Tuesday 10 November 2020

US: Biden team under investigation

 Election Special

Now that Attorney General Barr has authorised a federal investigation into the allegations of widespread and coordinated fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election, the two camps are squaring up for the legal and propaganda fight while the world outside USA waits to see what happens next.

Although US politics has been riven with claims of corruption and voter intimidation for many years, until now this was seen as a problem restricted to individual States, but what is now unravelling looks like the systematic and coordinated corruption of the actual US democratic process, and it is this continued threat which has prompted such an early investigation.

Investigators will start with the many claims and witness statements of irregular and illegal activity during counting and even before, when millions of unsolicited ballots were sent out across the country, the potential for fraud following this was highlighted by Barr back in September, but investigators will also want to know how high and wide this goes.

For example, when Nanci Pelosi boasted to CNBC back in June that Trump would be leaving White House "whether he knows it yet or not", was she just being an arrogant and partisan politician, or was she confident of plans already in place to rig the election? And Hillary Clinton also seemed to have some very accurate fortune telling abilities when, in August, she described the situation in which Trump would win the election but insisted that Biden should not concede, "under any circumstances" (why should that be, was it because she knew that extra votes would magically appear?).

But the real interest will be on Joe Biden himself.

Much has been made of his apparent admission to having put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics, although we suspect that was an unintended assertion, the question remains, was it an innocent or a Freudian slip of the tongue.