I haven't watched a millisecond of the January 6 Committee hearings. I don't believe I will. It's not that I don't take seriously that awful incident where kooks stormed the U.S. Capitol on 1/6/2021. I absolutely do. In fact, I firmly believe Donald Trump's defiant behavior while that was taking place should (in the minds of voters) disqualify him from ever again serving as President of the United States.
All that said, I find it difficult to believe that the Capitol riot was somehow coordinated ahead of time. If indeed there is hard evidence of that, then people (including Trump) need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But you'll forgive me for my deep skepticism given that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) promised us for months and months that there was irrefutable evidence that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. As we now know, when Robert Mueller released his findings after a year-plus of investigations, Schiff's claims turned out to be complete bull pucky.
One final thing: I'm on record as saying that Trump's outlandish claims about the 2020 election being "stolen" (yes, there were irregularities, but there was no "stealing") were utterly delusional. But the J-6 Committee doesn't have a lotta moral credibility in my mind when Congressman Bennie Thompson (the committee Chair) actually refused to certify George W. Bush's 2004 reelection victory. So spare me the indignation about it being a stain on our democracy to question legitimate election results.
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OK, the election wasn't "stolen" but you need to explain to those paying attention how all of these "irregularities" add up to the fact that 81 million votes came in for a guy on the edge of senility, who barely campaigned, and that these suspected (some proven) "irregularities" were more than enough to change the outcome?
81 million votes came in for a guy on the edge of senility, who barely campaigned
I would suspect that of those 81 million votes, multiple millions were more "against Trump" than they were "for Biden."
these suspected (some proven) "irregularities" were more than enough to change the outcome?
Conjecture.
Well, no. A lot of research demonstrates that there WERE enough irregularities, in six key states, to change the outcome. Just looking at Minnesota law (and Secretary of State edicts) there were more than enough "loopholes" to change the Minnesota outcome, since most of the opportunity was in the largest counties. And yes, Biden got 70,000 more votes than all other Democrats combined, and Trump got 70,000 fewer than all Republicans. Suspicious that the numbers are the same, but even more so, why did no Republican simply leave the top of the ticket blank? And where did Biden get so many votes to begin with? I personally witnessed what seems to be a large number of Biden-only ballots that "mysteriously" appeared in the count. Change the outcome or not, at this point I would think we've made a national blunder of epic proportions, and it's either blame ourselves or some shadowy figures who CANNOT be allowed to steal an election again. Election law, especially in MN, has to change.
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