Posted on 07/17/2026 5:55:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump’s speech didn’t make the case, while sowing voting distrust.
President Trump broke into prime-time TV on Thursday night to talk to the nation about election security, but it must have been a letdown for anybody expecting a thrilling plot twist in Mr. Trump’s long yarn about his 2020 defeat. Instead he made a sales pitch for a bill that can’t pass, using doubts it wouldn’t address.
Mr. Trump released documents that he said show vulnerabilities in U.S. election systems, and some of them are real, though they run the gamut. He said voter files on millions of people, including names, addressees and party affiliations, “have been bought, stolen or hacked by China.” A 2020 intelligence memo advised that adversaries “have the capability to compromise” election infrastructure, especially “registration databases, pollbooks, and official election websites.”
But since Mr. Trump declassified the memo, we can quote the part he didn’t. “Vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results,” it says. “The systems in each voting location are not connected to the Internet or to each other, and many methods for exploiting them rely on physical proximity.” Achieving it across many jurisdictions “would be difficult” and “audits and paper trails very likely would uncover such an effort.”
Mr. Trump went on to say that CIA reporting indicates Venezuela’s dictatorship conspired to rig its own election and “digitally alter vote totals.” He presented this as proof of concept that such a thing is possible. Sorry, the state of Georgia, which Mr. Trump lost in 2020 and then won in 2024, isn’t Venezuela, and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger isn’t Nicolás Maduro.
Other files involve a drive for voter registration in Michigan. Mr. Trump alleged that some canvassers in 2020, who received gift cards based...
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More bs.
Real or not, for many reasons, ONLY ARRESTS MATTER!
Raw data shows server's IP addresses from foreign countries including, China, Iran, Serbia, and others directly sending and receiving data from every single swing state and many other's election precincts during and after the 2020 election.
The 2020 election was stolen. pic.twitter.com/zY0K9httXG— The SCIF (@TheSCIF) April 23, 2026
Wall Street Journal is ghey anymore
When Trump gets this much flak from the MSM, he is directly over the critical target.
His claims are absolutely believabe. It’s obvious that Red China...Russia...North Korea....Iran...and others much prefer today’s Rat Party to the GOP. Remember what Osama Obama said to Putin’s right hand man “after the election I’ll far more flexibility” to destroy our missile capabilities. And then,IIRC,it wasn’t long after that that Vlad invaded Ukraine.
Readm “Stolen Elections: The Takedown of Democracies Worldwide”, by Ralph Pezzullo, 2025.
The WSJ hates Trump.
The only part of that paper that was even mildly conservative was the op-ed section. They’re haters - same as the New York Times. They would hate Trump and say the same thing if Trump had video’s and sworn testimony of the perp’s mothers.
The Wall Street Journal, just another NWO propaganda rag.
I’ma gonna go with FUWSJ and leave it at that...
The Wall Street Journal has devolved into Mindless Manhattan Syndrome.
They’re a hit at cocktail parties on the East Side.
Exactly. And a few retard posters too. IMO Trump wasn’t talking to a significant percent of America, he was talking to the MSM, the deep state and other nefarious activists in this country that they are being watched. Also Trump was also putting other countries on notice that they are being watched and logged.
A healthy percent of illegals won’t turnout this fall either especially when voter roles are being looked at, and the many uncooperative states aren’t helpful either, however they are being sued. People can bash Trump all they want, however they are the ones who look foolish as no president going back to the Nixon/Ford days did a damned thing.
And the Congress/Senate cabal are the real guilty ones for having done NOTHING for many decades. Thune is the biggest enemy of these United States at this time.
agreed. only arrests matter (hopefully to include the funders and enablers, not just a few low-level criminals at individual polling sites)
If the Wall Street Journal’s employees were to smell and see smoke in the office, I would advise them to take the essence of the WSJ’s advice concerning election fraud and ignore the smoke, because smoke does not constitute proof of any fire. The WSJ can also save money by not equipping their office with fire extinguishers, safety exit doors, safety stairs, safety exit lights, elevator fire warning signs, fire hoses, fire alarms, and sprinklers, because their office is not currently on fire— therefore there is no need of any fire equipment. The WSJ need not pay for any office fire insurance either. The WSJ should also adopt a new motto: “What, me worry?” as most befitting their political outlook.
The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 17, 2026 5:42 pm ET | The Editorial Board
The Murdoch Crime Family is quite satisfied with the current election laws in the USA which make it easy for Leftists to cheat.
> “have the capability to compromise” election infrastructure, especially “registration databases, pollbooks, and official election websites.”
But since Mr. Trump declassified the memo, we can quote the part he didn’t. “Vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results,” it says.< While seated on the pot, the editorialist reached down and shuffled through some old copies of NR to find that quote. Hasn’t followed much in the meantime.Screams Murdoch/ Fox $800m payment to Dominion per Bannon’s analysis.
The stock market is worth many trillions of dollars based on belief alone.
Junior will head off to college in about 50 days in the belief that paying four years of tuition, going into debt, doing four years of studying and writing will pay off in the end.
Belief matters.
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