Posted on 10/10/2018 2:33:08 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Had a Secret Plan in Case Trump Rejected 2016 Election Results
By Mattathias Schwartz
In October 2016, senior staff in the Obama White House discussed what they should do if Hillary Clinton won the November election and Donald Trump refused to accept the result as legitimate. They had cause to be worried. At that time, Trump had openly speculated that the election might be “rigged.” During his final debate with Clinton on October 19, he said that his opponent “should never have been allowed to run” and declined to answer the question of whether he would concede. “I’ll keep you in suspense,” the Republican nominee said.
“It wasn’t a hypothetical,” Ben Rhodes, Obama’s senior aide and speechwriter, told Intelligencer. “Trump was already saying it on the campaign trail.”
The Obama White House plan, according to interviews with Rhodes and Jen Psaki, Obama’s communications director, called for congressional Republicans, former presidents, and former Cabinet-level officials including Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, to try and forestall a political crisis by validating the election result. In the event that Trump tried to dispute a Clinton victory, they would affirm the result as well as the conclusions reached by the U.S. intelligence community that Russian interference in the election sought to favor Trump, and not Clinton. Some Republicans were already aware of Russian interference from intelligence briefings given to leaders from both parties during the chaotic months before the election. “We wanted to handle the Russia information in a way that was as bipartisan as possible,” Rhodes said.
The existence of the postelection plan has not been previously reported. A July 2017 op-ed by Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, refers to Obama directing his staff to “prepare possible responses” to claims of Russian interference in the election.
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This sort of feels like they know what’s coming, and they are going to project it back on to 45.
This was part of the plan BEFORE the election was ever held: “......they would affirm the result as well as the conclusions reached by the U.S. intelligence community that Russian interference in the election sought to favor Trump, and not Clinton....”.
But Mueller’s still trying to figure out how Trump colluded with the Russians.... RIGHT
They probably expected they would NEED a plan, because they felt that they had enough election fraud lined up to assure a win by HRC.
THANKS TO GOD EVERY DAY that they were wrong!
“The Russians should have opted to get Hillary in; they’d be walking all over her.”
If the Russians really hated us as much as everyone says, this is exactly what they would have done. How could the Russians NOT have spotted Clinton as the better candidate for THEIR interests???
I knew when he took Florida. Granny’s goose was cooked when they started calling counties north of Dade for POTUS. I went to bed knowing it was a huge win.
So now we have a dual purpose black op run by Brennan, Obama, Clinton and McCain. One to deal with a candidate who refused to concede and one for “insurance” in case he won - coup if he won and here we are.
Put these bastards in prison already...sheesh
Didn’t Gore refuse to accept the results of the election?
Yeah like a bunch of former whatevers has any Constitutional authority. To hell with all these creeps.
And who hasn’t accepted the result of the election for almost two years? Hillary and her nest of vipers. Remember when she told DJT that not accepting the results of the election would be “an attack on democracy?” Now she’s telling the Democrat thugs to keep fighting the President. What a hypocrite.
“We wanted to handle the Russia information in a way that was as bipartisan as possible,” Rhodes said.
Uh...What? And, this numbnut expects ANYONE at this point will believe this tripe?
Absolutely astounding. No doubt they had contingencies in place, but Rhodes’ comment only cements the notion that they were going after Trump...win or lose.
Well wait a minute..if this is in response to Hillary willing and Trump not conceding then why in the world would Trump bring up "russian interference"? Gee isn't HE the one that Russia colluded with?
LOL. What was his plan when Clinton supporters rejected the election results and went crazy? That actually happened, and is not some hypothetical written up in scary language by NY Mag. Actually, we know his plan — illegitimize the Trump presidency with the Russia probe.
So they had the Russian Collusion lies ready to go in either case.
Obama should never have been allowed to run for President.
He is not a natural born citizen.
“...in the event that things go down a dark path...”
WOW! Very prescient, but 180 degrees out.
Trump had three states which he narrowly won-- Pennsylvania (44,292 votes), Wisconsin (22,748) and Michigan (10,704). All three had large urban centers which manufactured phony votes for Hillary. Still, Trump's margin of victory in his three closest states were more substantial that JFK's.
Nevertheless, Nixon bowed out gracefully.
They were gonna appeal to the GOPe to calm down the voters.
This is the mother of all Fake News tales.
It’s a wonder nobody has ever brought that up.
As I recall, raptors were pack animals that hunted in groups with surprising intelligence. To that end, Trump is a pack of raptors that surrounds and devours the enemy by himself.
Now, I may be wrong. I was wrong once, back in ‘92. Has to do with an old girlfriend.
But Mueller’s still trying to figure out how Trump colluded with the Russians.... RIGHT
Trump needs to call a presser and explain this to the American people and end this charade. After the election.
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