Donald Trump regurgitates his #AltFacts and bogus claims of voter fraud based on his conspiracy theory buddies at Breitbart News and other fake news/false news sources including the biggest Main Stream Media (MSM) source of false reporting, FOX News cable. (via Trump’s Bogus Voter Fraud Claims) Can you imagine, the greatest country in the World being led by someone whose favorite business journal is The National Enquirer and who listens to Alex Jones and his Info.Wars broadcasts, RT America (Russian controlled propaganda) and Breitbart News the Bible of the neo-nazis, white supremacists and nationalists? Hell, these people post such nonsense as people fornicating with trees and Hillary Clinton having a child borne of extraterrestrials. Their followers actually believe this nonsense and Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, General Flynn-Trump’s National Security Advisor, and many GOP Congressmen including Trump’s CIA Director pick all subscribe to such nonsense and have referred to these sources for their “intelligence”. To top it all the king of fake news and alt-right nonsense, Steve Bannon, was Trump’s campaign manager and now his Chief Strategist in the White House. That’s right, the alt-right neo-nazi information site CEO and self-proclaimed Leninist has a top spot in the White House. Here is an earlier post addressing Trump’s source of his claims of illegals and dead people voting.
Trump touted “rigged election” throughout his entire campaign once he started dropping in the polls. Trump is a projectionist, it is just one very little part of a list of many phychological disorders. He will call others names like “crooked Hillary” while he is projecting Hillary as being crooked. One only needs to do a Google search to find all his scandals, dirty dealings and cons. He called Ted Cruz “lyin Ted Cruz”, when he himself has the most “Pants on Fire” ratings from Politifact for telling untruths (lies, alternative facts, BS). “Rigged Election”, Trump was part of a rigged election campaign which included using information from Russian hacked material that was eventually handed to Wikileaks. “I love Wikileaks”, remember that Trump quote?
Was the election rigged? In ways yes. The Russian hacking of the DNC and Podesta and others, along with info leaked or handed to Wikileaks and DC leaks which was intended to benefit Trump and hurt the Clinton campaign did influence people’s votes.
False information posted on sites such as Breitbart News, Info.wars, and other ultra radical conservative sites intended to benefit Trump and hurt the Clinton campaign did influence people’s votes.
False information published in trashy tabloids such as National Enquirer intended to benefit Trump and hurt the Clinton campaign did influence people’s votes.
Fake news sites that looked like real news sites that posted false information that were intended to benefit Trump and hurt the Clinton campaign did influence people’s votes.
Republican held States that used voter registration suppression tactics to prevent the American people’s Constitutional right to vote did affect voting and primarily benefitted Trump and was intended to hurt the Clinton campaign.
Scare tactics including statements from Trump during his campaign that would incite his supporters to monitor and intimidate potential voters at polling places did influence some voters’ decision not to vote due to potential violence or fears of personal injury.
In Florida voters sued for a recount due to reports of voters being turned away, being told they had already voted among other irregularities. Palmer Report started a petition on Change.org to petition Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner to order a recount.
Evidence of tampering with seals on certain voting machines in Wisconsin which actually should have been all the more reason to do an audit and investigation rather than just a recount.
Irregular votes such as more votes credited to Trump than total votes cast collectively in Outagamie County in Wisconsin, if not detected and reported may have been just left as is and certified. How many more such irregularities were there, and because of the refusal to do an actual audit versus a recount would they not have been just left and certified as accurate? This resulted in an outcry for #AuditTheVote and Jill Stein raised millions of $ for the cause. Some were done, some were stopped like Michigan’s. The problem is it was just recounts that were done and not actual audits and investigations in the voting machines. The final decision was that there was just a clerical error but who knows. It should be noted there were many sites claiming admission of falsifying the vote tally but those were unfounded. https://twitter.com/hierroyluz
Then there’s the highly controversial “Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program” that is used by the Republicans to purge hundreds of thousands of minority voters, under the false pretense of detecting voter fraud. They are committing voter suppression because they can’t win honestly. The “Crosscheck” program is highly unreliable yet Republicans like Mitch McConnell, along with Donald Trump recently, like to refer to its #AltFactual results when claiming rampant voter fraud. Congressman Alcee Hastings calls it a violation of Federal law and sent a Congressional letter to the Attorney General’s office in December requesting an investigation. The Crosscheck program was designed by Trump advisor Kris Kobach, the same guy who evidently came up with the idea of the Mexican Wall.
Aside from voter suppression the 6 or more Super PACs that were backing Trump, some of them previously backing Ted Cruz, pumped out misleading campaign ads based on fake information. They also flooded social media, YouTube and other outlets with fake news. Steve Bannon was part of the bogus Clinton Cash book of lies which was one source of the consipracy theory nonsense that GOP Congressmen, Rudy Giuliani and the rogue New York FBI cell used for their “intelligence” source. The Trump Foundation made a $10,000 payment to James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas which put out several doctored and faked sting “Rigging The Election” videos. James O’Keefe has a long rap sheet. Breitbart, whose CEO was Trump’s Chief Advisor Bannon’s site that hosted O’Keefe’s videos along with the Clinton Cash book by Peter Schweizer, Schweizer has ties to Rupert Murdoch, Sarah Palin, hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer who helped fund Trump along with his daughter who was on the Board of the Government Accountability Institute, and the Koch brothers. Schweizer and Steve Bannon operate the false front non-profit Government Accountability Institute which had its eyes set on both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush to destroy. The Government Accountability Institute is one of those conservative activist outfits hiding behind a non-profit status, the likes of those that the GOP House Ethics Committee members were trying to protect by crucifying IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.
Rigged Election? Yes, I think so Donald.
