Apparently, if the GOP candidate wins by a landslide in 2024, VP Harris can “overturn the election” under trumpian logic.
“He could have overturned the election.”
(2020)
According to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Trump lied to Mueller about conversations with Roger Stone about WikiLeaks, which is perjury.
According to the Senate Intelligence Committee report:
Trump, in written responses to the SCO, stated: “I do not recall discussing WikiLeaks with [Stone], nor do I recall being aware of Mr. Stone having discussed WikiLeaks with individuals associated with my campaign.”
Trump further claimed that he had “no recollection of the specifics of any conversations I had with Mr. Stone between June 1, 2016 and November 8, 2016.” Despite Trump’s recollection, the Committee assesses that Trump did, in fact, speak with Stone about WikiLeaks and with members of his Campaign about Stone’saccess to WikiLeaks on multiple occasions.
In other words, Trump committed perjury.
The evidence in the report is damning. While Russia was carrying out an operation to influence the 2016 election for Trump, the Trump campaign was working with Russia and WikiLeaks to use the Russian hacked emails against Hillary Clinton.
The reason why Trump remains obsessed with trying to make the Russia scandal vanish is that he is trying to run the same con on the American people in 2020. Trump wants overt foreign election meddling to help his campaign, and he also wants covert information from foreign governments that he can use against Joe Biden.
“I cannot believe I would ever hear this from somebody running for office or in office” in America, Leahy told Jim Acosta Sunday on CNN. He called it “definitely” a “threat” from someone acting like a “two-bit dictator.”
“I was a prosecutor for eight years,” Leahy noted. “To think that someone would run for a high office and say, ‘You can conduct any kind of criminal conduct you want. Don’t worry, if you’re doing it to support me, I’ll give you a pardon when I get there.’ As a prosecutor, I’d say: ‘This has to be somebody’s making this up. It couldn’t be real.’”
Leahy, who serves as president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, said he was in the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year when Trump supporters stormed the building and demanded that then-Vice President Mike Pence be hanged unless he upended Americans’ choice of Joe Biden as president.
“I look out and I see them putting a noose up to hang the vice president if he didn’t throw the election out,” Leahy chillingly recalled the day.
“I see people storming through, I could smell the tear gas ... And then seeing people say, ‘We’re doing this because Donald Trump told us to.’ This is not a democracy. This is something you’d see in a third-world nation with a two-bit dictator,” the senator added.
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