Spewing more rubbish on his Truth Social network, 76-year-old former President Donald Trump shows why he no fit for duty as president now or in the future, ranting about Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story. New York Post released a story Oct. 20, 2020 saying Hunter Biden’s laptop was found abandoned at a computer repair show in Delaware containing information about his corrupt business activities in Ukraine and China. No one suppressed the story at Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post but some how wasn’t reportedly widely on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Whether the story if reported more widely would have affected the Nov. 3, 2020 presidential election is anyone’s guess. What’s known for sure is that Trump lost the election to 80-year-old President Joe Biden. Many other news stories circulated that affected the 2020 outcome.
Speaking on Truth Social, Trump says “A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allow for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump said, referring to suppression by social networks of the Hunter Biden story. Whatever embarrassment Hunter’s laptop story might have caused Joe, the electorate had made uip its mind that the country needed a change from Trump’s leadership. “Our great Founders did not want, would not condone, False and Fraudulent Elections,” Trump said. But what about the Hunter laptop story was so influential it would have changed the 2020 outcome? Yes, Hunter engaged in many shenanigans in Ukraine and in China, most likely approved by Joe. But to change the 2020 outcome, much more would have come out. Trump lives in a make-believe world about the 2020 election.
Trump forgets all about the Democrat Party and media’s condemnation for the Covid-19 national health crisis. Citizens were so fed up with pandemic lockdowns and adverse effects on the economy that they wanted it to stop. Democrats received a lot of help from 82-year-old soon-to-retire Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief of Allergy and Infectious Disease, at the National Institutes of Health. Fauci spent most of 2020 as Trump Chief Medical Adviser on the Covid-19 crisis, giving countless interviews on anti-Trump, Democrat-friendly stations, essentially discrediting Trump’s response to the Covid crisis. Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, 79, spent countless hours, like Fauci, talking about how Trump blew the Covid-19 crisis. U.S. citizens died at record rates during the 2020 presidential campaign, looking for anyway to stop the crisis, no longer having any confidence in the Trump White House.
Trump can’t fathom that the Covid-19 crisis did in his presidency with the help of Fauci and Woodward, both carefully worked with Democrats to discredit the Trump presidency during the 2020 campaign. Hunter’s laptop story was small potatoes compared with the Covid-19 crisis that wound up killing some 1.3 million U.S. citizens. When you ad to that the shocking death of George Floyd May 25, 2020, with some four months of nationwide rioting, looting and arson, Democrats had a second front from which to attack Trump as an unapologetic white nationalist. Much has been reported before, a lot of it untrue, that Trump defended white supremacists at Charlottesville in 2017. Rioting around the country gave Democrats and the press another negative story about Trump to promote to voters. By the time the election happened, voters sought a change in the White House.
No question that the biggest story of 2020 dominating the headlines was the Covid-19 national health crisis. Trump did what he could, including push the nation’s biggest vaccine makers to rush a Covid-19 vaccine. Biden and his VP Kamala Harris said on the campaign that they would never trust any vaccine developed under Trump Both said they doubted a vaccine would be ready in 2020. One week after the Nov. 3 election, Pfizer announce it was releasing its vaccine. Trump should ask why Pfizer didn’t say before the election that vaccine would be released a week later. Democrats and the press did everything possible to use the Covid-19 crisis to push for a change at the White House. Biden and Harris, ultimately, can thank the Covid-19 crisis for why voters wanted change in 2020. Hunter Biden’s laptop story was of minimal significance to voters in 2020.
Trump’s perpetual sour grapes about the 2020 election continues to hamper any chance for gaining traction in 2024. Whatever happened at Twitter or Facebook to the Hunter Biden story had nothing to do with why Trump lost the 2020 election. “MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION” from Big Tech, the Democratic National Committee and the Democrat Party, asking if the 2020 election results should be thrown out and he should be declared the winner or a new election should be held,” Trump said on Trump Social. More sour grapes from Trump shows he’s in complete denial over the real reasons he lost the 2020 election. Voters were to afraid the Covid-19 crisis to give Trump more time at the White House. Dwelling on the past shows that Trump isn’t fit to move on and mouth any responsible campaign to get back to the White House in 2024.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
