Focus on 3 below. Freudian slips often reveal truths and/or what's on one's mind. That said, it is a very steep hill they are trying to climb.
6 Big Claims by Trump’s Lawyers About Overturning Election Results
President Donald Trump’s campaign legal team on Thursday released new affidavits alleging election irregularities while also making serious accusations of nationally coordinated fraud by local election officials to obscure a Trump “landslide.”
The press conference, led by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and held at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, went well over 90 minutes and proved to be as fiery as it was lengthy.
“President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it,” Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor, said at one point.
The legal team said it will present evidence in new court cases asking judges for restraining orders and temporary injunctions to block certification of the election results in several close battleground states where former Vice President Joe Biden currently leads Trump.
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Time is critical, as states have until Dec. 8 to certify their vote in the presidential race. The Electoral College will meet Dec. 14 to elect a president.
Here are key highlights from the lawyers’ press conference.
1. Enough to Overturn Election
The most significant claim made by Giuliani was that affidavits obtained by the president’s legal team will provide enough evidence to overturn the election. Major media outlets called the election for Biden on Nov. 7, saying he was projected to win more than the necessary 270 votes in the Electoral College.
The former mayor said the fraud was clear in Democrat-run cities in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
“We have more than double the number of votes needed to overturn the election in terms of provable illegal ballots,” Giuliani said of cities in the six states. “All you got to do to find out if I’m misleading you at all is to look at the lawsuits. Look what’s alleged. Look at the affidavits. Maybe we can supply more affidavits. In order to do it, I have to get permission from the people.”
Giuliani said most of those who agreed to sign affidavits feared threats and other harassment if their names became public through the media.
Trump’s legal team said it has 220 sworn affidavits from residents across multiple states; the ones made public are from residents of Pennsylvania and Michigan.
However, all the affidavits would be part of the court record.
Giuliani said the campaign’s investigators also found evidence of fraud in New Mexico and Virginia.
According to one affidavit, a supervisor told Michigan election workers not to request photo identification from voters, which is required by state law.
Another affidavit claims that election workers in Pennsylvania were instructed to assign ballots without names to random people. This resulted in thousands of Pittsburgh residents showing up to vote only to be told that they already were marked as having voted, the lawyers said.
One election supervisor in Michigan told workers—according to a third affidavit—to alter the dates on mail-in ballots to make it appear the ballots had arrived earlier.
Giuliani said that as many as 100,000 absentee ballots should have been disqualified in Wisconsin, a number that easily would give the state to Trump.
Trump also should have carried Pennsylvania by 300,000 votes, he said.
2. ‘Trump Won by a Landslide’
Powell described the problems with Dominion Voting Systems, a manufacturer of voting machines, and what she said were the company’s ties to the socialist government of Venezuela.
“This is stunning, heartbreaking, infuriating, and the most unpatriotic act I can even imagine for people in this country to have participated in in any way, shape, or form,” Powell said of the alleged widescale fraud, adding:
I want the American public to know right now, we will not be intimidated. American patriots are fed up with the corruption from the local level to the highest level of our government. We are not going to be intimidated. We are not going to back down. We are going to clean this mess up now. President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it.
Powell alleged the massive influence of “communist money” from Venezuela, Cuba, and likely China to interfere in the U.S. election. She added that “no one should want a coronation of a president” under these suspect circumstances.
“There should never be another election in this country—I don’t care if it’s for dogcatcher—using a Dominion machine and Smartmatic software,” Powell said.
Dominion Voting Systems entered a 2009 contract with Smartmatic, which builds and implements electronic voting systems, and provided it with optical scanners used in the 2010 election in the Philippines, Accesswire reported.
Lawsuits in the Philippines ensued over glitches and allegations of fraud. An independent review of source codes used in the machines found numerous problems, saying: “The software inventory provided by Smartmatic is inadequate, … which brings into question the software credibility.”
Smartmatic’s chairman, Mark Malloch-Brown, is a member of the British House of Lords. He also is a member of the Global Board of the Soros-founded Open Society Foundations, The Associated Press reported.
In a response to a request for comment from The Daily Signal, Dominion referred to information from a press release it issued earlier this week.
