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Does Trump Really Believe Election ‘Fraud?’
Lately, it seems like the only person who still believes that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump is Donald Trump. So, the question we have to ask is this: Did Trump ever really believe that there was election ‘fraud?’
Let’s remember that the idea of a stolen election was first cooked up by Roger Stone. And Stone’s whole shtick as a political consultant was based on spreading lies. Wasn’t Stone the one who first told Trump to promote the idea that Obama wasn’t born in the United States?
To me, it would make a lot more sense if it turned out that Trump didn’t actually believe in election ‘fraud’ because if he did, what would this say about the fact that someone sat behind the Resolute desk for four years who was so far removed from reality? To quote Grandpa: ‘oy vay’ (read: uh-oh.)
You can gain some perspective on this issue by reading a new book by Andrew Lownie, Traitor King — The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, which covers in detail how Edward VIII and his wife, Wallis Simpson, consciously tried to promote the aims and goals of the Nazi government before and during World War II.
This is the reason Edward was booted off the throne in 1936, and this is the reason he was never able to reconcile with the Royal Family for the rest of his life. The book references reports…