By Natalia Mittelstadt
Former President Donald Trump has been arraigned on four felony counts alleging he conspired to spread claims of 2020 election fraud that he knew to be untrue to stop certification of the vote.
Federal prosecutors bringing the case, however, will have to contend with at least five high-profile cases of confirmed irregularities or illegalities from the 2020 contest ranging from Iranian interference to unlawful voting procedures.
Trump was indicted by a grand jury led by Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday and arraigned Thursday in a federal courtroom on four charges, including Conspiracy to Defraud the United States; Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding; Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding; and Conspiracy Against Rights.
The indictment alleges that “The purpose of the conspiracy was to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those results are collected, counted, and certified.
Since the 2020 election, Trump has claimed that fraud occurred. At least five high-profile cases of irregularities, deceit or illegalities have since been confirmed, though none have been unequivocally shown to have changed the outcome of Joe Biden’s victory.
1. Illegal ballot drop boxes — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled last year that the 570 drop boxes used during the 2020 election were unlawfully approved by the Wisconsin Election Commission. “Only the legislature may permit absentee voting via ballot drop boxes,” the court declared. “WEC cannot. Ballot drop boxes appear nowhere in the detailed statutory system for absentee voting. WEC’s authorization of ballot drop boxes was unlawful.” State Rep. Janel Brandtjen told Just the News that hundreds of thousands of votes were cast in the illegal drop boxes in the 2020 race, in which Joe Biden was certified the winner over Donald Trump by fewer than 21,000 votes.
2. A foreign intrusion — Federal authorities have confirmed that two Iranian nationals successfully hacked into an unnamed state computer election system, stole 100,000 voter registrations and used the data to carry out a cyber-intimidation campaign that targeted GOP members of Congress, Trump campaign officials and Democratic voters in the November 2020 election. The defendants “were part of a coordinated conspiracy in which Iranian hackers sought to undermine faith and confidence in the U.S. presidential election,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams declared in the indictment.
3. The laptop lie — Fifty-one “national security experts”, countless news organizations and large social media firms falsely insisted in fall 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop — with damning revelations about Biden family corruption — was bogus “Russian disinformation”. In fact, the laptop was proven to be authentic and already in the FBI’s possession, and Hunter Biden was already under criminal investigation before voters cast their 2020 ballots. According to congressional investigators, the letter was “triggered” by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then a Biden campaign adviser, and its organizer, former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, each of whom wanted to create a “talking point” to help Biden win the last presidential debate of 2020 and beat Donald Trump in the election.
The effort had significant impact. According to a Polling Company survey for the Media Research Center, 45.1% of Biden voters were unaware of the censored laptop story. Abbe Lowell, one of Hunter Biden’s attorneys has reanimated the “Russian disinformation” claim, despite the fact that even The New York Times and Washington Post have conceded that the laptop was genuine. “According to our poll,” MRC’s Newsbusters reported, “full awareness of the Hunter Biden scandal would have led 9.4% of Biden voters to abandon the Democratic candidate, flipping all six of the swing states he won to Trump, giving the President 311 electoral votes.”
4. Illegal exemptions from voter ID — The Wisconsin Supreme Court also ruled as many as 200,000 voters were illegally allowed to skip voter ID for absentee ballots by claiming they were indefinitely confined by COVID when there was no legal authority to do so. The total was 10 times Biden’s approximate 20,000-vote margin of victory in the state.
5. Fulton County irregularities — Georgia’s handpicked election monitor for Fulton County, the state’s largest voting district, documented two dozen pages’ worth of mismanagement and irregularities during vote counting in Atlanta in November 2020, including double-scanning of ballots, insecure transport of ballots and violations of voter privacy. The revelations prompted the state to take steps to consider putting Fulton County in receivership, empowering state officials to run the elections. However, the Georgia State Election Board voted against taking over the county’s elections.
Trump’s lawyers have already signaled they plan to introduce evidence of such irregularities, illegalities and deceit as part of their defense to cast doubt on Smith’s theory that Trump knew or had to know there wasn’t election fraud.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are Arizona forensic audits and canvases which essentially confirmed each others findings; the Pennsylvania ruling that all those votes that were accepted and counted after the statutory deadline shouldn’t have been, the ones that helped take a 600,000 vote victory for PT and turn it into a Biden victory plus the 200,000 plus ballots that were trucked in from out of state; the numerous Georgia irregularities; the tens of thousands of ballots that came in after the polls closed in Detroit, and much more. Smith will also have to answer as to why he lied at least twice in his indictment- number 2. in the above and when he started the State Farm Arena incident was debunked.
One of PT’s attorneys stated he believes the reason Smith is pushing for a speedy trial is because they know the other indictments don’t stand a chance and they figure with this venue they can get a quick conviction. True, but there is another reason. They don’t want to see the 2020 election litigated. The thought absolutely terrifies them and it was something they probably overlooked as being a consequence of their actions and they are now having an “oh shit” moment. The evidence that has suppressed will come out.