“There have been no ‘raids’ of Dominion servers by the U.S. military or otherwise, and Dominion does not have servers in Germany,” the release says, adding later:
Dominion and Smartmatic do not collaborate in any way and have no affiliate relationships or financial ties. Dominion does not use Smartmatic software. The only associations the companies have ever had were:
—In 2009, Smartmatic licensed Dominion machines for use in the Philippines. The contract ended in a lawsuit.—In 2010, Dominion purchased certain assets from Sequoia, a private U.S. company. Smartmatic, a previous owner of Sequoia, pursued legal actions against Dominion.
3. Biden’s ‘Freudian Slip’
Giuliani noted that the danger of mail-in voting has been cited by such liberal sources as former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat; former Supreme Court Justice David Souter; and The New York Times.
“This is the first time we did it en masse, and I think we’ve proven that all three are prophets,” Giuliani said of voting by mail. “It’s not only susceptible to fraud, it is easily susceptible to fraud, particularly if you had a plan or scheme that sounds eerily similar to what Joe Biden told us a few days before the election, that he had the best voter fraud team in the world.”
In late October, Biden said: “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
Biden defenders contend that the Democratic presidential nominee was talking about a voter protection program in his campaign, and that he misspoke.
Giuliani joked that it was a “Freudian slip,” and speculated that Biden was likely part of the fraud. He later backed away, saying he wasn’t sure what Biden is or isn’t aware of.
The former mayor suggested Biden’s assertion about the “most extensive” such operation in American history could have been an overstatement.
“Well, they were good,” Giuliani said. “I don’t know that they were that good, because they made significant mistakes like all crooks do, and we caught them.”
4. Electoral ‘Security Mechanism’
Jenna Ellis, the Trump campaign’s senior legal adviser, noted that based on the alleged conduct by election officials in cities such as Detroit and Philadelphia, “voter fraud” might not be the best term.
“When we talk about voter fraud, it’s actually election official fraud,” Ellis said. “That cannot stand. The Constitution requires that the state legislatures are the ones that make election law. What has happened in this case is that state- and local-level officials and all the way up have changed the rules. They want to tear down the American system.”
Ellis referred to Federalist 68, the founding document in which Alexander Hamilton explained the need for the Electoral College to prevent election of a president through corrupt means;
Our Founders were so brilliant that they anticipated this, that there would be corruption, there would be foreign influence, there would be attempts to manipulate the outcome of the election—especially with who they called our chief magistrate. … We select our president through the Electoral College not because it disenfranchises voters, but because it is a security mechanism for the exact type of corruption that we are uncovering.
A reporter asked: “Is the country on the verge of an electoral breakdown?”
Powell responded: “We’ve already had it.”
She provided some assurance that it’s not over, though.
“We have already had that electoral breakdown. But the Constitution, as Jenna explains, has provisions in it for how you fix this,” Powell said, referring to Ellis’ comment about the Electoral College.
5. Quoting ‘My Cousin Vinny’
In describing how Republican election observers in some cities were kept at too far a distance to watch the ballot counting, Giuliani referred to the 1992 film comedy “My Cousin Vinny” starring Joe Pesci as a hapless New York lawyer.
“Did you all watch ‘My Cousin Vinny?’ You know the movie? It’s one of my favorite law movies, because [Vinny] comes from Brooklyn,” Giuliani said.
The former mayor held up two fingers.
“When the nice lady says [what] she saw and he says to her, ‘How many fingers do I got up?’ She says, ‘Three.’ Well, she was too far away to see it was only two.”
Giuliani used the movie scene to capture the situation for election observers, who have the legal right to watch the counting process for mail-in ballots.
“These people were further away than ‘My Cousin Vinny’ was away from the witness. They couldn’t see a thing,” Giuliani said, adding:
Now, I don’t know, are you going to tell me that 60 people are lying? They didn’t just tell me this. They swore under penalty of perjury, which is something no Democrat has ever done.
You don’t even ask Biden about this. Put him under penalty of perjury. He doesn’t even get asked questions about it. He doesn’t get asked questions about all the evidence of crimes he committed.
