Jimmy Carter's ridiculous assertion regarding Trump's illegitimacy

© 2019 Peter Free

 

29 June 2019

 

 

Preposterously unlikely

 

From the once mildly intelligent (former US president) Jimmy Carter:

 

 

“I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” he said during a panel event on human rights, moderated by historian Jon Meacham.

 

“So do you believe that President Trump is an illegitimate president?” asked Meacham.

 

Carter paused. “Basically, what I said, I can’t retract,” he responded, to the laughter of the audience.

 

© 2019 Tina Nguyen, Former President Jimmy Carter says Trump was elected by Russia, Vanity Fair (28 June 2019) (you can see the video clip — here)

 

 

Uh huh, Jimbo . . . ?

 

Since when does an:

 

 

(a) allegation of interference

 

equate to

 

(b) the on-ground magnitude necessary to sway millions of voters away from their initial presidential choices to a new one in Donald Trump?

 

 

Why is it that . . .?

 

Virtually every dope, who addresses this topic, misses its most essential point.

 

There's a "yuuuuge" difference between trying to do something and actually doing it.

 

Election interference is constant. The US does it all the time.

 

The point is that election interference is ineffectual, until it becomes quantifiably not.

 

As when, someone:

 

 

(a) gets their paws on altering actual millions of supposedly recorded votes

 

or

 

(b) forcing millions of minds to change (in swing districts), before those votes are cast.

 

 

It is this quantification part (of the proof) that no Americans — including, I suspect, our Deep State intelligence agencies — have done.

 

 

What is especially ridiculous is that

 

All these "horrible" Russians supposedly did was:

 

 

propagandize on Facebook (the way American plutocrats do every day)

 

and

 

reveal corruption-indicating emails from within the Democratic National Committee.

 

 

The former element doesn't amount to "shit". Unless you're going to venture that people are too stupid to know what they think.

 

And the second facet (of the alleged Russian wrongdoing) only means that some Americans discovered what an awful entity the DNC is.

 

 

Thus, Carter is essentially saying that

 

Trump won the election because:

 

 

many Americans are inordinately gullible Facebook fools

 

and

 

the DNC was not left to stealthily wallow in its corruption.

 

 

From an ethical perspective, the latter argument is a curious tact to take — for a self-professed Christian like Carter.

 

 

The moral? — Jimmy Carter is playing a loser's game

 

Evidently, Democrats just cannot drop their maliciously inspired, excuse-making lie.

 

And they want our respect?