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 ...
Yes.
Sane person Analysis: For Dems/Libs, sowing post 2016-election chaos against Trump was the SOP for 3 1/2 years.
Where’s the comedy/irony tag?/sarc
Oh this is rich coming from the people who said Trump was down 17 in Wi, 12 in Mi and had 39% of the popular vote. NOW they know what’s REALLY behind this.
AP - America’s Pravda
As Dennis Prager has often noted: “Truth is not a value of the Left.”
Why are you here? You post bs articles from left wing sources with no truth whatsoever.
Where is the supporting evidence for the assertion that America had a free and fair election?
There are hundreds of affidavits asserting election fraud at many levels.
The MSM is pretending that there is no fraud just like Baghdad Bob.
I guess they never heard of ‘Dominion’
I used to think Julie Pace was an honest-to-goodness reporterette when I would see her on Faux.
No more.
It’s good to know who your enemy is.
I respect Oldeconomybuyer’s work.
You should too.
Associated press has been a propaganda operation for many years. They are experts on disinformation.
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Excellent pictorial summary of post-election chaos that dwarfs what’s going on now.
What he’s been posting lately is from the same known enemies with the same old themes designed to do one thing, break down moral of their enemy, us. Respectfully, I’ll decide who’s work I respect.
Perfect projection and rule of opposites.
AP and its media allies support massive voter fraud—thereby causing post-election chaos when the voter fraud is overturned.
Well said. It is breathtaking how blatantly they lie and distort the truth. They refuse to do their job and investigate the fraud and have merely deemed nothing happened, after four years of Russia, Russia, Russia. Now, magically, election foul play is absurd.
The corrupt MSM really is the enemy.
As I’m perusing the articles on FR, it’s become apparent the commiecrats and the lying media are putting out an avalanche of deceit for their loyal followers to swallow. ALL of which is aimed at convincing us to give up the pursuit of proving the election was “won” by total FRAUD. Disgusting.
>>Good will win over evil, with the good Lord’s help..<<
You are right; good won over evil four years ago. As I prayed then, I’m praying now, daily, multiple times a day. I believe prayers are being said by millions of us!
RUSSIA!
more lies
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