These people are under penalty of perjury. Their names are on an affidavit.
Allowing election observers from both parties has been a long-standing rule, Giuliani noted.
“Why would you not allow people to carry out the function they’ve been allowed to do for 50 years, 60 years? Why wouldn’t you allow inspections of those ballots?” he said. “Because you knew you were going to use those ballots to catch Biden up and you had a big road ahead of you. You had to catch him up to 700,000 to 800,000 votes that he was behind. The only way you were going to do it were with the mail-in ballots.”
Beyond the issues raised by the Trump campaign’s legal team, many references on social media to Giuliani were about not only his movie reference but what appeared to be dark hair dye that ran down his face in two streams as he perspired during the press conference.
6. Scolding ‘Fake News’
Ellis aggressively went after reporters covering the press conference, accusing them of biased coverage and not understanding how legal proceedings work. More evidence will come forward in court, she said, and the team’s presentation was only like an “opening statement.”
“We go through a jury process. This is the court of public opinion right now,” Ellis said, adding:
We are not trying our case in the court of public opinion because if we were, we would get unbiased jurors. I would strike 99% of you from the jury, and I would be allowed to because of the fake news coverage you provide. You are not unbiased jurors.
She predicted that coverage of the press conference by the mainstream media would be dismissive, but said that reporters’ opinions don’t matter:
The facts matter. The truth matters. If you are fair reporters, you will cover that fairly and appropriately and will allow coverage of our media team and our legal team. I can see you taking pictures and can anticipate what your headlines are going to be. If you are not willing to talk about the evidence that is being presented, then that is absolutely unacceptable for journalistic standards.
And:
John Solomon from Just the News reports, In an extraordinary turnabout that foreshadows possible legal action, the two GOP members of Wayne County’s election board signed affidavits Wednesday night alleging they were bullied and misled into approving election results in Michigan’s largest metropolis and do not believe the votes should be certified until serious irregularities in Detroit votes are resolved.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Some important things happened in Israel this week as a result of Pompeo's meetings:
At a Diplomatic Crossroad, it is Time for Israel to Act
Three diplomatic events transpired this week. Together they describe the crossroads before which Israel now stands following the US presidential elections.
First, on Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority announced it is renewing its security coordination with the IDF after suspending it six months ago. The PA also expressed willingness to accept tax revenues that Israel collects on its behalf. The PA has refused to accept the tax revenues since June because, in accordance with Israeli law, the government announced that it would deduct the sums the PA pays monthly to terrorists from the tax revenues it transfers.
The PA’s sudden willingness to renew security coordination and accept money from Israel is clearly intended as a gesture of goodwill towards presumptive president-elect Joe Biden and his team. Over the past two weeks, the members of Biden’s team have made it clear in open and closed forums that they intend to reinstate the Obama administration’s Palestinian-centric Middle East policies immediately after taking office.
Speaking of the Biden team’s messaging, a Palestinian official explained earlier in the week, “We have received many positive messages from the Biden team in the past few days. We are looking forward to opening a new page with the Biden administration after the damage caused by the Trump administration.”
According to Israeli political sources, Biden’s team intends to reinstate negotiations between Israel and the PLO on the basis of the long-mordant Oslo accords. The sources claim Biden is even taking Oslo mediator Dennis Ross out of cold storage for that purpose. Ross’s longtime deputy Aaron David Miller penned an op-ed in Canada’s National Post this week where he argued that President Donald Trump has been bad for Israel and good for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Biden, Miller insisted, would be good for Israel, (and by extension, bad for the democratically elected prime minister). Miller argued that Israel is better off when the US places the Palestinians center stage and joins the Europeans in genuflecting before Iran and its nuclear weapons program under the guise of nuclear diplomacy.
In 2013-14, Martin Indyk served as the head of then-Secretary of State John Kerry’s negotiations team. Indyk pulled out all the stops to coerce Israel into transferring the vast majority of Judea and Samaria to PLO control and to partitioning Jerusalem. He bitterly blamed Israel when his aggressive efforts came to naught.
Now back in business, Indyk published an article last week on NBC‘s website setting out how Biden should go about reinstating Obama’s Middle East policies.
