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AP Analysis: For Trump, sowing post-election chaos is the goal
The Associated Press ^ | November 19, 2020 | by Julie Pace (D-AP)

Posted on 11/19/2020 3:43:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is trying to turn America’s free and fair election into a muddled mess of misinformation, specious legal claims and baseless attacks on the underpinnings of the nation’s democracy.

The resulting chaos and confusion that has created isn’t the byproduct of Trump’s strategy following his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The chaos and confusion is the strategy.

Trump’s blizzard of attacks on the election are allowing him to sow discontent and doubt among his most loyal supporters, leaving many with the false impression that he is the victim of fraudulent voting. That won’t keep Trump in office - Biden will be sworn in on Jan. 20 - but it could both undermine the new president’s efforts to unify a fractured nation and fuel Trump in his next endeavor, whether that’s another White House run in 2024 or a high-profile media venture.

Rather than overturn the election results, Trump allies say the goal is to help keep the president’s most loyal supporters engaged and energized for whatever he might pursue after he leaves office - even if that means leaving them ill-informed about the reality of what has unfolded in the election.

Trump has long relished blurring the lines between truth and fiction and taking advantage of the confusion that creates. If anything, his presidency has only emboldened those tendencies, given the ways in which the Republican Party and friendly media outlets have helped propel his versions of events, even when they are indisputably false.

Those same dynamics have continued to help prop up Trump through this post-election stretch. Some small conservative media outlets have refused to accept Biden’s victory and have seen their audiences grow as a result. And most GOP leaders have helped give Trump cover by also stopping short of publicly acknowledging Biden’s victory.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; bias; chaos; donaldtrump; election2020; journalism; media; trump
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1 posted on 11/19/2020 3:43:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Analysis of AP, chaos is the goal. Projection of what we’re doing. Classic delusional hubris.


2 posted on 11/19/2020 3:46:34 AM PST by Bayard
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

3 posted on 11/19/2020 3:47:35 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Bayard

Julie Pace is not a reporter. She is a Democrat propagandist. She is at present the harbinger of fascism and serves as a tool of the small coterie of Marxists driving this nation to the far left.


4 posted on 11/19/2020 3:49:16 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“ America’s free and fair election”<<<<<<FALSE PREMISE


5 posted on 11/19/2020 3:50:10 AM PST by doc maverick
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I bind the spirits of lie and control in these people in Jesus’s name...that truth would be known and Your victory would be realized. Amen.


6 posted on 11/19/2020 3:51:00 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Stand Back Quitter Caucus. Go Sit Down. NO SURRENDER! )
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To: Bayard

For Leftist/Democrats, accusing your opponents of exactly what you are doing is the goal.

Post-election chaos has been the defining purpose of the Democrat party this year. They haven’t even bothered hiding it, just check out the “Transition Integrity Project”.

Every effort to make our voting process sound and reliable has been rejected by Democrats as “racist”. Democrat mayors and governors have aided and abetted in the destruction of their own cities in order to train and equip an army of Antifa and BLM brownshirts who are standing by to burn the country down if the blatant theft of the presidency is thwarted.

Chaos and fraud is the only way today’s Democrat party can stay in power.


7 posted on 11/19/2020 3:52:26 AM PST by Junk Silver (Old FR maxim: "You can't steal a landslide." Joe Biden: "Hold my beer...")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hogwash, to you AP, Media, Democrat Party, low life, scum & vermin, criminals, traitors & turncoats against the USA Nation Republic. And, Yes, Democrat, Joe Biden does not belong in the “White House”, he belongs in the Jail House, for a life sentence, corrupt politician and criminal he is!!!


8 posted on 11/19/2020 3:57:07 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

HOW vast deep and wide has been the Swamp. Glad to see AP exposed as totally a propaganda machine that it is.


9 posted on 11/19/2020 3:58:39 AM PST by rovenstinez ( )
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To: doc maverick

When did Tass start reporting in America?


10 posted on 11/19/2020 4:02:05 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The “journalists” Joseph Goebbels killed his 6 children because he knew what was going to happen to him after all the lying propaganda he inflicted on the German people.

The same thing is going to happen to these filthy scum in the media. They were caught. They are not going to get away with it.

ALL OF THOSE who perpetrated in this election theft are deservedly going to get the death penalty.

THEY KNOW IT! WE KNOW IT!


11 posted on 11/19/2020 4:05:19 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: dp0622

Fake News Media still Lying.


12 posted on 11/19/2020 4:05:46 AM PST by wetgundog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The gaslighting continues.