Democrats base their entire declaration that the 2020 was totally legitimate on their refusal to examine ANY of the evidence. Like most of the judges that had cases before them, if they won’t look at the evidence, there isn’t any. But this ill-advised indictment will force all this and more to be exposed and examined. Unless…
What are the chances this partisan hack judge will forbid any evidence of election fraud to be introduced? They’ve blocked evidence in previous trials, why not in this one? Yeah, it would invalidate any guilty verdict, but who cares? The whole purpose is to invalidate Trump himself.
The trial needs to be relocated to a venue that is not a socialist enclave. In fact, let’s have a heavily weighted conservative venue for a change. If the evidence is that solid and certain, it wouldn’t change a thing.
I’ve asked repeatedly why this “evidence” isn’t all presented online and never gotten an answer.
IT DOESN’T EXIST.
So Trump/Russia collusion never existed yet you believed it, no evidence required. Many left wing lemmings like you still cling to it. So evidence isn’t anything you’d know if it hit you in the face.
You evaded the question. Why isn’t all the “evidence” of “massive election fraud” online? Why was it never presented in court?
IT DOESN’T EXIST.
It has been presented to the courts, but the gutless judges either claim the plaintiffs have “no standing” or they simply refuse to see the evidence and dismiss the case. 80% of the cases actually heard are won by the plaintiffs.
Trump attorney John Lauro, on Newsmax, publicly acknowledging that Trump asked Pence to take an illegal action.
As we all know, Pence refused.
He presently wants his trial to be delayed until after the election. That delay is not happening either, so he’s going to have to roll out his “evidence” of “massive election fraud” before then. By then, they’ll have had 3 years assemble it.
Could it be inside Al Capone’s vault?
And Democrats have been timing all this to coincide precisely with the campaign and election. Funny how that was impeachable in 2020. It’s all political and intended to protect idiot Biden, the failed, corrupt pedophile, from facing a strong opponent in 2024.
The only illegality was widespread Democrat election fraud.
And just what courtroom was all the Russian collision evidence presented that you bought into?
Another evasion.
Trump hasn’t been indicted for Russian collusion. That isn’t what he’ll stand trial for.
Not the point. You are now evading. It goes to believabiliy of an issue. Without facts you bought into Russian collision. Democrats question practically every Republican win. No court needed for you to fall in line. But we know months before the 2020 election Democrats sent lawyers to swing states and got voting laws changed not by legislation but by party loyal judges. Never let a crisis go to waste you know. That’s just a sample, no courtroom needed.
No credible evidence of “massive election fraud” has been presented because IT DIDN’T HAPPEN. Every ludicrous claim has fallen apart on close inspection. Even third-party recounts have confirmed the official results.
Calm down wipe the spittle from your face. I tried to point you toward part of the mechanism for fraud and you are blind. Yet you are the same person who hung on everyday during the J6 committee as if it were “evidence” and not smear politics. Again you hung onto Russian collusion as if it were true without credible evidence to back it up. According to you Trump has committed crimes but Biden is pure as fresh snow. It’s you who aren’t credible.
Others are beginning to figure it out. They aren’t quite as closed minded.
https://headlineusa.com/joe-rogan-sides-w-kari-lake-trump-on-election-fraud/
More to consider.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/still_doubting_the_2020_election.html
Calling your shots now? Trump hasn’t been indicted (and never will) for Russian collusion because he was never involved in any Russian collusion. Yet you preached that phony bullshit for 4 years, along with the rest of the Democrat losers. This is why you and they have no credibility. This is why the DOJ and FBI has no credibility because they went along with promoting it, even though they knew it was all lies. This is why the leftist Ministry of Propaganda has no credibility; they promoted all the lies and suppressed the truth.
And Kanvanaugh was a rapist and the Covington kids were racists. People like Greg don’t know how to act if they aren’t being lied to. They reflexively refuse the truth.
Another evasion. Over two years, and evidence of “massive election fraud” still hasn’t been presented. It wasn’t blocked from any courtroom. IT NEVER EXISTED.
STATE FARM ARENA. Example number one. Explain that one, then we move on to the next.
It is and you’ve been shown it. For instance,
STATE FARM ARENA.
If you just look the other way, cover your ears and yell, “LA, LA, LA, LA!” and pretend it doesn’t exist (or, rather, since you KNOW the Democrats rely on election fraud, that we don’t have it) but that doesn’t make it go away.
Meanwhile,
biden has taken millions upon millions of cash from some of Americas enemies. He has sold out the country consciously. His allegiance is not with America.
The evidence is overwhelming.
The leftist judge order all prosecution evidence to be given the President Trumps lawyers.
Again, the ultimate goal is not to put Trump in prison, certainly not to “seek justice”. That would just be the icing on the cake. All they want is to knock Trump out of the campaign.
Where did all of the money come from?
Jesse Morgan also claims “shadow people” that were living in his basement have been stalking him and other family members.
Possibly they’re Democrat Deep State operatives equipped with invisibility cloaks…