Indyk argued that to advance the cause of peace, Biden should pick on Israel. Biden, Indyk advised, needs to force Israel to accept the Kerry (Indyk) plan as a basis for negotiations, ban all Israeli Jewish construction in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, and force Israel to give land in Judea and Samaria to the PLO. Indyk called on the Arab states that have peaceful relations with Israel to reinstate the Palestinian veto – conditioning ties with them on Israeli concessions to the Palestinians.
Indyk’s advice is noteworthy in the context of the two other events that happened this week. First, Wednesday saw Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani arrive in Israel for a first official visit by a Bahraini leader. During his meetings in Jerusalem, al-Zayani formally requested to open a Bahraini embassy in Israel and committed to further strengthening bilateral ties between Manama and Jerusalem.
Along the same lines, last week, Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed accepted President Reuven Rivlin’s invitation to pay an official visit to Israel. Al-Zayani’s visit, like bin Zayed’s announcement, indicates that Israel’s partners in the Abraham Accords have no intention of following Indyk’s advice and subordinating their national interests to the whims of the PLO’s decrepit leadership.
Indeed, they have positively had it with the Palestinians and their grievance-mongering. Last month, a UAE official referred to the PA and Hamas as “corrupt murderers,” and last Friday, Saudi writer Osama Yamani published an article in the regime-backed Ukaz newspaper rejecting the Palestinians’ Islamic significance.
Titled, Where is Al-Aqsa Mosque? Yamani’s article insists that the Palestinian and Muslim Brotherhood claims regarding al-Aqsa, the place Islam’s Prophet Muhammed alighted to in his nighttime flight to heaven, are false. The Palestinians and the Muslim Brotherhood say that al-Aqsa is the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But in keeping with Saudi Wahabi belief, Yamani insisted that al-Aqsa is in Jarana, a village located 30 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Mecca.
Needless to say, if the Sunni Arab world outside the Brotherhood’s orbit embraces the Wahabist view, Arab support for the Palestinian war against Israel will dry up regardless of who sits in the White House.
The third diplomatic event of the week was US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s historic visit to a winery in Samaria. Psagot winery’s award-winning wines have made it a top target for the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel. Ahead of Pompeo’s visit, the first by a US secretary of state to an Israeli community in Judea and Samaria, the secretary of state met with Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Referring to BDS as a “cancer,” Pompeo announced, “We will recognize the global BDS campaign as anti-Semitic.”
Pompeo visited the Psagot Winery because a year ago, its owner created a new blend called “Pompeo” in honor of the secretary of state following Pompeo’s landmark decision to renounce the State Department’s longstanding position that Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines are inherently illegal. The Pompeo Doctrine determined that there is nothing inherently illegal about Israel’s communities in the areas.
Pompeo’s visit wasn’t merely a public relations victory for Israel and its long fight against those who reject its very right to exist, and al-Zayani’s visit was no mere formality. Both visits, like bin Zayed’s decision to come to Jerusalem and Yamani’s article, are invitations for the Netanyahu government to make the best use possible of Trump’s remaining time in office.
While fighting his legal battles to against what appear to be gross acts of election fraud which may even have tipped the elections in Biden’s favor, President Trump is also working to anchor and solidify his achievements. Foreign affairs have figured prominently in these efforts. Trump’s decision to fire his contrarian Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other key Pentagon officials and replace them with professionals who share his strategic outlook has been seen mainly as a means for Trump to keep his 2016 pledge to draw down US forces from Afghanistan after 19 years.
But it is possible that there will be other consequences to Trump’s late change of Pentagon leadership, particularly in relation to Iran and its nuclear weapons program.
This week, the New York Times reported that after the elections, Trump considered taking military action against Iran’s nuclear installations but was convinced to stand down. It’s impossible to assess the credibility of the report but it seems far-fetched that administration officials involved in such classified discussions would share their contents with a paper that has spent the past four years bashing Trump.
What we do know from the past four years of Trump’s leadership of US policy towards Iran is that although he is not at all eager to fight Iran directly, Trump won’t try to stop US allies from fighting Iran directly.
