The Electoral College formally claimed Joe Biden’s victory Monday, but President Trump fights, as the Black Knight of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” will not give up, even when his arms have been cut off and the legs.
“It’s nothing more than a scratch,” he says after King Arthur throws his right arm.
“It’s just a flesh wound,” he insists as he loses his other arm.
“I’m invincible!” he shouts after losing his left leg, to which Arthur replies, “You’re a mud.”
The nation ‘s psychology, six weeks after the election, is encapsulated in that 1975 film scene.
On the part of Trump, in his unsuccessful efforts to overturn the election result, there are a majority of the 74.2 million Americans who voted for him, along with 126 House Republicans who signed the rejected Texas demand by the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
Most of the rest of the country thinks they are all birds.
This damaging divide will not be resolved if Biden moves to the White House, no matter how much he talks about “unity.”
When 62% of Republicans are convinced it’s “very likely Democrats will steal the election,” according to a Rasmussen poll, and 28% of independents and 17% of Democrats agree, “Houston, we have a problem.” .
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the National Security and Government Affairs Committee, highlighted this at Wednesday’s hearing on “Review of Irregularities in the 2020 Elections”:
“This is not a sustainable state of affairs in our democratic republic.”
For reasonable people it is clear that something was heavy in these unusual elections, held during a pandemic.
The difference of the people is whether the fishery was enough to change the outcome of the election and even if it was, whether it can be proven.
Trump should dump at least 44,000 votes in three states – Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona – a high bar that was insurmountable by a bunch of failed lawsuits.
The rational choice is to continue and not jeopardize the two major runoff races in the Georgia Senate on January 5, which will determine whether Biden can adopt a radical change.
But where everyone should agree is that thorough research is needed to ensure public faith in the integrity of future elections.
To this end, renowned White House economist and business adviser Peter Navarro has conducted a forensic analysis of reported electoral irregularities and distilled his findings in a 35-page report to be published on Thursday.
Navarro has collected complaints in battlefield states, ranging from total election fraud and mishandling of votes to statistical anomalies, included in 50 lawsuits and rulings, thousands of statements and statements and testimonies from state hearings .
He concludes that “patterns of electoral irregularities. . . they are so consistent in the six battlefield states that they suggest a coordinated strategy to, if not steal the election, strategically play the electoral process the way it does. . . unfairly tilting the pitch in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket “.
Some of the report material is questionable, especially about voting machines.
Crazy tales from lawyer Sidney Powell about a plot by Hugo Chávez, George Soros, Hillary Clinton and several communists to rig voting machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems have poisoned him.
But there are a lot of credible reports.
For example, he cites affidavits alleging exploitation of the elderly and sick.
In one case, the family of an elderly man from a Georgia nursing home discovered that an email ballot had been requested that had been filed in his name without his consent.
In Pennsylvania, two parents and their daughter with Down Syndrome “discovered that a ballot had been requested and emailed to the daughter without her consent.”
But these cases, while disturbing, cannot change the outcome of the election.
Where the report is most compelling is in its thesis that, under pandemic coverage, Democrats and allied voting rights activist organizations managed to relax voter identification requirements to such an extent that it could widespread voting collection or direct fraud detection occur.
For example, the report cites 130,000 questionable votes in Wisconsin because of the relaxation of voter identification requirements for “indefinitely confined” voters who said they could not get to the polls in person. These voters were seen “attending weddings, cycling, vacationing and not [being] anything but confined. ”Still, they evaded the rigorous identification checks needed for in-person voting.
The number of “indefinitely confined” voters in Wisconsin nearly tripled from 2019 to 2020, when 200,000 people took advantage of relaxed laws on voter identification due to the pandemic.
“This 130,000-vote increase in new confined voters indefinitely exceeds Biden’s margin of victory in Wisconsin.”
In all battlefield states, relaxed identification requirements for postal and absent voting “disproportionately benefited [Biden] because President Trump had a much higher percentage of face-to-face voters. “
The report also cites indications of the collection of ballots, for example, 25,000 ballots requested from residents of nursing homes in Pennsylvania at one time.
In Nevada, he claims Native Americans were “bribed” to vote for Biden agents with Visa gift cards, jewelry and other merchandise.
Perhaps the biggest “warning” that something was wrong was the obstruction of Republican observers from polls in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania, where they claim they were denied entry to polling stations or “they ‘ls directed them to stand at excessively long distances from the polling stations.’
Whether you believe that the skepticism of half the country is “blatant”, only a bipartisan and transparent investigation into these allegations will allow the country to continue with some resemblance to the “unity” that Biden intends to desire.
Assange is sorry
If President Trump plans to issue more pardons, there are few people more deserving than WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently in Belmarsh Prison in London awaiting extradition to the U.S.
An extraordinary audio recording released yesterday by Project Veritas shows how Assange tried to minimize the risk to people of government leaks for his organization.
In 2011 a State Department attorney was warned that a former WikiLeaks employee plans to post classified harmful material.
Assange’s real crime is that he posted stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee that caused damage to Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election.
The deep state will never forgive him, which is why Trump should do it.