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Obama Had a Secret Plan in Case Trump Rejected 2016 Election Results
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Posted on 10/10/2018 2:33:08 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: SkyDancer

insurance policy #3?

the FakeNewsMSM intend to devote articles to the 2016 losing side right through the Trump presidency.

the only other time they gave so much space to the loser involved Al Gore.


41 posted on 10/10/2018 3:24:03 PM PDT by MAGAthon (O)
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To: atc23

I knew when the Wisconsin vote finally was unable to be rigged by madison milwaukee and busing in illinois people to vote.


42 posted on 10/10/2018 3:25:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Sub-Driver


43 posted on 10/10/2018 3:26:01 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: yesthatjallen

Algore didnt, hillary didn’t, green party hag didnt.


44 posted on 10/10/2018 3:26:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NEMDF

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.


45 posted on 10/10/2018 3:29:15 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Sub-Driver
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.

This reminds me of Jimmy Carter's role in Venezuela. He and his foundation were hired to "validate" Hugo Chavez's election. He wasn't allowed into the election headquarters, his people weren't allowed to inspect any of the vote counts... there was widespread and gross vote fraud (and no recounts allowed...)

And yet he stood in front of the cameras minutes after the polls closed and pronounced the elections fair and honest. Its what he was paid to do, and he did it. Oh, and then he accused GW Bush of stealing the election as he stood there in Caracas on Hugo's dime.

46 posted on 10/10/2018 3:30:18 PM PDT by marron
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To: Sub-Driver
DemocRATS are unbelievable.
47 posted on 10/10/2018 3:33:29 PM PDT by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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To: Vermont Lt

“On the other hand, has anyone seen such a sore loser as Hillary Clinton. Two years later and she is stil bitching.

Even Nixon didn’t complain this much.”


1. Al Gore is the original sore loser and, YES, he is still complaining about it.

2. Nixon was not happy that he lost, he knew that the Kennedys had cheated, but still never challenged the result - whatever his other faults may have been, the man was a patriot and did not believe it to be even remotely in the nation’s interest to have that kind of an internal squabble in the middle of the Cold War.


48 posted on 10/10/2018 3:44:57 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Sub-Driver

They would have been very afraid Candidate Trump would expose a lot of election fraud challenging the election.


49 posted on 10/10/2018 3:45:58 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh it was rigged by the democrats all right. They just didn’t succeed in rigging it enough.


50 posted on 10/10/2018 3:50:00 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Sub-Driver

Did the Obama political clan actually believe it was illegal or in any way unconstitutional for a candidate to question a reported presidential election result?

How could they think that, even Gore and Clinton didn’t think there was anything wrong with such a notion in 2000!!!

Obviously, it was not any illegality or unconstitutional matter that the Obama team thought was inherent in a challenge of the election results. It was just another way, besides the Russian-collusion hoax, that they were trying to thwart Trump.


51 posted on 10/10/2018 3:55:37 PM PDT by Wuli (u)
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To: SkyDancer

I just figured, when Trump didn’t immediately pump up the ‘Russians meddled in the election’ meme, that he was reticent because he knew it was China that tried to influence the election. The Russians may have too, but theirs was negligible.


52 posted on 10/10/2018 4:08:02 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.


53 posted on 10/10/2018 4:20:48 PM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: SkyDancer

“It’s a wonder nobody has ever brought that up.”

Seriously! She’d already sold them tons of uranium. Why would the Russians ever support a Republican candidate who’d change the whole administration?? Mattis, Kelly, Bolton, Pompeo, ... The Russians preferred this?!?!


54 posted on 10/10/2018 4:22:56 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Sub-Driver

“We wanted to handle the Russia information in a way that was as bipartisan as possible,” Rhodes said.”

Lying chunk of dog crap.


55 posted on 10/10/2018 4:34:37 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: txrefugee; a fool in paradise

“That’s horrifying.” ... “That is not the way our democracy works. It’s been around 240 years. We’ve had free and fair elections; we’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election.” ... “And let’s be clear about what he is saying and what that means. He is denigrating — he’s talking down our democracy. And I for one am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position.” — Hillary Clinton, Final Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye0Xblp_Nb0&feature=youtu.be
(final debate via CBS, beginning at 1:07:18)

(not quite correct transcription here - but it’s close enough for a quick source for the text)
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/26/flashback-clinton-said-not-accepting-election-results-wa s-horrifying-video/

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Trump’s comment demonstrated “contempt for the sanctity of our elections. With his ‘wait and see’ position, he disrespects the voice and votes of the American people.”

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called Trump’s comments “horrifying” and demanded that he “immediately reverse course and state that he will accept the results of our free and fair elections.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/19/trump-wont-commit-to-accepting-election-results .html
(includes clip of the initial question and their responses from FOX coverage of the debate)

The president, campaigning in Miami for Hillary Clinton and Senate candidate Chris Murphy, said that “when you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people’s minds about the legitimacy of our elections, that undermines our democracy.” ... “Then you are doing the work of our adversaries for them,” Obama argued. “Because our democracy depends on people knowing their vote matters.” (October 20, 2016)

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-trump-election-results-2016-10

“Donald Trump refused to say that he’d respect the results of this election. That’s a direct threat to our democracy.” — 10:53 AM - 24 Oct 2016 (Hillary Clinton tweet)

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/790612127996403712

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday he was alarmed by Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the election results. “That is a big problem, Biden said during a visit to a Democratic field office in Manchester, N.H. “The American public has to stand up, even Republicans. ... This is a threat to our democratic process...” (October 26, 2016)

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-live-updates-biden-call s-trump-s-refusal-to-commit-1476988403-htmlstory.html

“The voters decide who wins and loses, period, end of story, and when a presidential candidate threatens to ignore our voices and reject the outcome of this election he is threatening the very idea of America itself and we cannot stand for that.” - Michelle Obama, October 26, 2016

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lady-michelle-obama-stumps-hillary-clinton-arizona/story?id =42938063

(also posted here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3586860/posts?page=32#32)


56 posted on 10/10/2018 4:34:56 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Dr. Pritchett
Of course they did. Russia is not stupid, nor would Putin favor Trump just to get even with Clinton for being an a**wipe..

Putin would have eaten Clinton’s lunch about ten times by now, and the world would forever be the worse for it.

57 posted on 10/10/2018 5:35:52 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: gubamyster

It looks like they took the original plan and re-purposed it.


58 posted on 10/10/2018 6:10:48 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Because no one in congress stopped it...they are all traitors at some level.


59 posted on 10/10/2018 6:22:53 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Sub-Driver

That article is 100% fantasy BS. A total made up lie to fit the liberal narrative.

In no way did a single liberal think anything but that Hitlery was going to win.


60 posted on 10/10/2018 6:33:49 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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