In October of 2016 the CIA and the FBI confirmed that Russia was attempting to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. President Obama called a meeting in the White House and invited Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell to attend and hear the facts from our security agencies.
Mitch McConnell decided that the American people should not be allowed to know the truth. According to former DNI, James Clapper, he and Paul Ryan were more concerned about Trump winning than the conduction of a fair and informed election.
“House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said they would not support a bipartisan statement that might hurt their nominee for president,” wrote Clapper. “It seemed they had decided by then that they didn’t care who their nominee was, how he got elected or what effects having a foreign power influence our election would have on the nation, as long as they won.”
Clapper’s recently released memoirs also confirm what all Americans should know; Trump could not have been elected without Russian interference. No intelligent and patriotic American could have voted for the least qualified, most immoral, and racist man in our nation.
“Surprising even themselves, [Russia] swung the election to a Trump win. To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense and credulity to the breaking point. Less than eighty thousand votes in three key states swung the election. I have no doubt that more votes than that were influenced by this massive effort by the Russians.”
Russia’s efforts to discredit Hillary resulted in one major change; a lower voter turnout than expected. Why did that make a difference? Trump lost the popular vote by millions and barely received the majority in the Electoral College. The three states which gave him the 270 votes needed; Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin; gifted the election to Trump with a total of less than 80,000 votes. This was the second closest election since 2000 when the Supreme Court snatched victory away from Al Gore. Gore won the popular vote, but Bush’s win of the electoral votes in Florida remains controversial.
I have never referred to Trump as “president” without prefacing the term with the adjective “illegitimate.” This article explains why.
To protect themselves, Republicans claimed that Russia’s interference in the 2016 election had no influence. This is a blatant lie. Throughout the campaign Trump claimed that the election was “rigged.” This was not an assumption; he knew the truth. He and Putin rigged it for him.
Tell everyone; “The Truth Lives Here.”
Op-ed by James Turnage
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