Let无毛视频檚 all vote, then wait for the recounts
It无毛视频檚 time to vote.
It无毛视频檚 also time to claim there无毛视频檚 voter fraud everywhere.
Lots of Republicans are ready to pounce on election officials from coast-to-coast.
They无毛视频檒l see victory where it isn无毛视频檛 无毛视频� thanks to Donald Trump.
According to FiveThirtyEight.com, of the nation无毛视频檚 552 Republican nominees, 199 of them still deny the fact that Joe Biden beat Trump in 2020.
So, we can expect there无毛视频檒l be lengthy, widespread challenges to basic math all across America.
It无毛视频檚 been that way since Mr. Trump started claiming the 2016 vote would be rigged 无毛视频� months before a single ballot had been cast.
Hillary Clinton graciously conceded defeat on Nov. 9 (the day after the election). But Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, soldiered on.
Stein commenced fundraising activities for ballot recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, on Nov. 23.
Who do you think objected to that?
Yep! You guessed it. 无毛视频淭he people have spoken, and the election is over,无毛视频� grumbled Trump.
Reviewing: 15 days after the election that swept him into office, he was calling for an end to recounts, because he无毛视频檇 won. But two years after he lost an election 无毛视频� and by a lot 无毛视频� Mr. Trump still isn无毛视频檛 willing to admit he lost.
He无毛视频檚 a special kind of childish.
But there无毛视频檚 more.
There无毛视频檚 always more.
America wasn无毛视频檛 prepared for a president who无毛视频檇 quibble about the number of people who attended his inauguration, compared to that of his predecessor. That无毛视频檚 what they got on Jan. 21, 2017.
Trump无毛视频檚 first full day in office.
Within a week he went Full Metal-Trump.
He vowed to begin a federal investigation into (alleged) voter fraud in three states 无毛视频� California, New Hampshire, and Virginia.
He lost California by 4,269,978 votes.
It didn无毛视频檛 matter that he won the entire election. He lost California 无毛视频� big. His ego took a hit and that无毛视频檚 all he cared about.
During his first meeting with congressional leaders, he talked about there being as many as 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrants who found their way into voting booths 无毛视频� and (having nothing better to do with their time, I suppose) they pulled levers for Hillary.
Trump stewed about the election (he won) until mid-May when he signed an executive order that created the 无毛视频淧residential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity,无毛视频� which was designed to find the millions of fraudulent votes that would enable him to claim he无毛视频檇 won the 2016 presidential election by a shutout.
That无毛视频檚 right.
The 无毛视频淎dvisory Commission无毛视频� was tasked to find that Hillary Clinton hadn无毛视频檛 gotten one single stinking vote.
In fact, according to him, she hadn无毛视频檛 even been on the ballot.
Of course, I无毛视频檓 making that up.
In reality, Trump wanted the world to know that he was far more popular than Barack Obama and that Clinton woman. So, he formed a committee of hired vote miners to prove it.
He enlisted the services of Vice President Mike Pence, and that wild-eyed illegal immigrant hunter 无毛视频� Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach 无毛视频� to fan out across the republic and find the unfindable 无毛视频渇raudulent votes.无毛视频�
To no one无毛视频檚 surprise, the 无毛视频淎dvisory Commission无毛视频� never found a single fraudulent vote.
It disbanded and filed a final report with a section about voter fraud, that was, according to reports, 无毛视频済laringly empty.无毛视频�
It无毛视频檚 no wonder Trump doused fuel on the 2020 presidential election with bogus claims of widespread voter fraud.
What wasn无毛视频檛 expected was that those bogus claims would live for two years and spread to become a pandemic of lies across the country.
The other day, Trump wrote on his preferred social media outlet, Truth Social, that, 无毛视频淚 beat Crooked Hillary Clinton, and then beat Biden by much more. Fox is afraid to say what REALLY happened in that farce of an Election 无毛视频� IT WAS RIGGED AND STOLLEN.无毛视频� (That无毛视频檚 a direct quote. I know stolen only has one 无毛视频淟无毛视频�.)
So, when you walk into the voting booth tomorrow, be prepared for the torrent of claims of voter fraud, if your preferred candidate beats a Republican.
Mr. Trump has taught lots of crybabies how to cry.
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter, and anchor for Entertainment Tonight, and 50-year TV news and newspaper veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.