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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
On December 12, 2016 (or D12), the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign endorsed a call by Christine Pelosi, the daughter of then House Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi, as well as other electors to receive an “intelligence briefing” on how “Russian interference was performed to help Donald Trump get elected” from Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Hillary Clinton and her senior campaign officials were aware that they had concocted the lie that the Russians had gotten Trump elected, outsourced it to a former British intelligence operative, Christopher Steele, who produced the infamous Steele dossier, and distributed it through the FBI and were exploiting it to subvert the Electoral College and hijack the presidential election.
The Clinton campaign was endorsing a move to influence members of the Electoral College to set aside their duty and corrupt the electoral votes. Electors are bound to vote in accordance with the ballot count. There was no purpose to a “briefing” on the conspiracy theories that were manufactured by the Clinton campaign except to persuade them to corrupt the vote.
The Wall Street Journal correctly described the move as an “Electoral College Coup”. Pelosi’s daughter and other Democrat electors were requesting “a briefing on all investigative findings, as these matters directly impact the core factors in our deliberations of whether Mr. Trump is fit to serve as President of the United States.” And they were asking it from Clapper who would go around pushing the Steele dossier and defending its conspiracy theories as based on facts.
Clapper, using similar language to the Democrat electors, would describe Trump as unfit.
The Clinton campaign endorsed this proposed Electoral College coup by claiming that the “electors’ letter raises very grave issues involving our national security. Electors have a solemn responsibility under the Constitution and we support their efforts to have their questions addressed.”
The attempted coup was backed by the Clinton campaign, members of Congress and assorted celebrities from Michael Moore to Martin Sheen. An Atlantic article by anti-Israel activist Peter Beinart contended that “The Electoral College Was Meant to Stop Men Like Trump From Being President”. More seriously, House Democrats made the case for a coup and a power grab.
“I do think the Electoral College should choose someone other than Donald Trump to be president. That will lead to a fascinating legal issue, but I would rather have a legal issue, a complicated legal problem, than to find out the White House was now the Kremlin’s chief ally,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) argued.
The elector coup letter was signed by former Rep. Carol-Shea Porter, future New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D.C. Councilwoman Anita Bonds and backed by many other Democrats. None of them have been treated like Trump’s alternate electors.
The faithless electors coup ultimately collapsed and has been largely forgotten. But the Trump indictment has made it relevant again.
The indictment of the former president by Clinton ally Jack Smith covers the same bases.
Smith has indicted Trump for, in his words, having “spread lies” and then engaging in a conspiracy to “obstruct” the “lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted and certified by the federal government.”
Rather than creating alternate slates of electors, Democrats set out to corrupt existing ones.
The Clinton campaign and Democrats spread lies that they knew were false about the 2016 election because they had invented them. The electoral college coup was an attempt to undermine the proper process by inciting faithless electors to choose Hillary over Trump. All of this was done through fraudulent efforts based on conspiracy theories to “create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger” that could be used to overturn an election.
The Clinton campaign and the Democrats were not just engaging in a “conspiracy against the right to vote” of individuals, but of large groups of people through a campaign to corrupt electors.
All of the ingredients that Jack Smith shaped into his indictment of Trump were there.
Back when the Clinton campaign and the Democrats were perpetrating this coup, no one had seriously given thought to criminalizing it. Dirty electoral politics aren’t actually illegal. If they were, nearly every other president before the 20th century would have been locked up.
Alexander Hamilton had proposed much more radical remedies in the 1800 election. Some elections, like that of 1876 and 1888, were simply stolen through various shenanigans. There’s a line between legal and illegal shenanigans. Voter fraud, for example, is illegal, while slates of alternate electors and faithless electors are an election issue for the courts to decide.
The decision by Jack Smith, following up on the work of the House Democrat J6 committee, to criminalize the disputing of elections is deeply dangerous and it also reopens the issue of Russiagate. Beyond the various illegal acts and abuses committed by the government in the pursuit of Russiagate, the proposed electoral coup and the ways in which the Clinton campaign utilized its fraudulent claims of Russian intervention, ought to trigger similar indictments.
Obviously Jack Smith, a Democrat operative, is not about to indict his former boss. But if Democrats want to criminalize election challenges, they should face the consequences. Especially since if they lose in 2024 they will try some of the same stunts all over again.
A system of double standards in which prosecutions and exonerations are based on political party, rather than the specific acts committed, is worthy only of a corrupt banana republic.
Laws cannot apply to only one political party.
