The various angles of attack against Donald Trump will continue through election day or inauguration day. Joe Biden may still play one final important role in keeping the Republic functioning.
The attempts to destroy Donald Trump continue. For Democrats, Trump represents not just himself but rather tens of millions of American citizens who do not like the Democrats’ menu of open borders, forced green energy conversions, trans guys taking women’s trophies, DEI, pronoun police, etc. As they say in baseball, it’s easier to fire one manager than 25 players, so the Democrats figure that if they get the man at the top, they will have silenced the rest.
Donald Trump’s history with the Democrats is somewhat unusual. He was a tabloid fixture for decades, hobnobbing with George Steinbrenner or getting divorced and remarried periodically. I still recall a picture of Donald and Ivana Trump standing on a glass table in one of their luxurious apartments. Trump seemed pretty liberal and wrote many checks to Democratic candidates. The Clintons attended his wedding to Melania, and he was friends with Democrats throughout the country. Donald Trump was not a threat and could have been a good source of cash.
Even when he came down the elevator and ran in 2015, the Democrats did nothing. They thought that he was a distraction, and even after he won the Republican nomination, they were not threatened by him. He was their dream candidate. Those governors and former governors whom he defeated during a 17-person primary were the ones who could give Hilary a run for her money. But not the Donald. No, he was just a blowhard with a colorful history. In the early morning of the election, Hilary Clinton and her closest advisors returned home from a final campaign stop in North Carolina. On the flight, they drank champagne. In 24 hours, she would be crowned president of the United States. The election was a formality, a piece of history from the country’s founding. She was going to win—Nate Silver gave her a 96% probability of victory. It was in the bag until it wasn’t.
Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 meant no more ignoring him. Hilary Clinton and John Podesta got Obama’s FBI involved with a fake dossier and nearly two years of futile investigations into “Russian collusion”. Two impeachments set a record, neither having a solid basis in an impeachable offense. Then came 2020. No more early champagne here. The big states reported their full results hours after voting ended. To this day, no one has ever reasonably explained why smaller swing states took days to report their results, and each and every one of them—all needed by Biden to win—went from leaning toward Trump to declaring Biden the winner. Okay, nothing has been proven in a court of law regarding the programmable voting machines, paper ballots showing up well after election day, or Trump ballots being destroyed. But it’s like a guy coming out of a room with a smoking gun, a dead person in the room. “I didn’t shoot him. The guy who did jumped out of the window, and I just picked up the gun.” He may get off, but the smell of guilt will never fully be erased.
If Trump had just chosen to play golf with his granddaughter, he could have enjoyed a pleasant retirement. The Democrats would have returned to the 2016 mode of leaving Trump alone. But he decided to run. And he once again trounced the new and improved Republican field. So came the lawsuits to tie him up in court. Then, there was an effort to remove him from the ballot in over a dozen states. A clown committee of the House attacked him as being the driver for the J6 riots when he clearly told his people to “peacefully” express themselves. This time, they took Trump seriously. There was no more ignoring the orange-haired man. Then, he knocked Biden out of the race. The Secret Service let him be shot. We will never know why they had no common communication frequency with local police that day, why they blew off their own pre-event meeting with law enforcement, or why they, for the first time, brought an anti-sniper team. The Keystone Kops in the Keystone State did not mind if Trump was whacked. Their only job was not to do it themselves.
So, how can the Democrats stop him? They’ve thrown their lot with Kamala, but she is a lousy person and politician. What happens if Trump overcomes all the lies thrown at him and wins in November?
Should Trump win beyond the margin of possible cheating, the Democrats will double down on their attacks against him. They will pressure the delegates to change allegiance, and through the House, they will act to make his installation as the 47th president of the United States legally impossible. Blue states will erupt in violence, and the local governors and mayors will not stop the unrest—just as they let the BLM/George Floyd riots keep going to hurt Trump then. It will be an unruly time on the ground and in the halls of power. They will invent new concepts in Constitutional Law to keep the president-elect out of office. The legal cases against him will be accelerated to get him into the big house before the White House. But what happens if their efforts fail to stop Donald Trump from returning to the presidency?
That is where Joe Biden might finally do the right thing in his life. My concern until last month was that even if Donald Trump won, Joe and Jill Biden would not leave the White House. They would invent all kinds of theories of “he’s a convicted felon”, “the vote was stolen”, etc. simply to stay put. But Biden is leaving one way or another. After being shafted by his party, he owes them nothing. He could turn over the keys to Trump and thumb his nose at the Obamas, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer. This could be his ultimate revenge on his party: declaring that his staff will aid in the orderly transition from his administration to the next. Whereas a Biden running for president would do everything to stay in power, a jilted Biden has no reason to keep Trump out should he win. The Democrat’s bloodless coup may come back to haunt them shortly after the November election of Donald Trump once again to the presidency of the United States.