Earlier this week it was reported that Israel is grudgingly presenting Biden’s team with its positions ahead of their renewed nuclear courtship of Iran. As Netanyahu and his advisers prepare for a Biden administration, it behooves them to take advantage of the current diplomatic and strategic state of play to minimize Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear arsenal. With the Saudis and other Arab governments publicly warning Biden and his associates not to re-enter nuclear talks Tehran, it is a safe bet that Israel won’t be alone in its efforts.
As for the Palestinians, in his missive, Indyk wrote contemptuously, “Trump’s ‘deal’ [for peace between Israel and the Palestinians] should be taken off the table when he departs the White House.” Biden’s team’s efforts to date indicate they have share Indyk’s view and fully intend to begin where Indyk, Kerry and Barack Obama left off four years ago.
But, as Pompeo’s visit to Psagot Winery makes clear, for now, Trump’s “deal of the century” which supports Israeli sovereignty over the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria and in the Jordan Valley is still very much on the table.
The leaders of the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria are calling for the government to use the next two months to normalize the status of Israel’s younger communities in the areas. It certainly makes sense to follow their advice with all due haste. It is similarly important for the government to restore the decision-making power for planning and construction schemes in Judea, Samaria and unified Jerusalem to local planning boards.
As part of the Obama administration’s explicit efforts to demonize Jewish life in these areas, Obama coerced Netanyahu into agreeing that every new construction project in them would require the prime minister’s signature to move forward. That move, made under duress, should be abrogated immediately.
More to the point, in the face of the open hostility Biden’s team is now expressing towards those property rights and towards Israel’s sovereign rights in Judea and Samaria more generally, it would be eminently reasonable, and indeed a matter of great urgency, for the Netanyahu government to secure Trump’s permission to apply our sovereignty to Israel’s communities in Judea and Samaria and to the Jordan Valley in the framework of the Trump peace plan.
A good target date for such a move would be Dec. 23 – the fourth anniversary of the Obama administration’s facilitation of the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 2234, which libelously defined Israeli communities and neighborhoods in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem as a “flagrant violation of international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-State solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace.”
The Abraham Accords have ushered in an era of comprehensive peace. The two-state solution, such as it is, can only be viable if Israel has secure borders and if the Palestinians recognize the Jewish people’s national rights to our ancestral homeland, which includes unified Jerusalem, the communities in Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley. And, as the Pompeo Doctrine made clear, the Israeli communities are not inherently illegal. Israel has sovereign rights to Judea and Samaria under international law.
The events of the last several days demonstrate clearly where we are and where we are heading. It is critical that Israel take advantage of where we are to secure its interests as it moves towards a new diplomatic reality in January.
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Ross rants again:
I don’t know what to
make of the Giuliani new conference. His allegations seem credible, and backed
up by sworn statements from poll workers. Sydney Powell is not a flake lawyer,
and whose reputation would be destroyed if this is all fake. The allegations
are so incredible, that if true, it is as bad or worse than the attempted coup
to try to remove Trump from office. Taken the two together, if all proves true
in court, will mean the end of the Democratic party. Much of what Rudy said
makes sense as to stuffed ballot boxes and hiding what was happening from poll
watchers.
The part about the computer program is entirely feasible in today’s world. For me, I am willing to wait for the court cases to see what holds up to a federal judge’s scrutiny. State judges are political hacks who often are lawyers who did not have especially lucrative practices. I have my own direct experiences with state judges, and it is mostly bad judgment, even when I won. If it is mostly true, the US has a giant problem with election fraud, and it would fit with their 4 years of trying to remove him from office. They were willing to stop at nothing.
The market is currently confused by all of the events occurring. On one side is the great news about the vaccines and the miraculous effort that has occurred to have multiple vaccines almost ready with 90%+ efficacy. That is a historic accomplishment. On the other side is the worldwide surge in hospitalizations which is inhibiting economic growth in some places. Now we have new lockdowns in various places, mainly blue states, even though the Great Barrington report signed by over 43,000 medical experts said lockdowns are a serious error. Biden’s “expert’ first said we need a six week lockdown, and Joe said he would do what the experts said.
