Jack Smith’s Election Interference
And again.
As October arrives — with barely a month left until the 2024 election — the Washington Post and the Washington/national left-wing media, legal, and political establishment is betting on election interference to steal — er, “win” — the election for the Democrats.
Mysteriously, a new court filing by Smith was “unsealed” to lay out “new evidence that Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election were taken as a private candidate.”
Notice the game here? Trump’s 2020 efforts to ensure election integrity have been deliberately recast as subverting the results. Which is to say, honesty and integrity in counting election returns is not to be tolerated.
And the last-minute, right-before-the-election unsealing of “Special Counsel” Jack Smith’s filings is supposedly a public service — not what it clearly is: election interference.
The Post prints all of Smith’s filing. And it is indeed interesting, filled as it is with decidedly partisan untruths ill-disguised as a supposedly accurate portrayal of Trump’s post-2020 election conduct.
Examples abound. Here’s but one:
When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office. With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (the “targeted states”).
Stop right there. The actual crime was blocking an accurate and truthful counting of ballots by the voters of those named states. And it was Trump who was demanding election integrity.
As noted in this space, when it comes to Pennsylvania, there is a long history of voter fraud.
Here is just one headline from back in the day:
New York Times: Vote-Fraud Ruling Shifts Pennsylvania Senate
The Times reported this in its 1994 story:
Saying Philadelphia’s election system had collapsed under “a massive scheme” by Democrats to steal a State Senate election in November, a Federal judge today took the rare step of invalidating the vote and ordered the seat filled by the Republican candidate.
In 2008, as the Obama–McCain election neared, the Pennsylvania Republican state chairman said in a statement:
Between March 23rd and October 1st, various groups, including ACORN, submitted over 252,595 registrations to the Philadelphia County Election Board with 57,435 rejected for faulty information. Most of these registrations were submitted by ACORN, and rejected due to fake social security numbers, incorrect dates of birth, clearly fraudulent signatures.
In July of 2020, this was the headline from the U.S. Department of Justice on a former Pennsylvania Democrat congressman:
Former Congressman Charged With Ballot Stuffing, Bribery, and Obstruction
And as that story unfolded, CNN headlined:
Ex-Democratic congressman sentenced to prison in yearslong Pennsylvania election fraud scheme
There’s more of a similar nature on the record when it comes to the issue of election integrity in Pennsylvania over the years. There is a history — and not a good one.
So, getting back to the upcoming election, Jack Smith now declares that it is a crime to demand election integrity, and for demanding that integrity, Trump has committed a crime.
Washington Post columnist Philip Bump has joined the prevaricators, saying that Trump was guilty of “fomenting the riot that unfolded at the Capitol.”
Trump did no such thing, urging supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” Did a relative handful get out of control and riot? Yes. But the thousands upon thousands there in Washington that day were completely peaceful.
Were the Trump critics to be taken seriously, history would be rewritten by casting blame on ’60s heroes Dr. Martin Luther King, and Democrat Sens. George McGovern, Eugene McCarthy, and Robert Kennedy because the causes they outspokenly supported — civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam War — periodically resulted in open violence with riots in places like Newark, Detroit, Washington D.C., and one college campus after another. In fact, so bad was some of the opposition to those causes back then that 1968 GOP presidential nominee Richard Nixon won the presidency campaigning on platform of restoring “law and order” to the nation.
Make no mistake. The American Left — and the Left internationally — is decidedly authoritarian at its core. In today’s America, Joe Biden and his henchmen have vividly illustrated their authoritarian instincts by using the power of the federal government to literally prosecute and jail the Democrats’ leading political opponent — Trump. They are the stuff of a banana republic.
The latest release coming from Jack Smith is nothing if not another look at Smith’s own authoritarianism, and his eager willingness to interfere in the 2024 election to resolve it to his satisfaction.
Not good. Not good at all.
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