Vindicated? Patel's FBI uncovers apparent Chinese communist plot to rig 2020 mail-in vote for Biden



In a New York Times magazine interview published on June 1, 2020, then-Attorney General Bill Barr acknowledged that the Department of Justice was concerned that "there are a number of foreign countries that could easily make counterfeit ballots, put names on them, send them in."

Weeks later, President Donald Trump tweeted: "RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!"

Election officials, Democrats, and the liberal media were quick to suggest that such claims weren't just "unfounded" — they were "preposterous."

Like the American liberal establishment, these strategic dismissals have not aged well.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced Monday that the bureau located intelligence reports from August 2020 that detail "alarming allegations" regarding an apparent Chinese communist plot to interfere in the presidential election for the benefit of then-candidate Joe Biden.

Nearly as damning as the allegations was their alleged cover-up by elements of the intelligence community ahead of the election.

Patel told Just the News that the newly declassified documents "include allegations of plans from the [Chinese Communist Party] to manufacture fake driver's licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots — allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public."

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on July 27, 2020, that between Jan. 1 and June 30 of that election year, CBP officers at the International Mail Facility at Chicago O'Hare International Airport had seized 1,513 shipments containing fraudulent documents, including 19,888 counterfeit U.S. drivers' licenses.

"The majority of these shipments were arriving from China and Hong Kong, with other seized shipments arriving from Great Britain and South Korea," noted CBP.

The licenses were mostly intended for college-age students across various states. In many cases, the barcode attached to the licenses actually worked. It's unclear whether some of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students at universities across the country or some of the nearly 400,000 Chinese illegal aliens were the intended recipients.

"These fraudulent identity documents can lead to identity theft, worksite enforcement, critical infrastructure protection, fraud linked to immigration-related crimes such as human smuggling and human trafficking, and these documents can be used by those individuals associated with terrorism to minimize scrutiny from travel screening measures," added CBP.

Officials who have seen the newly declassified documents told Just the News that a confidential source provided the FBI with information in summer 2020 indicating that the Chinese communist regime was mass-producing fake American drivers' licenses in order to create voter identities for Chinese nationals so that they could vote with fake mail-in ballots.

The goal was apparently to help Biden beat Trump.

An intelligence official indicated that despite the gravity of the allegations, the intel report was recalled after just a few weeks and the allegations never fully explored.

'It was a deliberate effort by the Intelligence Community to hide these facts from the public.'

The reason given was that the confidential source needed to be re-interviewed. However, it appears politics may have informed the decision.

The intelligence community's then-analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf indicated in a report on a number of election security intelligence issues that "China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference. These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the [Trump] Administration's policies, saying in effect, 'I don't want our intelligence used to support those policies.'"

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In a Jan. 7, 2021, memo, then-DNI and current CIA Director John Ratcliffe directed the attention of senators on the Select Committee on Intelligence to how the ombudsman found that "CIA Management took actions 'pressuring [analysts] to withdraw their support' from the alternative viewpoint on China 'in an attempt to suppress it. This was seen by National Intelligence Officers as politicization,’ and I agree.”

Ratcliffe went on to defend Christopher Porter — the former national intelligence officer for cyber at the National Intelligence Council, who led the U.S. intelligence community's analysis of threats to American elections — for refusing to back down from flagging the threat of Chinese election interference. Contrary to the supposed majority view, Porter apparently maintained that “China took at least some steps to undermine former President Trump’s reelection chances.”

Porter, who expressed his gratitude on Tuesday that Patel "is standing up for the truth senior Intelligence Community leaders conspired to hide,” claimed that the CIA and senior leadership at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence harassed him and drove him out of the building when he said that China had interfered in 2020.

"Just remember, this wasn’t an oversight: it was a deliberate effort by the Intelligence Community to hide these facts from the public so President Trump couldn’t defend his campaign for reelection," added Porter.

