USA 2020 Elections: Thread

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> The Real Story Behind the FBI’s Censorship of Hunter Biden’s Laptop
> We now know with certainty that the FBI actively worked to alter the
> outcome of a U.S. presidential election.


Can This Be Happening In America?

https://www.theepochtimes.com/can-this-be-happening-in-america_4694920.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/04/fbi-thibault-cover-up-hunter-biden-information-00049922

We have familiar experience of the phenomenon of what are clearly
intolerable circumstances being tolerated if they worsened only
gradually. Everyone has looked back on a grueling experience and
thought that it could not have been endured had the individual known
how unpleasant it would become. No matter how familiar anyone may be
with the horrors of the Nazi regime, it remains to us inconceivable
that the culture of Beethoven and Goethe could have committed such
crimes.

The United States has now reached the point where the sequence of
outrageous and unconstitutional measures that have occurred in the
last six years would have been inconceivable six years ago.
The seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen outside of its
headquarters in Washington on Aug. 15, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via
Getty Images)

It’s unimaginable that anyone who has ever been nominated for
president by a serious American political party could be an
intelligence asset for a foreign power. We now know that there has
never been one scintilla of evidence remotely hinting that Donald
Trump was guilty of any such offense, or that he had any inappropriate
relations or even a particular regard for the government of Russia.
Yet for over two years it was endlessly bandied about that Trump had
been “groomed” by Russian agents like the Manchurian Candidate to
debase the presidency of the United States into boot-licking
subordination to the national interest of Russia. The former directors
of the National and Central Intelligence Agencies, James Clapper and
John Brennan, solemnly told national audiences that Trump was a
Russian intelligence agent and was guilty of treason in favor of the
Russians.

Both these senior officials on occasion allegedly lied to Congress but
were never prosecuted. Former FBI Director James Comey, who improperly
removed government property from his office, improperly leaked
confidential information to the media, improperly presumed to decide
that Hillary Clinton should not be prosecuted for destroying 33,000
emails that were under subpoena from Congress, signed a false
affidavit in support of a FISA warrant to conduct illegal telephone
intercepts on the Trump campaign, and supported the pretense that the
infamous Steele dossier, which he knew to be a pastiche of lies and
defamations, was authentic intelligence, indicating the guilt of Trump
of unlawful collusion with the Russian government. The ranking
Democrat on the House intelligence committee, Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-Calif.), and other Democrats repeated ad nauseam that they had
conclusive evidence of Trump’s guilt. They lied. The inspector general
of the Justice Department recorded 17 separate instances of improper
official behavior. There has been no prosecution of any of this.

In all of pre-Trump U.S. history, there had been two impeachment
trials of presidents: Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998.
Neither of them should have occurred and both failed, but in the last
four years Trump was impeached twice, once for a telephone
conversation with the president of Ukraine in which he asked if the
Biden family and particularly the current president’s son Hunter Biden
had committed illegalities in Ukraine. He did not direct the verdict;
he did not ask for any incrimination of the Bidens. This was a
completely inadequate pretext for impeaching a president and yet he
was impeached, and on one count 49 senators including a former
Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, did vote Trump guilty,
though he was, of course, acquitted. And at the end of his term, he
was impeached again for having allegedly fomented an insurrection even
though the FBI director had already testified that there was no
evidence that Trump or his campaign organization or his administration
were connected in any way to the trespass and the vandalism that
occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and Trump requested and
offered extra security, but this was declined by House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and Washington mayor Muriel Bowser.

The various comprehensive accumulations of evidence about the behavior
of Hunter Biden incite the strong inference that he has committed a
number of illegalities and that the president repeatedly lied to the
public about his own connections to his son’s activities. There is no
evidence that U.S. official conduct was altered in respect of Ukraine,
China, or other countries, in consideration for bribes paid to the
Biden family. But there seems to be no doubt the current president and
his family were engaged in improper activity that not only allegedly
involves substantial lawbreaking by family members but also seems to
have been suppressed rather than investigated by the FBI. The
allegation that the FBI seems to have suggested to Facebook that the
allegations against Hunter Biden were likely Russian disinformation
and requested that they not publicize them would have been unthinkable
six years ago. But it seems to have been assimilated by the American
political community as a perfectly normal and acceptable occurrence.

It seems clear that in the 2020 presidential election, where Trump
could have prevailed in the Electoral College if 50,000 votes had
flipped in Pennsylvania and any two of Arizona, Georgia, and
Wisconsin, that millions of ballots potentially passed through hands
that could not be identified. All of this occurred in swing states
where rules were changed ostensibly to facilitate voting during the
pandemic. But in the case of a number of states, contrary to the
Constitution, these changes were determined not by the state
legislatures but by executive branches or state judiciaries. In every
one of the 19 lawsuits launched to attack these questionable changes
to voting and vote counting rules, the judiciary, including in the
case of the Texas attorney general’s action against the swing states
and supported by 18 other state attorneys general, the U.S. Supreme
Court declined to hear any of these cases on their merits; they were
disallowed for technical reasons, some of those quite spurious.

Now we have had, on the complaint of federal archivists, the intrusion
and occupation for nine hours of the former president’s home on a
warrant alleging just cause to believe that crimes have been committed
involving the improper removal and retention of classified
information. Trump had been collaborating with the archivists,
possessed the power to act as he pleased with classified material when
he was president, and this isn’t a classified material case anyway. He
didn’t pack any of this himself as he left the White House, has not
mislaid or misused any of this material, and 19 months have gone by
since he left office. It’s a document-handling case. There’s no
conceivable justification for such a sensational invasion in the
absence of any plausible claim of significant wrongdoing—except that
it’s a political tainting job against the former president, and the
Presidential Records Act isn’t a criminal statute. This is just the
Democrats transmuting a grumpy librarian’s complaint into the
insinuation that the former president committed unimaginable crimes.

A disastrous and shaming flight from Afghanistan is described by
President Joe Biden as “a triumphant success.” Dr. Anthony Fauci
retires with dignity after doing terrible damage to the country with
his nonsense about shutting schools, “droplets,” the ups and downs of
masking, the “abolition of hand-shakes”—almost all of it now
thoroughly discredited.

Six years ago, no one could have imagined that these outrages would
have occurred, much less that they would be accepted by a bedraggled,
degraded, demoralized America, its federal government in the hands of
lawless and authoritarian myth-makers, applauded by the complicit
national political media. Can this be America?