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Did Trump win or did Biden (Part One)?

 

E. Ablorh-Odjidja

January 27, 2021

 

 The left’s hatred of President Trump has been limitless.  The desire to drive him out of office, by all means necessary, couldn't have stopped suddenly before the 2020 election.  

 

But to question Biden’s victory now is forbidden.  One has just to believe Trump’s ouster was legit.  

 

Trump’s support of a massive protest in DC, held on January 06, 2021 to contest the election result has triggered a snap impeachment on a single charge - inciting insurrection.

 

Four years back, on Trump’s inauguration day in January 2017, the charge was “Russians stole the elections.”  So, he was unfit for office. The riots in the streets of Washington, as a result, were deafening.

 

The loudest voice in the hoard of protestors was Hillary Clinton, the 2016 failed presidential candidate.  She insisted that the election was stolen from her.  And the media accepted and cheered the protest on to the detriment of private, government and commercial properties in Washington, DC.

 

And all was perfect because the claim was the protest was in the tradition of democracy.

 

But after 2020 and Trump's supposed defeat, this respected traditional protest died.  We are told, it should not have happened.  And it led to the snap impeachment of Trump in the House of Congress, now awaiting trial in the Senate.

 

For Trump, two impeachments in one year must be accepted.  But these are desperate efforts by partisan Democrats and these have not been the norm in any Congress of the United States.

 

For almost 150 years, only three US presidents had faced the impeachment procedure before Trump — "Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998 were impeached, while Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached in 1974,” wrote Business Insider.

 

In the time of Trump, the impeachment process has been weaponized and deprived of all constitutional diligence just to hurt one man.  

 

So were Federal institutions once thought to be non-partisan. 

 

The FISA Court, Department of Justice, and the FBI – all activated by some bureau personnel within, as detailed by the Inspector General Report of 2019, in the effort to oust Trump.

 

Russia Collusion and Ukrainian Quid Pro Quo charges, seeded by Hillary and the left, not to mention leaks of false information to the media, by deep state plants within the executive branches, were some of the routes used in the attempt to damage Trump.  

 

Then came the China virus. 

 

The origin and fight against the virus became a political anti-Trump contest. By the time of the elections, some 350,000 people have died as a result.  The hate-driven effort was quickly reenacted to use the epidemic to remove Trump from office.  

 

But then after the 2020 election, we are being asked to believe that all the hate-driven processes employed before stopped.  And that none of that hatred slipped through to affect the unusual nature of the 2020 election that has resulted in Trump’s supposed defeat.

 

No need to think that the hate for Trump was transferred into the electoral processes in 2020, as was already done to other events like the impeachment trials and the protests against his inauguration after his victory in the 2016 election.

 

The snap impeachment in the House, leading to a trial in the Senate, for Trump's removal from office, even after he would have left office, is demonstrative of the depth of the hatred that the liberals had for Trump.

 

No witnesses.  No defense from Trump's side allowed in the House. The frenzy and novel approach to impeach a president whose term of office has already expired must be a disgrace of the legislative efforts of this country.  

 

This impeachment effort was in no way a constitutional desire.  It was plain political meanness to prevent Trump from ever running for a Federal office again.  The left knows what they did with the 2020 election, just like they knew Trump won in 2016 without Russian help, hence the pursuit.

 

Based on the sheer history of the abuses of the constitutional and institutional processes, just to get rid of Trump. It should be reasonable to suspect that the 2020 election was also tainted;

 

The determination to get rid of Trump did not end with the false Russia Collusion.  And the fake Ukrainian Quid Pro Quo impeachment trial , with its groundbreaking abuses of constitutional rights didn’t get rid of Trump.  So, the 2020 elections became the opportunity to get rid of him.

 

Yet, we are supposed not to raise suspicion about this election.  To know all the anti-stuff that went against Trump and to be asked not to question the result of 2020 result must be an invitation to sacrifice reason.

 

The 2020 result had so many flaws, that went mostly one way - to hurt Trump and help Biden.

 

Only six out of 50 states contained the electoral chaos. 

 

Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and North Carolina were the battleground states in 2020 where the election went awry.

 

These battleground states and some counties within them were mostly run by Democrats at the time. 

 

Trump needed wins in these states to cement his victory  but didn't, even though he had clear leads going into the close at election night.

 

But something happened that has never happened in the electoral history of the US and still yet to be explained fully. 

 

The vote counting was stopped in these 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.

 

This approach to vote observation has never happened before.  It happened because traditional rules were changed unconstitutionally by officials in the administrations of these states.  

 

The next morning, Biden suddenly overcame what normally would have been insurmountable leads by Trump.

The extreme changes made to the electoral rules of these states, in part, made Biden's come from behind win possible.

 

The constitutional responsibility to make the changes in these states could only be done by the legislative bodies.  But this time they were done by Secretaries of States and Governors; Pennsylvania and Georgia are examples.

 

The constitutional questions are yet to be tested in the US Supreme Court.

 

The key questions, according to Robert Barnes, Trump's lawyer, are:

"Whether there was unconstitutional election. Whether votes were cast by those who were not legally qualified. 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 immense protest arising after the election, prior and continuing behavior of Democrats and their anti-Trumper allies in Washington, including the media, should be required.

 

Legal efforts to examine the electoral processes had so far been blocked by technicalities, prompted mostly by ideological biases and some institutional need to save face – to let the problem go away so it could be resolved behind the scenes by insider Washington elites.  

 

For four years the persecution and prosecution went on.  No need to save face.  A case in point, a special prosecutor, Mueller, was appointed to investigate Russia Collusion, a conpletely false charge. 

 

But a one-day protest can invite impeachment charges.  And the outsider Trump and his bunch of cult members (75 million in the last election) should move to the side or be indicted as co-conspirators to an insurrection.

 

In all this, no one from the Trump side is allowed to question the result.  No forensic examination of the ballots to assure the integrity of this election is allowed, which makes one to wonder what the supposed winners of the election are trying to hide.

 

In one county where it was allowed, Atrium, in Michigan state, it was found that the Dominion voting machines used in this county's election 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 machines.

 

Part Two

 

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

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