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Did Trump win or did Biden (Part One)?

 

E. Ablorh-Odjidja

January 27, 2021

 

Evidently, the left’s hatred for President Trump has been limitless.  The desire to drive him out of office, by all means necessary, might have continued into the 2020 election.  

 

A day after the election, the causes of the chaos and confusion that greeted the result were found in only six states - out of the 50 in the United States. 

 

Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.  These were the battleground states that gave the victory to Joe Biden, the new president.

 

These were also the states that Trump needed to win to cement re-election; an outcome that seemed certain on election night. 

 

Coincidentally, most of these states and their counties were run by Democrats. 

 

After a sudden pause in the counting at night, ordered by the governors of the six states, Biden overcame the next morning the seemingly insurmountable lead Trump had the night before. 

 

Doubts about Biden's victory and voting systems in these states were immediately raised by the Trump side.  But the left and the Democrats asked people to believe that Trump’s ouster was legit.  

 

There was a massive rally in DC, held on January 06, 2021, to protest what many considered a stolen election. Violence at the protest triggered a snap impeachment from the House of Congress, against President Trump on a single charge of inciting insurrection.

 

Four years back, on Trump’s inaugural day in January 2017, a similar violent protest had happened in DC against Trump's victory.  The reason was that the “Russians had stolen the elections” for him.  He was, therefore, unfit for the office.

 

The most vocal call for resistance was Hillary Clinton, a Democrat Trump competitor and a failed presidential aspirant in the 2016 race.  

 

Hillary's call for resistance was hailed as part of the American tradition. 

 

But after 2020 and Trump's call for the January 06, protest, this same respected tradition evaporated.  Instead, the protestors on Trump's side are now considered insurrectionists.

 

Trump has earned a snap impeachment from a mostly partisan House and is now awaiting trial in the Senate - a total of two snap impeachments in just one year.

 

The left pretends to offer the hurried impeachments as virtuous exercises and not as marks of mean desperation.

 

For almost 150 years before Trump, only three US presidents had faced impeachment.

 

"Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998 were impeached, while Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached in 1974,” wrote the Business Insider.

 

The left has now turned the impeachment clause into a political weapon and has deprived the process of all of its constitutional diligence, just to hurt Trump.

 

Even Federal institutions once thought non-partisan - The FISA Court, Department of Justice, and the FBI – have been corrupted, in some ways by left insiders, as detailed in the Inspector General Horowitz Report of 2019, in the effort to oust Trump.

 

The Russia Collusion and Ukrainian Quid Pro Quo charges, seeded mostly by Hillary, and leaks of false information by deep state plants within the executive branch to the media, were some of the routes used in the attempts to end the Trump regime.  

 

And then during Trump's last year, there was also the China virus, creating the ultimate opportunity for the politics and the vitriol to be amped up.

 

The origin of the virus didn't matter to the left.  Neither were the sincere efforts to combat and produce vaccines in record time.  Every inch of the process was all anti-Trump contest. 

 

Though science was brought in as the driver, fighting the virus was never about science, but all about political correctness and how to dirty up Trump for the 2020 election.

 

By the time of the election, some 350,000 people have died as the result of COVId-19.  And the tragedy was used within a context of heightened political frenzy, and no pause for a call for national unity.

 

All this hate that corrupted all things institutional over four years, we are now asked to believe, never entered the 2020 election.  And the man whom the left had readied for political vaporization was allowed fraud-free re-election.

 

It was about fighting for power.  The elites in Washington were absolutely against the outsider Trump.

 

Witness the entire process and the two snap impeachment in the House, which allowed no investigations, had no witnesses and defense from Trump's side. 

 

A serious procedure that in the past took months for the result to get out of the House took mere three hours this time.

 

No wonder Chief Justice Roberts, recognizing the unconstitutionality of the last impeachment act, refused to preside over the trial at the Senate. After such a "so-called" great victory and the fact that Trump had barely two weeks left as president, Trump's foes wanted him still removed from office!

 

For the opposition, the impatience would pass muster. 

 

And the meanness of the pursuit in the objective to get rid of Trump for good, to prevent him from ever running for a Federal office again, was all there in the run-up to the election.

 

This mean-scotch earth drives to get the desired result would serve as an answer as to why the 2020 election could have been a steal by the left.  They understood perfectly what had transpired in the 2020 race, just like they knew Trump won the 2016 election without Russian help. 

 

For the left, to roll Trump out of office by any means necessary, therefore, was the big objective.

 

And all available constitutional and institutional processes were abused to get to this point in the political process.  The left couldn't have respected any lawful order that would have allowed Trump to win.  

 

The moral and ethical preening we hear now is just hot air.   

 

Common decency did not end the Russia Collusion lie.  Nor did it prevent the fake Ukrainian Quid Pro Quo impeachment trial and the groundbreaking abuses of the institutional orders that followed.

 

To know all this and not question the flaws that produced the result for 2020, must be an invitation to sacrifice reason.

 

On the election night, the vote counting was abruptly stopped in key battleground states. 

 

Republican party observers were cleared out of the counting rooms, on the excuse that the counting would resume the next morning.  In reality, the counting went on.  By the next morning, Biden had won; overcoming Trump's insurmountable leads in all the six battleground states.

 

Never in the history of presidential vote counting had such abrupt stoppage happened. 

 

This happened because the traditional rules governing the electoral process were unconstitutionally broken by officials in state administrations, not by the legitimate state legislators within these states.

 

Officials and governors of states who were not allowed the rule changes did; such as were done in the states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, and more.

 

The constitutional questions raised are yet to be decided by the US Supreme Court.  The key questions, according to Robert Barnes, Trump's lawyer, being:

 

"Whether there was unconstitutional election. Whether votes were cast by those who were not legally qualified.  And whether votes were counted in a manner not legally qualified.

 

But setting the constitutional issues aside, were the numbers for Biden legit?

 

A focus on the oddities found in the process - the spike in vote counts within incredible minutes after the pause, immense protest arising after the election, the continuing behavior of Democrats and their anti-Trumper allies in Washington, including the media, to prevent transparency - should require investigations.

 

But strangely, curiosity about any of these is being quashed and the solid fervor for the American tradition of "integrity in our elections" has suddenly melted. 

 

For four years, Trump was investigated, prosecuted, and persecuted non-stop for the baseless Russia Collusion charge by the left. 

 

A special prosecutor, Mueller, more an inquisitor, was appointed to investigate the faux charge, at the cost of $35 million-plus and for almost three years.

 

But one week could not be found to spare the angst concerning the integrity of the 2020 election.

 

We know the questionable balloting allegedly occurred in only six states.  But requests for due diligence have become a tug of war; with state officials raising walls of resistance, using technicalities, prompted mostly by ideological biases and the institutional need to save face.

 

Official Washington seems to go along, hoping the problem could go away or be resolved behind the scenes by insider Washington elites.  

 

After all, they seem to think, the only losers would be Trump and his bunch of cult members (75 million in the last election, the best an incumbent has done so far). 

 

So, requests for forensic examination of the legal ballots in the battleground states have been stymied.

 

In one county, Atrium, in Michigan state where it was allowed, it was found that the Dominion voting machines used, flipped large votes from Trump to Biden for the latter to win that county.  

 

Remaining to be seen is whether counties and states beyond Michigan would allow similar examinations of the machines.

 

Continued/Part Two

 E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Publisher www.ghanadot.com, Washington, DC, January 27, 2021. 

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