Well, Duh!! There was nothing shadowy about it- the theft was in your face and blatant. No one will every trust an election in the US again. Nor any of the crooked politicians involved on either side....

Lynda

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By I & I Editorial Board
February 12, 2021

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Democrats and their allies in the media and on the extreme left have repeatedly taken Republicans to task for insisting that the 2020 presidential election was tainted by fraud and collusion. But Time magazine has now spilled the beans: There was a well-hidden, behind-the-scenes effort against former President Donald Trump.

Time’s online publication dubbed its big story “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” clearly intending to applaud those who interfered in our national election for their good work.

Instead, it’s a shocking indictment of the cynicism and manipulation that the Democrats and their friends brought to bear on the 2020 presidential race.

Time’s reporting shows that the post-election, at least in one major respect, was not on the up-and-up. Reporter Molly Ball notes that even as the election ended and Trump legitimately raised questions about statistically improbable results in many key cities, many of those who had once supported him suddenly insisted that he cave and concede defeat.

As Trump would say on Dec. 2: “It was all very, very strange. Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”

Time’s Ball wrote: “In a way, Trump was right” about what she called a “shadow effort”:

There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day …

(It became) a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.