How to Steal an Election - Part III

by Chris Farrell
October 23, 2020 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16677/how-to-steal-an-election-part-iii

Here comes the offensive information campaign. Election night results indicate a Trump victory. The Left wants to keep counting and counting and counting ballots until they get the number that lets them claim victory -- they want election "season."
Trump and his campaign have sufficient state election returns and polling data to claim victory. Trump tweets: "VICTORY!" Twitter takes it down and locks his account, and those of his campaign. He goes out to the campaign hotel ballroom for a victory speech and only OneAmerica News Network carries the speech. Trump's proclamations are branded "fake news." Zero coverage. Networks and other news media outlets show poll workers and election officials counting and counting and counting "contested" ballots. The news media and the social media giants will not let Trump win. That is not the headline they will allow. Efforts by the Trump campaign to claim victory and certify election results are subjected to endless lawsuits -- all of which are reported on by media outlets, because Trump has (supposedly) been caught cheating, of course.
You see how this plays out. When the truth cannot be reported, it is worse than being lied to about what is truly happening. The insidious plot of the Left can irretrievably twist the constitution and the nation in just a very few days. Fight for the truth.

The social media tech titans are doing their best to make sure the story of the Hunter Biden laptops, and the damning records contained therein, does not spread. Twitter has suspended the New York Post's account because of the story and locked the Trump campaign's account over a Hunter Biden-related video. (Photo of logos by Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images)

We are less than two weeks from election day, so here is your final installment to help you understand the theft of the upcoming presidential election. We previously established the Left's documented plan to disrupt the 2020 presidential election, and then examined some of the information operations techniques deployed against the American public to persuade and influence the election "season" ahead.

In the past few days, we have been treated to an information suppression operation by the Left and their public relations arm (the "journalists" of the news media and social media tech giants) -- that perfectly demonstrates the countermeasures that can be deployed to actively deny the truth. This important defensive technique -- swarming and shutting down reporting on a subject by furiously ignoring it, or reporting it as "debunked," "discredited," or "foreign intervention." The offensive application is discussed below, but first, some context.

There is little doubt that Gatestone Institute readers are the sort of folk who will have successfully gained access to the reports, first broken by the New York Post, of the Hunter Biden laptops and the damning records contained therein. The social media tech titans are doing their best to make sure the story does not spread. Twitter has suspended the New York Post's account because of the story and locked the Trump campaign's account over a Hunter Biden-related video.

Hunter appears to have explicitly leveraged his father's position as Vice President -- and there was "consideration" planned for the "Big Guy." It seems as if Joe Biden knew or should have known what was going on. Forget the idea that reporters would pressure the Biden campaign to give substantive answers to any questions regarding this scandal. The only tough question Biden has been asked recently was what flavor milkshake he bought. You are supposed to believe this is "normal."

Here is why you are supposed to unblinkingly swallow this nonsense: You have been psychologically conditioned to accept it. Zero analysis. Zero questioning. Consume. Digest. Accept. Ask for more, politely. Be satiated.

In previous election-theft articles, we explained how the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) report and the subsequent news media reporting about it are components of psychological warfare within the broader Leftist national information warfare campaign. We reviewed how the goal is to break down and weaken Trump support before, during and after election day. We explained how TIP has coordinated a dishonest storyline as the official narrative of the 2020 presidential election and alerted the militant wing of their movement to seize control of the lead-up to election day and beyond.

Here comes the offensive information campaign. Election night results indicate a Trump victory. The Left wants to keep counting and counting and counting ballots until they get the number that lets them claim victory -- they want election "season." Trump and his campaign have sufficient state election returns and polling data to claim victory. Trump tweets: "VICTORY!" Twitter takes it down and locks his account, and those of his campaign. He goes out to the campaign hotel ballroom for a victory speech and only OneAmerica News Network carries the speech. Trump's proclamations are branded "fake news." Zero coverage. Networks and other news media outlets show poll workers and election officials counting and counting and counting "contested" ballots. The news media and the social media giants will not let Trump win. That is not the headline they will allow. Efforts by the Trump campaign to claim victory and certify election results are subjected to endless lawsuits -- all of which are reported on by media outlets, because Trump has (supposedly) been caught cheating, of course.

