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Trump Campaign Files Challenge to Election Results to Wisconsin Supreme Court By Zachary Stieber

Posted By on December 1st, 2020

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-campaign-files-challenge-to-election-results-to-wisconsin-supreme-court_3600449.html

President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, alleging there is clear evidence of illegal action that altered the outcome of the presidential election.

“Today’s suit includes four cases with clear evidence of unlawfulness, such as illegally altering absentee ballot envelopes, counting ballots that had no required application, overlooking unlawful claims of indefinite confinement, and holding illegal voting events,” the campaign said in a statement.

The allegedly unlawful actions affected at least 221,000 ballots, according to campaign officials.

One of the issues concerns municipal clerks being directed by state election officials to complete ballots that weren’t fully completed.

Michael Gableman, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, told The Epoch Times that the guidance went against state law. A spokesman for the Wisconsin Elections Commission said the guidance was approved by the commission unanimously in 2016.

Another alleged violation of state law, the Trump campaign says, is municipal clerks issuing mail-in ballots to voters who did not apply for them.

“Wisconsin law expressly requires that absentee ballots may not be issued without receiving a written application requesting the ballot. Despite clear statute, clerks in Madison and Milwaukee issued thousands of absentee ballots without collecting a written application during the two-week in-person absentee voting period that ran from October 20, 2020, through November 1, 2020,” the campaign said.

The campaign also accused the city of Madison of creating illegal polling locations at parks and other places through voting events called “Democracy in the Park.”

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Up to 280,000 Ballots ‘Disappeared’ After Being Transported From NY to Pennsylvania: Amistad Project Director By Jack Phillips

Posted By on December 1st, 2020

https://www.theepochtimes.com/up-to-280000-ballots-disappeared-after-being-transported-from-ny-to-pennsylvania-amistad-project-director_3600718.html

Phill Kline, the director of the legal group Thomas More Society’s Amistad Project, claimed that as many as 280,000 ballots were transported from New York to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where the ballots “disappeared.”

Kline, a former district attorney and Kansas attorney general, said he received evidence that between “130,000 to 280,000 completed ballots for the 2020 general election were shipped from Bethpage, New York, to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where those ballots and the trailer in which they were shipped disappeared” on Oct. 21. Kline cited the statements from whistleblowers, including USPS subcontractor truck drivers.

Kline also asserted in a news release that USPS workers engaged in “widespread illegal efforts” to influence the election. At least one of the whistleblowers said that they transported thousands of prefilled ballots across state lines, which, if true, would be a federal crime.

Kline said that they will share this information with law enforcement, including the FBI, U.S. attorneys in other areas, and local prosecutors “who are aware of our evidence.”

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The Hijacking of the 2020 Election and the Hate America Strategy Steve McCann

Posted By on December 1st, 2020

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/the_hijacking_of_the_2020_election_and_the_hate_america_strategy.html

There is a consensus that American society in 2020 is more polarized than at any point in the nation’s history.  If Joe Biden is inaugurated as President thanks to an irrefutably fraudulent and choreographed election, then this polarization is irreversible and will ultimately lead to a permanent fracturing of the country as the central government will be deriving its power from usurpation and not from the consent of the governed.  The sixty-year crusade of the American left and its Hate America Strategy, conceived to facilitate the ultimate transformation of the nation, will have succeeded in ways they never could have imagined.

As a refugee, naturalized citizen and someone who has traveled extensively while dealing in corporate and international finance for 45 years, I have watched in abject disbelief as this disturbing and traitorous Hate America scheme has taken root and flourished among the populace.  It is only in the United States that this tactic has been effectively employed, as I have not seen, experienced or read about anything comparable in any other country on earth.

Today all democratic nations, particularly in Europe, are politically split between what would be generally considered the left (socialist or liberals) and the right (conservatives or populists).  The precise definition of either side would be nuanced based on the country and its citizenry.  Invariably, however, the primary differences between the two factions revolve around economic issues and class mobility. 

There is one common thread among all these nations despite their internal political differences.  Neither the left nor right overtly denigrates and despises their country regardless of its past.  Nor do they weaponize and exploit the supposed sins of their forefathers as a means of seizing political power.  In many nations who have an active and sizable left, such as France, they proudly proclaim their pride in and affection for their country.

 

On the other hand, beginning in the 1960’s the American left’s entire platform to seize power and satisfy their megalomania was built on fomenting revulsion and animosity toward the United States as founded.  Recognizing that the century old tactic of exploiting class hostilities would not succeed in an essentially egalitarian society and piggybacking on the Civil Rights Movement, a new strategy was adopted: exploit the nation’s past by subjecting it to the intense spotlight of the present. 

Using the criteria of judging any nation’s past, not by the circumstances or societal norms of the day but by today’s standards, will inevitably lead to condemnation.  However, rather than accept what happened in the past as the irreversible history of the times and move on, as virtually all other nations have done, the American left has succeeded in making the past America’s defining national characteristic. 

