Like many, I suspected that the midterm election would very likely flip the House Democratic, and possibly even flip the Senate. I think everyone (me included) was totally surprised by the magnitude of the “blue wave”.
Trump told people to vote as if he were on the ballot, and I think that’s what most of them did! The fact that so many repudiated him and the
party that he so utterly controls, gives
me hope for the future of America. Hope
that I have personally lacked for some time.
It’s a bit buried among all the other election outcome
analyses, but one odd thing did
surface! It would appear that the
new Democratic majority in Congress will be investigating a lot of Trump
administration figures, just as one
should expect. Hegseth was mentioned for
possible impeachment. But, it was also said (I heard this in only one
interview) that they have no intention of trying to impeach Trump himself! That’s very odd!
In the weeks before the election, Trump proclaimed his intent not to accept
results that went against the party he controls. In point of fact, that has been his pattern since he announced
his very first run for office back in 2015!
His clear pattern since the very beginning, was not to accept the results of, and to do everything he could to overturn, any election that went against him!
Trump literally said so in 2016, 2020,
and 2024. He did not actually do
so in 2016 and 2024, because he won. But we all saw the insurrection he incited
after the 2020 election that he lost,
trying to stay in office past the end of his term! That alone proves the violence he is
willing to use, to try to overturn an
election result!
We even have the testimony of one insider-turned-witness, that Trump wrestled with his Secret Service
agents for control of the car after his Ellipse speech, right as the January 6 insurrection began. He wanted to go to Capitol, apparently to lead the insurrection, with the Secret Service agents instead trying
to take him back to the White House. He
did not succeed, fortunately for
American democracy.
Based on Trump’s behavior pattern and those prior events, I expected to see both voter intimidation by
ICE/CBP agents at the polls, and
National Guard troops standing by near some polling locations, ready for a Trump declaration of martial
law, to seize ballots and election
records. That did not actually happen, which very much surprised me!
Based on his behavior pattern, and on his actual behavior after the 2020
election, plus what he said about not
accepting this midterm if it went against his party, one must ask: why did he not try to overturn it?
Up to this point,
everything I have talked about is fact supported by the public
record. But from here on, it is only speculation on my part! There are no facts yet! But some may be revealed, perhaps sooner, perhaps later. If ever.
I suspect that Trump (and all in his party) could see the “handwriting
on the wall” in the weeks leading up to this midterm election: that they were going to lose “big-time”, with another impeachment of Trump a real
possibility. That prospect would seem
to drive Trump to try to overturn the results.
And his social media posts certainly reflected that.
Not everybody still in the GOP is a “MAGA” extremist, although at the national level, the extremists are apparently the majority
within that party! I suspect that
the Democrats and the few non-extremist Republicans in Congress, foresaw this impending crisis, got together,
and went to Trump in the days before the election with this threat: fail to accept the results, and the new Democratic majority plus the
non-extremist Republicans would impeach and convict him. Conviction removes him from office. Immediately.
Per the Constitution.
There could be many grounds for that threatened impeachment, which threat is what I suspect without any
evidence. They range from
corruption, to criminal abuse of
immigrants, even to treason for trashing
our alliances. Not to mention imposing
almost all the hallmarks of a dictatorship upon us. Given those grounds, I personally think that the new Congress
should proceed with impeachment anyway.
We may, or may not
ever, learn the real truth of this! But there had to be a significant “something”
that induced Trump not to try to overturn his party’s losses, this time!
Not doing so goes against all of his previous behavior pattern!
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