You see how this plays out. When the truth cannot be reported, it is worse than being lied to about what is truly happening. The insidious plot of the Left can irretrievably twist the constitution and the nation in just a very few days. Fight for the truth.

Chris Farrell is a former counterintelligence case officer. For the past 20 years, he has served as the Director of Investigations & Research for Judicial Watch. The views expressed are the author's alone, and not necessarily those of Judicial Watch.

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20 Reader Comments

Matt W • Oct 26, 2020 at 08:57

This is why Trump should give up on Pennsylvania now. Ballots will be counted there for days after the election and signatures don't even need to match.
He doesn't need it! Hold everything he won before and let Pennsylvania and Wisconsin go, that's still 274....cand they will all be decided on election night as they can't receive ballots after election day.
I wouldn't waste one more minute in Pennsylvania....go to Michigan, N.C. AZ and Florida.....

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Mary • Oct 26, 2020 at 08:12

Trump needs to win in a landslide to make any dispute look very reprehensible. Obviously there are a lot of shy voters not telling the pollsters how they're voting.

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Tony Dice • Oct 25, 2020 at 01:25

Chris,

What is your suggestion for fighting this theft. ie, we know what's coming, but how to we spread the word when they're jamming our signal?

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Crazy Yoda • Oct 24, 2020 at 22:35

So what I'm reading and hearing we are screwed... Unless of course Trump wins by such margins it would negate any cheating afterwards. I don't smoke or drink but by election night I probably will be doing both.

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Peter • Oct 24, 2020 at 13:12

For some time, Hannity and others have been arguing that the corrupt people in the branches of the Justice Department are a small percentage at the very top, not the 99% in the lower strata. I am seriously wondering how that can be true, when so many interrelated shenanigans are taking place throughout the government. How can so much corruption (Brennan, Comey, Hillary, McCabe, etc., etc.) go unpunished while more information keeps coming up to the surface, (also to be discussed and dismissed with yawn)? Fellow citizens, I am not a pessimist, but we have been had, as even the most doubting will find out, if Biden gets elected. If Biden was milking the Vice President's position, what do you think that an "unpunished" President Biden will do?

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Randy

Peter • Oct 24, 2020 at 20:35

EXACTLY right!! The ones at the bottom support the ones at the top! Just like I was trying to explain the other day, there is no such thing as a "good cop", because whenever they see one of their fellows committing a crime, they all shut up about it and provide no evidence not testimony against them. They even lie under oath!! They all lock arms and march in unison to the same tune! If they were good, then they would not be cops, because they would quit the force and keep their honor and integrity intact. But they all sell their soul for thirty pieces of silver every day they put on that uniform and strap on that gun they use to kill people who disagree with them.

Randy

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billk

Peter • Oct 25, 2020 at 01:03

I have heard Hannity say that countless times over the last 4 years, and over that time that statement has gradually become laughable. Hannity has never corrected himself, so I have to ask myself if he's just stupid or part of the problem.

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Freddy K

Peter • Oct 25, 2020 at 09:48

The claims of the rank and file are not corrupt in the FBI has been shredded.

Lets face it, the DOJ and FBI have deemed everything the Obama admin did, everything Clintons, FBI, DOJ, CIA, Bidens, and what all the conspirators did, was not illegal. It is not illegal to trample on a US citizens rights to unmask them by a US ambassador, or am assistant treasury guy, or the white house maid at this point. But if you get framed, a deep state leftist judge will not allow charges to be dropped against you when there is no prosecutor to continue the case.

But if you support Trump and you get entrapped, you lose your house, they go after your family to force a confession of guilt and you go to jail. Any sane person can see what has been going on and it seems no one can do anything about it, at least they can't put anyone in jail for it.

The bad thing for the deep sate is after 2016 voters know their vote can count, that is why we are seeing unprecedented rally's in the streets for Trump and the silent majority not allowing to be silenced anymore.

