After my initial shock in realizing early on Election Day that Hillary was probably not going to win the election that everyone, even Republicans and the World had accepted as a foregone conclusion, I started racking my brain as to what could have gone wrong?
Why was everyone so wrong? Even the pollsters were wrong! And don't kid yourselves, even Trump’s campaign didn't believe they were going to win. All that talk of him “winning” was just hopeful bluster.
Two weeks before the election, Trump was declared as essentially a dead candidate. He was not even a dead man walking, he was already dead and buried. The pundits had switched the conversation to the future of Hillary’s administration and what that would look like and what she would be able to accomplish. More importantly, everyone had determined that her lead was such that it was just a matter of how many extra Senate seats the Democrats could win and House seats they would take away from Republicans.
So what happened to change course so dramatically in such a short amount of time right before Election Day?
Hillary was riding high during that time and finally really having a good time. She was within arms reach of making history again. Becoming the first woman President in our long history. Something she probably dreamed of and had worked very hard for with honor and distinction all of her adult life. And she paid a very heavy price for her service to our country and for her tenacity. She suffered at hands of those sexist, hateful, hypocritical, opponents only interested in destroying her for being a highly competent and qualified individual. To those people, protecting their own interests always came first and they went after with a vengeance. The attacks started decades ago.
How dare this female have the gall and ambition to reach for the stars. Doesn't she know it's a mans world? Who does she think she is? Well, we'll show her!
With each passing year, depending on whether the Republicans saw her as a political threat, their personal and political attacks grew more intense and more far- fetched. During the non-threatening periods, Republicans would highly praise her competency, temperament and judgment.
They were like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. They would switch from being civil and complimentary to pure evil in a split second as soon as they felt threatened by Hillary's achievements and accomplishments. Her strong wealth of knowledge on everything from domestic issues to foreign policy and ability to grasp complex matters easily and ability to remain calm under pressure were what they feared most. All qualities not only lacking in Trump, but in the whole of the entire Republican establishment, with very few exceptions. All that is left within the Republican establishment are a couple of good people of character like Sen. Flake from Arizona. But his experience and qualifications, or anyone else from either party, came even close to matching Hillary’s.
Despite the reckless, and horrible, baseless attacks from the right and left, she persevered and was considered the presumptive President by everyone. And she earned it. It would not have been handed to her as her enemies claimed.
That is why no one believed that Trump would actually win! So what happened to drastically change all that?
Two days before FBI Director COMEY sent his letter to Republicans about the alleged newly found emails, Rudy Giuliani was beside himself with anticipation because he already knew the FBI was going to leak this information.
Giuliani, who has repeatedly said that Hillary belonged behind bars and stood by Trump and defended even his sexual assault video confession, told Fox News that they had a couple of surprises up their sleeves and that they were not going down without a fight! When asked what they had planned, all he said, grinning from ear to ear, “You’ll see."
Two days later that following Friday, COMEY drops the bombshell letter which Rep. Chaffetz immediately leaked to the press and everything changed.
Hillary, who had been riding high and exuberant that the election was coming to an end and she could finally put Trump and his ugliness behind her and look forward to winning, she had the ground pulled out from under her. The intervention of the COMEY letter changed everything.
She was confronted with having to face new attacks on the fake email scandal of which she had already been exonerated. The letter which created more questions and left Hillary even more defenseless than before.
For nine crucial voting days, critical votes were happening. Trump went unhinged with his predictions and allegations against Hillary and what the FBI had found. All lies. Pundits and MSM were again discussing the email controversy, how it reminded voters of Hillary’s lack of “trustworthiness” and "lack of transparency.” Labels that she didn't earn, but were placed on her and concocted by Republican strategists and conservative media. MSM, being the rating whores they are, started using the same labels against Hillary and repeating the same lies and stories as the basis for these labels.
Republicans have created so many fake scandals that a multi million cottage industry grew out of attacking the Clinton's that continues to this day. How does one defend themselves when the greedy MSM is saying that the Clinton's have only themselves to blame because they have been surrounded by scandals of their own making? Really? They lose all credibility with such statements. This is why the COMEY letter was so devastating.
Giuliani was seen later denying that he had any personal involvement in or knowledge of the Comey letter being released. He was lying. He had repeatedly said before how he knew how there were FBI agents who were really unhappy with Comey’s decision not to charge or indict Hillary and that there was a revolt going on.
He went on radio claiming that he had talked to active FBI agents, whom he wouldn't identify for their own protection, as well as former FBI agents about how angry they were and how they had tried last year to get an investigation started on the Clinton Foundation based entirely on the “Clinton Cash” book and were rebuffed.
WTF! Why are FBI agents talking to Giuliani about any possible or ongoing investigations? Especially ones involving the woman who is running against his friend and whose campaign he was involved with?
We learn that there are pro-Trump FBI agents in the New York office and elsewhere who were leaking information to the Trump campaign since last year through Giuliani or other sources close to him.
Bottom line is that when Trump knew he had already lost the election two weeks before the election, they came up with this plan to get these pro-Trump FBI agents to leak the information about the newly found alleged Hillary emails in order to interfere with the election and damage Hillary enough to cost her the election.
They had discovered these alleged emails several weeks before the COMEY letter. It was not a coincidence that it came out just less than two weeks before the election.
By the time Comey’s second letter came out saying that they had found nothing to change their July decision, it was too late. The damage was done.
During this time pundits were brushing aside the significance of the effect this was having on Hillary’s campaign. Everyone was basically saying that the damage would be minimal if any. Even though her poll numbers had dramatically dropped and Trump was miraculously resurrected, they kept saying the polls tightening was just part of the norm towards the end of every election.
Really? Trump had been declared dead and buried and now the polls tightening in his favor were said to “normal".
Nothing was normal about this entire election. Why hasn't anyone said what I recognized immediately, that Donald Trump Stole the Election with the help of the FBI and Giuliani.
Why aren't Democrats demanding a halt to Trump's ill-gotten presidency?
Why aren't they demanding an immediate investigation of the FBI and Giuliani to discover how deep this went and who the players were?
Willfully interfering with an Presidential election to change the results should be repudiated and should be punished under the law.
Hillary and the American people were cheated out of their rightful duly elected Presidency. She won the popular vote. Hillary is the rightful, legitimate President of the United States.
We should demand that she and we, who voted for her, be made whole again. That Trump, who defrauded the voters and stole the election, has unclean hands, and must forfeit the electoral votes to Hillary
Trump should not be allowed to get away with stealing the election! Why is no one going after him and Giuliani?
Where are the Democrats? This a travesty beyond anything I have ever seen.
Chris Hayes showed the percentages last night that clearly proved that Comey's letter did in fact change the course of the election.
So what are the Democrats and we going to do about it?
Repeat the Mantra!
Trump Stole The Election!
until it sticks!