The ombudsman took pains to explain that "due to varying collection and insight into hostile state actors’ leadership intentions and domestic election influence campaigns, the definitional use of the terms 'influence' and 'interference' and associated confidence levels are applied differently by the China and Russia analytic communities.”

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Zulauf suggested further that the difference in application of these analytic terms led to "differences in the volume, frequency, and confidence levels of the intelligence coming from the China and Russia analytic communities," though they were "very similar in their potential effects."

In his report, Zulauf found that "there were attempts to politicize intelligence."

Zulauf referred to several examples, "the most egregious" of which was delivered by National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director Bill Evanina on March 10, 2020. Evanina delivered remarks that were construed as the opinion of the IC, yet analysts called the introductory statement and talking points a “gross misinterpretation” of the IC’s views.

The ombudsman also highlighted “what appears to be politically motivated editing” of a May 2020 National Intelligence Council Memo in what he described as one example of “the overall pattern of perceived politicization.”

Then-National Intelligence Chair Christopher Kojm, who later ended up on Biden’s presidential transition Agency Review Team, “crafted the language” of the memo, which reportedly “led with intelligence gaps and ‘buried the lead’ regarding what the IC does know about election security threats.”

“The result was a final product whose delayed publication meant it diverged sharply from the up-to-date IC view communicated in other product lines,” wrote Zulauf. “I have e-mail exchanges to document this delay, allusions to political repercussions, and frustration from intelligence professionals with the delay.”

“NIC officials pointed to ODNI senior officials as intervening in the changes to conclusions, saying that they were overly sensitive to political customers who saw the dissonance between China and Russia reporting and the inconsistent application of definitions,” added Zulauf.

The alleged cover-up of the Chinese election fraud plot appears to be par for the course within what the ombudsman referred to as this “hyper partisan state” of play.

It appears this narrative curation ultimately proved successful.

In March 2021, the National Intelligence Council released an assessment report stating with high confidence that “China did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US Presidential election.”

'They should be investigating and getting this ready for prosecution.'

The report noted further that the intelligence community had “no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results.”

Patel told Just the News he declassified the intel documents pertaining to the August 2020 intel report and provided them to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for further review.

The news of the documents’ location and declassification was well received by a number of Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Ana Paulina Luna (Fla.), who stated, “America needs to wake up. Trump is NOT the enemy, it’s the CCP.”

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, suggested to Blaze News that “a limited disclosure to Congress is not sufficient.”

“They’re the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” continued Howell. “They should be investigating and getting this ready for prosecution.”

Blaze News reached out to the ODNI and the White House but did not immediately receive responses. When pressed for comment, the FBI referred Blaze News to Patel's post on X.

Mike Howell is a contributor to Blaze News.

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The party of democracy just stole an election from itself



Who could’ve seen it coming?

Just 101 days into his tenure as the Democratic Party’s youngest vice chairman — and the first “Zoomer” to hold that office — party elites have already declared David Hogg’s election null and void, a complaint that sounds suspiciously like “election fraud.” It’s the latest embarrassment from a spent political party that pales in comparison to President Trump’s incredibly successful first 100 days. If Republicans are wise, they’ll take advantage of the chaos ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Democrats are champions of the system until the system doesn’t work for them, even a single time.

The complaint centers on broken parliamentary procedures — the preferred excuse of weasels and dictators alike to undermine democratic elections — specifically, DNC rules mandating “gender parity” to tip the scales in favor of female candidates running against men.

In other words, DEI did Hogg in.

Hogg, who was elected to help Democrats win back young male voters, complained that “the DNC has pledged to remove me, and this vote has provided an avenue to fast-track that effort.” Party elites, he believes, want to “defend an indefensible status quo.”

The DNC’s procedural revelation came just two days after Hogg blasted his party for driving away young men who “feel like they have to walk on eggshells ... constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated.”

Oh, the irony. More importantly, will conservatives capitalize on the blunder?

For years, Democratic politicians have told Americans that elections couldn’t be more trustworthy, that only they could safeguard democracy from MAGA Republicans and that their party represents everyday people over ultra-wealthy special interests.

