Posted on 07/12/2021 5:25:50 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin
Dear President Trump,
It was my great honor to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in your Administration. You asked me to prioritize public safety, and that is exactly what I did. While Larry Krasner, the radical leftist Philadelphia District Attorney, was letting violent criminals go and refusing to prosecute rioters, looters, and arsonists, our Office was putting them in jail and standing up for law-abiding citizens.
In the spring of 2020, I prosecuted and won an election fraud case against a Judge of Elections in South Philadelphia who was stuffing the ballot box. I also charged the political consultant (a former Democratic Congressman) who was paying bribes to the Judge to stuff the ballot box.
President Trump, you were right to be upset about the way the Democrats ran the 2020 election in Pennsylvania – it was a partisan disgrace. The Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the partisan State Supreme Court made up their own rules and did not follow the law. Even worse, the State Attorney General, Josh Shapiro – the very person responsible for the enforcement of state election law – declared days before Election Day that you could not win the election. It would be hard to imagine a more irresponsible statement by a law enforcement officer, especially during a hotly contested election. In light of such statements, it is hardly surprising that many Pennsylvanians lack faith in our state’s election results.
On Election Day and afterwards, our Office received various allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities. As part of my responsibilities as U.S. Attorney, I wanted to be transparent with the public and, of course, investigate fully any allegations. Attorney General Barr, however, instructed me not to make any public statements or put out any press releases regarding possible election irregularities. I was also given a directive to pass along serious allegations to the State Attorney General for investigation – the same State Attorney General who had already declared that you could not win.
I disagreed with that decision, but those were my orders. As a Marine infantry officer, I was trained to follow the chain of command and to respect the orders of my superiors, even when I disagree with them.
Mr. President, public service is in my blood, and I would like to serve the people of Pennsylvania and restore conservative leadership to our state. I will be the Republican candidate for Governor with the best chance to win the general election in November 2022. Based on my background and experience, I am uniquely positioned to defeat Mr. Shapiro (the likely Democratic candidate) and would welcome the chance to discuss this with you in person. I would be honored to have your support.
I disagreed with that decision, but those were my orders. As a Marine infantry officer, I was trained to follow the chain of command and to respect the orders of my superiors, even when I disagree with them.
Mr. President, public service is in my blood, and I would like to serve the people of Pennsylvania and restore conservative leadership to our state. I will be the Republican candidate for Governor with the best chance to win the general election in November 2022. Based on my background and experience, I am uniquely positioned to defeat Mr. Shapiro (the likely Democratic candidate) and would welcome the chance to discuss this with you in person. I would be honored to have your support.
Once elected Governor, one of my first priorities would be to modernize Pennsylvania’s election process and protect the right of all Pennsylvania citizens to cast a legitimate vote. That means no ballot harvesting, undated ballots, unsigned ballots, ballots collected after Election Day (other than legitimate military and overseas absentee ballots), obstacles to poll watchers observing the counting of ballots, different rules in different counties, and, of course, no ballot stuffing of the kind that I previously prosecuted. It also means responsible voter ID legislation. Ensuring people’s confidence in elections should be a nonpartisan issue. In short, we have a responsibility to make it easy to vote, but hard – if not impossible – to cheat. That is how we respect the will of the people – and how the best and most deserving candidates win.
Thank you for your consideration, and I hope to see you soon.
Very respectfully,
William M. McSwain
Former United States Attorney, Eastern District of PA, 2018-2021
A GOP candidate who actually served in uniform that might actually find himself in harms way. Not many of them.
Probably the same thing a Patricia does.
Electronic voting apparatus have no place in our elections because there are a thousand ways to cheat with them without even leaving a trail. Or least one that can be easily followed.>>> not only cheating. Our wonderful county “employees” are totally incapable of processing materials, documents, and recording the results of elections with anything that uses an electric plug. The fulton county assessment is scary. this is a Trump county.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VnJFxN3NdKQmcj2-8FDWMET8i__YlH7F/view?usp=sharing
He just comes across as the typical jar head who couldn’t comprehend that the “chain of command” wasn’t sacrosanct, but protecting free and fair elections was necessary to fulfill his constitutional obligation to guarantee a “Republican form of government”. He should have done more sooner. I would have a problem voting for this guy in the primary. His judgment is lacking basic common sense.
Disagree. His judgement is fine. Trump was riding solo in the swamp. Barr would have just fired him if he had stuck his neck out. That that would have been that because of the bipartisan nature of the stolen election. They all wanted Trump gone and McSwain would have been a footnote.
OK. But Barr was Trump’s hire to replace Jeff Sessions, who was also Trump’s hire. Both AGs were bad at the job. Trump must have a plan in place for far better hires in his second term.
You’ve got the wrong target. Our institutions are morbidly corrupt. Trump could make Don Jr. AG but without the support of a political party on his flanks nothing will be reformed.
I like DeSantis but let’s be realistic: He’s a conventional politician in a lot ways and has mainline career credentials. He’s not going to engage the swamp on a visceral level and go to mortal combat with them.
Yeah. I agree.
Good grief. The Right wing cancel culture logic is as silly as that on the Left.
The fed attorney received no illegal orders. He just followed his boss’s orders reflecting policy we might not agree was best.
For crying out loud, McSwain is loving Trump, agreeing with Trump on election fraud, has experience fighting it first hand and now wants to be the top executive in one of the more dependably crooked states.
I know it’s been a while. So we forget what it’s like, but that result would feel like winning to me.
On the other more Left-looking hand, generally without better options suggested, folks here want to disown this guy because he did not (could not) stop his boss’s policy decisions and could not find a way to sacrifice himself to save the guy who hired his boss?
I don’t know McSwain from Adam. But the arguments against him here seem quite weak.
Well, I'd imagine doing such a thing, in real life, would be quite traumatic to his family, career, his work associates, case participants, etc. Certainly much harder than asking some unknown third party to do it on our behalf.
"Now consider how much more attention it would have gotten..."
...if Trump himself had just fired the actual troublemaker of this story, Barr, instead of sacrificing an honest man for attention.
I'm grateful this type of guy even exists at the U.S. Attorney level. I'm humble enough to admit I don't know what, exactly, is the best chess move for this potential knight. And to thank God it's not my decision.
Perhaps the Right in PA will put up someone better and beat this guy fairly and squarely. I just would hate to see him 'cancelled' for such hypothetical scenarios.
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