Thank you for explaining this! I had seen a headline that National Security was at stake but thought it was just more media bias. Now I understand how important it is that the Trump Administration cooperate.
Keep in mind that there are still Congress-critter results in play. Even if there is a non-vote for POTUS, down-ballot malfeasance can also come into play (trying to get a Senator or Rep thru without showing up in the POTUS controversy). It muddies those water, though is certainly secondary to the POTUS situation.
Have we so quickly forgotten that the CCP has compromised Biden??? Why would we be giving that man any sensitive information about OUR National Security? C’mon!!!
Evil watching and plotting is what we are all feeling. Shudder and it has nothing to do with transition. He's waited 47 years a few more weeks won't hurt him. Unless he thinks he won't be around then.
He is already ill-prepared to lead our country. Handicapping them "just 'cuz" puts the USA even more at risk.
Remember two things:
1) This election was against Trump more than in favor of Biden
2) Dems know who will become POTUS should either aging POTUS pass (or get declared incompetent).
Harris vs. Pence is an easy answer to any Dem - Pence is a Christian, pro-life, pro-heterosexuality, pro-science, a fiscal and social conservative, everything that has gone overboard from Democrat politics.
This was about VP at least as much as it was about POTUS.
While I understand that, I don't trust him at all. Look at how he has already lined up and Do Not forget Biden is the one who leaked the names of the Seal Team! They and their families had to take extra precautions. This is just about power. One more week isn't going to hurt him or this country. What I'm afraid of is what is coming our way with him.
Of course the president should provide that information to president-elect Biden. Of course he isn’t. That’s the kind of person he is. He continues to show that he isn’t and wasn’t worthy of the job of president. And, yet, 70 million voted for him this cycle. SMDH
His policies spoke much louder than his Twitter account to many of us. The old adage of "do as I say, not as I do" was reversed. His actions outweighed his boorish invections and attitudes. That's what my vote was about.
My mother passed from Alzheimer's a few years ago. Sleepy Joe (when he was allowed to be seen and speak) sounds a lot like she did in mid-stage dementia. We really wouldn't want my mom running the country; why would we want someone that acts like her?
Obvious why the Dem campaign feature was "lids" to avoid exposure to just what would occupy the WH. Wonder how "lids" will work when time to meet with world leaders?
Biden winning is probably inevitable. But the way the democrats and the media have been undermining President Trump the last four years I would not give them anything until January 20th 2021. Yes, I would be that vindictive. Deal with it.
Oh yes, Obama was extending one hand and plotting with the other . He knew that the Hilary campaign had paid for the infamous Steele dossier . They also sabotaged Gen Flynn's appointment using the FBI. I wonder what Biden gave the Chinese for cash? Don't talk to me about putting the nation at risk. The whole Obama administration did that for eight years for profit. Frankly I'm in no hurry to become a socialist country
Furthermore Obama long resented Trump for his birther arguments felt Trump did it just to hurt him. But he still accepted Trumps win immediately and did his best to give him updates. This is Trumps basic responsibilities
Agree, while there is doubt, both need security updates. Stonewalling puts America at risk. This is a world now quite hostile to the USA. While voting gets sorted out, both planes need to be doing pre-flight check, ESPECIALLY on security briefings.
As Erick's title suggests, "Evil is watching", and USA's enemies (not just NeverTrump) can take advantage of any gaps that might be exposed should a new Administration begin ramping up in January rather than now.
This is bigger than Dem vs. Repub. This is not "concession-like" messaging providing the opposition security briefings, this is about getting a POTUS and VP ready for inauguration, which ever it is in the end. Bad actors are out there waiting to take advantage of this situation, we cannot afford to give them more top play with than they already have.
Erick, I think your judgment about the likelihood of Biden becoming President is correct, because even if there was a massive amount of election fraud, Trump has a limited amount of time to prove it in court, and a powerful establishment that doesn't want it to be proved. For example, Al Capone was clearly guilty of many imprisonable offenses but his control of politicians and judges kept him out of prison for a long time. There is a difference between being guilty and being pronounced guilty in court, and in the final judgment God will right all wrongly decided cases.