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None of that is true, as this latest CCP-style election nullification reminds us.

Democrats routinely meddle with their internal elections to manufacture “victories” for party insiders, voters be damned. Remember the superdelegates in 2016 and 2020? Bernie Sanders sure does — the “oligarchs and billionaires” he complains about cost him the Democratic nomination twice by rigging obscure parliamentary rules against him.

Congressional Democrats haven’t accepted a Republican presidential victory as legitimate since 1988. House Democrats tried to nullify Republican election victories in 2016 and 2024 as illegitimate, yet called allegations of a stolen election in the extremely questionable COVID election results in 2020 “misinformation.”

As for protecting democracy, leftists tried to turn 2024 into a one-party election in many states by removing Donald Trump from the ballot. That was an inside job by D.C. operatives to thwart the will of voters, who delivered Trump a landslide victory anyway.

Don’t forget Democrats’ effort to nullify the Constitution with a “national popular vote” scheme to award all Electoral College votes to whichever candidate wins the most popular votes nationwide. In 2016, that would’ve meant awarding all 538 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton — even in states she lost or didn't bother to visit, like Wisconsin.

Amazingly, Democrats suddenly went mute about the national popular vote after November 2024, with Michigan Democrats quietly abandoning their national popular vote bill mere weeks after Trump won a popular vote majority.

This from a party controlled by a small constellation of ultra-partisan activists, agitators, lobbyists, and political operatives in the Beltway. Recall that Kamala Harris never won a primary vote anywhere — not in two presidential elections.

Massive dark money donors with strong ties to Big Business and Wall Street magnates bankrolled Harris’ campaign from the start. Even in California, she was the ultimate product of one-party machine politics: a mediocre prosecutor who failed upward at every turn by collecting enough party IOUs to earn a political promotion. Her promise was to govern as a figurehead for the faceless deep state cabal that the left no longer tries to hide.

It was only after Harris came into contact with real, flesh-and-blood Americans in places like — shudder — Nevada and Pennsylvania that she fell to pieces. Normal people, it turns out, don’t consider mindless babbling and cackling substitutes for ideas and leadership.

Now, those same special interests are behind the second Trump “resistance” to undermine the agenda most voters voted for.

There’s a common thread here: Democratic politicians and their allies attack the system as “rigged” and “unfair” when they lose. They're champions of the system until the system doesn’t work for them, even a single time; then they reveal themselves for the lying opportunists they've been all along.

Hogg, for all his inanity and gun control bona fides, was honest enough to criticize his party's toxic obeisance to the radical feminists and trans nazis who've made the world's oldest political party repulsive to young men (and most everyone else).

Hogg just proved that democracy cannot be tolerated in the Democratic Party. Dissent will be crushed with extreme prejudice. He’ll shortly be replaced by a gay black woman who pledges to enforce the party line, no questions asked.

Republicans should thank God for this gift. We have an opportunity to further expose and permanently defeat the woke mob while it's distracted by infighting, but that window is quickly closing. If this is how the Democratic Party treats its own “democracy,” America, how will it treat yours?

This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

Dems open can of worms by asking about millions of 2020 Biden voters who somehow disappeared in 2024



American citizens who in recent years raised questions about possible voter fraud in the 2020 election were censored, deplatformed, and stigmatized. The results of the 2024 election appear, however, to have vindicated such skeptics, at least in their understanding that there was something anomalous about the number of votes Joe Biden supposedly received.

The official story regarding the 2020 election is that President Donald Trump received 74.2 million votes and Biden received 81.2 million votes — a combined total of over 155 million votes.

According to Decision Desk HQ's latest count, Trump secured over 73.2 million votes in Tuesday's election and Kamala Harris received 68.6 million votes — a combined total of around 141.8 million, with some votes still left to be counted in states such as California. At the time of publication, CNN had the numbers at 72.8 million for Trump and 68.1 million for Harris.

