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Dominion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dominion Voting Systems<\/em> is a manufacturer of voting machines.  That\u2019s a pretty limited industry.  Most people just know that they go vote at a polling place and use some form of machine to do it.  Who, where, what made that machine isn\u2019t really ever a concern.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Dominion<\/em> has become a more familiar name to many after the 2020 election.\u00a0\u00a0Donald Trump, then President of the United States, and his staff claimed that the election was \u201crigged\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0They\u00a0insisted that the Dominion<\/em> machines were somehow fixed to \u201csteal the election\u201d for Joe Biden.\u00a0\u00a0This became the basis of Trump\u2019s \u201cStop the Steal\u201d campaign, and it led to the Insurrection of January 6th. And even worse, it led to so much of the distrust many have in our institutions today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since that time, I\u2019ve always wondered what they were thinking.\u00a0\u00a0Did Donald Trump and his staff actually believe all of that?\u00a0\u00a0Or did Trump have, from the stress of Covid and campaigning and losing, some kind of breakdown that his staff just went along?\u00a0\u00a0Or did everyone, the President, his family and his staff, know that they were making it all up?\u00a0\u00a0Were they willing to destroy the results of a legitimate American election in order to maintain power?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press Conference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On November 17th, two weeks after the election, lawyers representing the Trump Campaign held a press conference.\u00a0\u00a0Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Florida attorney Sydney Powell spoke at the Republican National Committee headquarters. They outlined how Dominion<\/em> used a software from a company called Smartmatic<\/em> to rig the election, with financing from Venezuela.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019ll remember the scene:\u00a0\u00a0Giuliani was sweating so profusely that hair dye ran down his face.\u00a0\u00a0Not only did the two lawyers lend credence to the claims, but they placed the conference at the RNC to put the Party’s weight behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What wasn’t revealed at the press conference: on November 15th, two days before, the communications staff of the Trump Campaign issued an internal memo about the so-called “evidence”.\u00a0\u00a0The memo\u2019s conclusion: Dominion<\/em> voter machines were NOT rigged, and did not even use the Smartmatic<\/em> software.\u00a0\u00a0But two days later, Giuliani and Powell and the RNC went ahead with the lie. They knew or should have known it wasn’t true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Now Know<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How do we know that? The\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0broke the story yesterday. An employee of Dominion is suing the Trump Campaign and several of their representatives for defamation.\u00a0\u00a0It is a multi-million dollar lawsuit, and like any legal action, the lawyers from both sides are required to provide \u201cdiscovery\u201d of information before the proceedings can continue.\u00a0\u00a0The November 15th memo was part of the information provided to the Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To put it bluntly: they knew, in real time, that they were lying.  They knew, that the information that were using to stir up \u201cStop the Steal\u201d was false.  They determined that it was more important to try to illegitimately keep Donald Trump as President, then to follow the Constitution of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is after former Attorney General and Trump supporter Bill Barr, FBI Director Chris Wray, and the head of the Department of Homeland Security cyber-security division Chris Krebs; all told Trump and his staff that there wasn\u2019t voting fraud that could alter the election’s outcome.\u00a0\u00a0His staff separately reported the same thing to him as well. \u00a0 At least by November 15th, they all knew that the election wasn\u2019t rigged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un-Patriotic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

No one from the campaign countered what Trump, Giuliani and Powell were saying.\u00a0\u00a0They put their jobs and loyalty to Trump ahead of their nation, and allowed the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d effort to continue.\u00a0\u00a0This led to the Insurrection of January 6th: bad enough.\u00a0\u00a0But, just as badly, it led to a significant percentage of Americans who now believe that our current President is a fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patriotism is love for a country.  We know patriots from their courageous acts and sacrifices, starting with Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary War American officer who was caught by the British spying in New York. As he approached the gallows, he said, \u201cI only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is simple courage and patriotism.  He wasn\u2019t worried about a \u201ctweet\u201d against him, or even losing his job.  He was about to die.  But the members of the Trump family and staff, and those other American \u201cleaders\u201d from Congressman Mo Brooks to Senator Josh Hawley, who went along with the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d campaign, knew.  They knew it was a lie, and they were willing to lie to America to get the power they wanted.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treachery<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s easy to throw around words like treason.  Treason has a legal definition, to give aid or bear arms against the nation.  So what those \u201cleaders\u201d did wasn\u2019t legally treasonous.  But the common definition of treason is to go against one\u2019s country.  I can think of no greater example of doing that, than to knowingly lie in order to overturn the Constitutional process of election.   It was \u201ccommon\u201d treason \u2013 and it was treachery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t \u201cnew-news\u201d to most of us.  But there, on paper in the Court documents revealed by the New York Times<\/em>, is the \u201cproof\u201d of what most of us already figured out.  I wish that my all-so-committed \u201cTrump\u201d friends could read and realize what that means.  But it\u2019s in the New York Times<\/em>, and I am sure there will be some slant from right-wing media to make the lies more palatable.  Besides, so many are so pledged to so many lies: for them there\u2019s no turning back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dominion Dominion Voting Systems is a manufacturer of voting machines.  That\u2019s a pretty limited industry.  Most people just know that they go vote at a polling place and use some form of machine to do it.  Who, where, what made that machine isn\u2019t really ever a concern.   But Dominion has become a more familiar name to many after … Continue reading “No New News”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nNo New News : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There has always been the question: did Trump know he was lying about the election, or was he fooled. 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