The World of Reality vs. The World of Falsehood

Jobs Increase and Unemployment Decreases vs. False Claims of Economic Apocalypse

The Harris-Walz World of Reality sees Jobs increase by 245,000 in September and Unemployment Decrease to 4.1%.

In the Trump-Vance World of Falsehood, Lies, Distortions and Fear Mongering, the U.S. Economy is in Decline, Unemployment is skyrocketing, no one is buying U.S. produced goods and Immigrants, legal or not, are destroying America.

Trump-Vance, knowing their falsehoods will not insure their election victory, they are already planning a January 6 Style coup to seize the government of the United States by challenging election returns, getting Trump-appointed Judges to support their challenges and ultimately putting the outcome, after Supreme Court intervention for Trump, in the House of Representatives where Republicans hope to retain control and elect Trump-Vance regardless of the popular vote.

Trump wants to undermine democracy by repeating claims of falsehood in election results and implementing a refined January 6 type takeover with better techniques. Trump desires to impose a dictatorship which as he said will result in this being the last election as he will impose a long-lasting dictatorship headed by Trump and then Vance as his dictatorial successor.

Incredibly, polls say the race is close and could result in either a Harris or Trump victory at the polls. This is incredible in light of Trump’s claims that he will be a dictator making voting in the future unnecessary. How can so many Americans say they will give their vote to Trump-Vance who falsely claimed legal Haitian immigrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. When evidence appears that these outlandish claims are false, Trump-Vance double down and repeat them to hopefully persuade some gullible voters: the low information variety.

Trump-Vance have no shame in lying. It has become their standard operating platform. Do their supporters believe the lies? A significant number did believe Trump’s Big Lie in 2020 and followed his lead in attacking the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to stop the electoral count when Mike Pence refused Trump’s pressure to throw out the legitimate results to perpetrate Trump’s false claims of election fraud. Luckily, Pence did his Constitutional duty, and Trump’s January 6 hooligans were removed from the Capitol after first trashing it.

Now with the 2024 election a month away, Trump is setting the stage for another Trumpian coup attempt. He is already saying elections are rigged, and he undermines the sanctity of the people’s votes even before they are cast. But his horde of hooligans will probably not report for duty after many were convicted of federal crimes and are serving significant jail time.

As Trump plans his 2024 coup, the Special Counsel has filed a brief giving us great insight on Trump’s criminal acts in masterminding his failed 2020 coup. If Trump and his supporters were smart they would not follow their 2020 playbook that resulted in convictions for January 6 coup forces and disbarment for some of Trump’s lawyers.

The Special Counsel summarizes the evidence:

When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office. With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost-Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (the “targeted states”). His efforts included lying to state officials in order to induce them to ignore true vote counts; manufacturing fraudulent electoral votes in the targeted states; attempting to enlist Vice President Michael R. Pence, in his role as President of the Senate, to obstruct Congress's certification of the election by using the defendant's fraudulent electoral votes; and when all else had failed, on January 6, 2021, directing an angry crowd of supporters to the United States Capitol to obstruct the congressional certification.

This conduct was underlined by knowing deceit that the presidential election was fraudulent. Trump produced no evidence of outcome determinative fraud in any of his 60 failed court challenges. Trump lost his court appeals, and his coup hooligans were arrested and jailed.

In the Special Counsel’s Brief, he summarizes the criminal offenses committed by Trump in his coup attempt:

The throughline of these efforts was deceit: the defendant's and co-conspirators' knowingly false claims of election fraud. They used these lies in furtherance of three conspiracies: 1) a conspiracy to interfere with the federal government function by which the nation collects and counts election results, which is set forth in the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act (ECA); 2) a conspiracy to obstruct the official proceeding in which Congress certifies the legitimate results of the presidential election; and 3) a conspiracy against the rights of millions of Americans to vote and have their votes counted. Sp. Counsel Brief at 4.

In response to the horrendous Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, the Sp. Counsel argued that Trump’s acts were not official or presidential, but rather were private acts of a candidate seeking election for another term:

At its core, the defendant's scheme was a private criminal effort. In his capacity as a candidate, the defendant used deceit to target every stage of the electoral process, which through the Constitution, ECA, and state laws includes the states' notification to the federal government of the selection of their representative electors based on the popular vote in the state; the meeting of those electors to cast their votes consistent with the popular vote; and Congress's counting of the electors' votes at a certification proceeding. Brief at 4.

The Sp. Counsel described how Trump set the stage for his false claims of wide-spread voter fraud:

In an interview on August 2 , the defendant claimed, without any basis, that “[t]here is no way you can go through a mail-in vote without massive cheating." At a campaign event in Wisconsin on August 17, the defendant told his supporters, "[t]he only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged, remember that. It's the only way we're going to lose this election, so we have to be very careful." In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on August 24, the defendant said that “[t]he only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election.”? On October 27, during remarks regarding his campaign, the defendant said, “[i]t would be very, very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on November 3rd, instead of counting ballots for two weeks , which is totally inappropriate, and I don't believe that that's by our laws. I don't believe that. So we'll see what happens.” The defendant said this despite or perhaps because his private advisors had informed him that it was unlikely that the winner of the election would be declared on November 3. Sp. Counsel Brief at 5.

Trump did not want to hear the truth that he lost the election for president, so he fired staff and legal advisors to replace them with an attorney willing to tell Trump what he wanted to hear: Rudy Giuliani:

From P2 P3 and others who were telling the defendant the truth that he did not want to hear-that he had lost the defendant turned to CC1 a private attorney who was willing to falsely claim victory and spread knowingly false claims of election fraud. CC1 is Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani’s willingness to lie for Trump in legal filings has lead to his demise and disbarment in New York and D.C. His fall from America’s Mayor to an unpaid Trump sycophant (Trump said he only pays lawyers who win) has lead Giuliani’s daughter to recently say that Trump had stolen her father, and she was now announcing her support for Harris.

