Somebody pointed out on another thread somewhere that the report gets released to the President, not to the general public. It’s possible it’s already been released to POTUS by now, and there’s no guarantee POTUS will respond to it by Dec. 18th. I just don’t want people to be let down if POTUS’s response doesn’t come by this Friday. For all we know he may wait till next week or early January before he releases its findings and acts on them.
I think for legal purposes, it is far far better for any issues involving the election be resolved before the January 6 vote by Congress confirming the electors sent by the states. Once that vote is taken, whoever gets those votes will be almost impossible to dislodge by an Constitutional, lawful method. After that date, it would take military intervention, and decrees that have no basis in law or the US Constitution (for example, requiring a new election in the contested states or just declaring President Trump the winner based on evidence that we accept, but the courts and Congress ignored.)
What I hope happens is that information about what really happened is released, the public absorbs it, the conspirators are arrested, some charged with fraud, those who worked with China charged with treason, foreign bad actors are arrested by the military and held in military prisons, and some of those arrested include high-level politicians, businessmen, “journalists”, tech giants, etc. At the same time, control must be exercised over the media so that the word is allowed to get out to the public.
In that atmosphere, with the info out about a Chinese/globalist conspiracy to steal the US presidency and control of a $20 trillion economy, and with some of its members in jail for participating in it, Congress can then take its vote. One would hope they would do the right thing. If they don’t, there is still the military option, but it is not optimal, because it is not legally grounded.
Report from DNI Ratcliffe gets released thusly:
“The Director of National Intelligence shall deliver this assessment and appropriate supporting information to the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security.”