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Here comes President Joebama The Democratic blue-bloods are back in charge Freddy Gray

Posted By on December 1st, 2020

https://spectator.us/here-comes-president-joebama/

‘So you’re seeing a team develop that I have great confidence in,’ said former president Barack Obama this week when asked about Joe Biden’s incoming administration. Obama sounds a bit of a World King these days, but you can’t blame him for feeling chipper. He has his third book of memoirs out (he only writes about himself, it seems), he’s making millions through publishing and Netflix deals, his great nemesis Donald Trump appears finally to have been vanquished — and his gang is taking charge of Washington again.

Biden revealed a number of his cabinet ‘picks’ this week, and it’s a case of jobs for the old Obama boys and girls. Antony Blinken, deputy secretary of state under Obama, is to be the next secretary of state. John Kerry, the secretary of state under Obama, will be ‘climate envoy’. Janet L. Yellen, a chair of the Federal Reserve under Obama, will be secretary of the Treasury. Alejandro Mayorkas, deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under Obama, will be secretary of homeland security. Avril Haines, deputy director of the CIA under Obama, will be director of national intelligence. Perhaps the freshest face is Jake Sullivan, the next national security adviser, who turns 44 this week. Yet even he was director of policy planning under Obama, as well as national security advisor to the then vice-president, Joe Biden.

In fact, the incoming Biden administration is arguably more Obamaish than the original Obama administration. In 2008, when Barack won the White House, he was a Washington neophyte who had to contend with the considerable power of the Clintons. His campaign chiefs could only stand aside and gripe as Hillary Clinton, the woman Obama had beaten to become the Democratic nominee, became secretary of state and pushed her allies into the best positions. This time, it’s the Biden campaign people grumbling as Team Obama swoops back in. ‘The Obama staffers are now cutting out the people who got Biden elected,’ an anonymous Biden staffer told Politico this week.

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Trump Proves the Most Philo-Semitic President—To America’s Benefit Ben Weingarten

Posted By on December 1st, 2020

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-proves-most-philo-semitic-president-americas-b

Amid great uncertainty, the Trump administration is dedicating critical time and resources to bolstering America’s strategic position with respect to the tip of the spear of the global jihadist movement, Iran, by seeking to strengthen Iran’s greatest rival and America’s greatest friend in the Middle East, Israel.

In so doing, it is putting the finishing touches on the most philo-Semitic term in American history—to the benefit of our national interest.

The proof is in the pudding of an Iran that has found itself checked in its pursuit of regional hegemony, and reduced jihadist violence against America and its interests from Iran and its Islamist partners and proxies alike—all while America has been able to avoid new military entanglements and reduce the size and scope of existing ones.

What presidents do at the end of their terms speaks volumes about their true nature. And when it comes to matters of foreign policy, actions concerning Israel—the West’s frontline in a region marked by Islamist tyranny—serve as a vital litmus test on war and peace, and our civilization and its enemies.

In this regard, the contrast between the policies and proclamations of President Trump in the waning days of his first term, and those of President Obama at the end of his second term—both of which involved Israel—could not be more stark. Nor could it be more salient in the event the latter’s vice president—poised to reprise much of his boss’s agenda, with alumni in tow—soon assumes the Oval Office.

Consider some of the Trump administration’s moves in recent weeks.

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Fakhrizadeh’s welcome death enrages American ‘doves’ By Ruthie Blum

Posted By on December 1st, 2020

https://www.jns.org/opinion/fakhrizadehs-welcome-death-enrages-american-doves/

Tehran’s hysterical response to the assassination on Friday afternoon of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is understandable. Fakhrizadeh was not only the latest Iranian scientist to be eliminated; he was the head of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear-weapons program that the mullah-led regime continues to deny. Furthermore, the inability of the regime to prevent the infiltration of foreign operatives and protect the lives of prominent figures such as Fakhrizadeh is a sign of weakness and thus a source of humiliation.

In addition, the targeted killing that everyone assumes was carried out by Israel—with the tacit approval of or hands-on help from the United States—came two days after U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Elliott Abrams announced Trump administration plans to tighten sanctions on Iran.

“We will have next week, and the week after, and the week after—all through December and January, there will be sanctions that deal with arms, that deal with weapons of mass destruction, that deal with human rights,” Abrams said at a virtual Beirut Institute event. “So, this will continue on for another couple of months, right until the end.”
In other words, up to Jan. 20 when Joe Biden is slated to assume the Oval Office, U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t intend to succumb to lame-duck laziness and let Iran conduct business as usual.
Caught in a vise grip of economic pressure on one side and strategic surgical strikes on the other, while contending internally with a highly disgruntled populace, Iranian officials are in a panic. This explains the rise in pitch of their characteristically violent rhetoric against Israel, the “small Satan,” and America, the “great Satan.”

Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, for example, directed one of his customary threats at both, without naming them specifically.

