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2020 Presidential election The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was  is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system. Liz Cheney, 10:27 AM – May 3, 202 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Also at 2:24 p.m., knowing the riot was underway and that Vice President Pence was  at the Capitol, President Trump sent this tweet: Mike Pence didn't have have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth! Evidence shows that the 2:24 p.m. tweet immediately precipitated further violence at the Capitol. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The American psyche has not recognised we were one vice-president away from a coup. Jay Inslee © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election An honorable man receiving the information and advice that Mr.Trump received from his campaign experts and his staff — a man who loved his country more than himself — would have conceded this election. Indeed, we know that a number of President Trump's closest aides urged him to do so. Liz Cheney, June 16, 2022, during the third public hearing of the  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  3.  As an incumbent unbounded by norms, President Trump has a huge advantage. Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition, a report by the Transition Integrity Project © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election As we near the anniversary of January 6, investigators are still unearthing the roots of the insurrection that sacked the Capitol and sent members of Congress fleeing for their lives. What we know already, and could not have known then, is that the chaos wrought on that day was integral to a coherent plan. In retrospect, the insurrection takes on the aspect of rehearsal. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, January/February 2022 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election At first he feared Joe Biden, then he thought he was a joke, and then the joke was on him.  Olivia Nuzzi, New York, November 6, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election At some point after 3:05 p.m. that afternoon, President Trump's Chief of Staff — and President Trump himself — were informed that someone was shot. That person was Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot at 2:44 p.m. as she and other rioters tried to gain access to the House chamber. There is no indication that this affected the President's state of mind that day, and we found no evidence that the President expressed any remorse that day. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  At some point, people at the Justice Department, perhaps that prosecutor in Atlanta, are going to have to make a determination about whether or not they want to indict Donald Trump [for his role in the January 6, 2021 insurection]. … Well, I think there's going to be sufficient factual information. And I think that there's going to be sufficient proof of intent. And then the question becomes, what's the impact of — of such an indictment? My initial thought was not to indict the the former president out of concern of what — how divisive it would be. But given what we have learned, I think that he probably has to be held accountable. Eric Holder, on “Face the Nation,” May 8, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Because they promise to be an event, the Jan. 6 hearings give Biden a chance to take another approach: to fan emotion and use conflict, not conciliation, to make his case. There are no guarantees of success, but at the very least, both he and the Democratic Party have a chance to seize the initiative. They should take it. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, June 10, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Biden-voting counties in 2020 accounted for 70 percent of the national GDP. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election But if we re-elect him, knowing what a norm-destroying, divisive, corrupt liar he is, then the world will not treat the last four years as an aberration. It will treat them as an affirmation that w've changed. The world will not just look at America differently, but at Americans  differently. And with good reason. Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, October 29, 2020 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Chance of a Biden Electoral college win if he wins the popular vote by X points: 0-1 points: just 6%! 1-2 points: 22% 2-3 points: 46% 3-4 points: 74% 4-5 points: 89% 5-6 points: 98% 6-7 points: 99% Nate Silver, 12:11 PM - Sep 2, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The committee understood that for people who care about January 6 — for people to take an interest in the  greatest coup attempt in American history — the violence and treason had to be translated into that universal American language: a good show. Megan Garber, The Atlantic, March 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The Committee's principal concern was that the President actually intended to participate personally in the January 6th efforts at the Capitol, leading the attempt to overturn the election either from inside the House Chamber, from a stage outside the Capitol, or otherwise. The Committee regarded these facts as important because they are relevant to President Trump's intent on January 6th. There is no question from all the evidence assembled that President Trump did have that intent. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The Defendant's conspiracy to impair, obstruct, and defeat the federal government function through dishonesty, fraud, and deceit included the following manner and means: … false claims of election fraud … fraudulent slates of electors in seven targeted states … attemted to use the power and authority of the Justice  Department to conduct sham election crime inves- tigations and to send a letter to the targeted states that falsely claimed that the Justice Department had identified significant concerns  that may have impacted the election outcome … attempted to enlist the Vice President to use his ceremonial role at the January 6 certification proceeding to fraudulently alter the election re-  sults … convince Members of Congress to further delay the certification based on those claims United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election [Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony] Ornato had access to intelligence that suggested violence at the Capitol on January 6th, and it was his job to inform [Chief of Staff Mark] Meadows and Trump of that. Although Ornato told us that he did not recall doing so, the Select Committee found multiple parts of Ornato's testimony questionable.  The Select Committee finds it difficult to believe that neither Meadows nor Ornato told Trump,  as was their job, about the intelligence that was emerging as the January 6th rally approached. … By the time President Trump was preparing to give his speech, he and his advisors knew enough to cancel the rally. And he certainly knew enough to cancel any plans for a march to the Capitol. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The Deputy White House Counsel reiterated to Co-Conspirator 4 [Jeffrey Clark] that there had not been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that if the Defendant remained in office nonetheless, there would be “riots in every major city in the United States.” Co-Conspirator 4 responded, “Well, [Deputy White House Counsel], that’s why there’s an Insurrection Act [which Trump would use to deploy armed miiitary forces against civilian protesters].” United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Despite recognizing prior to the 2020 election that the Vice President had no power to refuse to count certain electoral votes, [John] Eastman nevertheless drafted memoranda 2 months later proposing that Pence could do exactly that on January 6th — refuse to count certified electoral votes from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. … Even after Eastman proposed his theories in December and January memoranda he acknowledged in conversations with Vice President Pence's counsel Greg Jacobs that Pence could not lawfully do what his own memornda proposed [by telling Jacobs] “he would lose 9-0 at the Supreme Court.” January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting portions of Congress's January 6 Report into evidence at trial. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The district court did not err in concluding that the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, constituted an “insurrection.” The district court did not err in concluding that President Trump “engaged in” that insurrection through his personal actions. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Fee-fi-fo-fum, Jack stalks Trump to see if he did something dumb. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Novwember 19, 2022, on the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate Trump's role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol and in taking classifed documents to Mar-a-Lago © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Get rid of the [mail-in] ballots and we'll have a very peaceful — there won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a continuation. Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that, if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. Michael Cohen © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election How did President Trump continue to make false allegatons despite all this unequivocal information? Trump sought out those who were not scrupulous with the facts, and were willing to be dishonest. He found a new legal team to assert claims that  his existing advisors and the Justice Department had specifically informed him were false. President Trump's new legal team, headed by Rudolph Giuliani, and their allies ultimately lost  dozens of lawsuits in Federal and state courts. … Indeed, eleven of the judges who ruled against  Donald Trump and his supporters were appointed  by Donald Trump himself. … Not a single witness — nor any combination of witnesses — provided  the Committee with evidence demonstrating that fraud occurred on a scale even remotely close to changing the outcome in any state. