by Sharon Rondeau
(Aug. 29, 2022) – Late Monday morning, 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump offered his reaction and what he sees as possible solutions to the outcome of the 2020 election stemming from, as he sees it, the FBI’s reported reticence to launch an investigation of material found on an abandoned laptop computer belonging to Hunter Biden, son of then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, in the weeks leading up to the election.
According to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) in an August 23 letter to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, “Whistleblowers have recently contacted my office to share serious concerns about the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop. These new allegations provide even more evidence of FBI corruption and renew calls for you to take immediate steps to investigate the FBI’s actions regarding the laptop.”
In September 2020, as respective leaders of two Senate committees, Johnson and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) published an 87-page report detailing their probe of Hunter Biden’s business transactions with Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Ukraine occurring when his father, Joe Biden, was the sitting vice president. After presenting the evidence they had gathered showing dealings linked to the Chinese Communist Party and other questionable associations with the younger Biden and his associates, the senators concluded:
The records acquired by the Committees also show that Hunter Biden and his family were involved in a vast financial network that connected them to foreign nationals and foreign governments across the globe. Hunter Biden and Devon Archer, in particular, formed significant and consistent financial relationships with the corrupt oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky during their time working for Burisma, and their firms made millions of dollars from that association while Joe Biden was vice president and the public face of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy. Rosemont Seneca Thornton, an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden, received $3.5 million in a wire transfer from Elena Baturina, who allegedly received illegal construction contracts from her husband, the then-mayor of Moscow. Moreover, Archer’s apparent receipt of money for a car from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan while Vice President Biden was in Kyiv is especially concerning in light of the timing. And finally, Biden and Archer’s work with Chinese nationals connected to the Communist regime illustrate the deep financial connections that accelerated while Joe Biden was vice president and continued after he left office.
A supplement to the September report published two months later states that new documents received by the chairmen “confirm the connections between the Biden family and the communist Chinese government, as well as the links between Hunter Biden’s business
associates and the Russian government, and further support the Committees’ September 23, 2020 report’s finding that such relationships created counterintelligence and extortion concerns” (p. 5).
As Meta/Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to podcaster Joe Rogan last week, not long before the 2020 presidential election, Facebook received a warning from the FBI that “Russian propaganda” was about to be unleashed and to “be vigilant” about it.
While Zuckerberg defended the platform for refraining from complete censorship of the story, he admitted to a “meaningful” number of users having consequently missed the headline because of Facebook’s downward ranking while the story’s claims were purportedly “fact-checked.”
Weighing in after Zuckerberg’s interview was Meta “Newsroom,” which stated that the FBI did not specify that the alleged “disinformation” would encompass Hunter Biden.
In a letter after The New York Post broke its first story about the laptop in October 2020, 51 former intelligence officials, including Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, deemed it a likely “Russian information operation,” a label which proved erroneous at best and deceptive at worst.
The Post is the oldest continuously-issued newspaper in the country, launched by Alexander Hamilton in 1801.
“Perhaps most important, each of us believes deeply that American citizens should determine the outcome of elections, not foreign governments,” the intelligence officials wrote. “All of us agree with the founding fathers’ concern about the damage that foreign interference in our politics can do to our democracy.”
Twitter completely censored The Post‘s reporting by immediately suspending its account for 16 days.
Trump has long claimed he won the 2020 election but that massive fraud and corrupt public officials served to usher Joe Biden into the White House.
“So now it comes out, conclusively, that the FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION knowing that, if they didn’t, ‘Trump would have easily won the 2020 Presidential Election,'” Trump wrote on his TruthSocial website Monday. “This is massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before in our Country.”
As a “remedy” for the issue, he asserted, “Declare the rightful winner or, and this would be the minimal solution, declare the 2020 Election irreparably compromised and have a new Election, immediately!”
On August 26, The Post reported:
Nearly four of five Americans who’ve been following the Hunter Biden laptop scandal believe that “truthful” coverage would have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to a new poll.
A similar percentage also said they’re convinced that information on the computer is real, with just 11% saying they thought it was “created by Russia,” according to the survey conducted by the New Jersey-based Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics.