For some sense of historical context, in 2016, Trump secured 62.9 million votes and Hillary Clinton secured 65.8 million votes, and in 2012, former Utah Sen. Mitt Romney netted 60.9 million votes and President Barack Obama secured 65.9 million votes.

Harris' performance, as measured by the popular vote, appears to be more or less in line with Clinton's and Obama's. Biden's supposed result, on the other hand, stands out like a sore thumb.

'Every f***ing time except 2020.'

On Wednesday, Democrats and their allies in the liberal media started asking how they could have record turnout in the 2024 election yet still have Harris net tens of millions fewer voters than Biden did four years ago. By raising this question and in some cases suggesting that Trump must have cheated, Democrats unwittingly prompted renewed concerns among their counterparts about the legitimacy of the previous election.

Zerohedge shared a graph on X comparing the popular vote results in the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections, writing, "Sorry to beat a dead horse, but can we go back to what happened here?"

"Yes, let's do go back. American voters want and deserve to know precisely where 81 million 'votes' appeared from and how all the official 2020 evidence collected via courts and states has never been properly analyzed, summarized and presented," wrote Rasmussen Reports. "It's a huge public topic."

BlazeTV contributor T.J. Moe responded, "There is not a single honest person in America, who believes Joe Biden get [sic] 81 million votes. Last night made it clear 2020 was stolen. History will acknowledge this."

Former Republican National Committee spokeswoman Madison Gesiotto Gilbert asked, "Where'd all the Democrats go?"

The glaring discrepancy also caught the eye of last-minute Trump supporter Joe Rogan, who noted on his show after Trump's latest landslide victory, "It's so crazy. You look at it and you go, 'Is this real?'"

Rogan noted that the consensus in the lead-up to the 2024 election was that it was "one of the most consequential elections ever," such that there was some expectation that voters would turn out for Harris in similar numbers as they supposedly had for Biden in 2020.

"Look at the difference in how many people voted for Biden in 2020. It's unprecedented. It's way higher than any other time," said Rogan. "This is what's crazy: They're consistent. Look, they're all like 60 — look at where the number is. It's all like 65 million. ... Every f***ing time except 2020, and in 2020 it goes way the f*** up."

Nathan Hughes of Arkansas, one of the Jan. 6 protesters prosecuted by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, noted, "Obama got 69M votes. Kamala got 68M votes. But they want us to believe Joe Biden somehow got 81M votes and won, despite losing nearly every bellweather county? They raided our homes and sent us to jail for asking where those extra 13M votes came from."

Hughes speculated, "They couldn't manufacture and pump them into the system like they did during Covid."

When pressed about what might have changed, YouTuber David Freiheit, known under his online pseudonym "Viva Frei," similarly suggested that this time around,

they didn't have limitless ballots like they did in 2020. In 2020 they mailed out ballots to everyone. Changed the rules for indefinite confinement, drop boxes, never did signature matches in Georgia, etc. It was designed to facilitate ballot harvesting so they could just come up with the ballots to meet whatever number was required to win the election. Plus they had the cover of Twitter which was not yet controlled by Elon. And the courts never stepped in like they did this time around.

Some conservatives are hopeful that with a Republican trifecta at the federal level, there will soon be answers and accountability.

"This entire phony thing is getting swept out," the newly liberated Steve Bannon said ahead of Trump's victory speech Wednesday morning. "Biden's getting swept out. Kamala Harris is getting swept out. MSNBC is getting swept out. The Justice Department is getting swept out. The FBI's getting swept out. You people suck, OK? And now you're going to pay the price for trying to destroy this country."

Bannon, who has long complained about alleged election shenanigans in 2020, added, "[Trump] may be empathetic. He may have a kind heart. He may be a good man. But we're not. And you deserve ... not retribution, justice."

The liberal media rushed to reassure the public the 2020 election was legitimate.

The Associated Press — which has done a great deal in recent months to undermine its credibility, particularly with false reports about Israel's defensive war against Hamas, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), and Project 2025 — published a "fact-check" Wednesday titled, "FACT FOCUS: A multimillion vote gap between 2020 and 2024 fuels false election narratives."

