Stealing the Presidency in broad daylight?

Collusion, collaboration, coordination, conspiracy… It’s cheating to win the Presidency with the help of a foreign power, the kind of cheating the Founding Fathers were afraid might happen one day. It’s all bad. And it may happen again in the 2020 election, if we let it!

The Mueller Report is now public.

Is it a total exoneration? Vindication? A witch hunt? “No collusion?” No, none of those are true. If you live in a world based on facts, evidence, and logical consistency in coming to conclusions, those are absurd assertions belied by the facts.

Donald Trump won the election through a majority of Electoral College votes. The Electoral College gives an advantage to states with smaller populations, allowing someone who gets tens of millions fewer popular votes nation-wide than their opponent to appear to have won by a “landslide” in terms of Electoral College votes. Hundreds of times at rallies around the country were mentions of Wikileaks, Hillary’s emails, followed by Pavlovian chants of “Lock her up!” Much of the fodder for that anti-Clinton rhetoric was false, promoted by David Pecker and his National Enquirer (who conspired to bury true stories and publish voluminous actual fake news stories) and by a brigade of false personas, targeted at unsuspecting Americans using unethically and illegally obtained information, and amplified by some of the most advanced computer programming ever developed (some it designed for malicious reasons, others for opaque profit motives).