Blow back from former President Donald Trump, 76, saying the Constitution must be suspended when such massive voter fraud takes place, now raise legitimate questions about Trump’s fitness to run again in 2024. Trump has been fixated on a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, apparently exposing some of the Biden’s wheeling-and-dealing in Ukraine and China. Trump seems fixated on why social networks like Twitter and Facebook didn’t promote the story. Trump thinks that had more voters known the extent of Biden-family corruption before the 2020 election it would have affected the outcome. When Trump talks about “termination” of parts of the Constitution, it’s the exact narrative Democrats and the press accused Trump of pulling off with fake sets of electors before the Electoral College certified the vote Jan. 6, 2021 during the Capitol riots.
Democrats and the press don’t help their cause when they accuse Trump of planning and orchestrating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Impeaching Trump twice also doesn’t help the rule of law or fair application of the Constitution when House Democrats weaponize Article 1, throwing impeachment articles at Trump without any way to convict him in the U.S. Senate. Every American should recall that the first impeachment was about Trump withholding cash to Ukraine to obtain information about Hunter Biden’s work on a corrupt Ukrainian energy company. Then, after Trump spoke on the Ellipse in D.C. on Jan. 6, House Democrats again impeached Trump for “incitement of insurrection” because of the Jan. 6 riots. Trump was acquitted Feb. 13, 2021 in the U.S. Senate when nine impeachment managers couldn’t prove that Trump’s speech incited the Jan. 6 Capitol violence.
When it comes to Trump’s recent rants, he’s gone off-the-rails talking about vague conspiracies about Hunter Biden’s New York Post story. “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump said in his Truth Social network. “Our great Founders did not want, and would not condone, False and Fraudulent Elections,” Trump said, vaguely referring to the Hunter Biden laptop story and refusal of social networks or other newspapers to widely publish it. Trump’s rant about massive election fraud has now morphed to a very peripheral, inconsequential story in the New York Post that proves nothing about election fraud. Trump preaches now to a shrinking base, maybe 25% of the electorate but retreating by the day. Trump’s claims of election fraud are what Democrats call the “Big Lie.”
Democrats and the press don’t help their cause with Trump accusing him of things he didn’t do, like soon-retired Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), Co-Chair of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, who accuses Trump of planning, organizing and orchestrating the Jan. 6 Capital insurrection. If Democrats and the press would just stick to the facts, they’d be a lot better off making their case. Trump whined-and-complained about losing the Nov. 3, 2020 election but didn’t tell anyone to go to the Capitol after his speech to violently protest and prevent the Electoral College from certifying the vote. He told his audience to go to the Capitol and peacefully protest. Jan. 6 House Select Committee has been one of the most biased House hearings since the House and Senate hearings on un-American activity related to the Communist scare. Democrats and the press hurt their cause when they stretch facts to the breaking point.
Newly minted 52-year-old House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries felt free to chime in. “Republicans are going to have to work our their issues with the former president and decide whether they’re going to break from him and return to some semblance of reasonableness or continue to lean in to the extremism, no jus of Trump, but Trumpism,” Jeffries said. Jeffries was one of the House impeachment managers that insisted that Trump’s speech on the Ellipse in D.C. caused “incitement of insurrection.” Jeffries knows there’s plenty of opposition to Trump inside the Republican Party, with the GOP not needing his advice. It’s obvious from Trump’s statements about suspending the rule of law because of a New York Post story about Hunter Biden, he’s gone off-the-rails, no longer is in his right mind. Trump can’t possibly think his crazy statements play well with voters.
Whatever Trump’s mounting legal problems, whether the Jan. 6 House Select Committee or Mar-a-Lago classified documents, they pale in comparison to Trump off-the-wall comments. Trump still holds a grudge against 63-year-old former Vice President Mike Pence for not blocking the Jan. 6, 2021 Electoral College vote certification. Trump’s irrational statements on Truth Social indicate that he’s not fit for public office but that’s something GOP voters must decide. Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), 62, condemned Trump’s remarks about suspending the rule of law because of Trump’s fantasies about voter fraud. Trump lost the 2020 election because voters were fed up with his handling of the Covid-19 crisis, losing faith with his leadership. Democrats and the press did a masterful job of discrediting Trump in the 2020 election, handing the White House to a cognitively impaired president.
About the Author
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.