I also agree about granting Biden intelligence briefings as a courtesy, even if it is something not required by law. But I note in your quote from the 911 report this statement: "Given that a presidential election in the United States brings wholesale change in personnel, this loss of time hampered the new administration in identifying, recruiting, clearing, and obtaining Senate confirmation of key appointees.” I don't recall a lot of people who now want Biden briefed being upset with the obstruction inflicted upon the Trump administration even after he assumed office. Was evil not watching during those events? It is also not clear that Biden needs to be briefed on intelligence over 2 months in advance, as it will be Trump who is making decisions until January 20, not Biden. The NYT always seems to claim they have anonymous information from high-level intelligence officials in the Trump administration. Is there any reason to doubt that they won't make the same claim about intelligence information if Biden is given access now, allowing intelligence policy to be impacted by a newspaper that relies on anonymous sources to promote its own political agenda.
I know that you have a pretty intense dislike for Trump and you and Leon Wolf were among the NeverTrump movement that considers itself righteous and the guardian of True-Conservatism. However, Never Trump got virtually no prediction about Trump correct, e.g.: 1. Trump appointed constitutional supporting judges just as he promised. 2. Trump supported the pro-life movement as much or more than any other President. 3. Trump built 400 miles of the border wall despite intense opposition. 4. Trump slashed huge amounts of government regulations just as he promised. 5. Trump got NATO countries to increase their funding despite intense opposition. 6. Trump got new trade agreements negotiated. 7. Trump increased his support among blacks and Hispanics, perhaps because they think he is a better neighbor to them than the Democrats who promise them everything but deliver them nothing. 8. Trump established a good relationship with the Mexican President Obrador, who probably understands that the drug cartels are the primary beneficiary of a USA with a porous southern border.
I agree with you/Wolf that in-person elections make it difficult to commit large amounts of fraud. But the same may not be true of elections with large amounts of mail-in votes. In PA, the application for a mail-in-ballot that was sent to people asks for a PA drivers license number or a Penn-Dot ID-card number or the last 4-digits of a social security number. But it also gives an option to get a mail-in-ballot by checking a box that indicates none of those forms of identification are available. Similarly, it also allows the ballot to be sent to a different address than the address on the voter registration. One piece of information I would like to see is how many people in PA requested ballots without supplying id-information and/or sent the ballots to a different address than in the voter registration file, as that could be an opening for bulk fraud, assuming access to a list of voters who were not likely to vote. The number of voters in PA in 2020 is currently about 6.7M, which is about 700K more than either 2008, 2012, 2016 and 1.7M more than in 2018. I find it hard to believe that so many of these non-votes would be so enraged with Trump this year (and/or so thrilled with Biden) that after skipping the election 2016 and 2018, they came out in mass in 2020.
The motivation to commit bulk fraud in an election to determine who holds the power of the Presidency in a severely divided country is arguably orders of magnitude higher than the motivation to commit fraud in less important elections where small amounts of fraud are common. The threat of a prison sentence didn't mean anything to the people who regularly leaked confidential information from the Trump administration and/or his tax returns. For example, how many of those criminal offenders have been caught and sent to prison? It is pretty clear from the volume of false and anonymous allegations of Trump over the past 4 years that a great many people would do virtually anything possible to remove him from office. Is it illogical to consider the possibility that many people in this group may have found a way to vote multiple times against Trump and they didn't hesitate to do so? Is it illogical to consider that many TDS inflicted poll workers might have played sleight-of-hand with counting ballots and that small amounts of fraud by a multitude of people might add up to a large amount of fraud? Is there really a good way to prove/disprove anybody did this, given the limited ability/time for Trump to verify the validity of ballots and/or their proper counting?
From the perspective of God, the world only has two groups (believers and non-believers). But it has many divisions and many sinful people competing for power over others, and believers are not immune. I don't find it coincidental that the bulk of people who don't think there is a reason to suspect fraud in this election also believe that their power to control/influence American political policy increases if Trump is removed from office.
Thank you for explaining this! I had seen a headline that National Security was at stake but thought it was just more media bias. Now I understand how important it is that the Trump Administration cooperate.
Not sure why non-votes enter in the equation. Lots of people may have decided the choices were too odorous to hold their nose for.