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election How did President Trump continue to make false allegatons despite all this unequivocal information? Trump sought out those who were not scrupulous with the facts, and were willing to be dishonest. He found a new legal team to assert claims that  his existing advisors and the Justice Department had specifically informed him were false. President Trump's new legal team, headed by Rudolph Giuliani, and their allies ultimately lost  dozens of lawsuits in Federal and state courts. … Indeed, eleven of the judges who ruled against  Donald Trump and his supporters were appointed  by Donald Trump himself. … Not a single witness — nor any combination of witnesses — provided  the Committee with evidence demonstrating that fraud occurred on a scale even remotely close to changing the outcome in any state. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election I don't fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in. Take the fucking mags away. Donald Trump, on January 6, 2021, in the tent before going on stage to speak at his rally in the Ellipse park between the White House and Constitution Avenue, angry at learning the park was half empty because many supporters refused to enter it after learning that Secret Service agents were scanning for weapons using magnetometers and confiscating those they found © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election I hope he comes. I want to punch him out. This is my moment. I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I want to punch him out, and I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy. Nancy Pelosi, January 6, 2021, while sequestered underground and after being told the Secret Service dissuaded Trump from going to the Capitol to personally lead the insurrection © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election I said, “Mike, you have a chance to be Thomas Jefferson or you can be Mike Pence.” He chose to be Mike Pence.  Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election I was somewhat demoralized because I thought, boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has, you know, lost contact with — detached from reality. … There was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. William Barr, testimony presented to the Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the United States Capitol concerning Trump's professed belief in allegations of widespread voter fraud and vote flipping by machines from Dominion Voting Systems, which Barr called “bullshit”  © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election If the Republicans don't win in this election, I think we are officially at the end of the country as we know it. We may not survive even if we win, but we definitely don't if the Republicans lose with Donald Trump. Glenn Beck © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In addition to this plan to create and transmit fake electoral slates, Donald trump as also personally and substantially involved in multiple efforts to pressure State election officias and State legislatures to alter official lawful election results. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In perhaps the most chilling moment of the hearing, Cheney spoke of former White House officials' testimony about Trump's bloodthirstiness toward his own vice president. “Aware of the rioters' chants to hang Mike Pence, the president responded with this sentiment, quote, ‘Maybe our supporters have the right idea.’ Mike Pence, quote, ‘deserves it.’” Dana Milbank, Washington Post, June 9 2022, on the opening public hearing of the  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In short, you were at the center of the first and only effort by any U.S. President to overturnn an election and obstruct the peaceful transfer of power, ultimately culminating in a bloody attack on our own Capitol and on Congress itself. The evidence demonstrates that you knew this activity was illegal and unconstitutional, and also knew that your assertions of fraud were false. But to be clear, even if you now claim that you actually believed your own false election claims, that is not a defense; your subjective belief could not render this conduct justified, execusable, or legal. Subpoena to Trump from the Select Committee © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In the committee's hearings, we presented evidence of what ultimately became a multi-part plan to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. That evidence has led to an overriding and straight-forward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The insurrection may be over, but the plot to steal the presidency is intact. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, June 10, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Intelligence gathered in advance of January 6th did not suggest a conclusion that Antifa or other left-wing groups would likely engage in violent counter-demonstrations or attack Trump supporters on January 6th. Indeed, intelligence from January 5th indicated that some left-wing groups were instructing their members to “stay at home” and not attend on January 6th. Ultimately, none of these groups were involved in any material extent with the attack on the Capitol on January 6th. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary, 14th of 17 “specific findings” © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election It is almost impossible for Mr Trump to disappoint people. They never had hopes to dash. … Many others never believed that he or anyone else could, in that tellingly vague aspiration, make America great again. Their vote was more a howl against perceived national decline than a calculated attempt to arrest it. They are not standing over his shoulder with key performance indicators. That would imply some hope in the first place. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, January 1, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election It'll end up being a rigged election or  they will never come out with an outcome. They'll have to do it again and nobody wants that and I don’t want that. Donald Trump bullshitting about mail-in voting to discredit the election in case he loses © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election It may be beyond the imagination of Americans to accept that their system is in jeopardy.  Countries with radically different histories, such as South Korea, find it much easier. But the facts are staring the US in the face. What happened on January 6 has so far gone unpunished, which means it is likely to be tried again. Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 16, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric. To lower the temperature. To see each other again. To listen to each other again. To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy. We are not enemies. We are Americans. Joe Biden, acceptance speech, November 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election A joint statement [Sen. Ted] Cruz issued about the senators' challenge to the vote nicely captured the post-truth aspect of the whole: It never alleged that there was fraud, only that there were allegations of fraud. Allegations of allegations, allegations all the way down. Timothy Snyder, New York Times, January 9, 2021 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Just say we won. Rudy Giuliani's advice to Donald Trump, long before votes had been counted or winners announced in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Let's have a trial by combat. Rudy Giuliani, speaking at the Save America rally, January 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election MAGA LESS MEGA Drudge Report headline for an article about Trump's June 19, 2020, rally in Tulsa to re-launch his reelection bid that attracted a mere 6,200 supporters instead of the million Trump announced © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Martha, come up just fast! Fast! Fast! Come on. Quick! You got one minute! One minute, Martha! They don't want to hear this, Martha. Come on. Let's go. Quick, quick, quick, quick. Come on. Let's go! Donald Trump, commanding hitherto sycophantic Arizona Republican Senator Martha McSally, behind in the polls and a woman, to join him on the stage at his October 28, 2020, rally in Goodyear, Arizona, to laughing rally goers  © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Mr Trump has been backed by 15 CEOs of companies in the S&P 500 index, including Jeffrey Sprecher of Intercontinental Exchange, Steven Roth of the property group Vornado and Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas Sands casino magnate who has poured $180m into the Republicans' 2020 war chest. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Financial Times, October 30. 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Next time we'll come back with rifles. And that’s not an idle threat. A Trump supporter carrying a wooden bat who was barricaded by DC police away from the Capitol building near the Reflecting Pool, quoted in Washington Post, January 7, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The night was so Borgia. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, August 29, 2020, summarizing Trump's acceptance speech to a superspreader crowd sitting cheek by jowl on the South Lawn of the White House, followed by fireworks spelling out  T R U M P   2 0 2 0 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all Jim Jordan to Mark Meadows, Trump's chief of staff, suggesting that vice presidents have the authority to simply refuse to count electoral votes from states his party lost © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Only one meaningful correlation emerged [from the Chicago Project on Security & Threats' study of January 6 insurgents]. Other things being equal, insurgents were much more likely to come from a county where the white share of the population was in decline. For every one point drop in a county's percentage of non-Hispanic whites from 2015 to 2019, the likelihood of an insurgent hailing from that county increased by 25 percent. This was a strong link, and it held up in every state. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, January/February 2022 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The only thing worse would be not charging him. Barbara McQuade, "United States v. Donald Trump," on the failure to criminally charge Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding for pressuring Pence to overturn the election due to fears about potential negative consequences for the country, such as violent protests, civil unrest, loss of life, or an acquittal, which would embolden other domestic wannabe autocrats © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged. Remember that. It's the only way we're going to lose. Donald Trump, at a rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, delegitimizing a Biden presidency, should Biden win in 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election No intelligence collection was apparently performed on President Trump's plans for January 6th, nor was there any analysis performed on what he might do to exacerbate potential violence. … And, on January 4, 2021, another rally organizer texted Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO, that President Trump would “unexpectedly” call on his supporters to march on the Capitol: This stays only between us … it can not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to just call for it “unexpectedly.” January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  No intelligence community advance analysis predicted exacty how President Trump  would behave; no such analysis recognized the full scoope and extent of the threat to the Capitol on January 6th. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary, from the 15th of 17 “specific findings” © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Now do you see why I feel like I've just been tied up by a German dominatrix who doesn't understand my safe word. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Oct. 9, 2020, after reviewing how the Republicans in states with a Republican-controlled legislature and a Republican governor can and are planning to use their power to select the state's members of the Electoral College to appoint electors committed to voting for Trump even if Biden won the state's popular vote © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Polls from mid-October showed that about 44 percent of voters approved of Trump’s job performance – and this was after he’d concealed aspects of his coronavirus infection from the public, shrugged off the larger meaning of it, established the White House as its own superspreader environment and cavalierly marched on. Forty-four  percent. Who in God’s name are we? Frank Bruni, NeW York Times, October 29, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election President Trump is wrong: I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone. And, frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person can choose the American president. Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of the election. Mike Pence, February 4, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election President Trump did not contact a single  top national security official during the day.  Not at the Pentagon, not at the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the F.B.I., the Capitol Police Department, or the D.C. Mayor's office. As Vice President Pence has confirmed, President Trump didn't even try to reach his own Vice President to make sure that Pence was safe. President Trump did not order any of his staff to facilitate a law enforcement response of any sort. … Some have suggested that President Trump gave an order to have 10,000 troops ready for January 6th. The Select Committee found no evidence of this. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election President Trump'a speech inciting the crowd that breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not protected by the First Amendment. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The problem … is not Mr Biden's failure to kindle passion in people. It is our psychic need for such a person in the first place. His election might reacquaint the US with politics as it should be and has been: a machine for the arbitration of conflicting claims, and not as the basis of one's whole identity. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 16, 2020 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The purpose of the conspiracy was to  overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those results are collected, counted, and certified. United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Right now, Russia's security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them. In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests. Fiona Hill, opening statement before the House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry hearing, November 21, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Running as a universe-saving Luke Skywalker against his [Trump's] Darth Vader could work at the ballot box. But it would be a vapid basis for governing. Edward Luce, Financial Times, January 4, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Shortly after election day, the Defendant also pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results. In so doing, the Defendant perpetrated three criminal conspiracies: a. A conspiracy to defraud the United States … b. A conspiracy to corruptly obstruct and impede the January 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected result of the presidential election are counted and certified … c. A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one's vote counted … United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Soliciting opinions on the eve of 2020, I find that people who least desire a second term for the US president are the quickest to predict it. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, January 1, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing the identity of his opponent. Because there's no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump. The Orlando Sentinel, June 18, 2019, the day of Trump's official 2020 reelection campaign kickoff rally in Orlando, FLorida © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The subpoenaed House Member's willful failure to comply with a congressional subpoena reflects discredit on Congress. If left unpunished, such behavior undermines Congress's longstanding power to investigate in support of its lawmaking authority and suggests that Members of Congress may disregard legal obligations that apply to ordinary citizens. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary, referral of members Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry and Andy Biggs to the House Ethics Committee for failure to comply with subpoenas © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  Suburban women, will you please like me? I saved your damn neighborhood, OK? Donald Trump, Johnstown, PA, rally, October 13, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Taking all these facts into account, and based on the breadth of the evidence it has accumulated,  the Committee makes the following criminal refer-  rals to the Department of Justice Special Counsel: I. Obstruction of an Official Proceeding  (18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)) … [Trump, Eastman, others] II. Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371) … [Trump, Eastman, Chesebro, Giuliani, Meadows, others] III. Conspiracy to make a False Statement (18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1001) … [witness tampering; Trump, Eastman, Chesebro, fake electors] IV. "Incite," "Assist" or "Aid and Comfort" an Insurrection (18 U.S.C. § 2382) … [Trump] V. Other Conspiracy Statutes (18 U.S.C. §§ 372, 2384) … [individual insurrectionists] VI. Possible violators (18 U.S.C. §§ 1505, 1512)  [Lawyers who may have advised witnesses to lie] January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Testimony obtained by the Committee indicates that President Trump knew about the rioters' anger at Vice President Mike Pence, and indicated something to the effect that “Mike [Pence] deserves it.” January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election That objective [in spouting the Big Lie] is  not somehow to rescind the 2020 election, as they would have us believe. That’s constitutionally impossible. Trump’s and the Republicans' far more ambitious objective is to execute succesfully in 2024 the very same plan they failed in executing in 2020 and to overturn the 2024 election if Trump or his anointed successor loses again in the next quadrennial contest. The last presidential election was a dry run for the next. J. Michael Luttig, April 27, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  There is no perceptible platform or even a ghost of a second term agenda for Donald Trump's party. There is thus no possibility of dissent. His chief surrogates are his own family members. The message is Mr Trump, the whole Mr Trump and nothing but Mr Trump. Edward Luce, Financial Times, August 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  This was a coup organized by the President against the Vice President and against the Congress in order to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It was what political scientists call a “self-coup” because it's not the military or  some other faction attacking the president. It's the president, fearful of defeat, overthrowing the constitutional process. Trump was prepared to seize the presidency and likely to invoke the Insurracion Act and to declare martial law. … There was a violent insurrection and an attempted coup and we were saved by Mike Pence's refusal to go along with that plan and by the valor and bravery of our officers who stood strong against the attempt to just overrun the process. Jamie Raskin, April 18, 2022, on Jan. 6, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election This was their [Republicans'] moment to stand for something, and they chose to stand for reelection. Let us remember.  Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election To understand the threat today, you have to see with clear eyes what happened, what is still happening after the 2020 election. The charlatans and cranks who filed lawsuits and led public spectacles on Trump's behalf were sideshows. They distracted from the main event: a systematic effort to nullify the election results and then reverse them. As milestones passed — individual certification by states, the meeting of the Electoral College on December 14 — Trump’s hand grew weaker. But he played it strategically throughout. The more we learn about January 6, the clearer the conclusion becomes that it was the last gambit in a soundly conceived campaign — one that provides a blueprint for 2024. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, January/February 2022 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass! Mo Brooks, speaking at the Save America rally, January 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The Trump campaign plan for 2020 is all culture war, all the time. David Frum, Trumpocalypse  © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. Liz Cheney, June 9, 2022, during the opening public hearing of the  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Turnout projections are running at around 150 million this year (137 million voted in 2016), which would mean that if [Nate] Silver is right, Biden could win by 3 million to 4.5 million votes and still have less than a 50 percent chance of becoming president.  