Now all of a sudden he said no lockdown. There is already a small uptick in unemployment claims as a result of more lockdowns. NY is worst with Cuomo and DeBozzo shutting down schools again, even though there is clear evidence kids do not get or transmit the virus unless they already have another co-morbidity. There is no evidence NYC has a virus issue in the schools. Cuomo is grossly irresponsible spreading fear of taking the vaccine and saying Trump did nothing. The lockdowns and school shutdowns are devastating to minority kids, and to the businesses that were struggling to get back on their feet. Add on the contentious election results, and the risks of the Republicans not keeping control of the Senate, and you have an inability of anyone to be sure what next year will look like.
For the market everything depends on GA, and getting turnout, and making sure it is honest. Now we have Dems saying they will move from CA to GA to vote. While it is highly unlikely to actually happen in any numbers that matter, who ever heard of such illegal nonsense in elections. What is at risk is ballot stuffing, disappearing ballots, and ballot harvesting by Dems. As it appears happened in November. Luckily Republicans control the state and hopefully can prevent Stacy Abrams from making the worst from happening. While the underlying economy remains strong and growing in most sectors, and many areas of the country, there are large Dem controlled states and cities where shutdowns are reoccurring which will inhibit recovery, and create new mental and crime problems. Sweden proved lockdowns are not the answer. What is it the Dems do not get. They are playing politics with the people’s lives and especially damaging minority kids who they claim they are so in favor of helping.
Despite all of the bad stuff, retail sales not including gasoline are up 7% because saving are up over 14% with people not traveling or eating out. What is amazing is a new survey found that 80% of homeowners do not know what rate they are paying on mortgages interest, and do not realize how much they can save on monthly payments if they refi. Lenders and the government should do a much more aggressive job of pushing refis. Housing starts are up 4.9% and sales are at a 14 year high. This is very good news and support for growth.
With fixed income past its bull market of the past 30 years, and now a losing investment, there will be a shift by pensions and endowments to much more equities and out of fixed income. That will be beneficial to the market. On the other hand, in the short run there will likely be sales of the growth stocks for the next few weeks as money managers move to show big realized gains before year end. In summary, as I had been saying for a while, the markets will be volatile and not likely to rise much from here until after Jan 5. Then they will rise or crash depending on that election. Once Congress reconvenes there will probably be a major push for legislation to fix the problems with the big social media and search companies. It is completely indiscernible now to know what that looks like.
There are already troubling signs that Biden will do what I feared, and will go left, and use executive orders to seriously damage the economic recovery even if the R’s control the Senate. His appointments to cabinet and agency roles will cause much of the deregulation and business friendly actions to be undone. Fracking will be attacked early, as will banking, autos, housing, land development, and operation of utilities. In short, most of the key sectors will face almost immediate regulation and higher costs. Add to this, the attempt to implement a $15 minimum wage even in parts of the country where that would be very disastrous to small businesses, plus a major effort to push unionization. It would also harm low income people the most as it will mean inflation, and lost jobs. Gas prices will rise. Add on some small increase in interest rates, and in my view, the euphoria of the market in the past two weeks is overdone.
While the vaccines will prove to be the huge game changer, and get things back to more normal by late 2021, it will be offset by harmful moves by Biden. If The Republicans do not control the Senate, there will be severe damage to the economy in 2021, and the market will tank. It will mean a combination of much higher corporate taxes and higher regulation, and a return to the sluggish growth of the Obama Biden era. That will be bad for the market. So you ask what do we do now with investment funds. For the moment I am sitting still, but ready to sell out as soon as Jan 5 is decided in case the Dems win. I have not bought into the rotation strategy. While there will be further rotation back into stocks that have lagged once the vaccines are out to public use, the big growth companies will continue to do very well. For example, HD and AMZN, as well as others, have spent billions to create safe operations, and they have increased wages to compensate employees for working through the pandemic. That extra cost will end in 2021, and earnings for all those companies, including Wal Mart and Target, will rise materially.
