** 14-Feb-2021 World View: Election fraud
Bob Butler wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:44 pm
> Well, the impeachment is done and Trump did not defend the
> existence of fraud in the 2020 election with any evidence. There
> was motive enough to present any such evidence, so I can only
> presume he presented no evidence as there is no evidence.
>
This is a very interesting statement because it's wrong in two ways.
First, there was no motive to present such evidence, since it would
have been irrelevant to the charges. In fact, given how things are,
if such evidence had been presented, it would only have infuriated the
performing seals in the audience, and more of them might have voted to
convict.
Even worse, presenting such evidence might have further provoked
violence from the Democrats' mob, including those who attacked the
home and family of the lead Trump lawyer, Michael van der Veen, a
couple of days ago. So presenting such evidence might have been
personally dangerous to him and others supporting Trump, given how
violent the Democrats have become.
But second, and this is really interesting, some evidence of election
fraud actually was presented. Michael van der Veen sneaked this in
under of cover of defending against one of the charges, that Trump
provoked the insurrection with that phone call to the Alabama
official, where he wanted him to "find" 5,000 more votes for Trump.
That was taken entirely out of context, and it was part of a larger
conversation, where Trump gave evidence that hundreds of thousands of
ballots were illegal, and he wanted the official to "find" 5,000 of
those votes. During the trial, van der Veen quoted that entire
conversation from Trump, including details about the hundreds of
thousands of fraudulent ballots. When I heard that, I thought it was
very clever of van der Veen to give all that evidence of election
fraud under cover of defending against that flukey charge.
If I feel in the mood, I might try to search through the trial
transcripts for van der Veen's statement. Here's the web site with
all the transcripts:
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcript-tag ... ranscripts
but there are a lot of them, if you want to do the search yourself.