13 posted on 11/19/2020 4:07:19 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid! )
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To: Flavious_Maximus

There is no deterant it will continue until examples are made! and not the mail clerk in the stock room who changed an e mail


14 posted on 11/19/2020 4:07:42 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: Junk Silver

clearly trying to shake off the “chaos” tag that has been the over-riding feature of the entire Dem/Deep State/FakeNewsMSM election strategy. it won’t work, Julie.

reminder:

14 Nov: ABC: ASSOCIATED PRESS: Top CEOs met to plan response to Trump’s election denial
By TOM KRISHER and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers
On Saturday, the day after the video meeting, the Business Roundtable, a group that represents the most powerful companies in America, including Walmart, Apple, Starbucks and General Electric, put out a statement congratulating Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/top-ceos-largely-silent-trump-election-denial-now-74184419

yet AP did not disclose that Steven Swartz from Business Roundtable is Chairman of Associated Press:

Wikipedia: Associated Press is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City...
The Associated Press is governed by an elected board of directors. Since April 2017, the chairman is ***Steven Swartz (NO LINK), president and CEO of Hearst Communications...
Board of Directors List (REPS FROM NYT, ESPN, UNIVISION, MCCLATCHY, ETC ETC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press

***Business Roundtable: ***Steven R. Swartz, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hearst
Hearst’s major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; majority ownership of global ratings agency Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; 30 television stations such as WCVB in Boston and KCRA in Sacramento, Calif.; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Albany Times Union, more than 300 magazines around the world including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar and Car & Driver; digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital and video companies such as Verizon Hearst Media Partners, Complex, BuzzFeed, VICE and AwesomenessTV...
Swartz began his career in 1984 as a reporter with The Wall Street Journal after graduating from Harvard...
Swartz is chairman of the Associated Press and a member of the board of directors of ESPN...

Related content:
A Sustainable Foundation
For Hearst President and Chief Executive Officer Steven R. Swartz, the leading global diversified media, information and services company’s commitment to sustainability starts right at home. Hearst Tower global headquarters in New York City, which opened in 2006, has been lauded for its use of recycled materials, reduced emissions and ongoing environmental improvements.
https://www.businessroundtable.org/about-us/members/steven-r-swartz-president-chief-executive-officer-hearst

Business Roundtable: Members
Amazon, AT&T, Comcast, Fox Corporation (Lachlan Murdoch), Microsoft, Netflix, Oracle, Paypal, Walt Disney Co., etc etc
https://www.businessroundtable.org/about-us/members

***members also includes the other companies mentioned in AP article: Apple, Blackstone (Stephen A. Schwarzman), GE (Larry Culp); Walmart, Johnson & Johnson (Alex Gorsky)

Addressing Climate Change
Addressing climate change and its impacts demands a robust, coordinated effort with a sound policy portfolio. Business Roundtable CEOs are calling for a well-designed market-based mechanism and other supporting policies to provide certainty and unleash innovation to lift America toward a cleaner, brighter future...ETC
https://www.businessroundtable.org/climate

FakeNewsAP.


15 posted on 11/19/2020 4:08:28 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
For Biden, sowing massive election fraud on election day, was the goal.

See AP, anyone can write headlines, even non-journalists. But then again, that is exactly what you employ, non-journalists. They were once called propagandists, and were employed by communist countries. Your communist reporting is finally hitting a huge roadblock and massive push-back. We Americans are fed up with your fake news.

Your non-journalists always get it wrong though, while other non-journalists, who disagree with your non-journalists, get it right more often. For they are truly the truth-seekers.

Good will win over evil, with the good Lord's help..

16 posted on 11/19/2020 4:13:58 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Alternate headline, “Democrats Caught in Election Fraud Blame Trump for Investigating”


17 posted on 11/19/2020 4:16:07 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The “author” squats and drops the first lie in the first phrase of the first sentence.


18 posted on 11/19/2020 4:18:42 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Joe Biden: The best president money can buy.)
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To: wetgundog

This is past fake news.

It’s traitorous


19 posted on 11/19/2020 4:26:33 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Trump has long relished blurring the lines between truth and fiction and taking advantage of the confusion that creates.” Julie Pace & AP
______________________________________________________________________

Trump: Obama/Biden spied on Trump and plotted a coup...
AP: Trump is an evil liar...

Trump: Trump flipped Arab/Israeli peace on its head...5 Nobel nominations...
AP: Trump is a danger to world peace...

Trump: Covid managed well through dynamic Bus./Gov. partnerships...
AP: Trump murdered 250,000 Americans...

Trump: Operation Warp Speed produced multiple Covid vaccines in record time...
AP: Trump risking lives by not sharing Covid plans with Sleepy Joe...

Trump: Stock Market and minority unemployment rates hit absolute records...
AP: Trump is a racist...

What world does Julie Pace and AP live in...???


20 posted on 11/19/2020 4:29:21 AM PST by MCEscherHammer
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