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Biden Gets Ready To Sell Out U.S. Interests To China Francis Menton

Posted By on December 1st, 2020

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2020-11-30-biden-gets-ready-to-sell-out

The most important job of the President is to conduct the foreign policy of the United States, so as to protect the safety and security of the American people. That means dealing with a variety of geopolitical rivals and adversaries. There are quite a number of serious adversaries out there these days (Russia, Iran, and North Korea come to mind), but without doubt the most significant is China.

In recent years, China has become increasingly assertive on the world stage, as evidenced by a rapidly growing military, massive international intelligence and espionage efforts, and the forging of financial ties with many developing nations (e.g., the “Belt and Road Initiative”). Meanwhile, China’s population, at about 1.4 billion, is more than four times that of the U.S.; and its annual GDP, at about $13.5 trillion, is about two-thirds ours (which is around $21 trillion), while almost triple that of third-place Japan (~$5 trillion), and more than triple that of fourth-place Germany (~$4 trillion). It is possible that China’s gross economy could overtake ours within a decade or so (although remaining much lower on a per capita basis).

It would not be an exaggeration to say that figuring out how to deal with China should be the number one priority of the incoming President. Good luck with that if Joe Biden succeeds to the job. It’s not just that he’s not physically or mentally capable of engaging with such a clever and relentless adversary. Even more significant is that Biden has been completely willing to accept influence payments from China for his family. Could he really have thought that nothing was expected in return? At Newsweek today, Nigel Farage has a column with the headline “China Is Licking Its Chops at the Thought of President Joe Biden.” Indeed, that’s a great understatement.

In prior posts on Biden corruption (for example here and here) I have focused more on the dealings of Joe and his son Hunter with Ukraine, rather than China. That’s because the dealings with Ukraine were more definitively and obviously criminal in nature, given that they involved an immediate and admitted quid pro quo (the firing of a prosecutor who was investigating a company where Hunter was on the board). The dealings with China were more in the nature of general influence peddling. That doesn’t make these dealings any less corrupt.

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Sidney Powell: Witness in Hospital After Beating By Kristinn Taylor

Posted By on December 1st, 2020

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/sidney-powell-witness-hospital-beating/

Attorney Sidney Powell said on the Sean Hannity show on Fox News Monday night that a witness to election irregularities was beaten up and is in the hospital. Powell spoke about the attack while speaking about witnesses needing protection as a reason some are not going public and signing affidavits. Powell said some are in the government, others are in roles that require confidentiality, and that they need protection by the government.

Powell: “They’re gonna lose their job. Their lives have been threatened. Uh, one witness we know of got beaten up and is in the hospital. There have been all kinds of repercussions against people who have come forward to tell the truth. And no, Democrats don’t like whistleblowers, they only like liars who claim they’re whistleblowers.”

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‘Last Stands’ Explores Valor in the Face of Almost Certain Defeat Michael Walsh

Posted By on December 1st, 2020

http://www.theepochtimes.com/last-stands-explores-valor-in-the-face-of-almost-certain-defeat_3599954.html?utm_source=partner

“These are the times that try men’s souls,” wrote Thomas Paine December of 1776. “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

For American revolutionaries facing the extremely uncertain prospect of defeating the most powerful military machine on earth at that time, the situation must have already looked hopeless. The Continental Army under George Washington had lost New York City and was perched uneasily on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. Desertion was rife. The weather was ghastly. It looked like a last stand would soon be in the offing.

And yet, against all the odds, the Americans won. Why? What possessed them to carry on, in the face of almost certain defeat? What, exactly, were they fighting for? God? Country? Their women and children? Or something more elemental, masculine, primal?

Times that try men’s souls, indeed. Paine’s words, which inspired the colonists to revolution and shamed the shrinking violets who would not fight, are just as applicable today—as the nation has been plunged into crisis by an overbearing government, a manufactured health “crisis,” open attacks on life, property, and the Constitution, and a contested, possibly fraudulent election, are just as pertinent today as they ever were.

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Hawley Refuses to Rule Out ‘Rigged’ Election: ‘We’ll See’ By Brittany Bernstein

Posted By on December 1st, 2020

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hawley-refuses-to-rule-out-rigged-election-well-see/

Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) on Monday would not rule out the possibility that the 2020 election had been rigged, saying “we’ll see.”

“I mean we’ll see,” Hawley told CNN when asked if he thought the election was rigged. “We’ll see at the end when all of the legal challenges are resolved and see when all the evidence has been produced.”

Asked if Republican Senators should speak up against the president’s claims of widespread election fraud that overturned the results, Hawley said: “Well I mean I think that, if your question is should we be criticizing him, then I think what you’re getting at in my view is that the President has every right to present his case in every court that he wants to go to and has every right to be heard. And I think we are going to have to look at the effect of mail-in balloting.”

Trump has refused to concede to President-elect Joe Biden, who won the electoral college with 306 votes to Trump’s 232, according to projections by the Associated Press. Though six battleground states have certified their election results in favor of Biden, Trump has continued to make claims that the election was rigged against him and plagued by widespread voter fraud — claims widely contested by election officials .