Keep in mind that there are still Congress-critter results in play. Even if there is a non-vote for POTUS, down-ballot malfeasance can also come into play (trying to get a Senator or Rep thru without showing up in the POTUS controversy). It muddies those water, though is certainly secondary to the POTUS situation.
Have we so quickly forgotten that the CCP has compromised Biden??? Why would we be giving that man any sensitive information about OUR National Security? C’mon!!!
Evil watching and plotting is what we are all feeling. Shudder and it has nothing to do with transition. He's waited 47 years a few more weeks won't hurt him. Unless he thinks he won't be around then.
He is already ill-prepared to lead our country. Handicapping them "just 'cuz" puts the USA even more at risk.
Remember two things:
1) This election was against Trump more than in favor of Biden
2) Dems know who will become POTUS should either aging POTUS pass (or get declared incompetent).
Harris vs. Pence is an easy answer to any Dem - Pence is a Christian, pro-life, pro-heterosexuality, pro-science, a fiscal and social conservative, everything that has gone overboard from Democrat politics.
This was about VP at least as much as it was about POTUS.
While I understand that, I don't trust him at all. Look at how he has already lined up and Do Not forget Biden is the one who leaked the names of the Seal Team! They and their families had to take extra precautions. This is just about power. One more week isn't going to hurt him or this country. What I'm afraid of is what is coming our way with him.
Of course the president should provide that information to president-elect Biden. Of course he isn’t. That’s the kind of person he is. He continues to show that he isn’t and wasn’t worthy of the job of president. And, yet, 70 million voted for him this cycle. SMDH
His policies spoke much louder than his Twitter account to many of us. The old adage of "do as I say, not as I do" was reversed. His actions outweighed his boorish invections and attitudes. That's what my vote was about.
My mother passed from Alzheimer's a few years ago. Sleepy Joe (when he was allowed to be seen and speak) sounds a lot like she did in mid-stage dementia. We really wouldn't want my mom running the country; why would we want someone that acts like her?
Obvious why the Dem campaign feature was "lids" to avoid exposure to just what would occupy the WH. Wonder how "lids" will work when time to meet with world leaders?
Biden winning is probably inevitable. But the way the democrats and the media have been undermining President Trump the last four years I would not give them anything until January 20th 2021. Yes, I would be that vindictive. Deal with it.
I am sorry but Obama respected the results right away and gave Trump the briefings....
Hillary told her folks to accept it. There is a video in the senate of Biden who was President of the Senate telling folks to deal with it.
He is putting our nation at risk and frankly if he is willing to do that he should not be running this country.
Oh yes, Obama was extending one hand and plotting with the other . He knew that the Hilary campaign had paid for the infamous Steele dossier . They also sabotaged Gen Flynn's appointment using the FBI. I wonder what Biden gave the Chinese for cash? Don't talk to me about putting the nation at risk. The whole Obama administration did that for eight years for profit. Frankly I'm in no hurry to become a socialist country
Furthermore Obama long resented Trump for his birther arguments felt Trump did it just to hurt him. But he still accepted Trumps win immediately and did his best to give him updates. This is Trumps basic responsibilities
Agree, while there is doubt, both need security updates. Stonewalling puts America at risk. This is a world now quite hostile to the USA. While voting gets sorted out, both planes need to be doing pre-flight check, ESPECIALLY on security briefings.
As Erick's title suggests, "Evil is watching", and USA's enemies (not just NeverTrump) can take advantage of any gaps that might be exposed should a new Administration begin ramping up in January rather than now.
This is bigger than Dem vs. Repub. This is not "concession-like" messaging providing the opposition security briefings, this is about getting a POTUS and VP ready for inauguration, which ever it is in the end. Bad actors are out there waiting to take advantage of this situation, we cannot afford to give them more top play with than they already have.
Painful
The incumbent is obviously more obsessed with his own power than with the security of this already-great nation.
Erick, I think your judgment about the likelihood of Biden becoming President is correct, because even if there was a massive amount of election fraud, Trump has a limited amount of time to prove it in court, and a powerful establishment that doesn't want it to be proved. For example, Al Capone was clearly guilty of many imprisonable offenses but his control of politicians and judges kept him out of prison for a long time. There is a difference between being guilty and being pronounced guilty in court, and in the final judgment God will right all wrongly decided cases.
