Civilization
Election 2020 – vindication
The Election of 2020 was in fact stolen, as Donald Trump insisted early afterward. A maverick journalist names villains – and heroes.
We now have a definitive statement that President Donald J. Trump was right the first time about the 2020 election. A foreign actor or actors did steal that election, to install a Democrat in the White House. Of course the close divide of the American people made the cheat possible. But those who deny that the cheat occurred, are either naive or lying. The story comes from an independent conservative journalist who also reveals, or suggests, an unlikely hero of the 2024 election.
Enter Emerald Robinson
Emerald Robinson was chief White House correspondent for Newsmax and the One America News Network during the “Trump One” administration. With the installation of joe Biden, she became a thorn in the side of Biden’s first press secretary, Jen Psaki. In November of 2021, Twitter (now X) suspended her account after she disclosed the secret ingredients in Moderna’s mRNA “vaccine” against coronavirus. With the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, she got her account privileges back.
Today she publishes a newsletter, The Right Way, on Substack.com – but has registered her own personal domain. (Naturally she registered it in Tuvalu, whose domain lists as “.tv”, as in “television.”) She has a regular hour-long program that airs weekdays at 4:00 p.m. ET on Frankspeech.com.
Emerald Robinson covers more than coronavirus. She also covers the bad effects of unchecked migration, especially of Muslims and Hindus, neither of whom wish to assimilate into any uniquely American culture. But she also covered the Election of 2020 – and how Trump’s worst failing is lack of imagination. That, and an appalling naivete when it came to making Presidential appointments. Paul Sperry recently covered how Trump’s own people engineered the Russia Hoax and threw the election to Biden in 2020. Emerald Robinson charges that Trump still might not have learned any lessons from that experience. (Or has he? Rumors have him shaking up his Cabinet next January.)
The Election of 2020 – and of 2024
Less than two weeks before the Election of 2024, X influencer Col. Conrad Reynolds posted this video to X.
🚨⚠️ This is a must-watch before the 2024 presidential election.
My friend Gary is whistleblower with deep connections to DOJ, FBI, DEA, and Homeland Security and he exposes shocking details about foreign involvement in U.S. elections. Allegations suggest foreign regimes, including Venezuela and China, are controlling key election systems.
Learn about the claims surrounding election software and foreign manipulation.
🚨⚠️ This is a must-watch before the 2024 presidential election.
My friend Gary is whistleblower with deep connections to DOJ, FBI, DEA, and Homeland Security and he exposes shocking details about foreign involvement in U.S. elections. Allegations suggest foreign regimes,… pic.twitter.com/FlDjtWMZbG— COL Conrad Reynolds (@ColonelReynolds) October 23, 2024
Reynolds’ subject, Gary Berntsen, accuses Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela, of supporting drug cartels in his country. More to the point he accuses Maduro and his late predecessor, Hugo Chavez, of engineering the founding of SmartMatic, the key subsidiary of Dominion Voting Systems, and responsible for their scanner-tabulator algorithms. SmartMatic, according to Berntsen, ensured that Chavez would survive his attempted recall. After that, Chavez would aim for bigger game: elections in the United States.
SmartMatic entered the U.S. election market in Cook County, Illinois (seated in Chicago). A corporate shell game followed – with an obscure Toronto, Canada company buying SmartMatic. That company’s name: Dominion Voting Systems.
Dominion Voting Systems manages the elections in almost all the swing States. This determines who wins the [Presidential] election.
Berntsen then asserted that the source code for scanner-tabulators from Smartmatic and Dominion is under Venezuelan control. (He also refers to “other companies” whom he does not name.) The hardware comes from Mainland Chinese factories, with final touches applied in – of all places – Taiwan. Then he dropped this key fact: Dominion Voting Systems moved their cybernetic servers to their offices in Belgrade, Serbia. There, Venezuelan, Cuban, and Communist Chinese intelligence agents stood guard – and had administrative user roles in the “swing States.”
Further evidence
Berntsen maintains a Web site – Stolen Elections Facts – explaining the above. He also maintains that Fox and Newsmax need never have settled with Dominion, because they had truth on their side. Why they chose to pretend that they defamed Dominion, is a different question, to which others have suggested possible answers.
The site does list the “other companies” to which Berntsen alluded:
- Sequoia Voting Systems
- Bizta Corporation
- Software Softer and Bizta R&D
The name Election Systems and Software does not appear at the Stolen Elections Facts website. ES&S are the company to which many Registrars of Election switched after Dominion Voting got such a nasty reputation. In fact that company describes itself as established in 1979, long before the events Berntsen describes. Of note is that ES&S builds a Ballot Marking Device that can accept input from a voter having any of a large number of handicaps. It produces a ballot card with human-readable text. In sharp contrast, Dominion’s BMD produces a Quick-read Code containing what are ostensibly a voter’s choices. But the voter can’t read it, so he cannot know whether the ballot is correct or not.
Nor does the name KnowInk appear. KnowInk specializes in electronic pollbooks. Their product consists of specially equipped tablet devices, connecting to one another (but not to the Internet) in a peer-to-peer network.
Bear the above in mind as you read on.