Democrats claim that the exigent threats to democracy entitled them to call for an electoral coup in 2016 and then to criminalize election challenges in 2020 and then perhaps to call for another coup in 2024. But that is how totalitarian regimes and their kangaroo courts function.
In 2016, Christine Pelosi was advocating an electoral college coup, while in 2022 her mother was pushing the J6 committee which criminalized electoral college election challenges.
The corrupt hypocrisy here could not be any more blatant.
Following up on the work of the J6 committee, it may be time for ethical members of Congress to begin exploring the proposed electoral coup in 2016 and the role of House Democrats and the Clinton campaign in this subversion of a vital government function. And then, suddenly, Democrats will discover that electoral coups are actually the ultimate expression of patriotic democracy and that only fascists would attempt to suppress them or to criminalize them.
Because what’s good for the goose ought to be shoved down the craw of the gander.
Democrats have special rights just like Animal Farm
“Animal Farm” & “1984” are superb books that public schools have removed from the curriculum.
Why? Those books describe leftist, totalitarian government – like the structure we have right now under Sleepy Joe & Randi Weingarten.
Keep in mind these same leftists cry about us insisting that erotic queer porn books be removed from grammar school libraries.
We also prefer our schools be void of trans-rapists (happened in Loudoun County) & trans-pole dancers (happening everywhere at a 1st grade level).
These are evil lechers attempting to pervert/recruit impressionable children.
[Roman’s 1:29 – 32] The last line in :32 describes their need to re recruit.
So true. The immoral tell lies that reinforce their own selfish, and personal beliefs. Romans 1: 25 says they traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshipped and served the things God CREATED, instead of the (Creator) himself. 26 So God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do the things that should never be done.
One of the clearest indicators of a society or person in REBELLION against God is the rejection of God’s guideline for sex and against God’s design for marriage, which he established at Creation….a union between one man and one woman for the purpose of marriage, and having offspring. Society, nor the world, does not set the standard for God’s law.
Well said. With two young grandchildren in my custody, I marvel at and fight against the trash – lies and scientific falsehoods – that schools here in Ontario teach children as part of their sex education curriculum.. They never tell the truth that the homosexual lifestyle is plagued by disease and psychological issues. Never would they teach what the Beth Israel Deaconess Health Clinic in Boston found and reported or that after almost 40 years of dealing with transgenderism, Johns Hopkins Hospital finally concluded that it is a “life destroying mental disorder” that requires sympathetic treatment and that the sex of an individual cannot be changed, This doesn’t suite the woke lefts narrative. Being not just thoroughly dishonest they are downright evil,
“Animal Farm” & “1984” are leftist instruction manuals.
Wait. You say Hillary should be indicted for doing the same things Trump did? So you’re saying Trump SHOULD have been indicted?
Can you folks make up your minds?
You’re the one’s committing fraud and conspiring to subvert elections, then prosecuting people for questioning an election. And you’re the ones setting precedents. Hence your weak assed posts.
No, John. The point you cannot understand is, IF Trump is to be prosecuted on these charges, why isn’t Hillary? Oh. Right. As a member of the Vote Blue No Matter Who crowd, if you didn’t have double standards, you’d have no standards at all.
Shove it down their craw and cook that goose! They are baking systemic treason and election fraud into our election process.
And bring back the death penalty for it. Should we apologize to all who have been executed for it in the past?
The talk about Trump getting a eath sentence for the crime of “interfering with the rights of others” of course is ridiculous, but when applied to actual TREASONOUS COUP ENABLERS like Hillary, Soros, Obama, Biden and the Deep Swamp, then this sentence can and should be applied to those who would take America down.
Nobody has suggested Trump should be put to death. That´s ridiculous.
Of course that’s ridiculous.
Given that fifteen percent of the sentence is given over to parole, Trump figures to be released before the end of the century. Barring sentence enhancements.
Rrrighttt, no one on the left has pushed violence.
Oh, what’s this?
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1742978/kathy-griffin-decapitated-trump-head-election/
And Snoop Dog’s video shooting President Trump. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=snoop+dogg+video+shotting+trump&qpvt=snoop+dogg+video+shotting+trump&FORM=VDRE
“ Laws cannot apply to only one political party.”
They do in banana republics and in the United Nations and the World pHarma Organisation and the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund and the Global Food Program and anything else that is worldwide in nature.
“ There was no purpose to a “briefing” on the conspiracy theories that were manufactured by the Clinton campaign except to persuade them to corrupt the vote.”
That was the basis of all the Trump hysteria, if you believe that he is evil and hates minorities and is a white supremacist you are likely to help them fix the election.
