December 24, 2020: All Trump Wants for Christmas is a Second Term - Stolen is Okay

 

12/24/20: President Trump will be spending Christmas Eve at his palatial Mar-a-Lago estate.

 

____________________ 

Wrapped presents will remain wrapped and unseen.

____________________

  

Perhaps he will look into his orange heart and think about all the Americans who have died in recent days, and their families who won’t be able to celebrate the holidays with them ever again. 

CDC reports that another 3,165 Americans died of coronavirus on the 22^nd, meaning any wrapped presents that awaited will remain wrapped and unseen. 

On the 23^rd, the toll was 3,362, bringing the total for December to 56,010. When the official numbers for Christmas Eve come in tomorrow, we will doubtless pass, in just this month, the total for America’s dead during the Vietnam War. 

In fact, the President of the United States did show his focus, by going off again to play … motherf***ing golf !

 

* 

OF COURSE, no day since the election would be complete without Mr. Trump arguing, without evidence, that he actually won. 

At 8:23 a.m. this morning, we had our first Christmas Eve tweet. It featured a video lasting one minute. Yet, even in that brief time, the president managed to include a quote from President-elect Joe Biden, taken totally out of context. In that brief snippet of an already short clip, Biden “brags” about having the most extensive “voter fraud organization” in history. 

If you have a chance, watch the Trump version for fun. 

Then watch the full 26-minute-long Biden interview if you care about truth. Skip to a little past the 19-minute mark, if you’re pressed for time, and see what you think if you still think for yourself. Reuters labels the quote a “slip of the tongue.” USAToday explains the shocking Biden quote as not shocking at all, saying he “misspoke.” FactCheck.org labels the quote “taken out of context.” Politifact rates a similar claim, by Press Secretary “Birther” McEnany, echoing the video message, as “False.” The Seattle Times is just one of many newspapers to challenge the veracity of the pro-Trump video. 

“Bogus,” it calls the claim. 

You kind of assume, anyone who was a “Birther” would be happy to lie if it served their purpose. So, yeah. Trump. 

And, yeah, McEnany, for sure. She has previously won the coveted “Pants on Fire” rating for her absurd claims. 

This time she settles for a “False.”

 

Her boss, of course, is master of all lies, and a dozen times since the election has won the fiery award. Two examples should suffice. 

The first is an error of fact easily checked:

 

In 1960, another president (who also ended up getting impeached), won both states but lost the election to John F. Kennedy. Richard M. Nixon grabbed Ohio and Florida’s electoral votes, but didn’t win the presidency until he ran again in 1968. 

(That erroneous “Florida and Ohio” claim also appears in this morning’s video, and it’s still “Pants on Fire” wrong.) 

And we all know the president has continued to advance claims that he was robbed of a landslide victory. For example:

  

Newsmax admits it has “no evidence” at all. 

To understand how specious this claim has been, Dominion Voting Systems, and another election software company, Smartmatic, are threatening to sue various right-wing media outlets for defamation. 

Newsmax, Trump’s favorite cable news channel, now that he hates Fox, realized they had been offering up plentiful lies, and went for a “mea culpa,” which they hope will help when they get hauled into court. 

Since election day, various guests, attorneys and elected officials have appeared on Newsmax TV and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems, both companies that offer voting software in the U.S.

 

Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage and note it has not reported as true certain claims made about these companies.

 

There are several facts our viewers and readers should be aware. Newsmax has found no evidence either Dominion or Smartmatic owns the other, or has any business association with each other.

 

We have no evidence Dominion uses Smartmatic’s software or vice versa.

No evidence has been offered that Dominion or Smartmatic used software or reprogrammed software that manipulated votes in the 2020 election.

 

Smartmatic has stated its software was only used in the 2020 election in Los Angeles, and was not used in any battleground state contested by the Trump campaign and Newsmax has no evidence to the contrary.

 

Dominion has stated its company has no ownership relationship with the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s family, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s family, the Clinton family, Hugo Chavez, or the government of Venezuela.

 

Neither Dominion nor Smartmatic has any relationship with George Soros.

 

If you still don’t get it, Newsmax is essentially admitting, “Our guests were full of shit and we are really, really sorry we helped them spread the bullshit, even if we did do it because that’s our business model.”

 

Someone should absolutely notify Mr. Trump of this news. In fact, his lawyers should point out, that after January 20, if he continues to peddle his bogus claims, he’ll no longer be able to pardon himself. 

He’ll be a sitting duck for a libel case; and if this blogger knows even a little bit about the U.S. system of justice, not even a judge Mr. Trump appointed would be able to save his hide. 

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE: We won’t know this until May 24, 2021, but on Christmas Eve, Trump lawyer Rudi Giuliani puts in a call to an Arizona elections official. Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates is recipient and Rudy leaves a message. The message eventually ends up in possession of the Arizona Republican. 

See if you can guess what Rudy wants. 

 

“Maybe we can get this thing fixed up.” 

Bill, it’s Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer. If you get a chance, would you please give me a call? I have a few things I’d like to talk over with you. Maybe we can get this thing fixed up. You know, I really think it’s a shame that Republicans sort of are both in this, kind of, situation. And I think there may be a nice way to resolve this for everybody.

 

Yes, let’s “get this thing fixed up.” Let’s get Trump enough votes to take Arizona away from Joe Biden. Gates apparently smells the same kind of rat smelled by Georgia election officials. He tells reporters from the Arizona Republican that he never called Giuliani back.