I also agree about granting Biden intelligence briefings as a courtesy, even if it is something not required by law. But I note in your quote from the 911 report this statement: "Given that a presidential election in the United States brings wholesale change in personnel, this loss of time hampered the new administration in identifying, recruiting, clearing, and obtaining Senate confirmation of key appointees.” I don't recall a lot of people who now want Biden briefed being upset with the obstruction inflicted upon the Trump administration even after he assumed office. Was evil not watching during those events? It is also not clear that Biden needs to be briefed on intelligence over 2 months in advance, as it will be Trump who is making decisions until January 20, not Biden. The NYT always seems to claim they have anonymous information from high-level intelligence officials in the Trump administration. Is there any reason to doubt that they won't make the same claim about intelligence information if Biden is given access now, allowing intelligence policy to be impacted by a newspaper that relies on anonymous sources to promote its own political agenda.
I know that you have a pretty intense dislike for Trump and you and Leon Wolf were among the NeverTrump movement that considers itself righteous and the guardian of True-Conservatism. However, Never Trump got virtually no prediction about Trump correct, e.g.: 1. Trump appointed constitutional supporting judges just as he promised. 2. Trump supported the pro-life movement as much or more than any other President. 3. Trump built 400 miles of the border wall despite intense opposition. 4. Trump slashed huge amounts of government regulations just as he promised. 5. Trump got NATO countries to increase their funding despite intense opposition. 6. Trump got new trade agreements negotiated. 7. Trump increased his support among blacks and Hispanics, perhaps because they think he is a better neighbor to them than the Democrats who promise them everything but deliver them nothing. 8. Trump established a good relationship with the Mexican President Obrador, who probably understands that the drug cartels are the primary beneficiary of a USA with a porous southern border.
I agree with you/Wolf that in-person elections make it difficult to commit large amounts of fraud. But the same may not be true of elections with large amounts of mail-in votes. In PA, the application for a mail-in-ballot that was sent to people asks for a PA drivers license number or a Penn-Dot ID-card number or the last 4-digits of a social security number. But it also gives an option to get a mail-in-ballot by checking a box that indicates none of those forms of identification are available. Similarly, it also allows the ballot to be sent to a different address than the address on the voter registration. One piece of information I would like to see is how many people in PA requested ballots without supplying id-information and/or sent the ballots to a different address than in the voter registration file, as that could be an opening for bulk fraud, assuming access to a list of voters who were not likely to vote. The number of voters in PA in 2020 is currently about 6.7M, which is about 700K more than either 2008, 2012, 2016 and 1.7M more than in 2018. I find it hard to believe that so many of these non-votes would be so enraged with Trump this year (and/or so thrilled with Biden) that after skipping the election 2016 and 2018, they came out in mass in 2020.
The motivation to commit bulk fraud in an election to determine who holds the power of the Presidency in a severely divided country is arguably orders of magnitude higher than the motivation to commit fraud in less important elections where small amounts of fraud are common. The threat of a prison sentence didn't mean anything to the people who regularly leaked confidential information from the Trump administration and/or his tax returns. For example, how many of those criminal offenders have been caught and sent to prison? It is pretty clear from the volume of false and anonymous allegations of Trump over the past 4 years that a great many people would do virtually anything possible to remove him from office. Is it illogical to consider the possibility that many people in this group may have found a way to vote multiple times against Trump and they didn't hesitate to do so? Is it illogical to consider that many TDS inflicted poll workers might have played sleight-of-hand with counting ballots and that small amounts of fraud by a multitude of people might add up to a large amount of fraud? Is there really a good way to prove/disprove anybody did this, given the limited ability/time for Trump to verify the validity of ballots and/or their proper counting?
From the perspective of God, the world only has two groups (believers and non-believers). But it has many divisions and many sinful people competing for power over others, and believers are not immune. I don't find it coincidental that the bulk of people who don't think there is a reason to suspect fraud in this election also believe that their power to control/influence American political policy increases if Trump is removed from office.
I pray that the right eyes read this.