The AP article stated that "claims of widespread fraud in 2020 have been debunked countless times" and suggested that the final count might greatly narrow the delta between Biden's unprecedented result and Harris' more conventional result.

Once the remainder of the votes are counted and finalized, Americans will have a better sense of exactly how anomalous the 2020 election really was.

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Democrats Can’t Shut Down Election Concerns So Easily This Time Because We Have The Receipts From 2020

A 'rigged' election is one which has been manipulated or controlled by deceptive or dishonest means to ensure a specific candidate wins.

The HUGE election integrity win that has Democrats PANICKING



The Trump-Vance campaign has filed a lawsuit against Bucks County for turning away Republican voters — and they’ve won.

A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday sided with the Trump campaign and extended the in-person voting option in Bucks County, as long lines on the final day had voters fearing they were being shut out completely.

One woman was even arrested at the polling location for “influencing” voters by asking them to all stay in line rather than leave out of frustration. Voters now have until Friday.

“MASSIVE. We just won in Bucks County PA. Judge just ruled that Josh Shapiro’s buddies violated state election code by blocking people from voting with uniformed officers - we all saw the videos. Early in person Voting is now EXTENDED until 5pm. Get back in line, Bucks!” Jack Posobiec wrote in a post on X.


“Why were these people out there just cutting the lines short in the first place Chris, in Pennsylvania?” Jill Savage asks Christopher Bedford on “Blaze News Tonight.”

“Well, it was active voter suppression,” Bedford explains. “And right now, all we know is the police officers who were sent there, who made arrests, who blocked people, and I’m really curious.”

“The Democrat judge has said votes were suppressed here, that’s why they elongated this. Now, Bucks County is an interesting spot just outside of Philadelphia. It’s always been divided, long before Donald Trump,” he continues, adding, “Someone gave the order. They can’t hide behind that.”

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What if Harris gets away with it?



On Nov. 5, the American experiment in republican government may well come to an end. Over the past two decades, we have been living through a slow-motion communist revolution. Acts of political warfare have become commonplace. The most devastating has been the corruption of our election system.

Having vilified Donald Trump more than any man in American history, the American communists and their allies in the Democratic Party (and the communist world abroad) may well be able to steal the 2024 election. One thing needs to be made clear: If this happens, they will have created an ungovernable country.

We may well be in for the kind of murder, mayhem, and sabotage that the American left has so brazenly embraced.

I have two kinds of colleagues: those who believe it is going to be a wave election and therefore a blowout for President Trump; and those who believe the election can be stolen, given the massive cyber vulnerability of our electronic voting system and the refusal of blue-state governors and secretaries of state to build a transparent, same-day voting system. At this stage of the game, I believe it will be a blowout win for President Trump. But I realize that it may well be stolen for reasons I describe in my American Mind essay “The Diminishing Likelihood of a Fair Election.”

The RealClearPolitics average of polls has Donald Trump either up or tied in the seven swing states. Very few if any undecided voters remain at this point. In these polls, Trump has historically “underperformed,” as the pollsters say. This means that a two-point lead by President Trump is likely a four- or five-point lead. Perhaps more telling are the right track-wrong track polls that ask Americans whether or not the country is headed in the right direction. As of October 29, only 27% of the American people believe the country is on the right track.

This is historically low. Never has an incumbent vice president won an election for president with these numbers. That 27% is obviously the Democratic base: hard-core progressives, communists, abortionists, and transgenderists. Only they could believe the country is on the right track. Simple math would suggest that even much of the traditional Democratic Party base believes the country is not going in ways that are conducive to the happiness and welfare of the American people.

Yes, but we are told that Donald Trump is a racist, sexist beast virtually indistinguishable from Adolf Hitler. How can this man win?

This caricature, however effective it may have been in 2016 and 2020, has lost its effectiveness in 2024. The first Trump administration was not an exercise in the exploitation of blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities. It ushered in economic good times for these groups, who enjoyed greater prosperity and freedom than at any other time in the history of the United States. Their lived experience demonstrated to them that President Trump saw them not as a problem but rather as an integral part of American society and economic life. Charges of racism, ridiculous on their face, have grown meaningless to everyday Americans.