If Biden won by 4 percent to 5 percent, or 6 million to 7.5 million votes, Trump would still have a one-in-ten shot of prevailing. Paul Waldman, Washington Post, September 2, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election United States House of Representatives Reso- lution 503 instructs the Select Committee to  Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol ("Select Committee") to investi- gate the facts, circumstances, and causes of the January 6th attack and issues relating to the peaceful transfer of power. Pursuant to that directive, we have interviewed thousands of wit- nesses, reviewed over a million documents, con- ducted public hearings, and vindicated our right in court against those who have tried to keep relevant information from the Select Committee. As demonstrated in our hearings, we have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power. Subpoena to Trump from the Select Committee © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election A Washington Post investigation found that more than a year would pass before prose- cutors and FBI agents jointly embarked on a formal probe of actions directed from the White House to try to steal the election. Even then, the FBI stopped short of identifying the former president as a focus of that investigation. … The Justice Department's painstaking approach to investigating Trump can be traced to [Attorney General Merrick] Garland’s desire to turn the page from missteps, bruising attacks and allegations of partisanship in the depart- ment’s recent investigations of both Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election  and Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Carol D. Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, Washington Post, June 20, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Well, that happened.  Let me remind you that what you just saw was a production of NBC News. We are MSNBC. We did not produce that event, We simulcast that here along with CNBC. But that was a strange replacement for what was otherwise supposed to be the second presidential debate of this general election season. Rachel Maddow, October 15, 2020, host of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, coming on air immediately after Trump ended his hour-long festival of lies and conspiracy theories © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election What I'm asking you to do is just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen. Donald Trump, to acting attorney general Richard Donoghue © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election What Pape was seeing in these results did not fit the government model of  lone wolfs and small groups of extremists. “This really is a new, politically violent mass movement,” he told me. “This is collective political violence.”  Pape drew an analogy to Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, at the dawn of the Troubles. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, January/February 2022 [Robert A. Pape, the leader of a study of the insurrectionists by Chicago Project on Security & Threats called them “committed insurrectionists” and estimated there are 21 million in the US] © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election [W]hile it's true that we snatched democracy from the jaws of autocracy, there is still a gun pointed at democracy's head. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Why aren't you guys fighting harder? Where's my Roy Cohn? Donald Trump, dissatisfied with his campaign managers and lawyers for failing to convince courts he lost because the election was stolen from him © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election You have the hostages, the J6 hostages, I call them. Nobody has been treated ever in history so badly as those people. [Not even John McCain?] You know what they ought to do? They ought to release the J6 hostages; they've suffered enough. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
American plutocrats The Democratic party has been put on notice. If it picks a pro-tax candidate to take on Donald Trump next year, a billionaire will probably enter the US presidential race as a spoiler. Whether that is Howard Schultz, the former chief executive of Starbucks, or someone else, is secondary. Any third-party plutocrat would have the means to split the vote and enable Mr Trump's re-election. The inference is clear: a large chunk of America's plutocracy would risk a second Trump term to keep their taxes low. Edward Luce, Financial Times, Jan. 31, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
The Big Lie On February 7, 2019, … Giuliani told  Ms. Dunphy, in her capacity as his employee, about a plan that had been prepared for if Trump lost the 2020 election. Specifically, Giuliani told Ms. Dunphy that Trump's team would claim that there was “voter fraud” and that Trump had actually won the election. This plan was discussed at several business meetings with Giuliani and Lev Parnas. From the verified complaint against Rudy Giuliani filed by Noelle Dunphy, his former Business Development director [February 7, 2019, was 635 days before the 2020 election held on November 3, 2020] © 2023 Kwiple.com
The Big Lie Two weeks after the 2020 election, a team of lawyers closely allied with Donald J. Trump held a widely watched news conference at the Republican Party’s headquarters in Washington. At the event, they laid out a bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that a voting machine company had worked with an election software firm, the financier George Soros and Venezuela to steal the presidential contest from Mr. Trump. But there was a problem for the Trump team, according to court documents released on Monday evening. By the time the news conference occurred on Nov. 19, Mr. Trump’s campaign had already prepared an internal memo on many of the outlandish claims about the company, Dominion Voting Systems, and the separate software company, Smartmatic. The memo had determined that those allegations were untrue. New York Times, September 21, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I look forward to testifying. Donald Trump, a perjury-producing machine, on possible trials to keep him off 2024 primary ballots because he violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment on January 6, 2021, and therefore is ineligible to hold office in the United States © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I think that the last person Russia wants to see in office is Donald Trump, because nobody's been tougher on Russia than I have, ever. Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT! Donald Trump, 10:36 AM - Nov 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I would venture to say it was the largest crowd I had ever spoken [to] before. It was a loving crowd, too, by the way. There was a lot of love. I've heard that from everybody. Many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. Donald Trump, on his supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say There was such love at that rally. They were peaceful people. These were great people. The crowd was unbelievable and I mentioned the word love, the love in the air. I've never seen anything like it. Donald “Don the Delusional” Trump, July 11, 2021, on the January 6 mob assault on the Capitol © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say You don't think I wanted them to do that, do you? Donald Trump, who waited hours before calling off his supporters' violent assault on the Capitol by telling them, “Go home — we love you, you're very special” © 2021 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I am seriously thinking of running for president. Howard Schultz, January 27, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I can't lose to this fucking guy. Donald Trump, expecting a different outcome in 2020 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I want to be in it. Man, I'm just born to be in it, and want to do everything I humanly can for this country at this moment. Beto O'Rourke, a month before announcing he's running for president © 2019 Kwiple.com
Collusion It's not an interference, they have information. I think I'd take it.  If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the FBI. If I thought there was something wrong. Donald Trump, asking for foreign nationals to help him get reelected in 2020 by dishing dirt on his opponents, as he did in 2016 © 2019 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus … almost three hundred thousand Americans had died by Election Day as a direct result of Donald's willfully malicious inaction. But for him, we would not have become  so divided. But for him, a simple lifesaving maneuver like wearing a mask would not have become politicized. But for him, we would not have suffered a mass casualty event in this country every day, for month after month after month. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus “The president knows Florida is so important for his reelection so when [his supporter Gov. Ron] DeSantis says that [New Yorkers should be quarantined and prohibited from traveling to Florida], it means a lot,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be frank. “He pays close attention to what Florida wants.” NCRM, March 31, 2020, on how Trump is trying to harvest Electoral College votes in 2020 by sending Florida and other red states everything they request – or more – to fight coronavirus (while sending blue states like New York, where need is greater, less than requested) © 2020 Kwiple.com
Crime … committed the felony offense of … Phrase appearing one or more times in 35 of the 161 overt acts in furtherance of the Trumpist conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that are specified in State of Georgia Fulton County v. Donald John Trump and 18 others © 2023 Kwiple.com
Criminal investigations The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so.  Either approach would be a radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts' involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock separation-of- powers limitations. Accordingly, we agree with the government that the district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction, and that dismissal of the entire proceeding is required. From the Court of Appeals For the 11th Circuit's decision to end special counsel review of documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago © 2022 Kwiple.com
