NEW YORK – On New York WABC 770 AM radio’s “The
Cats Roundtable” with John Catsimatidis Sunday, November 29th,
former House Speaker Newt Gingrich shared a sobering take on the
current state of America in the wake of the contested 2020
Presidential election.
On the program, both Gingrich and his host agreed that they were
presently “very, very concerned for America.”
Catsimatidis went on to bring up some statements from mutual
liberal friends who dismissively claimed “it’s always been that
way,” when it came to the question of ballot stuffing.
Gingrich responded:
“Well, look, it hasn’t always been that way….
It’s just not accurate.
“Have we had occasional stolen elections?�
Sure.
“But the scale of what we’re looking at in five
or six different states, the total number of votes involved, the
degree to which those who stole the votes are just methodically,
you know, ignoring the law and behaving as though they are beyond
any reach.â€
Gingrich went on to describe politicians in places like
Philadelphia, Georgia, and Michigan as “brazen.â€
He then criticized the state legislators and governor of Nevada,
who he said “basically legalized illegal behavior†by
manipulating the law to work against electing President Trump.
Gingrich then took on media and internet manipulation, telling
Catsimatidis:
“Not only do you have crooked politicians running
crooked elections, but you have crooked or corrupt internet
companies deliberately censoring and biasing.
“You have 92% or 93% of the news media deliberately
censoring and biasing.â€
He went on to say:
“So, you are faced with the greatest challenge to
the American people’s ability to govern themselves, I think that
we’ve seen probably since 1824 when John Quincy Adams and Henry
Clay stole the presidency from Andrew Jackson.
“I think it’s literally that bad. And it’s that
bad at every level.â€
The more data comes out on
vote anomalies that clearly are not legitimate the more it looks
like 2020 may be the biggest Presidential theft since Adams and
Clay robbed Andrew Jackson in 1824. State legislatures should
demand recounts— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich)
November 27, 2020
Gingrich then further explained the effects of censorship,
saying:
“So when word does go out, when a Pennsylvania
judge stops them from certifying because the corruption is so
great, it’s not going to get covered by any of the
networks.â€
The former House Speaker added:
“When somebody as famous as Rush Limbaugh reports
that four of his six tweets in one day were censored, you know, if
it can happen to a guy of that authority and that fame, what should
the average person expect out of the system?â€
Gingrich then framed the issues with corruption in the election
as a matter concerning the American people, not President Trump.
He said:
“It’s not about Donald Trump. It’s about your
right as an American citizen to assume that your vote is
sacred.
“To assume that every legal vote will be counted,
and that illegal votes will not be counted, because otherwise the
illegal votes drown out the legal votes and cheat the legal
citizens of their right to representation.
“I never thought it would be this corrupt. But I
think it is.â€
Newt is right.
Gingrich: ‘You Have Crooked Politicians Running Crooked
Elections‘ https://t.co/53CaIcbKVX via @BreitbartNews— Russell Ramstad (@slewandredeye)
November 30, 2020
Evoking the voter fraud and rigged elections of the Tammany Hall
days, Gingrich continued:
“This is precisely the corruption of the big city
machines, all the way back to Tammany Hall in the 19th century.
“And now it has been extended to the whole country
by a group of left-wing Democrats who have contempt for the law,
they have contempt for the average American, and they want power,
and they don’t care how much they have to cheat to try to get
it.â€
The conversation turned to the issue of the Dominion
software.
Gingrich pulled no punches, saying:
“You have to ask yourself, how could people be so
stupid as to hire a software company which sends the ballots
through Barcelona to Frankfurt to be counted? A company which had,
as part of its origin, the Venezuelan dictatorship.â€
Gingrich went on to discuss the influence of large financial
donors such as George Soros and “the Facebook founder,â€
presumably co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. He said that the pair, in
conjunction with the news media, were:
“all gathering together with the political machines
to essentially steal the Presidency.â€
In answer to a question on the apparent silence on election
matters from the likes of the FBI and Attorney General William
Barr, Gingrich was very clear on his thoughts on Deep State
corruption.