The Sp. Counsel based his fraud case on Trump’s knowledge that he had lost and that there was not outcome determinative fraud that would change the result:

Following election day and throughout the charged conspiracies, the defendant, his coconspirators, and their agents spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These lies included dozens of specific claims that there had been substantial fraud in certain states, such as that large numbers of dead, non-resident, noncitizen, or otherwise ineligible voters had cast ballots, or that voting machines had changed votes for the defendant to votes for Biden. And the defendant and co-conspirators continued to make these unsupported, objectively unreasonable, and ever-changing claims even after they had been publicly disproven or after advisors had directly informed the defendant that they were untrue. Sp. Counsel Brief at 11.

Trump continued to ignore advisors, court decisions and reports that his fraud claims were false, but he persisted in continuing them:

But the defendant disregarded P9 and Pence in the same way that he disregarded dozens of court decisions that unanimously rejected his and his allies' legal claims, and that he disregarded officials in the targeted states—including those in his own party— who stated publicly that he had lost and that his specific fraud allegations were false. Election officials, for instance, issued press releases and other public statements to combat the disinformation that the defendant and allies were spreading. Sp. Counsel Brief at 14.

Trump should take a lesson that his spreading lies and falsehoods about the 2024 election could land him in further criminal jeopardy.

Trump’s disregard for the truth resulted in this telling statement by the Sp. Counsel:

[A] White House staffer traveling with the defendant, overheard him tell family members that "it doesn't matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell. ” Sp. Counsel Brief at 15.

So according to Trump, even if you know that you lost the election, you still have to “fight like hell.” Trump continues to establish a case proving his guilty mind, willing to spread falsehoods even if he knows they are wrong.

Ultimately, the defendant's steady stream of disinformation in the post-election period culminated in the speech he gave at a privately-funded, privately-organized rally at the Ellipse on the morning of January 6, 2021 , in advance of the official proceeding in which Congress was to certify the election in favor of Biden. In his speech, the defendant repeated the same lies about election fraud in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin that had been publicly, or directly, debunked. The defendant used these lies to inflame and motivate the large and angry crowd of his supporters to march to the Capitol and disrupt the certification proceeding. Sp. Counsel Brief at 15-16.

Then began Trump’s effort to have states he had lost change their reported votes to make him the winner though he had been declared the loser. Trump claimed to be searching for fraud, but he and his sycophants decided to create fraud through deliberate alteration of election results. Most famous of these efforts was his recorded call to Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger where Trump asked him to manufacture or “find” 11,780 votes to make Trump the winner.

Shortly after election day, the defendant began to target the electoral process at the state level by attempting to deceive state officials and to prevent or overturn the legitimate ascertainment and appointment of Biden's electors. As President, the defendant had no official responsibilities related to the states ' administration of the election or the appointment of their electors, and instead contacted state officials in his capacity as a candidate. Tellingly, the defendant contacted only state officials who were in his political party and were his political supporters, and only in states he had lost. The defendant's attempts to use deceit to target the states' electoral process played out in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as across these and other states that used certain voting machines. In addition to the following evidence of the defendant's conduct during the charged conspiracies, at trial the Government will elicit testimony from election officials from the targeted states to establish the objective falsity—and often, impossibility—of the defendant's fraud claims. Notably, although these election officials would have been the best sources of information to determine whether there was any merit to specific allegations of election fraud in their states, the defendant never contacted any of them to ask. Sp. Counsel Brief at 16

The Sp. Counsel details the efforts that Trump and his sycophants used to pressure the elected officials in each of the targeted states that Trump had lost complete with citations to transcripts, witness statements, videos and other sources. The evidence they gathered is overwhelming.

Then the Brief details the Phony Elector scheme where Trump’s people convinced Republicans to sign false certifications that they were the duly appointed electors in their states even though the real electors were already certified. How Trump and his allies convinced these people to sign admittedly false certifications that has subjected some of them to criminal liability is not known, but it is anther example of Trump using people without concern on the potential consequences for them.

If Trump loses the election, he should consider a plea deal or he will face conviction and a long period of incarceration. The evidence against him is meticulous and comprehensive. Too bad AG Garland did not appoint Smith as Special Counsel right after January 6 instead of two and half years later after Trump’s crimes committed in plain view of all Americans.

What other falsehoods has Trump pedaled recently?

Trump claimed climate change is a hoax, but when Hurricane Helene devastated areas in the southeast, Trump claimed Biden withheld disaster relief funds from Republicans.

He claimed Biden refused to talk with Governor Kemp about disaster relief, but Kemp congratulated Biden on his cooperation and assistance.

Now in a reprise of 2020, Trump says there will be a bloodbath if he loses.

The Republican Party knew of Trump’s lies and debauchery, but they chose him as their nominee. Will this be the end of this Republican Party? We can only hope that this election will be the end of Trump on the national scene and that he can spend his years forward in incarceration on his numerous crimes including his withholding of national security documents.

In contrast to Trump, Harris has pursued a memorable campaign of truth, organization and clear eyed policy. Unlike Trump, she does not lie. She has many solid policy proposals. She respects the Constitution and the laws of the United States. She works tirelessly for women’s reproductive rights. She believes in equality. She respects immigrants, recognizing most of us are the children of immigrants or came from families coming here as immigrants.

ELECT HARRIS-WALZ IN 2024.

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