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Peter

Randy • Oct 25, 2020 at 11:33

I don't completely agree with all of your comment, Randy, and for the following reason. It is well known that, where crime isn't punished, crime abounds. (Hillary, Soros, Comey, et al). But we all want to think of ourselves as honorable and honest people, until we find ourselves in a position where our support for our family and our retirement is threatened, and now we join those who look the other way. Self interest comes first, but where laws are strictly enforced with impartiality, this problem is diminished and we convince ourselves that we are one of those fine people. Maybe, but by legal compulsion! The only exceptions are those who will forfeit personal advantage for the sake of "right", and how many of those do we know? The martyrs of the first century A.D. and war heroes. If this is not so, let's see how far a Presidential candidate would go in an election, if he openly stated that abortion is simply the murder of the unborn, or that homosexuality is not normal expression, but a perversion of normal expression. I know of none with such courage that made it.

No aspirant to power is truly honest. Honest people will give you the truth, regardless of consequences. As you can also see, it is almost impossible to know what really happened in a given skirmish with police, since the fake news will distort or withhold facts, to accomplish their agenda. The whole country went wild over George Floyd, and the behavior of the cops was totally unjustified and should be punished. But the man was dying already, from Fentanyl and other drug overdose. And to brand all cops as basically corrupt is to swing the pendulum to the other side of error.

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Rick L • Oct 23, 2020 at 22:35

It's one thing for there to be substantial evidence that Hunter Biden and his father criminally profited from selling the influence of the Vice Presidency to malign foreign entities.

But to be dumb enough to leave laptops into a repair shop on which his email archive was accessible is beyond belief. To say nothing of the reported debauched images of underage girls in sexualised poses and copious usage of class A drugs.

It's not far-fetched to picture Hunter Biden strung-out on a bed in a hotel room in Ukraine, Russia or China whilst intelligence operatives copied over all the data from his smart-phone and computer.

The alleged evidence on Hunter's laptop points to Joe and his son being partners in crime. If they were conspiring together in the sale of Vice Presidential influence, then Hunter could well have had some very dark information in relation to his father on his devices.

Only God knows what type of scandalous information unfriendly countries hold on Hunter Biden and his family. Was there ever a politician in the United States that was more a blackmail risk then what Joe Biden might be if he wins the Presidency?

And to think that a large percentage of the American population might not know about the evidence of corruption on this laptop until archives are unsealed in fifty or sixty years time.
It's the type of stuff right out of a B-movie about the former Soviet Union.

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Bonnie • Oct 23, 2020 at 18:52

I will be so relieved if and when Amy Coney Barrett gets confirmed as associate justice to the Supreme Court on Monday. I am praying this does not get derailed. This election may end up there and we do not need a split 4-4 vote.

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Harvey L • Oct 23, 2020 at 09:43

I would hope the American people are not as dumb as the Democrats think they are. One of the problems is that they get the truth and not the fake news put out by the media and their cohorts .

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ed_in_Texas • Oct 23, 2020 at 09:07

It remains to be seen if the revelations of Mr. Bublinski late yesterday afternoon will cause a break in the MSM/Big Tech news blackout of information about the Biden Crime Family. The President did what he could to give the voters watching the "debate" a clue to follow for further information. Unfortunately the alleged moderator did a fair to middlin job of "moderating" as we've known it in 2020, shutting down the President when he brings up embarrassing to Biden items.

With Both Rasmussen and Zogby having the President above 50% in Job Approval (52% and 51% respectively), with 50% being the "magic number" where incumbent Presidents consistently win re-election. Twelve days before the 2012 election His Imperial Executiveness, Emperor Barak the Nonpareil was at 50%. And the President pushed Quid Pro Joe to actually throw his former boss under the bus to respond to the attacks of having done nothing for eight years.

