Posted on 11/23/2020 7:50:06 AM PST by Kaslin
With credible allegations of fraud compounding by the day, the American people deserve a special counsel investigation to set the record straight.
Well, it’s been decided. The powers that be have declared that Joe Biden is the next president of the United States, signaling an end of discussion for all right-thinking members of polite society. The election is over, Biden won, and it was legitimate. They’re sure of it. And no, they’re not taking any questions.
Everyone of goodwill in the country is now supposed to accept on faith that those overseeing the election process are reasonable and honorable people, bound by morality and our nation’s venerable norms. The political environment of this election has led elites to plot coups in the case of a Donald Trump victory, call for dissidents’ executions, and systematically suppress the distribution of evidence indicating blatant Biden family corruption.
Now, Democratic operatives are building watch lists and promising retribution in perpetuity for those who dared to support Trump. Nevertheless, we are supposed to believe that, in this climate, there would exist no motivation on the left for drastic measures to oust the supposed fascist.
We are also supposed to believe that election fraud has already been proven to be impossible, and that allegations of it therefore deserve little to no investigation. Social scientists declare ex cathedra that since election fraud has rarely been caught in other elections, it is impossible that any occurred in this one. The media additionally points out that there are a number of ballot-integrity measures in place, most of which they oppose, and many of which were done away with, which nevertheless ensure that it is impossible to conduct election fraud on anything but a negligible scale.
Forgive us for insisting that they prove it. With credible allegations of fraud compounding by the day, the American people deserve a special counsel investigation to set the record straight. That’s because, as of now, there are plenty of reasons for concern.
Governments threw ballots out into the ether en masse since it would be too dangerous to go to the polls, creating a situation uniquely ripe for fraud, before turning around and urging voters to go to their polling locations even if they were currently infected with COVID-19. Courts and commissions also threw out many ballot-integrity measures that were in place.
Voter rolls were not maintained, ballots were accepted without postmarks, signatures were not checked against records, and poll-watchers were denied the ability (sometimes, it seems, through trickery) to observe ballot counting—except, perhaps, from far enough away that they couldn’t see what was going on. For public health reasons, of course. Of the safeguards that remained, we now have many dozens, if not hundreds, of sworn affidavits alleging that not even these measures were followed.
Everyone agrees, or at least claims to agree, that this is a dire situation for the health of our republic. All agree that trust in the integrity of the vote is necessary for our country’s long-term stability and well-being. It would seem to follow, then, that appearances of electoral fraud and wrongdoing require transparent investigation and resolution. They require public argument and evidence, with a full and open discussion.
This is what the Trump campaign has called for, taking the issue to court and laying out their evidence. U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has ordered investigations. Trump and his surrogates are airing their findings and conclusions publicly, at least to the (decreasing) extent that the media and major tech corporations allow them to do so.
Meanwhile, elite institutions are spending their time loudly declaring that such questions are by their very nature illegitimate and evil. When evidence is presented, the media cuts away. When the arguments are posted online, they are blocked or editorialized, and their distribution is reduced.
It’s hard to imagine a response more harmful to public trust in the vote, but they continue anyway. To question any element of the way the election was conducted, they say, is tantamount to an attack on democracy itself. Just shut up and submit already.
The left’s hypocrisy on the issue is almost too obvious to even mention. These are, after all, the same people who spent the past four years insisting that the 2016 election was somehow illegitimate. These are the same institutions that used to publicly declare until just last week that our democratic processes are structurally unjust, even racist, and in need of a radical overhaul. But now, Biden is ahead, and even basic questions of fact regarding whether the laws were followed is a dangerous assault on the American system itself.
The elites, left and right, have made it clear that they do not believe Trump supporters deserve answers on these, or any, questions. The power, they believe, is back on the side of the swamp, and they’re more than happy not to have to put up with the deplorables any longer. Serious questions and allegations can be safely ignored if they come from unfashionable people. It would seem that this, more than anything, is what is meant by a Biden presidency’s “return to normal.”
Trump rose to the presidency precisely by reaching out to these people forgotten and dismissed by the elites of both sides, by championing the so-called “deplorables” and addressing their concerns. It is what he has continued to do throughout his presidency. Now his administration can do so again by appointing a special counsel to investigate allegations of voter fraud in the election and give a full and transparent account of the findings to the American people.
We were told that a special counsel investigation into the allegations of the Russia hoax was necessary to restore public trust in our elected officials. How much more crucial is it to restore public trust in elections?
The investigation into the Russia hoax was based on far flimsier evidence than that which currently indicates potential voter fraud. Even so, members of the Trump administration acceded to the demands of their opponents, endlessly amplified through the media, and appointed a special counsel anyway.
We can be sure that a Biden-Harris administration would never extend the same courtesy. But President Trump still has the power to do so, before, as seems increasingly possible, Biden takes charge.
The Trump administration ought to appoint a special counsel without delay in order to ensure an ongoing and independent investigation into what seems to be Democratic election tampering. If the left is unwilling to accept the notion of an independent investigation into the election’s integrity, that would, at the very least, be clarifying.
More importantly, the American people deserve to have confidence that our elections are truly free and truly fair. That kind of confidence can only come through public discussion of the facts and an open and transparent investigation of the allegations.
The ruling class, of which Biden is now the figurehead, has made it clear that they are not willing to allow either. Even if the elites ultimately end up retaking power, the Trump administration needs to do everything they can, while they can, to ensure that the American people get the investigation, and the answers, they deserve.
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How long will this special counsel have to investigate? 2 years? 3 years?
Never gunna happen.
The Swamp is too corrupt for this.
Special counsel?
That won’t happen if the Dems ‘win’. They will have learned how to ‘win’ elections. GOP won’t even have to field a presidential contender in 2024, as the result will be automatic.
Why not the typical sternly worded letter?
You’re absolutely correct. The Senate Republicans are complicit in this fraud unless they open an emergency, special session. Subpoena Dominion/Scanmatic Voting Systems Executives to testify. Worthless jellyfish when you need them.
Any “special counsel” appointed will only be some swamp critter who will, during the course of his/her investigation, be coerced or bribed or threatened into finding no wrongdoing, spend 15 or so months performing Kabuki, ultimately find nothing, and proudly deliver his/her report to president Harris.
No, what is needed is a straightforward statistical analysis of the various “probabilities of outcomes” of a dozen or so races. Should take a month. When the outcomes then show a sub-1% chance of the results being what they currently are alleged to be, an evaluation can be made. And then we can again do nothing about it.
we need to have Trump take his rightful place as our president elect....there is no other way....he won.
Get a “special” council if you want a big fat whitewash of dominion and other broken electronic voting machine companies. No ballot stuffing happened in the dead of night, either. Dead people did not vote and no one voted in different states multiple times. No non-citizens voted either. Everything was fine and dandy. Bad man orange made it all up.
It’ not “election integrity” that needs to be checked; it’s the democrat party, and apparently only total elimination will ensure election integrity.
The Swamp would love this.
The Special Counsel would be one of their own, or would be corrupted in the process of his investigation. Biden would get the presidency, and, after 2-4 years, the Special Counsel would find little to nothing.
When the DOJ and the FBI are no longer interested in enforcing the law, it matters not what special investigations take place. With a corrupt court, no trial of importance will yield justice.
The people of this nation must now decide if the new mafia which rules the country will be allowed to proceed unabated.
It matters not that a majority of people would not wish it, but only that sufficient people are not willing to challenge this future.
I am sad for my children, for the nation was so well-founded. It appears we in fact could not keep it.
Like the 911 Commission, Gorelick attacking Ashcroft for creating the “Wall” she created.
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