You may have missed hearing about the conference call a few days ago initiated by Jeff Sonnenfeld, a dean at Yale, with 15 CEOs to frantically discuss what they should do if Trump refuses to leave office. One could ask, who are these guys to do anything if that were to happen. The WSJ described the “hyperventilating professor”, who I happen to know. Other media outlets mischaracterized comments by Schwartzman, CEO of Blackstone, and attacked him claiming he defended Trump. First you see what happens in the media if anyone defends Trump, which he did not. He was defending Trump’s right to raise legal questions, same as Gore. But more importantly, he has a perfect right to defend Trump if he wishes, but in the current environment, which all comes out of universities, anyone who defends Trump is attacked. What is occurring on campus is very dangerous to democracy. Freedom of speech no longer exists on campus, and the kids are being indoctrinated to resist Republicans, and to attack anyone who disagrees with their ideology.
We already see the bartender from the Bronx demanding Biden do a variety of things that would be very damaging to the economy and the country. The squad represents a miniscule fraction of the voting population, yet they get overwhelming attention from the press. Here we have a kid who went to a second rate college and then could not get a real job and became a bartender, who is making demands of the president elect. What have we come to. She is a product of a very warped university education system and social media. Were it not for social media the squad would be buried. As an example of the warped academia, the Harvard students are demanding that no Trump administration person can even set foot on campus. The university has said NOTHING. If you are still wondering what is going on in the US today, this is it.
Universities have allowed radicals to make demands that are counter to all that universities are supposed to stand for, and actions at Harvard just teach the kids that they can make demands and the people in charge will fold if they make enough noise. This carries over, as we have seen to the press which is now controlled by young radicals, and now to corporations where CEOs do not have the strength of character to push back on this. Freedom of speech is no longer taught nor tolerated on campus, nor in newsrooms. We are in serious trouble now if Biden becomes president because this anti-democratic, unconstitutional behavior will be tolerated. Harris will encourage it. I am very hopeful the country wakes up to what is really happening by 2022, and the Republicans retake the House, and increase their hold on the Senate
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A rational analysis of what can be if Republicans understand what Trump has laid at their feet:
Awaiting the Kraken
The only way the Left could win this election was by massive fraud. That is what they realized during the early morning hours after midnight of Election Day.
So they piled it on.
This really is startling. Not that the Left cheated, not that they engage in psychological warfare to cover up their cheating.
But that all the constant pounding, the immense effort by the enemy-of-the-people, false and fake, media, the near-criminal defalcating do-nothingness of the DOJ, even the held-back news of Trump’s vaccine -- failed miserably against the forces of MAGA.
We Republicans, or whatever we are, gained a governorship, at least ten seats in Congress, several statehouses, and, regarding the presidential race, support from nearly every demographic, including a tremendous gain amongst black and Latino voters.
President Trump himself garnered 73 million votes – 10 million more than in 2016.
It was the forces of MAGA that triumphed, not the Democrats.
Why did this happen? Because under the administration of President Trump, our blinders were removed. The curtain was drawn back. The sick cult of the left is the state religion no longer. Its high priests have been exposed as frauds and hucksters.
And we’ve realized we don’t have to lose. Trump taught us that.
And we've realized we can be joyful winning. It’s amazing, and a whole lot of fun.
Witness the D.C. MAGA march. How can it not be fun – after all, the MAGA movement is one of love. Does that need summing up? We are unified around the flag.
The entire message, the foundational idea, of the Left is the opposite. Witness the boarding up of D.C. – and the non-boarding up during the MAGA march.
Moreover, there is no set-in-stone reason the shift should not continue.
There are even indications that the pace of the shift, the awakening, will continue. There are new social media replacing the old, censored and propagandizing, media, and a large shift to them is occurring. People are also fleeing a newly leftist, propagandizing, news network for more objective ones.
All of this in the face of a concerted effort to make us accept results of an election; we are supposed blindly to believe everything is O.K. with it. Anything claimed is at once condemned; even Trump’s attorneys are being told – by other attorneys, a big no-no – that they are traitors.
That is the measure of their desperation.
They are relying on deep state bureaucrats, the ones placed in positions by the various states to monitor the election process, to maintain the party line that everything is all right.
(Remember when no one believed in the deep state because, well, there wasn’t one?)