And an even higher number — 81% — said US Attorney General Merrick Garland should appoint a special counsel to investigate matters related to the first son’s infamous laptop, the existence of which was exclusively revealed by The Post in October 2020.
Post columnist Miranda Devine, who wrote a book on the Hunter Biden laptop titled, “Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide,” reported Sunday that the paper contacted Zuckerberg following his interview with Rogan to ask:
Since our story had nothing to do with Russian disinformation, what made Facebook think it was the “dump” the FBI warned them about? We asked Facebook: “Was there mention made in the FBI briefing of Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Ukraine or a laptop?”
In response, Devine reported Facebook said, “The FBI shared general warnings about foreign interference — nothing specific about Hunter Biden.”
“The FBI’s involvement in the censorship amounted to election interference, and as we have learned since from whistleblowers, the interference by a cabal of FBI agents to suppress derogatory information about the Biden family extended well beyond The Post’s story,” Devine further wrote.
On Friday, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI), John Ratcliffe, told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host Tucker Carlson that in his view, “the context of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about the FBI warning him about Hunter Biden’s laptop purportedly being Russian propaganda – which led to reduced reach for the story – amounted to 2020 election interference by the bureau.”
During the 2020 election cycle, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave more than $350 million from their foundation to two non-profits, which distributed it to elections offices allegedly to promote “safe voting” in the wake of the declared COVID-19 pandemic.
Those funds went primarily to large urban voting centers such as Fulton County, GA and Philadelphia, PA, according to former Kansas attorney general Phill Kline, who gave a December 1, 2020 press conference on the evidence his organization, Amistad Project, assembled for approximately 18 months before and in the wake of the 2020 election.
In an editorial at The Washington Examiner dated October 21, 2020, Kline wrote:
Zuckerberg claims he is trying to make sure every American voter is able to vote in a safe environment and to turn out every vote. Yet, the funds are not going to every voter. The funds overwhelmingly are directed to turning out one kind of voter — Hillary Clinton voters living in battleground states whom CTCL expects will vote overwhelmingly for Joe Biden.
…Moreover, these funds are being used, as directed by CTCL, in ways that many people argue violate state election laws. In Philadelphia, for instance, the funds are creating mobile ballot pick-up units and drop boxes that many county election officials state are contrary to the state laws prohibiting ballot harvesting. The funds are creating a dramatic disparate impact on the government use of election monies.
As an example, the Wisconsin state legislature provided roughly $7 per voter to Green Bay to manage its 2020 elections. Rural counties in Wisconsin received approximately $4 per voter. Now, with Zuckerberg monies, Green Bay has $47 per voter to manage the election and turn out the vote, while most rural areas still have the same $4 per voter.
In Wisconsin, “Zuckerbucks” were concentrated in five cities, an issue highlighted in a March 1, 2022 special-counsel report on violations identified in the 2020 election. At the time, Special Counsel Michael Gableman, whose work was heavily criticized by both legislative Democrats and some Republicans, recommended that Speaker of the House Robin Vos explore the possibility of decertifying Wisconsin’s slate of electors sent to the Electoral College on December 14, 2020 casting their votes for Biden.
In early July, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the use of outside ballot drop-boxes, established for the first time as a result of the pandemic, are illegal in the state.
According to Fredreka Schouten of CNN on August 28, 2021, “Private funding was key in some 2020 elections.” At the same time, she decried that 12 states had banned the practice. That number has grown to 24, according to Capital Research Center as of August 18, 2022. CRC further reported:
Private financing of government election offices under the guise of COVID-19 relief skewed voter turnout in the 2020 election and may have tipped the presidential election to Joe Biden.
The chief culprit was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who poured $350 million into one sleepy nonprofit, the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). CTCL then distributed grants to hundreds of county and city elections officials in 47 states and the District of Columbia.
Despite its claims that the grants were strictly for COVID-19 relief, not partisan advantage, the data show otherwise. CRC research into grants distributed in key states—Arizona and Nevada, Texas, Michigan and Wisconsin, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Georgia—has documented their partisan effects. We have also catalogued our major findings at InfluenceWatch.
