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How a Secret Group Anticipated and Blocked President Trump’s Attempt to Reverse a Losing Campaign

March 4, 2021         Vol. XIV, No. 5       6:13 am

What Democrats did was worse than corrupt, it was legal

Last Sunday, at one hour and ten minutes (01:10:24) into his CPAC speech, former President Donald Trump described as “corrupt” what a Time Magazine article disclosed as how the Democrats won the White House. He said, “It’s a disaster for our country that we can allow something so corrupt to happen. Read that article. I really encourage you. You read that article.”

So, I read the article.

The Time Magazine story held in such contempt by Trump, The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election, by Molly Ball, Time’s National Political Correspondent, is about “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.” It’s about how they:

• Changed voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding;
• Fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time;
• Successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation.

The story confirms what I concluded in my February 2, 2021 report on how Democrats defeated President Trump, The US Constitution Giveth and the US Constitution Taketh Away; Blessed Be the US Constitution: “They exploited a coronavirus pandemic to send tens of millions of absentee ballots to their voters and then used unprecedented emergency state authority to reduce validation requirements and extend the time allowed for counting ballots to gain a political advantage.”

Yes, a secret group of Democrats did all of that. But it was not corrupt.

Trump has survived impeachment, divorces, bankruptcies, accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits, but he could not win one of the 62 suits claiming corruption in the 2020 presidential race brought before 90 judges and a 6-to-3 Republican-appointed US Supreme Court.

The Time Magazine story reveals that what Democrats did to defeat Trump was worse than corruption, it was legal. It’s the story of why even Republican judges could not rule in his favor.

 Democrats anticipated and blocked Trump’s attempt to reverse the election

The Time article tells of how Democrats anticipated that President Trump would attempt to overturn the election results with claims of fraud filed in either Republican-friendly states or in federal courts where President Trump had 234 nominees confirmed by the US Senate, so they created a comprehensive counter-offensive that crossed all the legal t’s and dotted all the i’s.

Democrats knew like everyone else that Trump was incapable of accepting defeat.

On November 1, 2020, two days before election day, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former “fixer,” told The New Yorker that if he loses, “He will not concede. Never, ever, ever.” The article, Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose by Jane Mayer, includes the following telling quotes:

Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer:

• “I believe he’s going to challenge the validity of the vote in each and every state he loses—claiming ballot fraud, seeking to undermine the process and invalidate it.”
• “Every day, he’ll rant and rave and yell and scream about how they stole the Presidency from him. He’ll say he won by millions and millions of ballots, and they cheated with votes from dead people and people who weren’t born yet. He’ll tell all sorts of lies and activate his militias. But, by stacking the Supreme Court, he’ll think he can get an injunction. 

Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Donald Trump’s best-seller, “The Art of the Deal:”

• Trump “will do anything to make the case he didn’t lose.”
• “If Biden is inaugurated President, we’ll know that there’s a new boss, a new sheriff in town. But, until then, the biggest danger is that Trump will implicitly or explicitly tell his supporters to be violent.”

Last Sunday, former President Trump continued to claim that what Democrats did was corrupt. He said that the US Supreme Court “didn’t have the courage to act,” adding, “they should be ashamed of themselves.” He blamed everyone but himself for losing the White House and the US Senate majority.

It is the predictability of Trump’s “sore loser” behavior that gave that secret group of Democrats the ability to anticipate and legally block his attempt to reverse a losing campaign.

Maybe it’s the predictability of Trump’s behavior that explains why only 55% of the CPAC crowd on Sunday chose Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential nominee straw poll.

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