In the corrupt deep state’s maintenance of the party line, one of the things they played on early on relates to the difference between the crime of election fraud and its consequences.
Briefly, a criminal case for election fraud is a criminal case; a crime is a crime, whereas an election result that cannot be certified, because of lack of confidence in its results, is a completely different thing.
The Left has been conflating the two on purpose. But the purpose of criminal law is completely different from a process undertaken to assure the legality of votes cast. The former we generally leave to law enforcement. The latter we don’t.
The difference between the two should be obvious, but because it has been obfuscated, an example might do.
Someone places a faked ballot in with lawful ones. This is a crime. It is within the precinct of law enforcement. It is also irrelevant.
What is relevant is whether the votes cast were lawful and lawfully, properly, counted. Discrepancies by themselves, without more, are, let us repeat, are, enough to make this determination.
For it is evident that, say, 100,000 illegal ballots were secretly mixed in with the rest. If they are physically indistinguishable from legal ones, recounts or audits might be of no use.
Jonathan Turley describes this problem as one of “authentication.” He recently said,
But the main thing I'm looking at is, when you talk about systemic problems is the, is how these ballots were authenticated. Because if there is a problem in the system as to authenticating ballots, that would affect the entire election.
The same certainly can be said about votes, especially if the insertion were accomplished by means of a computer program. Such chicanery would subvert even a fair ballot authentication and vote counting system.
Thus, the question of whether to have confidence in the election is in the first place left to the legislature. That is what is meant by the idea of their having to certify results. They don’t certify that they were collected. They certify they are believable.
The power the legislatures have is plenary. How plenary? As many have newly discovered, legislatures can and have appointed the electors themselves, without elections. (Bush, @ B)
The state legislature could decide to ignore, for instance, an unfair election and to exercise the power to appoint electors itself. As the Supreme Court has said,
[T]here is no doubt of the right of the legislature to resume the power at any time, for it can neither be taken away nor abdicated. McPherson v. Blacker, 146 U. S. 1, 35 (1892).
It’s not mechanical, although the Left would like it to be that way. It’s not a matter for the deep state to handle silently.
The point, really, is that state legislatures have a great deal of power in this matter. They certainly should and must take into account the evidence of fraud and chicanery, not to mention the perception of so many of their voters that the election was rigged. State legislatures are close to the people, and the people should let their concerns be known, without letting the legislatures squirm off the hook of their responsibility.
Having said that, a moment can be spent reflecting on how we got here.
Was any of this unpredictable? Of course it was. Yet it should have been prepared for. A major effort should have been expended in order to guarantee fair elections. We were caught flat-footed.
Should Trump have seen it coming? Yes. In his defense, he’s been attacked so fiercely and continually, it may well have been too much, even for him. And the scale of it all is shocking.
But we can take comfort in that no matter what, this election rigging need never surprise us again.
We know now we are the majority. We know the Left will stop at nothing, even targeting our children.
They do not realize that they give themselves away by seeking to brand as illegitimate ab initio any questioning of the voting process. This in itself is a hijacking, a perversion, of the process. It militates necessarily to the conclusion that any proclamation of their favored candidate is illegitimate as well.
And such an illegitimate outcome, if that is what is to occur, will only serve to galvanize us further.
Indeed, no matter whether our well-founded objections to the chicanery and discrepancies in this election will play out in a very un-level playing field, with the electoral gains we’ve made and the growing strength and size of our movement, there is little doubt that, with some effort, we will restore real, not feigned, democracy.
Our efforts will be energized by our righteous anger.
Paradoxically, we forbear only because of our lingering faith in the process, the same process that the Left has hijacked and perverted. But a day may soon come when we are provoked beyond the limits of our forbearance.
Then truly shall the kraken shall awaken.
Tadas Klimas, the author of several books, is a former FBI agent, awarded the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement (NIMA). He is also a former law professor and former Chief Legal Counsel to the Speaker of the Lithuanian parliament Prof. Vytautas Landsbergis.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I wrote a very dear friend and fellow memo reader my thoughts about Trump and the election and that we will never know whether it was an election we could trust as honest. This was his response:
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