{"id":1621,"date":"2017-03-03T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2017-03-03T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:43:41","slug":"putin-not-fixed-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2017\/03\/putin-not-fixed-election.html","title":{"rendered":"Had Putin Not Fixed the Election&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats are hoping to break their spectacular, nearly nine year losing streak by forcing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign.\u00a0 That he recused himself from an investigation into the alleged connections between the Russian government and Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign is being chalked up by some as a victory.<\/p>\n<p>This is ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>There isn\u2019t a speck of evidence that Sessions lied when, upon being asked whether, as a proxy for the Trump campaign, he spoke with representatives of Russia, he answered in the negative.\u00a0 There is no reason at present to suspect that this isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n<p>What <em>is<\/em> true is that as a <em>Senator on the Armed Services Committee<\/em>, Sessions met with over 20 ambassadors of other nations.<\/p>\n<p><em>One<\/em> of them was an ambassador from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions recused himself from an impending investigation into the trumped up Trump\/Russia connection in order to avoid the verdict\u2014which will expose the Democrats\u2019 charges for the lies that they are\u2014from being suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions, Democrats will be sorry to hear, will not be going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>It is high time for the President to put to rest these allegations regarding his election and Russia. He should address the country and, with thoughtfulness and clarity, reveal to all remotely reasonable Americans both the scandalous silliness of the Democrats\u2019 conspiracy theory as well as their recklessness in saber rattling with the second most heavily armed nuclear power on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Trump should make explicit what most Democrats are only implying: The Democrats, beginning with his predecessor, President Obama, would have Americans believe that had Vladimir Putin not \u201chacked\u201d the election, Hillary Clinton would now be in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Had Putin\u2014all the way from Russia, mind you\u2014not fixed the election, Trump would not have been the first Republican since 1988 to have won, say, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Had Putin not fixed the election, coal miners and other blue-collar laborers in the 220 or so counties that Obama won just four years prior and that Trump flipped would have voted for Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Had Putin not fixed the election, it would have been Clinton, not Trump, who won more than 2600 of America\u2019s 3100 counties, and Trump, not Clinton, who would have won fewer than 500 of these counties.<\/p>\n<p>Had Putin not fixed the election, it would have been Clinton, not Trump, who won 30 of America\u2019s 50 states.<\/p>\n<p>Had Putin not fixed the election, Clinton would not have jeopardized national security by using, and lying about having used, a private server while serving as Obama\u2019s Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>Had Putin not fixed the election, Americans would never have found out about Clinton having used, and lie about having used, a private server.<\/p>\n<p>Had Putin not fixed the election, Americans would never have found out about the DNC emails that had been <em>leaked <\/em>(not <em>hacked<\/em>), emails exposing considerable corruption in the party.<\/p>\n<p>Had Putin not fixed the election, candidate Trump never would have been able to garner more votes, with a higher degree of voter participation, and in the most crowded of GOP primary fields, than <em>any<\/em> Republican in <em>the history of the Republican Party<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Had Putin not fixed the election, the Democratic Party\u2019s losing streak launched by Obama\u2019s election in 2008 never would have occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Had Putin not fixed the election, the Democrats would not have lost over 1200 Congressional seats at the state and federal levels.<\/p>\n<p>Had Putin not fixed the election, Republicans would not have secured about two-thirds of the country\u2019s governorships and about the same number of state legislatures.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians-Made-Us-Lose conspiracy that Democrats have been busy spinning is the Mother of all conspiracies.\u00a0 It is distinguished, however, on account of its patent silliness.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also hypocritical.\u00a0 President Trump should remind Americans that the only time (that we know of) when an American politician colluded with Russia to rig an American election was when <em><a href=\"http:\/\/conservativefiringline.com\/remember-when-ted-kennedy-tried-to-get-russia-help-defeat-reagan\/\">a Democrat senator, Ted Kennedy<\/a><\/em>, \u201cthe Lion of the Senate,\u201d sent an informal ambassador to the Soviet Union to enlist its aid in defeating Ronald Reagan in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Trump could remind them as well that when Russia was communist, when it was known the world over as the Soviet Union, Democrats resisted mightily Reagan\u2019s efforts to defeat it.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the Russians, but the Democrats, who have been laboring incessantly since November 8 to undermine the integrity of both our most recent presidential election and our government. What\u2019s worse, for the sake of denying their own glaring weaknesses and advancing their own partisan interests, Democrats are once again guilty of jeopardizing not just national security but world peace by antagonizing one of the world\u2019s few superpowers.<\/p>\n<p>The President could remind Americans that in spite of making tireless allegations that the Russians fixed the election for him, no one\u2014including and especially the Democrats\u2019 fellow travelers in the leadership of the Deep State, the political hacks that are the heads of the Intelligence Agencies\u2014has submitted a speck of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/01\/jack-kerwick\/baloney\/\">evidence<\/a> in support of this charge.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Trump should remind those who need reminding that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2017\/01\/fake-news-buzzfeed-cnn-fall-trump-piss-story-4chan-prank\/\">what evidence has been advanced<\/a> has been exposed as the fakest of fake news.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Sessions will remain our Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>And President Trump should put this lie about the Russians out to pasture once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats are hoping to break their spectacular, nearly nine year losing streak by forcing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign.\u00a0 That he recused himself from an investigation into the alleged connections between the Russian government and Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign is being chalked up by some as a victory. 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