On November 12, 2020, a Rasmussen/JusttheNews poll found that “Less than half of all respondents — 49% — believe Joe Biden legitimately won the race, while 34% said they believe Trump won the election, and 16% said they are not sure who really won.”
However, two days prior, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that “Nearly 80% of Americans, including more than half of Republicans, recognize President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the Nov. 3 election after most media organizations called the race for the Democrat based on his leads in critical battleground states.”
In December 2021, a YouGov poll conducted by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst reported that 46% of respondents said they believed that Biden was legitimately elected.
On June 20 of this year, the Texas Republican Party declared:
We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States. We strongly urge all Republicans to work to ensure election integrity and to show up to vote in November of 2022, bring your friends and family, volunteer for your local Republicans, and overwhelm any possible fraud.
On July 1, the Langland County, WI Republican Party resolved that it “formally rejects the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States” because “substantial election fraud in key metropolitan areas significantly affected the results in five key states in favor of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.”
On August 1, the Washoe, NV Republican Party passed a resolution stating, ““We hold that acting president Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.”
On August 20, CBS News reported that, “More than half of GOP governor nominees have questioned or denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election.”
Thus far, Trump’s above remarks are his sole post today.
“Remedy for FBI election interference.” First of all, “election interference” sounds to me like an understatement. Politically correct wokeness at its best? The fact of the matter is that CRIMES UP TO AND INCLUDING TREASON were involved in the stealing of the 2020 presidential election. The remedy, in my opinion, is to DRAIN THE SWAMP (starting with the FBI and CIA) and CLEAN HOUSE! Somehow, the US Supreme Court should get involved, but, alas, that is unlikely, and if they did become involved, the end results would probably be middle-of-the-road and not worth the trouble! I’ve been saying for several years now that I (and all lawful voters) have been, for all intents and purposes, DISENFRANCHISED! Let’ s use the 2020 election for an example of what I’m talking about. NO MATTER HOW, OR FOR WHOM, YOU VOTED, YOUR VOTE WAS NOT CAST AND COUNTED FREELY AND FAIRLY. To wit, Donald Trump undoubtedly had the election stolen from him. And, as for those of you who voted for Joe “Hunker-Down-in-The-Basement” Biden, he may have been declared the winner and sworn into office, but SOMEONE ELSE OR GROUP (whom you did NOT vote for!) IS IN REALITY PERFORMING THE DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENCY! Do you know who that is? Who it is whom you did NOT vote for, but TURNED OUT TO BE THE ONE MAKING POLICY AND ACTUALLY RUNNING OUR COUNTRY BEHIND THE SCENES. That is what I call being disenfranchised. That is being the victim of TREASON. Tell me I’m wrong (and why I’m wrong) if you can! Tom Arnold.
Forgive my ignorance, but what are the functions of the government’s FEC (Federal Elections Commission)? Whatever and no matter what they are, their job performance sucks! One would think that they should be overseeing elections and that there should be some established verifiable rules and regulations concerning ALL ASPECTS of elections (not just pertaining to financial matters). Violations, if criminal in nature, should be referred to an appropriate law enforcement agency (assuming that there is such a federal agency which is apolitical, objective, and staffed by honest hardworking public servants!). Good luck, America, or what’s left of it, in future elections. Although, I do not rule out the possibility that we have seen the end (or soon will) of free and fair elections. Wouldn’t that mean that our form of government, too, will be gone and replaced by something like an autocracy or dictatorship? Sit tight my future Komrades! Or, as Barack HUSSEIN Obama himself might say, “FORGE” ahead!
EVERYONE with an IQ in positive numbers knows the election was a 3rd world banana state sham, perpetrated by the devildemocommiecrat party, hitlery clinton, the dnc, rnc, deep state gop establishment, Pravda/Goebbels fake news propagandists, and big tech!!!!! Many know it but lie to continue the cover-up of TREASON by all of the listed parties!!!!! I doubt that anything will ever be done to correct it because the demon possessed people running things got what they wanted!!!!!!!!!!