by Sharon Rondeau
(Jun. 14, 2022) — As reported by RSBNetwork and GETTR on Tuesday, 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump on Monday issued a 12-page statement in response to two public hearings held on Thursday evening and Monday, respectively, by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
The full statement can be read here and expounds on significantly more than just the committee’s recent activity for which a former ABC News president and producer is “helping the committee with the planning of the hearings and their presentation,” according to CNN.
Trump’s first several paragraphs express his view that the nation is undergoing an economic downturn and has lost its stature in the world as compared to when he was in office. “Our nation is SUFFERING,” he wrote. “Our economy is in the gutter. Inflation is rampant. Gas prices have reached an all-time high. Ships are unable to unload cargo. Families cannot get needed baby formula. We are an embarrassment around the world. Our withdrawal from Afghanistan was a disaster that cost us precious American blood, and gave $85 billion worth of the best military equipment on earth to our enemy.”
He then faulted the Biden regime for an uncontrolled southern border, “a White House in shambles,” and what Trump believes is the Democrats’ efforts “to change the narrative of a failing nation” in which people have become “desperate.”
“Rather than solving problems, Democrats are rehashing history in hopes of changing
the narrative,” Trump concluded his opening thoughts before segueing into the committee’s work more directly. “During my time in office, our nation was thriving, our economy was strong, and the price of gas was very low. Above all else, we were respected, perhaps like never before. America prospered under the Trump Administration,” he wrote.
As for “the sham investigation” of the Select Committee, Trump opined that “The January 6th Unselect Committee is disgracing everything we hold sacred about our Constitution. If they had any real evidence, they’d hold real hearings with equal representation. They don’t, so they use the illegally-constituted committee to put on a smoke and mirrors show for the American people, in a pitiful last-ditch effort to deceive the American public…again.”
Further, he contended, “Our Constitution protects the right to confront accusers, honors the right to fair trials, and holds the right to legal representation as paramount in our justice system. Equal representation and the opportunity to offer rebuttal evidence is fundamental in our legal process. The Committee has obliterated those rights and is making a mockery of justice. They have refused to allow their political opponents to participate in this process, and have excluded all exculpatory witnesses, and anyone who so easily points out the flaws in their story.”
Launching into a recap of the events of November 3, 2020 and afterward from his vantage point, Trump wrote:
On Election Night, America watched as my lead grew and grew over Joe Biden, as I was
set to claim another victory. By the morning of November 4th, the day after the Election, I led by 700,000 votes in Pennsylvania,1 300,000 in Michigan,2 and hundreds of thousands in Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin.3 Then, the same “little dictators” who destroyed the separation of powers made the treasonous decision to stop counting.4 These same states, who had counted millions of ballots in a single day, had to stop counting in order to count a few hundred thousand ballots over the next four days to call the race on November 7th.5
On page 3, Trump referenced the work of the non-profit election-integrity organization TruetheVote in obtaining massive amounts of cellphone geotracking data and sharing it with commentator Dinesh D’Souza to produce the documentary, “2000 Mules,” which refers to alleged ballot-traffickers in six key swing states, according to the film. “True the Vote and local law enforcement have the video surveillance showing the mules dropping many ballots into the drop box, which confirms the geo-fencing data that [TTV founder Catherine] Engelbrecht and [election analyst Gregg] Phillips had gathered,” Trump wrote. “This is the same surveillance evidence that the FBI has used to identify January 6th protestors.9 In fact, the FBI has used this same type of evidence in 45 of the criminal cases against January 6th protestors.10“
Quoting Biden’s assertion in late October 2020 that “we” had assembled “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,”12 Trump credited “the Swamp” with scheming to defraud him of a second term.