Thanks Mo, excellent point.
I can’t take the credit for this, I heard it on Dennis Prager’s Fireside Chat.
But many believed very bad intent on part of a president prior to Trump. No Republican has brought indictments.
It’s no longer just a legal issue but a moral and cultural issue.
I hope for a definitive and peaceful solution.
Radicalization. The more hysteria Dems whip up (and before Trump they were doing this to every GOP president or candidate no matter how mild mannered) the more they justify their own extremism and radicalize their base.
Thanks Daniel, excellent point.
Good point.
And all the while the FBI new it was a fabrication, lied to a judge knowing full well it was a lie, and ran cover for the corrupt.
VOTE TRUMP 2024 and strike a blow directly against Crooked Hillary, Crazy Nancy,Corrupt Compromised Biden and all his Corrupt Administration.
This is selective prosecution on a grand scale designed to distract attention from the massive corruption of the Biden crime family
It’s also designed to lock in the election and the power of the Left for another 2-4 years.
It was also the Hillary campaign in 2008, under Sidney Blumenthal, that introduced the Obama born in Kenya narrative.
A small point, but augments how the scheming bitch is not new to using dirty tactics.
Jug-eared Barry was born in Hawaii, but his allegiance has always been with America’s enemies.
Him and Hillary were devotees of Saul Alinsky. They both already hated America (more than they hate each other); Alinsky simply taught them how to act on it.
True. Hillary’s people came up with most of the stuff that dems than used to argue that Republicans were racist.
What?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcd41RO25k
from O’s own mouth
internationally respect forensic specialists
respectable and thorough private investigator
And don’t forget Jug ears getting his start in the home of Bill Ayers and going to the church of the Reverend Wright. “G– Da– America!” in this pulpit.
“The Clinton campaign was endorsing a move to influence members of the Electoral College to set aside their duty and corrupt the electoral votes. Electors are bound to vote in accordance with the ballot count.”
So, even if it were true that Hillary engaged in criminal behavior here (she did not), you must admit that Trump did as well. Even if the double standard you constantly whine about exits (it does not) Trump is still guilty.
Baby steps, Danny. Baby steps.
“Even if the double standard you constantly whine about exits (it does not) Trump is still guilty.”
Total bullshit. Pump that agenda, loser.
You people are beyond pathetic – you’re UN-AMERICAN.
(Or you’re a bot, also UN-American)
If you actually read the article (and I know that asking you to actually read something is a big ask) you’d note that I argued that it’s not criminal behavior.
It’s your side that argues that it’s criminal behavior… except when it’s doing it.
KA-BOOM! There’s a baby step from Daniel for you.
“It’s YOUR SIDE that argues that……”
That quote tells me that you are not a journalist. Get on the democracy bandwagon Daniel and quite huffing the Fox/Breitbart fumes of of fascism.
Coach Vince
Fumes of fascism?
Points for alliteration
A big thumbs up on the reasoning and explanation of the criminal behavior that the other side is doing.
were you born a drooling retard? or did eating tide pods soaked in cat pyss make you one?
Sadly for her defenders, HIllary did indeed engage in illegal campaign activities. She paid for a foreign agent to invent the p p story. She used 3-firewalls unsuccesfully to hide her illegal payments to a foreign agent. She destroyed evidence of 30k emails under order for review. Hillary was/is a disciple of radical anti-america thug.
Two rule books, two sets of rules, folks. Hillary knows it and so do we.
This isn’t “America” anymore.
Even when these oligarchs leave office, they stay around to keep their political agenda alive and influence those in office. They will never let go of the One World Government agenda.
To be fair, Trump – “She has suffered enough”.
That was then, now he understands the depth and breadth of the lying leftists.
He, Vivek, Ron have promised to clean house if elected. To clean this DC house, it’s gonna take a huge excavator.
Daniel, consider this.
The Russia Hoax involved laundering, what would normally be typical campaign spitballs, into an FBI investigation to deceive voters (called electors in Florida statute) and corruptly influence voting. Use of the FBI to buttress a spitball is corruption..
In Florida, that’s a felony, There are 20 independently elected Florida State attorneys and an attorney general. Any one of them could indict the entire Hillary Hoax Team and subject them to the judgment of a Florida jury.
Why hasn’t this been filed yet?
Florida Statutes
104.061 Corruptly influencing voting.—
(1) Whoever by bribery, menace, threat, or other corruption whatsoever, either directly or indirectly, attempts to influence, deceive, or deter any elector in voting or interferes with him or her in the free exercise of the elector’s right to vote at any election commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084 for the first conviction, and a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084, for any subsequent conviction.
