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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And WHO says “there is no GOD?”
[ That pales in comparison to the attempted coup plan they hatched when Trump won. ]
and were planning well before trump said what he said too! Never forget that.
During the third debate, Trump refused to pre-emptively agree to the election results, saying he’d “look at it at the time.”
The media responded in their usual laid-back style:
A ‘HORRIFYING’ REPUDIATION OF DEMOCRACY — The Washington Post, Oct. 20, 2016
DENIAL OF DEMOCRACY — Daily News (New York), Oct. 20, 2016
DANGER TO DEMOCRACY — The Dallas Morning News, Oct. 20, 2016
ONE SCARY MOMENT; IT ALL BOILED DOWN TO ... DEMOCRACY — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 21, 2016
“(Shock) spiked down the nation’s spinal column last night and today when the Republican nominee threatened that this little election thing you got there, this little democratic process you’ve got here, it’s nice, it’s fine, but he doesn’t necessarily plan on abiding by its decision when it comes to the presidency.” — Rachel Maddow, Oct. 20, 2016
“Trump’s answer on accepting the outcome of the vote is the most disgraceful statement by a presidential candidate in 160 years.” — Bret Stephens, then-deputy editorial page editor at The Wall Street Journal
“I guess we’re all going to have to wait until Nov. 9 to find out if we still have a country — if Donald Trump is in the mood for a peaceful transfer of power. Or if he’s going to wipe his fat a— with the Constitution.” — CBS’s Stephen Colbert, Oct. 19, 2016
“It’s unprecedented for a nominee of a major party to themselves signal that they would not accept — you know, respect the results of an election. We’ve never had that happen before. ... This really presents a potentially difficult problem for governing ...” — MSNBC’S Joy Reid, Oct. 22, 2016
“This is very dangerous stuff ... would seriously impair our functioning as a democracy. ... This is about as serious as it gets in the United States.” — CNN’s Peter Beinart, Oct. 20, 2016
“Obviously, it’s despicable for him to pretend that there’s any chance that he would not accept the results of this election; it would be — in 240 years you’ve never had anybody do it. ...” — CNN’s Van Jones, Oct. 20, 2016
“That’s horrifying. Let’s be clear about what he is saying and what that means. He is denigrating — he is talking down our democracy. And I am appalled that someone who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that position.” – Hillary Clinton
““Every losing presidential candidate in modern times has accepted the will of the voters, even in extraordinarily close races, such as when John F. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard M. Nixon in 1960 and George W. Bush beat Al Gore in Florida to win the presidency in 2000,” – New York Times
“And wait for a big hurricane to be mishandled.”
3000 dead in Puerto Rico sure fell out of the news cycle fast.
and yet they walk free
Yes, everyone knows that the best way for the Russians to F the US would have been to install Clinton and use the crap out of her. So easy.
Thank the Good Lord for using His will so this decision never had to be made.
There are many blessings from His wisdom. Justice Kav is one. The Lord finds a way. We just need to follow.
Best election evah!
It really was rigged, Trump made enough noise about that. Most all elections have some of this even in ultra small cities. The Demons are the best at this and the two million votes that she had more of in the popular count were a given, altered, bogus, fraudulent, Trump probably actually beat her by 3 plus million votes. In California alone we know there were more that 1/2 to 1 million votes stolen and we still have to be concerned about someone holding the encryption keys like the guy in the Wizard of Oz. And we know that Hillary’s minions are those people. It is corrupt, it is rigged and it’s got to be corralled and corrected. God be praised we have a guy in there that they hate, a non politician who wants to restore the Republic to it’s owners, The People. God Bless Him.
Suspicious timing, given today’s story of a McCace-Rosenstein spat on wiretapping Trump. Looks like Obama plotters are preparing their excuses for perpetrating the Russia hoax.
Also NONE of those Republican Quislings who were going to be tapped to “validate” the election could give anything of value.
Explain to me how Colin Powell or Condeleza or others could know if it was rigged or not?
Pure farce. And also, we should remember that they were on standby next time we see them on TV spouting off about the topic du jour.
There was never any F’n Russian collusion. Even some freepers here have been brainwashed into accepting that load of crap premise.
If the Russians ever actually did decide to collude with any American political party, it would deffinitely be the Marxist Democrat Party.
Wake the F up
#15. The Fact that the Democrats have “plodding schemes” against the U.S. election system, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and protecting their own “Russian Collusion” is what should worry ever patriotic, sane American.
If you accept my proposition that Obama is a MARXIST with some Islamic thoughts/attachments, then everything else falls into place.