Criminal investigations This appeal requires us to consider whether the district court had jurisdiction to block the United States from using lawfully seized records in a criminal investigation. The answer is no. … The district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction in this case. For that reason, we VACATE the September 5 order on appeal and REMAND with instructions for the district court to DISMISS the underlying civil action. Beginning and ending of Court of Appeals For  the 11th Circuit's decision to end special counsel review of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago © 2022 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice UNITED STATES * CRIMINAL NO. OF AMERICA * v. * GRAND JURY ORIGINAL DONALD J. TRUMP, * Defendant * VIOLATIONS: * * Count 1: 18 U.S.C. § 371 * (Conspiracy to Defraud the * United States) * * Count 2: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(k) * (Conspiracy to Obstruct an * Official Proceeding) * * Count 3: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2),2 * (Obstruction of and Attempt to * Obstruct an Official Proceeding) * * Count 4: 18 U.S.C. § 342 * (Conspiracy Against Rights) © 2023 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I'm going to release the Kraken. Sidney Powell, Trumpist lawyer, promising she'll release oodles of evidence that she claims will lead to overturning 2020 election results in key states © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Donald Trump, urging Georgia's secratary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to "recalculate" Georgia's thrice-audited election returns to give him a one-vote margin of victory in an election in which over 5,000,000 people voted, which he believes would be credible © 2021 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say You know, President Trump and I have spoken many times since we left office. And I don't know if we'll ever see eye to eye on that day. Mike Pence, referring to the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, during which Trump and his supporters called for hanging Pence for failing to overturn Biden's election © 2021 Kwiple.com
Democracy Democracy didn't prevail. It lucked out. Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2021, on the failure of the January 6, 2021, mob assault on the Capitol to prevent confirmaiton of Biden's electoral victory © 2021 Kwiple.com
Democracy The greatest threat to our democracy  comes not from demagogues like Mr. Trump or even from extremist followers like those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 but rather from the ordinary politicians, many of them inside the Capitol that day who protect and enable him. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, New York Times, September 8, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Democracy Yet [Patrick] Byrne had the germ of the right idea. The best way to steal a presidential election would indeed be through a staged display of democratic process backed by elaborate precooked ‘evidence’ of foreign conspiracy and simplified by Fox News, social media, and other media. This is the upside-down shape of a successful American coup. Democracy is destroyed by the enactment of its protection. Conspirators succeed by foiling a“conspiracy.” Fintan O'Toole, New York Review of Books, January 19, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Democrats Even the party’s most progressive field for a generation or two does not contemplate taxes that are European in breadth and depth. Pressed on this point, Democrats invoke the sage that was Willie Sutton. The criminal of yore targeted banks because, he said, with unanswerable logic, “That’s where the money is.” In a country with America’s titanic inequalities, the top 1 per cent is where the money is. It is the obvious percentile to press for revenue. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Febtruary 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats In targeting just the richest [1% for tax increases], Democrats rather imply that a welfare state is only worthwhile insofar as someone else pays for it. It is not an inherent good. It is not a nation's binding agent. In this sense, the Sanders and especially the Warren platform is a tacit concession to the Republican view of the world, with tax as a burden, not what the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes defined as “what we pay for civilised society.” The Democratic appeal is less to Nordic universalism and solidarity than to the noblesse oblige of a remote overclass who will not miss the money. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Feb. 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats What the US left appears to want is social democracy as understood by Robin Hood. It would tax astronomical wealth to fund popular programmes. It would not ask much more of the middle or even the upper middle classes. … This does, however, put them at some odds with the social democrats of Europe, who tax more citizens more heavily. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Febtruary 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Facts [N]o reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.  Sidney Powell, on her widely-believed lies about voting fraud by Dominion Voting Systems voting machines and Smartmatic software during the 2020 presidential election © 2023 Kwiple.com
Fox News And on November 21, Carlson texted [[name redacted]] that it was “shockingly reckless” to claim that Dominion rigged the election “[i]f there's no one inside the company willing to talk, or internal Dominion documents or copies of the software showing that they did it” and “as you know there isn't.” Dominnion Voting System v. Fox News Network [references to exhibits omitted] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Fox News As election conspiracies and false claims of fraud began to emerge in the days following the election, Fox knew the truth.  Fox Chief Political Correspondent Bret Baier stated privately on November 5: “There is NO evidence of fraud. None.” Dominnion Voting System v. Fox News Network © 2023 Kwiple.com
Fox News At one point, Murdoch explained the decision to let [Mike] Lindell run ads for his company, MyPillow, as a strictly financial — rather than political — move, saying: “It is not red or blue — it is green,” according to Monday's court filing.  Forbes, February 28, 2023, reporting on Rupert Murdoch's deposition in Dominion Voting Systems's lawsuit againt Fox News for knowingly spreading false claims about its voting machines and Trump's big lie about fraud during the 2020 elections [Lindell often appeared on Fox News shows, which never questioned his lies on air] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Fox News Carlson told Hannity: “Please get her [Jacqui Heinrich] fired … Seriously … What the fuck? I'm actually shocked … It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It's measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.” Dominnion Voting System v. Fox News Network [Heinrich had fact-checked a tweet by Trump alleging fraud by Dominion Voting Systems and reported that top election infrastructure officials  said “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” Hannity said "She has serious nerve doing this and if this gets picked up, viewers are going to be further disgusted.” Heinrich deleted the tweet the next day.] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Fox News Fox knew. From the top down,  Fox knew "the dominion stuff" was "total bs." Yet despite knowing the truth — or at minimum, recklessly disregarding that truth — Fox spread and endorsed these "outlandish voter fraud claims" about Dominion even as it internally recognized the lies as "crazy," "absurd" and "shockingly reckless." The colorful choices of words used by so many Fox employees all try to capture the same basic truth about these inherently improbable allegations: These claims were false, and obviously so. Dominnion Voting System v. Fox News Network [references to exhibits omitted] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Fox News A mountain of direct evidence demonstrates actual malice without resort to motive or other circumstantial factors. But why did Fox peddle this false narrative to its viewers? Fox's correct call of Arizona for Joe Biden triggered a backlash among its audience and "the network [was] being rejected." Rival networks such as Newsmax took advantage of the opening by promoting "an alternative universe" of election fraud. So Fox went on "war footing" caring more about protecting its own falling viewership than about the truth. Dominnion Voting System v. Fox News Network [references to exhibits omitted] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Fox News Our job is not to provide news coverage. Not even close. Our job is to explain what things mean. Tucker Carlson, January 6, 2021,  to a Fox News colleague who expressed concern about the effects of lies about election fraud that Fox News hosts had repeatedly spread on air in the days leading up to January 6 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Freedom of speech The Defendant had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won. He was also entitled to formally challenge the results of the election through lawful and appropriate means, such as by seeking recounts or audits of the popular vote in states or filing lawsuits challenging ballots and procedures. Indeed, in many cases, the Defendant did pursue these methods of contesting the election results. His efforts to change the outcome in any state through recounts, audits, or legal challenges were uniformly unsuccessful. United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Good news But the incentive to go soft on Mr Trump is shrinking. He probably won't be president in six months. He is not so much lame duck as a clay pigeon, there to help journalists prove their marksmanship. Henry Mance, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Jews A lot you are in the real estate business, because I know you very well. You're brutal killers, not nice people at all, but you have to vote for me. You have no choice. You're not gonna vote for Pocahontas [Elizabeth Warren], I can tell you that. You're not gonna vote for the wealth tax. Some of you don't like me. Some of you I don't like at all, actually. And you're going to be my biggest supporters because you're going to be out of business in about 15 minutes if they get it. So I don't have to spend a lot of time on that. Donald Trump, speaking to the Israeli American Council, December 8, 2019, about the 2020 elections © 2019 Kwiple.com