Extrapolating from numbers provided in “2000 Mules,” Trump theorized that ballot-trafficking could have been more widespread than the film hypothesized. “Looking at just the known traffickers Engelbrecht and Phillips identified, the 2000 mules, we know they averaged 38 drop box visits averaging five ballots per box.13 That totals 380,000 illegal ballots inserted into the Election via the drop boxes. We also know they targeted specific counties in order to impact the outcome of the Election. Many of those counties were separated by only a few thousand votes…What if True the Vote’s criteria to identify the mules was too conservative? Rather than using the requirement to identify someone who went to 10 drop boxes with five or more visits to the liberal nonprofits, what if they looked for people who went to five drop boxes? It’s highly unlikely that anyone would need to go to five drop boxes while also visiting nonprofits in the same time span. The data is astonishing! Rather than 2000 mules, the number jumps to 54,000 mules!21” (pp. 5-6)
“Joe Biden, a candidate who never left his basement and can’t speak without a teleprompter, outperformed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in their two high-charged elections,30″ Trump wrote of the reported results on page 7. “Biden even outperformed Obama in black communities, but only in important swing states. Isn’t that amazing? It’s impossible.”
On the following page, he discussed the role Meta CEO and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to have played in the election. Quoting from a 136-page “second interim investigative report” on 2020 election irregularities written by Wisconsin Special Counsel Michael Gableman, Trump wrote, “Mark Zuckerberg contributed $419 million dollars to election initiatives around the country.40 Supposedly, the money was used to make elections safer as a result of the China Virus (COVID-19). However, the money was not primarily used for China Virus protection, although some did go for that purpose. For example, in Wisconsin, the money was conditioned upon the five largest counties adopting a Democrat only initiative of the Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan (WSVP).41 The five key counties, Milwaukee, Kenosha, Madison, Racine, and Green Bay, became known as the ‘Zuckerberg 5.’”42
“Based on the Special Counsel’s report, liberal nonprofits funded by Zuckerberg – who
was also trying to control the election narrative on his social media platforms – lied to the public about the real use of their money,” Trump continued. “Why would they need to lie if they weren’t doing anything wrong? Because they were doing something wrong and they knew it. They knew the money was conditioned upon their ability to control the election process…According to Wisconsin’s Special Counsel, the money was intended to impact in-person and absentee voting, which would have a direct impact on the outcome of the Election.47 Also, according to Wisconsin’s Special Counsel – that’s bribery. Zuckerberg should be criminally prosecuted. Election laws prevent individuals from donating more than $5,000 per year,48 yet Zuckerberg gave $419 million.”
On pages 10 and 11, Trump reviewed several legal actions his team and others took to challenge the reported results in certain counties and states, including the multi-state case, Texas v. Pennsylvania, which the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear. “Judges, including Justices of the United States Supreme Court, were scared,” Trump contended. “Some were political hacks who refused to be the sole arbiter of such a strong political issue. It was liberal fearmongering. Rumors circulated that the Justices devolved to shouting and argued intensely over how to handle the Texas v. Pennsylvania case.51 Ultimately, the Justices yielded to the same fear mongering tactics Democrats had deployed for years. They punted and threw the case out on standing. Following their lead, every lower court threw the cases out on standing, and usually without barely even looking at them.”
The final page of the missive expresses Trump’s stance on the country’s current political climate as well as reiterating difficulties average Americans have experienced in buying life’s necessities. “The Establishment is holding on as tightly as they can to their power as they watch it slip from their grasp,” Trump wrote. “Our country is in a nosedive. Americans are struggling to fill their gas tanks, feed their babies, educate their children, hire employees, order supplies, protect our border from invasion, and a host of other tragedies that are 100% caused by Democrats who obtained power through a rigged election, and the people of our country are both angry and sad.”
Returning to the subject of election fraud, Trump wrote that the declared outcome of the 2020 election, “the Crime of the Century,” “is merely an attempt to stop a man that is leading in every poll, against both Republicans and Democrats by wide margins, from running again for the Presidency.”
“The reason I am leading in the polls,” he claimed, “is because Democrats have caused record inflation, sky high gas prices, energy dependence on our adversaries, the education system is in crisis, illegal aliens are invading our border, the supply chain has crippled our way of life, parents can’t get baby formula, mandates have crippled businesses, and our way of life has been crushed by government regulations. The United States is being destroyed.”
He concluded with, “The Democrats know that I would correct all of this, and they are doing everything in their power to stop me – but we can’t be stopped. We have to Save America.”