Posted on 10/10/2018 2:33:08 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Had a Secret Plan in Case Trump Rejected 2016 Election Results
By Mattathias Schwartz
In October 2016, senior staff in the Obama White House discussed what they should do if Hillary Clinton won the November election and Donald Trump refused to accept the result as legitimate. They had cause to be worried. At that time, Trump had openly speculated that the election might be “rigged.” During his final debate with Clinton on October 19, he said that his opponent “should never have been allowed to run” and declined to answer the question of whether he would concede. “I’ll keep you in suspense,” the Republican nominee said.
“It wasn’t a hypothetical,” Ben Rhodes, Obama’s senior aide and speechwriter, told Intelligencer. “Trump was already saying it on the campaign trail.”
The Obama White House plan, according to interviews with Rhodes and Jen Psaki, Obama’s communications director, called for congressional Republicans, former presidents, and former Cabinet-level officials including Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, to try and forestall a political crisis by validating the election result. In the event that Trump tried to dispute a Clinton victory, they would affirm the result as well as the conclusions reached by the U.S. intelligence community that Russian interference in the election sought to favor Trump, and not Clinton. Some Republicans were already aware of Russian interference from intelligence briefings given to leaders from both parties during the chaotic months before the election. “We wanted to handle the Russia information in a way that was as bipartisan as possible,” Rhodes said.
The existence of the postelection plan has not been previously reported. A July 2017 op-ed by Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, refers to Obama directing his staff to “prepare possible responses” to claims of Russian interference in the election.
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insurance policy #3?
the FakeNewsMSM intend to devote articles to the 2016 losing side right through the Trump presidency.
the only other time they gave so much space to the loser involved Al Gore.
I knew when the Wisconsin vote finally was unable to be rigged by madison milwaukee and busing in illinois people to vote.
Algore didnt, hillary didn’t, green party hag didnt.
But Mueller’s still trying to figure out how Trump colluded with the Russians.... RIGHT
Trump needs to call a presser and explain this to the American people and end this charade. After the election.
This reminds me of Jimmy Carter's role in Venezuela. He and his foundation were hired to "validate" Hugo Chavez's election. He wasn't allowed into the election headquarters, his people weren't allowed to inspect any of the vote counts... there was widespread and gross vote fraud (and no recounts allowed...)
And yet he stood in front of the cameras minutes after the polls closed and pronounced the elections fair and honest. Its what he was paid to do, and he did it. Oh, and then he accused GW Bush of stealing the election as he stood there in Caracas on Hugo's dime.
“On the other hand, has anyone seen such a sore loser as Hillary Clinton. Two years later and she is stil bitching.
Even Nixon didn’t complain this much.”
2. Nixon was not happy that he lost, he knew that the Kennedys had cheated, but still never challenged the result - whatever his other faults may have been, the man was a patriot and did not believe it to be even remotely in the nation’s interest to have that kind of an internal squabble in the middle of the Cold War.
They would have been very afraid Candidate Trump would expose a lot of election fraud challenging the election.
Oh it was rigged by the democrats all right. They just didn’t succeed in rigging it enough.
Did the Obama political clan actually believe it was illegal or in any way unconstitutional for a candidate to question a reported presidential election result?
How could they think that, even Gore and Clinton didn’t think there was anything wrong with such a notion in 2000!!!
Obviously, it was not any illegality or unconstitutional matter that the Obama team thought was inherent in a challenge of the election results. It was just another way, besides the Russian-collusion hoax, that they were trying to thwart Trump.
I just figured, when Trump didn’t immediately pump up the ‘Russians meddled in the election’ meme, that he was reticent because he knew it was China that tried to influence the election. The Russians may have too, but theirs was negligible.
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
“It’s a wonder nobody has ever brought that up.”
Seriously! She’d already sold them tons of uranium. Why would the Russians ever support a Republican candidate who’d change the whole administration?? Mattis, Kelly, Bolton, Pompeo, ... The Russians preferred this?!?!
“We wanted to handle the Russia information in a way that was as bipartisan as possible,” Rhodes said.”
Lying chunk of dog crap.
“That’s horrifying.” ... “That is not the way our democracy works. It’s been around 240 years. We’ve had free and fair elections; we’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election.” ... “And let’s be clear about what he is saying and what that means. He is denigrating — he’s talking down our democracy. And I for one am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position.” — Hillary Clinton, Final Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye0Xblp_Nb0&feature=youtu.be
(final debate via CBS, beginning at 1:07:18)
(not quite correct transcription here - but it’s close enough for a quick source for the text)
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/26/flashback-clinton-said-not-accepting-election-results-wa s-horrifying-video/
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Trump’s comment demonstrated “contempt for the sanctity of our elections. With his ‘wait and see’ position, he disrespects the voice and votes of the American people.”
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called Trump’s comments “horrifying” and demanded that he “immediately reverse course and state that he will accept the results of our free and fair elections.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/19/trump-wont-commit-to-accepting-election-results .html
(includes clip of the initial question and their responses from FOX coverage of the debate)
The president, campaigning in Miami for Hillary Clinton and Senate candidate Chris Murphy, said that “when you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people’s minds about the legitimacy of our elections, that undermines our democracy.” ... “Then you are doing the work of our adversaries for them,” Obama argued. “Because our democracy depends on people knowing their vote matters.” (October 20, 2016)
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-trump-election-results-2016-10
“Donald Trump refused to say that he’d respect the results of this election. That’s a direct threat to our democracy.” — 10:53 AM - 24 Oct 2016 (Hillary Clinton tweet)
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/790612127996403712
Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday he was alarmed by Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the election results. “That is a big problem, Biden said during a visit to a Democratic field office in Manchester, N.H. “The American public has to stand up, even Republicans. ... This is a threat to our democratic process...” (October 26, 2016)
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-live-updates-biden-call s-trump-s-refusal-to-commit-1476988403-htmlstory.html
“The voters decide who wins and loses, period, end of story, and when a presidential candidate threatens to ignore our voices and reject the outcome of this election he is threatening the very idea of America itself and we cannot stand for that.” - Michelle Obama, October 26, 2016
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lady-michelle-obama-stumps-hillary-clinton-arizona/story?id =42938063
(also posted here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3586860/posts?page=32#32)
Putin would have eaten Clinton’s lunch about ten times by now, and the world would forever be the worse for it.
It looks like they took the original plan and re-purposed it.
Because no one in congress stopped it...they are all traitors at some level.
That article is 100% fantasy BS. A total made up lie to fit the liberal narrative.
In no way did a single liberal think anything but that Hitlery was going to win.
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