with Trump. But this war really is nearly 100 years in the making - back when Senator McCarthy saw “reds everywhere” and was mocked for it - he was actually more correct than he could have imagined. The Communists were already firmly entrenched - and the Cold War was really a show.
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