He told Catsimatidis:
“I think part of it is because there really is a
Deep State….
“In the Justice Department, I think it was 97% of
the donations in 2016 were to Hillary Clinton and 3% were to Donald
Trump.
“We know, from what has come out of the FBI, the
depth of the criminal behavior, the depth of illegality at the very
top of the FBI, and I think it’s very hard to force the
bureaucracy to do its job if that means it will hurt liberals.
He added:
“I think that they slow-walk everything.
“And on the other side, I think that they maximize
the effort to go after conservatives.â€
Gingrich added a chilling prediction, saying that, with the
number of corporate lobbyists expected to be involved, a Biden
administration is almost sure to be “the most corrupt
administration since Harding in 1921.â€
He went on to note that the Hunter Biden scandal is “real,â€
as are the issues of money from China, Russia, and the Ukraine, and
that the coverup of such issues is also “real.†As such, he
stated:
“all of us have to recognize how serious a problem
this is….
“We’re all very concerned for our country.â€
If it turns out people did game the 2020 election, fair (and harsh)
punishment is required (op-ed)
UNITED STATES – In
sports, cheating is punished with disqualification. The offender is
removed from the competition immediately. He is not given a time
penalty equal to the time “stolen†by taking a shortcut in a
race.
Lance Armstrong’s
punishment for using performance-enhancing drugs while racing
professionally was a lifetime ban on cycling and the
disqualification of his competition results. One can no longer say
Armstrong won the Tour de France seven times because those
victories have been erased and given to the next in line.
So, why are we concerned with vote totals in the context of
election fraud? If the Biden campaign directed, participated in, or
ignored (and thus failed to prevent) election fraud, should not
Biden and Harris be disqualified as candidates?
Do elections, which are far more consequential than sporting
events, use a lesser standard?
In universities, cheating such as plagiarism is usually punished
with a zero grade for the test. A common penalty for a second
offense is a zero for the class, thus disqualifying all efforts to
date, even on exams that may have been taken honestly.
A third offense can cause expulsion from the school. The
equivalent in politics would be akin to disqualification,
disbarment, and loss of voting rights.
Presidential candidate and former vice-president Joe Biden has
committed plagiarism on several well-documented occasions. When he
was a student at Syracuse University Law School (ranked
#111 in the country), he was punished for
plagiarizing a full five pages of a published law review.
That is not a small amount of plagiarism, though Biden claimed
it was “unintentionalâ€. That excuse might be credible to those
who have never been to university, but to those who have, it is
like saying he accidentally piloted a 747 to Easter Island. Biden
was penalized with a failing grade for the class. He had to retake
the class a year later to graduate.
Biden continued to cheat by plagiarizing others throughout his
career as a politician. He knew the risk because he had been
punished before. Therefore, he could not claim ignorance. But, as
seen in the embedded video below, his apologies sound more like
arguments against the idea that plagiarism is wrong.
Biden was punished for cheating in law
school. In politics, Biden’s plagiarism only affected his appeal
to voters. No official body penalized him.
In school, plagiarism makes it impossible to determine whether
the student grasps academic material well enough to justify a
passing grade. It also projects a false image of competence. If it
is not caught, it is possible that a substandard student will
receive an unmerited grade. It is for those reasons that penalties
for plagiarism in academia are severe.
In politics, plagiarism has similar effects. It disguises the
candidate’s competence, knowledge, credibility, and honesty. If
it is not caught, it raises the possibility that an undeserving
candidate will win based on false information provided by the
candidate.
Biden’s plagiarism on the election trail in past elections may
have projected a false image of competence and accomplishment. For
instance, his claim he had earned three degrees, a full
scholarship, and graduated at the top of his class were later
proven false.
Voters may have concluded that Biden was more competent than he
was based on those false claims. That claim could have decided
their votes in his favor. Therefore, falsehoods are not irrelevant
to election outcomes. They are, however, insignificant compared to
the election fraud alleged to have occurred in the 2020
election.