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cammo99 • Oct 23, 2020 at 08:18

The debate.
I was watching our President deal with Biden. Before the debate, Chris Wallace tried to intimidate the President and told him not to bring Hunter Biden up, with sort of an or else. Now I know why the President shut down the 60 minutes interview on Chris's Daddy's old show. But "Uncle Joe" did bring up Russia and accused President Trump of the same things Mueller and Shiff failed to do with Nanny's blessing. I loved that President Trump went right back at him after what these people put our elected President through and this nation. I'll be even more honest I don't know if I care if President Trump is 100% factual. I was angry when "Uncle Joe" brought up the Iran and Russia attempts to influence the election in President Trump's favor. For the last 4 years they accused President Trump of colluding with Putin now he's accusing him of not talking to him? And if President Trump had made public he was speaking with Putin, as President of the USA, they would say Trump was colluding. That is how the DNC constructs all of its deception, and not for the good of American citizens. For the sake of growing their own fortunes through government growth. And the Iranians? How much money did bum Obama Biden give them? For what? To advance not peace in the ME and Libya, or did they give them that money to influence elections? Had to turn it off I have a new TV , a gift from family I don't want it to be broken by a UFO. Let me just say to Joe:

"Villain, I have done thy mother. ...Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog! ...Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish! ...Thou art a boil, a plague sore. ...Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon. I am sick when I look on thee."

-- Shakespeare. thanks Willie I don't have the words.
One more point the Iranian threats and the Ruskies too, are aimed at Trump voters but I'm more concerned about the millions of fraudulent illegals and criminal felons voting DNC, and the dead to boot.

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Roger Rule • Oct 23, 2020 at 08:11

Yes, Chris Farrell, you are spot on with your analysis! Thank you and Gatestone for thinking ahead for us! And, that is why Trump needs a huge 'Landslide Victoy', or this election will be stolen. But that is nothing new! Such has been the case going back many elections, but on a much smaller scale. Who can forget 'Hanging Chads', and counting and recounting in the Bush Gore election cycle of 2020? It is just that now, the Dems and their acolytes are totally out in public with their 'Cheating Ways'!

But, me thinks they have made a disastrous blunder that will sink them in this election and possibly for decades into the future!? Because, the American people are not as dumb as the Left thinks they are! And their control of 'The Message' is not nearly as complete as they are hoping and needing! And, now that the gloves are totally off. when Trump does win in a 'Landslide', he will have a heavy mandate to 'Drain the Swamp' even faster and harder than he has to this point!

Here is the bottom-line truth that this election season is revealing. The Dems and their acolytes (MSM, Deep State, Big Tech, Wall Street, etc., have 3 character flaws being laid wide open for 'We The People' to see in living color! 1) Their 'Evil Propensity' to lie continuously, and about nearly everything! 2) Their 'Lust for Power and Wealth' of outrageously pandemic proportions! And, 3), they are 'Dumber than a Bucket of Rocks', to believe they can pull off their destruction of this nation and the 'American Dream', so easily! They deserve an old fashioned 'B-- Kicking!' of epic proportions! And one is coming! Because "The Lord moves in mysterious ways." And once again, His agent is still POTUS! And He is not yet done using DJT to give this nation a golden opportunity to get 'Our Act Together', ... finally! So, let's just do it! MAGA & KAG!

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David • Oct 23, 2020 at 07:55

You are right. The tough question: "What flavour milkshake did you buy?" "Er, you know: The thing"
Is Fox News the only Trump supporting media?
I notice the 'right not to publish' does look like limiting the freedom of speech. Is this to prevent legal action?

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Lyle Joseph Hartman

David • Oct 25, 2020 at 06:35

OAN is a good network.

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Dan • Oct 23, 2020 at 05:36

From this Biden laptop scandal, we should be aware of the China CCP penetration to American media; such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and to the politician, finance and business. We have to really aware of the CCP's real intention.

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Russell Hicks • Oct 23, 2020 at 05:25

It's no use whining now about the 'lying by omission', fake news and outrageous interference by the news media and social media platforms. They are the useful idiots of Chinese Marxists, the puppet masters behind 90% of leftist ideas. Trump & the GOP should have been getting hugely important messages across to the voting public every minute of the day for the last four years, not in the final weeks before the election. A Democrat win is the end of the USA, it's pretty well finished now anyway with so much debt and the Chinese know it.

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Fishers

Russell Hicks • Oct 23, 2020 at 08:13

Easy to say. President Trump has been fighting a corrupt administration, a Marxist House, Never Trumpers in the Senate, CIA, FBI and an oppressive media for the last 4 years. If the American people prefer to watch Netflix and Football over getting informed, there is nothing else that Trump or loyal GOPer's (Nunes) could do to "get the message out."

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