Deep state on defense

Then there is the matter of Kamala Harris.

Harris was an obscure vice president, previously unpopular even among the Democratic Party base. Her public performances are nothing short of bizarre, ranging from frenetic to what can only be described as addled, possibly by drugs or alcohol.

She is not, in short, running a credible campaign. Even within left-wing popular culture, she comes off as little more than a joke. Does anyone believe that if President Biden had dropped out of the race last year and there had been a competitive primary season, Kamala Harris would today be the nominee of the Democratic Party? She would likely have done little better than she did in 2020. The country is quite alive to this fact.

So the question “What if Kamala wins?” must be answered in light of the fact that she should not win by any conventional understanding of polls and public opinion.

But will Harris win? A substantial number of serious people believe that the 2024 election can indeed be stolen. Very little has changed in the seven swing states that decided the 2020 election. If anything remains obvious, it is that there are substantial numbers of deep-state operatives within the Biden administration who know that if President Trump is elected, they will most certainly face investigation — and for those who have committed crimes, prosecution.

Violence is not an option. But a political disintegration of red America from blue America is not impossible.

The accusation that a second Trump administration would more broadly investigate journalists and purveyors of popular broadcast media is of course absurd. To the contrary, Trump would enjoy their collective misery as they watched him Make America Great Again.

But there are people within the intelligence community and the Department of Justice who crossed all manner of lines in their treatment of President Trump and his allies such as Steve Bannon (just released from prison). Likewise, the Secret Service’s failures to protect Trump this summer constitute an astonishing stain upon this republic.

So a large number of powerful people within our government have a vested interest in seeing Trump lose. For all of FBI Director Christopher Wray’s warnings of Russian and Chinese influence operations in the election, one doubts that a finger will be lifted to stop either country, or their surrogates within the drug cartels and dark money groups, from working to alter the results of the election.

A looming legitimacy crisis

Clearly our American oligarchs on Wall Street, in Hollywood, and in Silicon Valley have decided that Kamala Harris is not their cup of tea. Witness the fact that the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and USA Today did not endorse Kamala Harris. But they may not have a say if nation-state actors or dark money groups genuinely want Trump defeated. Our system is not designed to stop determined adversaries of a free and fair election.

So if Kamala Harris does win, it will, as of today, be the result of a stolen election. Under these circumstances, America will become an ungovernable country. Large groups of Americans will believe their vote no longer counts. We have the experience this summer of Venezuela, where it was clear that the opposition party won — so said the Biden administration — only to have the Maduro regime keep hold of power by affirming the fraudulent results and gutting it out publicly against domestic and world opinion. One imagines the Harris campaign learned a lesson from that.

For four years, the Biden-Harris administration has attempted to bolster its shaky legitimacy through the manipulation of economic data and crime statistics. Despite ludicrous claims to the contrary, everyday Americans are not better off — as that 27% “right track” figure clearly shows.

Regardless of who wins, Americans must prepare themselves and their families for what could be great societal dislocation.

Imagine another administration suffering not merely from a lack of but from a crisis in legitimacy. Americans in large numbers will believe they have had their country stolen from them and may choose no longer to participate in the body politic. Given the lack of transparency within our election system, this type of attitude by Americans would be likely to persist even if Harris did win a completely fair election.

This is a worst-case scenario, but certainly possible under the circumstances. Americans can be a very rough lot of people when they want to be. You can rig one election before their eyes, but can you rig two? And can you rig the second one so openly and brazenly and expect that the American people will not push back? How they push back is another matter, but it would serve the interest of America’s enemies to face a nation even more deeply divided than ours already is. Violence is not an option. But a political disintegration of red America from blue America is not impossible.

Elon Musk to the rescue?

I have three key recommendations, most of which rely on Elon Musk, who has the resources and platform to make them a reality.

