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Welcome to Check with Chip, broughtto you by retire Smart. I'm Chip
Maxwell. This is the fourth ina series of podcasts answering the question Why
Trump. It includes an excerpt frommy book Fix It Now, Rediscover the
Constitution and get America out of itsfiscal death spiral. Ready, here we
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go. How can you support adestroyer of democracy who falsely claimed the twenty
twenty election was stolen? Trump haterswere aghast to learn that. When a
Republican congressional leader asked Trump to stopthe Capitol Riot as if he could,
Trump replied, I guess these peopleare more upset about the election than you
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are. Exactly, we are upset. We are aghast that our betters in
DC were enraged at Trump for somethingbeyond his control, but were fine with
a stolen election. The less causedthis allegation of a stolen election, the
big lie. This is the sameleft that said Trump put children in cages
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at the border. Trump told peopleto drink bleach to cure COVID. Trump
colluded with Russia to steal the twentysixteen election. Trump pressured Ukraine for dirt
on Biden. Trump called neo Nazisat Charlottesville fine people. Trump called all
Mexicans criminals. Trump Supreme Court nomineeBrett Kavanaugh organized rape trains. While in
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high school, a white pro Trumppro life high schooler provoked a racist confrontation
with an American Indian protester in frontof the Lincoln Memorial All false. I
spoke at a stop the Steel rallybecause I believe the election was stolen from
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regular folks as well as Trump.I am not convinced that a failing seventy
seven years year old who spent mostof the twenty twenty presidential campaign in a
protective shell inspired record support twelve millionmore votes than the previous record of sixty
nine million for Barack Obama in twothousand and eight. Our votes are rendered
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meaningless and we no longer have afunctioning democratic system. If the other side
is allowed to measure the margin bywhich it trails on election night, then
make enough votes materialize over the nexttwenty four to forty eight hours to close
the gap and win. An executivebranch investigation by Trump hating deep state bureaucrats
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found no fraud. Imagine that Trumphaters said state and federal courts rejected all
allegations of fraud not true. Mostcourts rejected petitions on technical or procedural grounds,
not factual citizens. Some of them. Election officials swore under oath to
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the following dead people voted. Postalworkers backdated ballots that arrived after election day
to make it look like they arrivedon election day so they would not be
rejected as late. Republican election observerswere barred from vote counting areas. Vote
counting systems human and electronic attributed votesto the wrong candidate. Electronic voting systems
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were accessed via the Internet and manipulatedby people outside the voting systems. I
don't know enough about computer systems toevaluate the cyber hijacking claims. I do
know that on election day some votersshowed up at polling places and discovered that
others had voted in their name earlierin the day or by mail in ballot.
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Yet the Left insists there's no voterfraud problem and no need for voter
identification. Mail in ballots a giftfor fraudsters. Tens of millions of mail
in ballots went out. No oneknows for sure who filled them out,
under what circumstances. It's virtually impossibleto prove fraud, especially when state officials
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waive deadlines, signature verification, andother requirements designed to prevent fraud. Fun
fact, Amazon wanted its warehouses toconduct in person voting on whether to unionize
because of the risk of fraud ina mail in vote. But it's okay
to choose a president by mail invote. The more ballots there are floating
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around, the greater the opportunity toproduce truckloads of counterfeit ballots delivered overnight after
election day, as happened in severalstates. Again according to sworn witness statements.
Even if you reject all the sworntestimony, it is statistically and laughably
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impossible in an election with a fiftytwo percent to forty eight percent result,
for hundreds of thousands of legitimate votesto materialize after election day, almost all
for Biden in just the right placesand just the right amounts come on man.
As Biden likes to say, thisis not a democratic process that reflects
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the will of the people. It'sa vote manufacturing process that rewards fraud for
Trump paters. The twenty twenty electionspin went through three cycles. Number one,
there was no fraud. Number two, there may have been fraud,
but not enough to make a difference. And then number three, it's okay
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if the election was stolen because Trumphad to be removed. Critics said Trump
attempted a coup by challenging the electionresult. A coup was attempted and accomplished
by the election steelers. That's myposition until sworn statements of election irregularities have
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been investigated and proven meritless, andevery mail in ballot has been authenticated as
on time and non fraudulent. That'san excerpt from my book fix It Now,
Rediscover the Constitution and get America outof its fiscal death Spiral. If
you like what you heard and wantto read the whole chapter on the Trump
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phenomenon, go to fix It NowChip dot com. Fix it Now chip
dot com and get your copy offix It Now, Rediscover the Constitution and
get America out of its fiscal deathspiral. Let's check with Chip. I'm
Chip Maxwell. Thank you for listening.
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