Justice Ours is not a system of justice where foot soldiers go to jail and the masterminds and ring keaders get a free pass. Jamie Raskin, in his opening remarks before the final public meeting of the January 6 committee, just before announcing criminal referrals of Donald Trump and other high-ranking Trump adminisgration officials to the Department of Justice for their roles in the January 6 insurrection © 2022 Kwiple.com
Liars say … all the machines are infected with the software code that allows Dominion to shave votes for one candidate and give them to another and other features that do the same thing. Different states shaved different amounts  of votes, or the system was set up to shave and flip different votes in different states. … We're talking about the alteration and changes in millions of votes; some being dumped that were for President Trump, some being flipped that were for President Trump. Sidney Powell, Trump's lawyer, to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo © 2023 Kwiple.com
Liars say During the meeting [on Jan. 4, 2021], as reflected in the Vice President's contemporaneous notes, the Defendant made knowingly false claims of election fraud, including, “Bottom line — we won every state by 100,000s of votes” and “We won every state,” and asked — regarding a claim his senior Justice Department officials previously had told him was false, including as recently as the night before — “What about 205,000 votes more in PA than voters?” United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Liars say I was having meetings.  I was also with Mark Meadows and others. I was not watching television. Donald Trump, on what he was doing on January 6 while his supporters attacked the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Liars say I'm not into coups! Donald Trump, July 15, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Liars say That night [January 5, 2021], the Defendant approved and caused the Defendant's Campaign to issue a  public statement that the Defendant knew, from his meeting with the Vice President only hours earlier, was false: “The Vice President and I are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act [to overturn elections]." United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
The military  In the event of a dispute over some aspect of the elections, by law U.S. courts and the U.S. Congress are required to resolve any disputes, not the U.S. military. I foresee no role for the U.S armed forces in this process. --> General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, August 28, 2020  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Partisanship For all its viciousness, partisanship makes for a perverse kind of stability in which electoral outcomes only ever vary within a tight range, even when one candidate is an impeached Twitter addict. The incentive structure this sets up for politicians is too dismal to contemplate, suggesting as it does that one can do literally anything and remain electorally viable for the grandest office on Earth. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, January 1, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Populism Before it is anything else — divisive, inept, sometimes perceptive and necessary — populism is exhausting. It generates too much noise and scandal in government for all but the most news-hungry citizens to bear for long. … It would be nice to think that Americans were making a Jeffersonian statement about the importance of civic standards when they evicted [Trump] from the White House in 2020. “Enough, already,” was more like it. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 27, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Profiles in courage As a student of history who loves the Constitution and its Framers, I do not believe that the Founders of our country intended to invest the Vice President with the unilateral authority to decide which electoral votes should be counted during the Joint Session of Congress, and no Vice President in American history has ever asserted such authority. Instead, Vice Presidents presiding over Joint  Sessions have uniformly followed the Electoral Count Act, conducting the proceedings in an orderly manner even when the count resulted in the defeat of their party or their own candidacy. Mike Pence's words that made Trump and his supporters want him hanged  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Oh my God, I am so ready to go to work. Kamala Harris, responding to Joe Biden, who made her his running mate by asking, “You ready to go to work?” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racists say I don't see that as promoting it, but look, at the end of the day, it's something that's out there. I have not studied it. Jared Kushner, commenting on his father-in-law's repeating a right-wing conspiracy theorist's claim that Kamala Harris is ineligible to run  for vice president because her parents  weren't citizens when she was born  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racists say I heard today that she doesn't meet the requirements. Donald Trump, repeating a right-wing conspiracy theory that Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for vice president because her parents weren't citizens when she was born © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racketeering Defendants Donald John Trump [& 18 indicted & 30 unindicted co-defendants] …  constituted a criminal organization whose  members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer,  forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury. State of Georgia Fulton County v. Donald John Trump and 18 others © 2023 Kwiple.com
Racketeering The manner and methods used … to further the goals of the enterprise and to achieve its purposes included, but were not limited to, the following: 1. False Statements to and Solic- itation of State Legislatures … 2. False State- ments to and Solicitation of High-Ranking State Officials … 3. Creation and Distribution of False Electoral College Documents … 4. Harassment and Intimidation of Fulton County Election Worker Ruby Freeman … 5. Solicita- tion of High-Ranking United States States De- partment of Justice Officials … 6. Solicitation of the Vice President of the United States … 7. Unlawful Breach of Election Equipment in Georgia and elsewhere … 8. Obstructive Acts in Furtherance of the Conspiracy and the CoverUp State of Georgia Fulton County v. Donald John Trump and 18 others © 2023 Kwiple.com
Racketeering This criminal organization constituted an en- terprise as that term is defined in O.C.G.A. § 16-14-3(3), that is, a group of individuals in fact. The Defendants and other members and associates of the enterprise had connections and relationships with one another and with the enterprise. The enterprise constituted an  ongoing organization whose members and asso- ciates functioned as a continuing unit for a common purpose of achieving the objectives of the enterprise. The enterprise operated in  Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of  Georgia, in other states, … The enterprise oper-  ated for a period of time sufficient to permit its  members and associates to pursue its objectives. State of Georgia Fulton County v. Donald John Trump and 18 others © 2023 Kwiple.com
Racketeering This was an act of racketeering activity under O.C.G.A. § 16-14-3(5)(A)(xxii) and an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. Phrase appearing one or more times in 28 of the 161 overt acts in furtherance of the Trumpist conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that are specified in State of Georgia Fulton County v. Donald John Trump and 18 others © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republican Party motto Heads we win. Tails we coup.  citation Slogan for the Trumpist Republican Party suggested by Bill Maher, April 22, 2022, Real Time with Bill Maher © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republicans I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone. But your dishonor will remain.  Liz Cheney, June 9, 2022, during the opening public hearing of the  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Did we just get fucking tear gas for a fucking photo op? Message sent by a seminarian to a priest at St. John's Episcopal Church on Lafayette Square in Washington DC after Trump's minions cleared out protesters protesting George Floyd's murder by police so that Trump could pose holding a Bible in front of the church; quoted by Caril Leonnig and Phil Rucker in I Alone Can Fix It © 2021 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out!  Chant when Trump appeared at memorial servie for Ruth Bader Ginsburg © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie I could have. But I didn't. Rupert Murdoch, when asked under oath by a lawyer whether he could have ordered Fox News hosts like Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, and Laura Ingraham to keep  Trump's lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani off the air to prevent them from spreading what he, other Fox executives, and its hosts knew were lies about Dominion Voting Systems and voter fraud during the 2020 elections © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a very proud election denier. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot That fucking guy Jim Jordan. That son of a bitch. While these maniacs are going through the place, I'm standing in the aisle and he said, “We need to get the ladies away from the aisle. Let me help you.” I smashed his hand away and told him, “Get away from me. You fucking did this.” Jim Jordan during the assualt on the Capitol, portrayed by Liz Cheney © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She supported an insurrection for the "likes". Nancy Mace,  Republican Representative from South Carolina, who criticized the Big Lie like Liz Cheney did and then voted to remove Cheney from her leadership position in the party after Trump's base howled, portrayed by Bill Maher © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Every president in our history has defended this orderly transfer of authority except one. January 6, 2021, was the first time an American president refused his constitutional duty to to transfer power peacefully to the next. … Among the most shameful of this committee's findings was that President Trump sat in the dining room of the Oval Office, watching the violent riot at the Capitol on television. For hours, he would not issue a public statement instructing his supporters to disperse and leave the Capitol. … In addition to being unlawful, as described in our report, this was an utter moral failure and a clear dereliction of duty. … No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any office of authority in our nation again. He is unfit for any office. Donald Trump portrayed by Liz Cheney © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union Donald Trump has always benefited from the inability to imagine Donald Trump. It was unimaginable that a man who talked in public about having sex with his daughter would be the Republican nominee for president or that he would win. It was unimaginable to me that Republican Senators and elected officials would not concede an election that wasn't even close. North of 300 electoral votes, eight million more votes, but that's what happened. Stuart Stevens, April 20, 2022, once a Republican campaign adviser © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union The Trump movement was always authoritarian and illiberal. It indulged periodically in the rhetoric of violence. Trump himself chafed against the restraints of law. But what the United States did not have  before 2020 was a large national movement willing to justify mob violence to claim political power. Now it does. David Frum, The Atlantic, July 13, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court [Clarence] Thomas should never have been on the court. Now that we know his wife was plotting the overthrow of the government, he should get off or be thrown off. You can't administer justice when your spouse is running around strategizing for a coup. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, March 26, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Technology To put the matter bluntly, if we had the polarized politics of today  but the information technology of the 1950s, we almost certainly would not have seen the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, at the United States Capitol. Millions of Republican voters would  probably not have believed the false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and demanded from state legislatures new restrictive voting rules and fake election “audits” to counter phantom voter fraud. Richard Hasen, New York Times, March 7, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpism … the most reliable predictor for who was a Trump voter wasn't race  but the combination of race and education. Among white people, 38 percent of college graduates voted for Trump, compared with 64 percent without college degrees. This margin —the great gap between Smart America and Real America — was the decisive one. It made 2016 different from previous elections, and the trend only intensified in 2020. George Packer, The Atlantic, July/August 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Biden should concede. I want his concession on my desk tomorrow morning. Don't make me come over there. Paul “The Lunatic” Gosar, 12:05 PM – Jan 6, 2021 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Cops don't have “standing” if they're laying on the ground in a pool of their own blood. Contribution to a discussion about planning for the January 6 rally posted to Donald.win, a self-described “never-ending rally dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” which generated a million visits a day before its owner shut it down following the January 6 insurrection; displayed during the public hearing held on July 12, 2022, by the House committee investigating events of January 6 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Fuck everything about you, you motherfucking asshole. Fuck you you lousy Marxist traitor, you Pelosi cock. You and Liz Cheney can both go to hell. Fuck you you big baby, you rotten pile of dog shit. Fuck you you asshole. Fuck you. I hope you get terminal cancer you motherfucking pig. Fuck you, you pig asshole. Phone message received by interns for Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the House's select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say He doesn't lie. Attendee at Trump's 2020 campaign kickoff rally explaining why she supports his reelection to an NBC News political reporter © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Hey Rick, 234 years ago the founding caucasion fathers of America gave us the Second Amendment. Time's running out, Richard. We're coming after you and every motherfucker that stole this election with our Second Amendment. Subpoenas be dammed! You're going to be served lead, you fucking, fuckng enemy communist. Phone message received by Richard Barron, Fulton County, Georgia, election administrator, after Biden narrowly won Georgia in 2020 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Hey you little cocksucker. Are you Liz Cheney's fag hag? You two cocksucking little bitches. We're going to get you. Coming to your house son. Gonna get you and Liz Chency. Going to get you two little cocksuckers. Ha, ha, ha. Phone message received by interns for Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the House's select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I have concerns about the treatment of January 6 hostages. I have concerns. We have a role in Congress of oversight over our treatments of prisoners. And I believe that we're seeing the weaponization of the federal government against not just President Trump, but we're seeing it against conservatives. Elise Stefanik, a Trump echo chamber © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I have total confidence in Justice Thomas's impartiality in every aspect of the work of the Court. Each of the nine judges should feel free to make every single judicial decision they make with total independence and complete freedom, what cases they hear, how they hear them, how they rule,  whether and when they recuse themselves, and whether and when they retire. Mitch McConnell, opposing any ethics standards for Supreme Court justices, including ones preventing them from ruling in cases where they have conflicts of interest, like Thomas, who voted to prevent evidence of his wife's attempts to overturn the 2020 election to be turned over to Congress © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I knew those were people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law, so I wasn't concerned. Had the tables been turned, and president Trump won the election, and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned. Ron Johnson, on the mob of white Trump supporters that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say [I take] The Fifth. Michael Flynn, retired United States Army lieutenant general and Trump's U.S National Security Advisor who's sworn many oaths of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and who Trump pardoned after he twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, responding to Liz Cheney, who asked him, during his deposition to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, “Do you believe in the peaceful transfer of power in the United States of America?” © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I'm not going back to yesterday's Republican Party. I'm not going back to losing politely, with Mitt Romney. I'm not going back to the Bushes or the Cheneys. This is Donald Trump's party, and I am a Donald Trump Republican. Matt Gaetz, promising to try to overturn Biden's already-certified Electoral College win © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I think some of it, on the media side, was probably blown out of proportion. Do I think someone should have died? Do I think they should have went to the Capitol? No. I think the rally itself made enough of a point. But I really don’t think it was planned or anything. I don’t think they were incited, either. I think a lot of people just got all their emotions all up in an uproar and there were consequences to that. Justin, 39, white, La., administrative assistant, a participant in New York Times focus group, asked about your memories of January 6 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I think the American people are fed up with this over-dramatization of a riot that happened here at the Capitol one time. … They are sick and tired of January 6. It's over. OK? Marjorie Taylor Greene, April 11, 2022 [By “over-dramatization” she means the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol] © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I want to tell you something. If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed, Marjorie Taylor Greene, December 10, 2022, speaking to guests at a dinner hosted by the New York Young Republican Club about the January 6th insurrection © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I was very upset. I never expected anything like that. And when that happened I thought, this is antifa, and no one can convince me it was so-called Trump supporters, and we know there's a lot wrong there, and I cannot wait for a real investigation. Marjorie Tayloer Greene, blaming the January 6 attack on the Capitol on anti-fascists  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say  If I had been vice president [on Jan. 6, 2021],  I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania,  Georgia, and so many others, that we needed to  have multiple slates of electors, and I think the  U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there. That is the legitimate way to deal with an election that a lot of folks, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020. I think that’s what we should have done. J. D. Vance, auditioning to be Trump's running mate by confirming that he would have violated the Constitution and participated in Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election  [Over 60 courts denied Trump's claims of there being "a lot of problems" in the 2020 election] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say In retrospect, it is clear the 2020 election was a grave betrayal of American democracy. Given the facts that have since emerged about that election, no honest person can deny it. Tucker Carlson, on what election officials at all levels of government have called “the most secure in American history” © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The insurrection took place on November 3, Election Day. January 6 was the Protest!  Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Mark, in seeing what's happening so quickly, and reading about the Dominion law suits attempting to stop any meaningful investi- gation we are at a point of no return  !! Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!! Ralph Norman, January 17, 2021, text message to Mark Meadows, Trump's White House Chief of Staff [Enquiring minds want to know: Was Law a marshal or a sheriff?] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say My only regret is that they should have brought rifles [to the Capitol on January 6]. We could have fixed it right there and then. Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye Liz Cheney Madison Cawthorn, 9:33 AM – May 12, 2021, Repubican representing North Carolina's 11th congressional district, on Liz Cheney's ouster from her Republican Party leadership position for refusing to spread Trump's Big Lie © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Resolved. That it the sense of the House of Representatives that former President Donald J. Trump did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or give aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. Resolution that Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Marjorie Taylor Greene and other far-righters are trying to get passed by the House © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say There’s an insurrection happening now on Capitol Hill. Marjorie Taylor Greene, 2:59 PM – Oct 18, 2023, equating protestors at the Capitol calling for a cease fire in Gaza Strip to the attack by January 6 insurrectionists © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say These folks [the Wisconsin Republicans who posed as fake electors in the 2020 election] did nothing different than what many Democrats have done in many states. It has happened repeatedly. Ron Johnson, valedictorian of his class at the  Goebbels Schule des öffentlichen Diskurses, in a typically evidence-free claim © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say They’re Bolsheviks, so, they probably do hate the American founders and most White people in general.  This is a Bolshevistic anti-White campaign. If you can’t see that, your eyes are freaking closed. And so, they see me as a young Christian who they can try to basically scare, right? And, so today was just a lot of saying that I am invoking my right to silence under executve privilege in the Fifth Amendment. Garrett Ziegler, 6:51 PM – Jul 20, 2022, in an audio-only livestream after testifying to  the January 6th committee about sneaking Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Patrick Byrne into the White House to convince Trump to seize voting machines and declare martial law © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Trump fans should be happy he lost; it might’ve kept him alive. /end Darryl Cooper, a.k.a. MartyrMade, 2:27 PM – Jul 8, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say No, not at all, especially this Jan. 6 commission. Like I said, they could have started at 8 on a Monday. They would have had their conclusion at   five after 8. They knew what they were going to do. Barney, 72, white, Del., retired, a participant in New York Times focus group, asked if you've heard anything that changed your mind about what happened on January 6 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The only thing I regret, I misspelled “martial law.” Ralph Norman,  responding when asked by CNN's Kaitlin Collins if he regretted sending an email to Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, telling him to urge Trump to overturn the 2020 election by invoking “Marshall Law” © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say PPS — "alternative" votes is probably a better term than "fake" votes. Also it sounds like Kelli Ward and the rest of the electors would be very much into the idea. Kelli's thought it to try to keep it under wraps until Congress counts the vote Jan 6th (so we can "surprise" the Dems and media with it) — I tend to agree with her. Jack Wilenchik, Phoenix-based lawyer who helped organize the pro-Trump fake electors in Arizona, in a December 8, 2020, email at 6:59 PM © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration. Mike Pompeo, explaining why he won't let officials in the State Department participate in the transition to the Biden administration © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We are going to kill the Biden presidency in the crib. Steve Bannon, bragging to Donald Trump about the insurrection he and others were plotting © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We aren’t getting through this without a civil war. Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, two days after the 2020 election © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We have to blur some faces of persons who participated in the events of that day because we don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ. Mike Johnson, December 5, 2023, who tried to overturn the 2020 election, here obstructing justice by trying to prevent online slueths who've helped identify hundreds  of Capitol rioters from seeing the faces of rioters in previously unreleased footage of the attack on the Capitol, while simultaneously making himself an accessory after the fact to multiple federal crimes, in announcng he's releasing doctored versions of all footage of the attack in an attempt to counter the narrative of the January 6 commission report © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We weren’t there to steal things. We weren’t there to do damage. We were just there to overthrow the government. A 56-year-old female participant in the January 6 assault on the Capitol quoted by Robert Kagan, Washington Post, September 23, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the ‘fake’ votes should be counted. Jack Wilenchik, Phoenix-based lawyer who helped organize the pro-Trump fake electors in Arizona, in a December 8, 2020, email to Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Well, it seems to me that being elected by the Electoral College is a threshold where a title like that is probably most appropriate, and it's, I suppose you can say official, if there is such a thing as official president-elect, or anything-else-elect. Kevin Cramer, Republican Senator from North Dacovid, who rather make an ass of himself than call Joe Biden “president-elect”  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change. He went golfing this weekend. It's not like he's plotting how to prevent Joe Biden from taking power on Jan. 20. He's tweeting about filing some lawsuits, those lawsuits will fail, then he'll tweet some more about how the election was stolen, and then he'll leave. An anonymous senior Republican official quoted by the Washington Post on November 10, 2020 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say  What patriots do?  We fuckin’ disarm them [Capitol police] and then we storm the fuckin’ Capitol! Scott Fairlamb, insurrectionist from New Jersey, message sent to fellow insurrectionists © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You are one stupid cunt! That pimp you married not only broke his oath, he sold his soul. Yours and christian's too!  Adam's activities have not only hurt this country but countless patriotic and God Fearing families. Therefore, although it might Take time, he will be executed. But don't worry! You and Christian will be joining Adam in hell too! We find it blasphemous that you name the son of the devil Christian! Letter sent to the wife of Adam Kinzinger, the only Republican other than Liz Cheney serving on the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You can say Biden won the presidency kind of like O. J. is innocent. Kari Lake © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You cocksucking little bastard, we're going to get you. We know where you live. We're coming to your house. We're gonna get you boy, you little cocksucking bastard. Phone message received by interns for Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the House's select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You fucking traitors! Gabriel A. Garcia, insurrectionist from Miami and pot calling the ketlte black, to Capitol police defending the Capitol © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You guys need to be publicly executed … on pay per view. Email received by a 52-year-old member of the election board in Fulton County, GA, which Biden won and Trump accused of stealing the election © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You have to admit that seeing Nancy Pelosi’s lectern being carried away by a Trump supporter is pretty damn funny. Katrina Pierson, Triump 2020 campaign official, on how she got her jollies off during the January 6 insurrection © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You son of a bitch. You gave $200 to that black bastard that killed Ashley Babbitt. I hope some sombody like him kills your nasty mom and your nasty wife. It's not a threat. It's a hope.  Wrath of the Lord God Almighty come upon you, your health, your family, your home, your livelihood, and I'll pray that if it be God's will that you suffer. Phone message received by interns for Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the House's select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Veterans Almost a fifth of those arrested for the assault on Capitol Hill this year were former US military personnel — more than 20 times their share of the population. Edward Luce, Financial Times, September 11, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I just want to find 11,780 votes. Donald Trump, pressuring Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secratary of state, to overturn his loss to Joe Biden by 11,779 votes in Georgia in 2020 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. congressmen From notes taken by Richard P. Donoghue, Acting United States Deputy Attorney General, during a December 27, 2020, meeting in which Trump pressured Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting United States Attorney General, to have the Department of Justice overturn the election on the basis of claims of widespread voter fraud, for which it could find no evidence © 2021 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. If they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal mail-in voting because they're not equipped to have it. Donald Trump, admitting he's authorized sabotaging the US Postal Service by denying it money needed to function and to support universal mail-in voting during a pandemic because polls show 74% of Democrats but only 22% of Republicans are likely to vote using mail-in ballots © 2020 Kwiple.com
 
Wannabe autocrats say We'll have to see what happens. You know that I've been complaining very strongly about the [mail-in] ballots, and the ballots are a disaster. Get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very transfer, we'll have a very peaceful. There won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation. Donald Trump, when asked if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses his reelection bid  © 2020 Kwiple.com