History Says Election Fraud is the Fraud

If we step outside party politics and just look at the time line of historical events leading up to the 2020 Presidential election it becomes clear who was actually attempting to perpetrate fraud.

When Democratic primaries started in 2019 and media began polling to see how various Democratic challengers would do against Donald Trump. From beginning to end the polls consistently found Joe Biden would beat Donald Trump in a head to head matchup.

At first it was not a threat for President Trump as for months Biden seemed to be going nowhere in the Democratic primaries. But as 2019 rolled into 2020 Biden gained momentum. By late spring Biden was almost certain to be the Democratic nominee and polls continued to show Biden would beat Trump in a head to head contest by a significant margin.

In April 2020, as it became clear Joe Biden would win the Democratic nomination, Donald Trump began tweeting and talking about massive election fraud brewing.

Anyone who wants to understand what happened needs to ask themselves this key question — if the President of the United States had evidence that caused him to claim in April of 2020 that some sort of election fraud was being planned — didn’t he have a duty to ask the Attorney General and the FBI to start investigating to see if the fraud could be prevented before it happens?

There is no evidence President Trump made any effort to instigate any kind of investigation into potential fraud by the FBI or the Attorney General, or any other investigative agency. Given subsequent events it is apparent he wasn’t interested in the facts. Investigations would likely have led to headlines shortly before the election saying the investigations did not find evidence of voting fraud. Those kind of headlines would guarantee a Biden victory.

President Trump chose a different path, doubling down on his tweets and comments that massive election fraud was in the works. His campaign started planning a massive operation to get Trump supporters inside the voting process. Trump tweeted and spoke constantly to plant the idea of fraud in his supporters minds. Subsequent court proceedings document that supporters believing fraud was imminent who were in a position to watch votes being counted let their expectation of fraud influence their perception of innocent events. After the election the campaign got affidavits from those supporters who thought they witnessed fraud, then went to court to try to negate Biden’s victory.

But courts don’t just accept as true a belief by an affiant that they witnessed fraud. The courts duty is to investigate each claim and find out what really happened. As of today over 20 court challenges launched by the Trump Administration in many different Republican and swing states have been dismissed for lack of evidence, and appeals of the dismissals have been rejected for lack of evidence. Time after time the testimony revealed the perception of fraud was a product of either a misunderstanding about what was happening, or simply a belief rooted in assumptions without any real evidence of actual fraud.

Election officials in states where the lawsuits occurred, even Republican officials in Republican states, stated the election was fair and without significant fraud. After he lost the election the President asked the Attorney General to investigate election fraud. Attorney General Barr investigated and found no evidence of systemic or widespread fraud that would have changed the result of the election.

History documents the fact the only election fraud being planned in the run up to the election was by the President of the United States who falsely claimed fraud would be rampant in an effort to create a perception of fraud. His campaign went to great lengths to try to use the perception of likely fraud to develop evidence they could use to mount legal challenges to overturn an election President Trump lost by 6 million votes.

In one way this attempt at fraud seems odd. In photo’s of President Trump over the last 4 years he seldom looks happy going about the business of being President. Even in the pictures of him on the golf course or with his family he seldom looks happy. The only time he consistently looks happy is when he is giving a speech, saying whatever pops into his mind, surrounded by throngs of adoring MAGA fans who cheer every word he utters.

His joy at being in front of a MAGA crowd might explain the most important motive behind the attempted fabrication of an election fraud, why President Trump is already talking of running in 2024 and why his campaign continues to push the hopeless election fraud argument that many people now find ludicrous. Perhaps it’s not so much about being President, in 2020 or 2024. It’s about keeping his MAGA fan base loyal so he can continue to experience the joy he finds in speaking to rallies with folks who worship his every word.