His whole existence, politically, was one subplot after another to get him into politics on every level of the game (local, state (Ill. State Senate), U.S. Senate, the Presidency.
Remember, he was an admirer (and copier) of Marxist “community organizer” Saul Alinsky (”Rules for Radicals)” and associated with, in his own words, other socialists, communists, and radicals in school. Would love to know who his law professors were at Harvard. Might turn up something interesting (IF ANYONE KNOWS, PLEASE REPLY HERE).
If you look at all the communists and probable KGB assets helping him along the way (Frank Marshall Davis, David Simon Canter, possibly Don Rose (and Canter/Rose’s “chosen one” for Chicago politics, David Axelrod - and his parents), Alice Palmer and her husband, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn (Weathermen), Dr. Quentin Young (CPUSA), Milton Cohen (CPUSA), Progressives for Obama, etc., then you will see the fuller picture of communist subversion from the 1960’s up till 2008.
Also, Obama’s picks of Valerie Jarrett (married to the son of a CPUSA-sympathizer, Vernon Jarrett - Chicago), who picked Maoist communist Van Jones for “Green Czar”, Anita Dunn (a lover of Mao Tse Tung) and her leftist husband, and Obama’s secret conduit to Arab dictators, Robert Malley (whose father was a well known Egyptian Communist and KGB asset, est. in France until the whole family as expelled as threats to French security).
There are others in the Democratic Socialists of America who greatly helped Obama and conspiracy gain political power, something most reporters have deliberately ignored or hadn’t bothered to investigate.
Fortunately one red-diaper baby spilled the “red beans” about Obama while conservative journalists in Chicago, New Zealand and DC worked for years on exposing Obama’s red background and operational MOs.
Nothing Obama has done over his political life was a “spur of the moment” thing. He, like Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, laid out a pathway to power by hook or crook and successfully followed it to the White House.
Schumer, Pelosi, Durbin, etc have run a parallel conspiracy against America, aided by ethnic/racial groups led by John Conyers Jr, Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris, Elijah Cummings (and his predecessor the late possible Soviet asset Rep. Parren Mitchell), the Hispanics by Luis Guttierrez, a Puerto Rican terrorist grou sympathizer (FALN), the Castro Brothers in New Mexico/Texas?, Tom Lopez (Casa De Maryland and DNC), with a Moslem clique of Ellison and Carson in the House of Representatives.
There are other subgroupings, including a Red Chinese clique led by Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), formerly of the radical, armed Communist Workers Party, Rep. Grace Meng (NY), and not surprisingly Sen. Diane Feinstein who, with her husband, up are to their red necks with the Communist Chinese leadership.
If all this makes you dizzy, think of how I’ve felt since the 1960’s doing this type of work, fortunately being trained by great former CPUSA members and FBI undercover agents, aided by the very good investigative journalists Cliff Kincaid (Accuracy in Media, USAsurvival.org) and our New Zealand ally, Trevor Loudon, www.keywiki.org, his blog site, and the books/movie “The Enemies Within”.
The Kavanaugh nomination/reputation demolition derby featured some of most of the conspiracy groups/elements mentioned above. They are now reforming to go into Phase 3 against Kavanaugh, Trump, and Republicans in Congress, with a final goal of emasculating the Constitution, crippling Congress’ ability to conduct badly needed business, to give aid and comfort to our overseas enemies (Iran - $150 Billion was a start; Benghazi was a start; doing nothing about Kim Il Ung was a policy; ignoring JV ISIS was a deliberate strategy to let Iraq self-destroy; and ignoring Red Chinese provocations and military buildups all over Asia, not to mention Putin’s expansionist wars of aggression against his neighbors where we did nothing), and to seize power through the fear of leftist mobs rioting in the streets of our cities while Democrat local leaders do nothing.
None dare call it Democrat Party treason, but I will!
I assume this supposed revelation at this late date, may be preparation for what might be revealed soon about what the Obama White House was up to in spying on and conspiring against the Trump campaign & Administration. They are trying to show it was necessary & just.
Because the Clintons are controlled by the Rothschilds who wanted war with Russia and population reduction.
Unlike the Clintons, Russia wanted peace and other people’s children to live.
Just because the number was fake? That never stopped them before. Just do as Goebbels and Clinton and Corporal Q-ball do. Repeat the lie.
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.
Right on both counts. I rarely watch debates on TV, but when he said she should never have been allowed to run, I think that erased any doubt that people would vote for him.
So Mr Rhodes,who didn’t accept the results of the election? Who announce publicly they had joined the resistance?
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