First, establish a whistleblower program that offers a multimillion-dollar reward for concrete evidence of nation-state-level efforts to tamper with the election, whether through counterfeit mail-in ballots, fraudulent Election Day ballots, overseas ballots, or cyberattacks on our electronic voting system. While electronic voting companies may have good intentions, dismissing the possibility of cyber manipulation is naïve. Any computer-based system carries some potential for exploitation. A large-scale whistleblower program could help uncover the truth if such interference is occurring.

Second, Musk could launch a “Decision Desk 2024” on X, both in Spaces and on the “America” video platform. We shouldn’t leave the announcement of election results solely to the legacy broadcast media, as if they hold some divine authority. Mainstream outlets — from Fox News to MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS — have become propaganda arms of the American deep state. By doing so, they’ve disqualified themselves from an objective role.

Elon Musk can build a team of respected journalists and analysts to perform their own calculations and judgments about who won the election. He and his platform have a greater reach both nationally and internationally than the “mainstream” media. Imagine Elon Musk with Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the like examining the results. Not only would they be better trusted, but the democratization of the results by all the users of X would serve the American people better as well.

Finally, regardless of who wins, Americans must prepare themselves and their families for what could be great societal dislocation. We cannot ignore the potential, in the days and weeks after the election, for violence fueled by American communists, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, pro-Palestinian jihadists, and the 100,000 Chinese Special Forces who may have come over our open borders over the last three and a half years. We may well be in for the kind of murder, mayhem, and sabotage that the American left has so brazenly embraced.

We may also see China, Iran, and Russia take advantage of this situation by making moves on Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine during America’s interruption of leadership and civil unrest. In other words, Americans must be prepared.

It is my sincere hope that Kamala Harris will concede on election night after she has lost. I pray for the country if she lets the counting continue for days and weeks on end and nefarious behavior ensues. That may yet be in the cards, but the country does not deserve it.

Let us pray to God instead that the decency of the American people prevails and that there can be a peaceful transfer of power after a sufficiently fair election.

Editor’s note: A version of this article appeared originally at the American Mind.

‘The cheat factor’: Don’t ignore Bret Weinstein’s election warning to Joe Rogan



There’s no doubt Donald Trump is a popular candidate among patriotic Americans — but is he popular enough to win the election?

In a clip on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Rogan asked Bret Weinstein this question, and Weinstein’s answer came in the form of a warning.

“Let’s imagine it is dirty, and you really can manipulate elections,” Rogan says to Weinstein. “How much can you manipulate it by? Can you manipulate it by 30%?”

“To your point about how much can they cheat? I call that factor, which none of us can put a number on,” Weinstein answers, “I call it the cheat factor.”

“One of the things that I’m trying to convince people of is that it’s not hopeless because they can cheat, but it means that you have to succeed at a level that exceeds their capacity to erase it,” he continues.

“Like, maybe they can cheat by 10%,” Rogan responds.

“Right. And what we know, and I think actually we owe Trump a huge debt of gratitude for proving something that I couldn’t have told you if it was true because he won the presidency, which is, is there still enough democracy left in the system for something to upend the plan,” Weinstein explains.

Vivek Ramaswamy agrees with Weinstein and tells Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” that “we need a landslide” in order to win the election in the face of potential cheating.

“We are skating on thin ice. I think that 50.1 is not a sufficient margin, but even for the purpose of governing, I think we’re going to need to do a lot better than that in order to really have decisive change in this country,” he adds.


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Border Czar Kamala Harris Embraced Socialist Honduran Leader Who's Now Endorsing Maduro's Stolen Election

The Honduran leader whom Vice President Kamala Harris embraced in an effort to stem the flow of illegal aliens on the southern border has joined Russia, China, and Cuba in backing Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro's fraudulent electoral victory.

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SCOTUS Immunity Ruling Further Delays Trump Trial In Jack Smith’s D.C. Lawfare

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 6-3 decision that presidents have 'at least presumptive immunity' for all 'official acts.'