Talk about a strange turn I should have expected
Nothing smelled right with the 2020 elections from the start. There were a lot of questions from the start. I wrote about it early in this Substack’s life.
But it seems like the biggest culprit, at least to me, was individuals who independently sought to exploit the mail-in ballot process made easier during the pandemic to try and tip the scales. Enough of them, and you get the same results as if there were some coordinated movement to steal the election.
Yet it seems there was at least some effort that went beyond TDS-afflicted individuals.
And the FBI ignored the intelligence at the time.
FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday evening turned over to Congress an intelligence report raising concerns that China had mass-produced fake U.S. driver's licenses to carry out a scheme to hijack the 2020 election with fake mail-in ballots for Democrat Joe Biden.
The newly declassified intelligence reports from August 2020 weren’t corroborated or fully investigated and instead were recalled from intelligence agencies at about the time that then-FBI Director Chris Wray testified there were no known plots of foreign interference ahead of the 2020 election in which Biden defeated Donald Trump, officials told Just the News.
The new documents were turned over to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who had first raised concerns to the bureau that the intelligence hadn’t been fully vetted, and instead was just dismissed even though there was evidence of the fake licenses.
"Thanks to the oversight work and partnership of Chairman Grassley, the FBI continues to provide unprecedented transparency at the people's Bureau,” Patel told Just the News in a statement. “To that end, we have located documents Chairman Grassley requested, which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election.
“Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver's licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots – allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public,” Patel also said.
Now, it’s unknown if this actually played any factor in the 2020 election, but that’s kind of beside the point.
The fact is that China at least began a concerted effort to interfere with our electoral process in order to get someone who would be more accommodating toward their interests.
If I didn’t despise the Chinese government already, this would be enough reason to start.
Yes, I know that we’ve screwed around with other people’s elections. It was stupid for us to do so as a nation, and I see no reason to tolerate it when another country tries to do it here.
It’s especially bad because we endured four years of trumped-up (pun intended) claims of “Russian collusion” after the 2016 election, all despite the most Russia managed was some poorly followed meme pages.
China, however, wasn’t trying to sway the electorate. They were trying to simply pretend they were the electorate.
If any one vote was cast using these IDs, then we’ve got a problem because while I said it was besides the point, the fact that there was actual fraud despite us having been told for four years that we were insane for suggesting it tells you all you need to know.
Elections can only be stolen from Democrats, for one thing, and when one’s really stolen—by a foreign power, no less—then it’s just the will of the people.
Investigations need to be held. We need to know what all happened and if the Chinese government played a role in the 2020 elections.
Then it’s time to beef up voter integrity efforts even more to make sure no foreign power can ever try something like that ever again.
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Of course, that assumes that enough politicians are more worried about the possibility of vote fraud than are worried that they won't be able to commit it.
I did not see this coming. But I do suspect China unleashed COVID to screw up the U. S. under Trump. So I guess I should have seen other stuff from them.