THIS IS TOTAL SPECULATION ON MY PART
________________________________________________________________________
To reiterate, everything I am writing here is my own conjecture based on nothing other than me taking random bits of facts and rumors to create a possible theory.
I'll begin with my hoped for conclusion. Trump will overturn the election.
It is very important to remember one important fact, what happened with this election is not a surprise to Trump. He has been constantly warning of it for months.
That was not the first or the last time he warned what would happen.
Over and over he warned:
Literally hundreds of times he tweeted, mentioned it in press conferences, talked about it in interviews. He could have not been any clearer in what he believed was going to happen. And then he campaigned as if he knew had to in order to defeat it.
Now an alternative explanation would be that he spent months setting up an excuse for why he would lose. My first answer to that would be, did Donald Trump in the last two months of the campaign show in the least that he believed he would lose the election? Consider the grind of the rally schedule he kept, does that seem like a person who is expecting to lose? Did he ever sound in the least defeated? So why would a man who is a disciple of Norman Vincent Peele, and The Power of Positive Thinking invest so much time preparing for defeat? He wouldn't.
Perhaps more important, there is another person who warned of what was coming, and not someone insignificant or really at all politically though certainly ideologically motivated.
Barr also warned about it on ABC, CBS and FOX. In fact in a more reasoned tone perhaps Bill Barr was as emphatic as Trump that we were inviting disaster and he expected it to happen.
So the question is, did the President of the United States and the Attorney General both suspect there would be wide spread corruption of our election process and do nothing to prepare for it?
Now I am going to throw out some stuff that has happened over the past that is....interesting. They actually may mean nothing, but on the other hand they could be pieces of a puzzle.
In October, Barr put out the word to some "Republican lawmakers" that John Durham was not going to release anything before the election. Trump was, or acted as if he was surprised by this. I ask you, what are the chances that Barr would announce this, even on the side, without letting the President know first? Either way Trump acted as if this was disappointing to him. During this time while this was in the news, I can't remember where this came up, it might even have been during a rally, or in an interview Trump commented on nothing happening with the Durham report before election. He said, or something very close to this, "I'll say this just one time, Bill Barr is a fair guy." When I heard him say that, I wondered why, especially if he was upset at Barr, would he say that. The recent rumor was that Trump was pissed at Barr and that Barr was thinking about leaving before the end, to "protect his reputation." Finally Barr responded with a most interesting statement. "I will stay as long as President Trump needs me." That sounds like something a loyal subordinate would say, not a man on the outs with his boss.
Is it possible, that Durham uncovered something having to do with the upcoming election? Recently we learned that in of October, unannounced, Barr had designated Durham as a special counsel. The speculation is that this would make it more difficult for an incoming Biden Administration to stop the investigation, should Trump lose,which it would. But were there other reasons for this?
The point remains, with so much concern for the potential covid created mail-in ballot problems, why does it appear that both Barr and Trump have been caught unprepared? The narrative is that Trump and his team are simply incompetent and Barr has found nothing, both of which seem to be implausibly real, based on how things appear to be going. One thing that has become obvious during the Trump years is that, the narrative is always wrong.
Now I'm going to throw out some things that are just pieces of a possible puzzle.
The first goes way back. In the beginning, before he was sworn in, Trump had one ally in the "Deep State," Admiral Michael S Rogers. Who? Admiral Rogers was the Director of the NSA (National Security Administration). Admiral Rogers was, like General Flynn, a pariah in the Obama Administration. He was the person that blew the whistle to the FISA Court about abuse of the FISA system back before it became publicly known, before Trump. James Clapper tred to get Obama to fire him, he didn't, probably because it would have caused a controversy near the end of his administration. Rogers was also the man, that without informing anybody went to Trump Tower and met with President -Elect Trump. The next day Trump announced that he was moving his transition team to his resort in New Jersey and in that same time period announced that he was being wiretapped. Rogers was NSA Director until April 2018 when he retired and was replaced by his Lieutenant at the NSA. I have always wondered if Trump, who after all, was Rogers Commander and Chief developed a working relationship that might have continued under Roger's successor.
In the raucous first Trump/Biden debate, the discussion turned to peaceful transition and here in part was Trump said, (emphasis mine)
"So when I listen to Joe talking about a transition, there has been no transition from when I won. I won that election. And if you look at crooked Hillary Clinton, if you look at all of the different people, there was no transition, because they came after me trying to do a coup. They came after me spying on my campaign. They started from the day I won, and even before I won. From the day I came down the escalator with our first lady, they were a disaster. They were a disgrace to our country, and we’ve caught them. We’ve caught them all. We’ve got it all on tape. We’ve caught them all.
What does that mean? If they really do "have them all" what is happening? This is totally speculation, but what if they do "have them all" and "on tape." Why has it not come out? Perhaps they want to explore all other means before they reveal that they actually spied on political opponents themselves. Could Trump and Barr have some proof that they will only use as some last resort? I have no doubt that Trump would blow it all up, but he may be being kept in check by Bill "fair" Barr. Or would the truth be so disrupting to the nation that they are trying to use it in the "background"? Like with select Supreme Court Justices?
As I said this is total speculation on my part, but if what Trump basically blurted out on stage that night is true, which seems likely, then win or lose, Trump will use it. I suspect we can expect that Trump will either drop a hand grenade on the incoming Biden Administration, or Trump and his family will have nothing to worry about when it comes to being harassed by Democrats after he leaves office.
Onto the next kooky thought. Why hasn't Trump fired FBI Director Wray? Especially with no Durham revelations, why is he keeping him around? I suspect it is because Barr wouldn't put up with it if he did, but who knows there could be more to the story. However Trump had absolutely no problem totally turning over the Pentagon. He unceremoniously gave Esper the boot and sent a loyal guy in to replace him. An ex-special forces guy who immediately put the special forces directly under his command. He also sent the guy who, when working under Devin Nunes, first uncovered the Russiagate fiasco.
Either threw replacement or resignation much of the top civilian authority is gone.
Three top senior officials resigned Tuesday, including the undersecretaries for policy and intelligence. Esper's chief of staff also resigned. The moves sparked concern on Capitol Hill that perceived instability at the Pentagon could embolden U.S. adversaries during the presidential transition.
James Anderson, the acting undersecretary for policy, the Pentagon's No. 3 spot, resigned Tuesday and was replaced by Anthony Tata, a retired Army general who once called former President Barack Obama a "terrorist leader."
Why? Remember back at the start of the BLM rioting how Esper publicly stated he was against using troops against rioters? You know that pissed off Trump, you also know that the Pentagon is against drawing down troops from overseas. Trump is moving them out of Afghanistan and other places now, but could there be other reasons too? Could he be making sure he has his people in place should it hit the fan come a sudden reversal of the election? It certainly would be a smart move.
And where is Mark Meadows these past few weeks? Oh, enough of this, it is all just speculation anyway.