According to
Sidney Powell, an attorney on President Trump’s legal team,
election fraud in the 2020 election was planned. It required
significant numbers of collaborators, infrastructure, and money to
pull off. As alleged, it likely could not have been done without
the knowledge of the Biden campaign, if not Biden himself.
Unlike small-scale voter fraud, where tens or hundreds of votes
are affected, the election fraud
alleged by Powell and others affected millions of votes.
According to them, SmartMatic ballot-counting software was
manipulated to weight votes in Biden’s favor.
It is possible to be the unwitting beneficiary of a fraud or
crime, such as when a bank robber donates crime proceeds to
charity. In those cases, the beneficiary is not responsible for
criminal wrongdoing, but that does not entitle them to retain
stolen goods. Any stolen property would be confiscated and returned
to the proper owner.
When election fraud is conducted without the knowledge or
approval of a candidate, the “stolen goods†are votes. If the
fraud is discovered, the votes are taken back or confiscated, as
would happen with stolen property or money. The candidate would not
be held criminally liable. The adjusted election results would
stand, and life would go on.
For the 2020 election, full and honest recounts are required to
determine how many votes were stolen. Knowing the number of stolen
votes is necessary to determine whether enough fraudulent votes
were cast to affect the election outcome.
It would also allow election officials to reconcile their
certified voting results for each state. Returning votes lost to
Trump and removing votes fraudulently added to Biden’s total must
be done, but it may be an inadequate remedy for the alleged
offenses.
Election fraud
lawsuits filed in various states in the past week allege
wrongdoing
implicating Biden’s campaign. Biden himself may have taken
part in the fraud, though that has not yet been alleged. It would
not be a surprise, given his initial denials of responsibility for
initiating the fraudulent investigation of General Michael
Flynn, later disproven by evidence. It is not as if Biden has been
honest about his wrongdoing in the past.
Recently, Carrollton, Texas mayoral
candidate Zul Mirza Mohamed was
indicted for 109 counts of voter fraud. He was alleged to have
arranged to collect ballots from a nursing home by fraudulent
means. Acting on a complaint from the nursing home, police found
the missing ballots in Mohamed’s possession and arrested him.
It is not unheard of to indict a candidate for voter fraud, but
Biden’s situation is different.
The difference between Mohamed and Biden is that Mohamed appears
to have personally executed each step of his plan to cast
fraudulent votes. Even if Biden’s campaign orchestrated a much
larger election fraud, it is possible that their many surrogates
allow Biden to remain outside the sphere of culpability.
He may be the intended beneficiary of fraud, but if he did not
directly participate, the only penalty may be that he loses the
fraudulent votes. If that occurs, he will likely lose the 2020
presidential election, but would not be barred from campaigning for
elected office later.
However this election is resolved, it has highlighted a serious
weakness in election law. Candidates have little incentive to
curtail fraud on their behalf, so long as they can claim
ignorance.
Ignorance of the law is
not a defense in cases where malicious intent is obvious, such
as firing a gun in the direction of a crowd. However, it can be
when it comes to the ever-changing tide of election
regulations.
One might go joyriding on a manatee without realizing it is
illegal, but one does not manipulate vote totals using illicit
ballot-counting software without knowing fraud is being committed.
If proven, Biden should bear some responsibility and suffer a
penalty that is much greater than losing fraudulent votes cast for
him.
At the least, he should be treated the same as he was when he
plagiarized five pages of material in law school. He should lose
more than votes identified as fraudulent, but all votes.
There is
precedent for this in America. In 1994, widespread Democrat
voter fraud in a Pennsylvania state senate race was remedied by
judicial order. Judge Clarence C. Newcomer invalidated the vote and
awarded the election to Republican challenger, Bruce S. Marks. The
reason was that the incumbent Democrat had “stolen the
election.â€
With that in mind, what matters here is whether vote tallies
were manipulated in software and whether Biden or his campaign
staff participated in the fraud. If so, the number of fraudulent
votes is irrelevant because the only number that counts is
zero.
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