There is no question that Donald Trump is an exceptional liar, but he has knocked his election “fraud” lie out of the park. This lie should go directly into the Lying Hall of Fame. Best. Executed. Lie. Ever!

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Donald Trump’s election “fraud” lie was clearly executed by a man who has had seventy years of experience in the art of deceiving others. It was Machiavelli who said that “one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.”  But it was Voltaire who made the absolutely terrifying but brilliant observation: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”  We have to pay attention to what’s going on here, America.

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A masterful liar starts early, sometimes years before the big lie is even told.  Donald did this when, even before his 2016 presidential campaign began, he started calling the MSM (that stands for “mainstream media,” for all you non-Trumpers) “fake news” and “enemy of the people.”  He repeated this over and over and over and over — incessantly — which is another mind trick used by skillful liars.

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As a result, if we happen to mention to a hardcore Trump supporter that The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidency — which they do, often accompanied by video evidence of him actually telling the falsehood — s/he will likely dismiss it out of hand because The Washington Post is obviously The Devil.  It’s absolute genius.

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Donald also started early with talk of the “Deep State.”  Although he never officially defined what this means, we gather from context that it’s the horribly corrupt members of the evil status quo who operate in the shadows of our big bad government. 

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So, by the time he needed to tell the big lie — meaning, when he wanted to save face after he lost the 2020 presidential election — many of his supporters had lost all trust in the people who work in any level of government, as well as the agencies and institutions they work for.  Again, genius.

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But here is the God’s honest truth about widespread election fraud:  It is, in fact, a straight-up lie.  Widespread voter fraud in the United States does not exist.

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This is not just our opinion, it’s a fact.  There is overwhelming evidence to prove election fraud untrue, and this proof doesn’t just come from the evil MSM.  It comes directly from election experts and officials from both parties, transcripts from multiple courts of law and state legislatures, and from the mouths of judges themselves — many of whom were appointed by Donald J. Trump.

 

Even a firm hired by the Trump campaign to prove election fraud and voting irregularities came up with nothing. The Washington Post reports that, in the weeks after the 2020 election, the Trump campaign hired a company called East Bay Dispute and Advisory — a subsidiary of Berkeley Research Group — to analyze election results in six states.

 

The Berkeley Research Group describes itself as a global consulting firm that helps organizations advance in three key areas: disputes and investigations, corporate finance, and performance improvement and advisory. Federal Election Commission filings reveal that the Trump campaign paid East Bay Dispute and Advisory over $600,000 at the end of 2020.

 

Naturally, the results of the final report were never released to the public because the firm could not prove anything that would have caused a change in the outcome of the election.

 

One source told the Post, “They looked at everything: change of addresses, illegal immigrants, ballot harvesting, people voting twice, machines being tampered with, ballots that were sent to vacant addresses that were returned and voted. Literally anything you could think of. Voter turnout anomalies, date of birth anomalies, whether dead people voted. If there was anything under the sun that could be thought of, they looked at it.”

 

“Just like any election,” the sources said, “there are always errors, omissions and irregularities. It was nowhere close enough to what (the Trump campaign) wanted to prove, and it actually went in both directions.”

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Honestly — even though we're about to give you a ton of proof that widespread election fraud does not exist in the United States — we shouldn’t need to because the entire thing can be discredited by common sense alone. 

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For one, because our elections are highly decentralized, the United States of America doesn’t have just one voting system, we have fifty.  Actually, if you really think about it, since counties usually fund and administer elections at the local level, we have thousands.  Plus, doesn’t it strike you as odd that the "fraud" only affected Donald Trump, not other Republicans down ballot?  And that the only states accused of massive fraud are the battleground states that Donald Trump thought he was going to win but lost?  Would he really have us believe that the states he won are the only ones that miraculously have no fraud.  Come on now, people.

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You may ask, if The Washington Post is to be believed, Donald Trump told tens of thousands of other lies.  So why is 1787 dedicating an entire section to this particular one?

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Answer: Because this lie is wildly un-American and incredibly damaging.  It’s a dagger through the very heart of democracy itself.  Out of everything anyone in American politics has ever lied about, this is by far the most potentially devastating.  It has to stop.