97.021 Definitions.—For the purposes of this code, except where the context clearly indicates otherwise, the term:
(16) “Elector” is synonymous with the word “voter” or “qualified elector or voter,” except where the word is used to describe presidential electors.
Impeach Biden, Make Democrats Sweat
By J. Robert Smith
Let’s set aside the sinister Merrick Garland and the plodding, lying apparatchik Alejandro Mayorkas. They can be impeached another day. Joe Biden needs to be impeached, ASAP. One needn’t qualify that Biden is, “perhaps, the most crooked president in history,” because, hands down, he’s the biggest, dumbest scoundrel to occupy the Oval Office. Bill Clinton isn’t dumb; he’s wily, but runs a close second in the scoundrel department, as does his semi-estranged wife, the nefarious Hillary. As Peter Schweizer explained, Bill and Hill were slicker stashing the cash.
IT BEGS……………… what was Barack Obama doing during those eight years during which Biden and Hillary were globally sucking bribes???
Perhaps servicing banksters for speech fees and conniving his tax payer funded fraudulent publishing deal???
This country is unlikely to survive the devastation perpetrated by the Clintons, Obamas and Biden crime families!
Not only Hillary, but Joe himself. Also Pelosi and a host of many democrats need to be imprisoned for their crimes against America and it’s people! They have high jacked our Republic to turn it into a communist socialist government.
Thinking of Pelosi! She has been exposed as the January 6 disaster.
Good point.
It’s also why the rancid bitch had a film crew to record her rehearsed remarks about the “riot” . . . as if she knew it was coming.
They are all traitors and you know what they do to treasonous traitors….
The left is consumed with a neurological disease which psychologists acknowledge–they are projectionists which is a form of hypocrisy which even Jesus acknowledged. They concern themselves with the speck in another man’s eye while ignoring the beam in their own. They project onto others things which are not even specks. But they have to project away from their own beam to draw attention away from their crimes.
The bottom line is this: Trump was impeached for asking a legitimate question to another foreign leader concerning corruption which all the evidence since proves to have been a very appropriate concern and deserving of investigation and prosecution. The Marxist Party had to impeach to cover their own crimes. As for classified documents in unauthorized places, if Trump is guilty, then so be it, but he should be exonerated if Hitlary, Biden and so many others do not join him in prison. And as for challenging election results, every Democrat candidate since 2000 (Gore, Kerry, and Hitlary) questioned the outcome and Democrats in Congress called for alternate electors. And the heck of it is, calling for such a challenge is constitutionally appropriate. It may fail, but it is legal. So where is the crime against Trump? Was it the riot of about 600 fools? Then where are the prosecutions for the summer of 2020 which Marxist Democrats encourage and even instigated in some cases?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-bill-sb441-elections-bureau-of-investigations/
Check out GBI strategies investigating 20 states voter fraud
I never saw a more terribly written article.
Hillary Clinton was investigates up, down, and sideways by the freaking DOJ during both Obama’s The Big Orange Baby’s term for more than FOUR years and they found absolutely nothing!
And now this piece of trash article is trying to make an equivalence between her and The Big Orange Baby?
Utterly disgusting.
The Big Orange Baby not only stole top-secret documents, incited an insurrection in an vain attempt to cling to power, but also now stands indicted in more than 70 different counts in both federal and state level (not counting the incoming indictments from Georgia and possibly more in Michigan, Arizona, and other states).
Spaces are your friend.
Best favorite line from the 2016 debate was Trump to Clinton, “You’d be in jail.”
Pure nonsense from the America’s party of performance artists!
Steele Dossier was real. It is correct (or TBD) on most assertions. The Steele Dossier IS NOT the genesis of the FBI case.
Trump’s 2016 electoral college win was far from an ‘essentially free and fair’ election for the citizens. One candidate encouraged and accepted foreign interference; paid hush money to former sex partners for their silence; and exploited the GOP publication of Director Comey’s private memory on ‘re-opening’ the email investigation. A classic GOP rat-f**k, if ever there was.
The timing of the delayed handling of Weiner’s laptop is very suspicious as timely handover and analysis produces a “We’ve checked and she’s clear…” memo from Comey two weeks before Election Day. Clearly no use to Trump. The “We know something you don’t know…” remarks from Giuliani and Stone also smack of foreknowledge. Has McGonigal been fully questioned?
The “She did it, too!” defense is for school kids.