Why the steal of Election 2020 stood
Emerald Robinson reposted Col. Reynolds’ sixteen-minute video clip shortly after Reynolds posted it.
The Election of 2024 happened – and Donald Trump won. No one – at least no one with good heart and better evidence – disputes that. But according to Ms. Robinson, it almost didn’t work out that way.
On January 22, 2025, she started a thread of more than 100 posts on X:
Space does not permit sharing the entire contents, or even all the links. But a careful roll-through of the thread reveals these key insights:
- Bill Barr, Trump’s second Attorney General, blocked any effort to investigate whether the Election 2020 returns were false.
- Several National Security analysts briefed the White House and several key Senators that enough evidence existed to warrant an investigation. Again, no one acted.
- White House Counsel Paul Cipollone, late in 2020, stopped anyone from telling President Trump about the National Security analyst briefing.
- Key agencies, among them CISA, declared the election fair. CISA figures prominently in the infamous Intercept story about social media organs as State actors.
- Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell had the goods on Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, much as Gary Berntsen described it. Again, nothing happened.
- The January 6 Event was definitely a false-flag pseudo-operation. FBI “crowd embeds” even had a prearranged visual signal to start inciting.
- The court handling the defamation case by Dominion and Smartmatic against Fox and Newsmax showed clear bias in pre-trial discovery.
An illegal regime, and unconstitutional acts
Ms. Robinson goes on, detailing how:
- The Biden administration gave the Chinese access to the American power grid, and
- The January 6 Committee made several unfriendly legislative recommendations – like a bill to change the Electoral Count Act.
She covers the Steve Bannon indictment, and how the January 6 Committee behaved like a Star Chamber. But she devoted much space to the relationships among Dominion, Smartmatic, Sequoia, and the other firms Gary Berntsen named. Much of what we now know about Smartmatic came when Juan Andres Bautista, chief elections officer in the Philippines, got involved in a nasty divorce. His wife, quite simply, ratted him out. He faced impeachment and arrest for bribery – Smartmatic was bribing him – and fled to the United States.
Robinson goes on to detail the clumsy effort in Colorado to destroy evidence. That’s why Tina Peters, County Clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, made a forensic image of a key computer server.
At the end of that thread (which didn’t end until March!), she revealed another key fact. An anonymous man, of Japanese heritage, tracked the Internet traffic among Dominion and its offices in Serbia and Hong Kong. For a donation of twenty dollars, he gave it all to a still-anonymous group investigating the steal of Election 2020. That information would prove vital to the prevention of another steal in 2024.
Who saved Election 2024?
The exact details have waited until this week for Emerald Robinson to reveal them. Why she delayed, she hasn’t said. She did not make a thread of each post as a reply to another. So to get the full thread, one must copy all the links. Here they are:
So, to summarize the key points, in case these posts become unreadable:
Emerald Robinson credits the following people with saving the Election of 2024:
- Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.)
- Fmr. Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.)
- Elon Musk
- The Three Musketeers, including:
- Gary Berntsen,
- Patrick Byrne (then owner of Overstock.com), and
- The anonymous Japanese man, who shared his data with Musk – and thereby convinced him.
After hearing this man, Musk called a member of his staff:
We have a problem. It’s true.
Then he singled out Dominion Voting Systems at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania.
Sen. Mullin arranged for this man to brief key staff at Mar-A-Lago. Then he evidently recruited a cybersecurity team to attack the Internet servers at the other end of the IP addresses the anonymous man had furnished. Three days before the election, Dominion’s servers in Belgrade were suddenly useless.
And none of the men responsible have gotten any credit for this.
What next?
First, Donald Trump does know what went on, and whom to blame – on the international front. He has decided to wage a secret war against Nicolás Maduro. That explains the drug boat strikes, and could explain Trump’s curious dissatisfaction with the operation thus far. Furthermore, if Trump does send an amphibious assault force to Venezuela, it’s partly in revenge, and partly in recognition that Venezuela, under Hugo Chavez and now Maduro, have been rigging elections in 72 countries for years.
Second, this could explain why Dominion Voting Systems is no more. Scott Leiendecker, former Election Director in St. Louis, Missouri, bought the company in an apparent fire sale. He renamed it Liberty Vote. Leiendecker also runs KnowInk, the electronic pollbook maker described above.
Leiendecker promises to produce systems with “verifiable paper records.” But convincing aggrieved voters to accept any electronic scanner-tabulator, or even an electronic poll book, could prove impossible.
Realities of the election system landscape
Again, all the attention focuses on Smartmatic, Dominion, Sequoia, and Bizia. No one has said a word about Election Systems and Software (allegedly in existence for decades), or KnowInk, the dedicated pollbook maker. Nevertheless, election-integrity advocates, including some who work today as Officers of Election, are convinced that Smartmatic and ES&S get their software from the same source. They have shared that suspicion directly with CNAV. To date, none has furnished proof positive of that suspicion. But no one has asked ES&S, either, where they get their own source code, or whether they developed it in-house.
With their total, unshakable distrust of any electronic voting system, these activists will accept nothing less than paper pollbooks. That will require separating voters into two lines: the A-Js and the K-Zs, or with some other alphabetical division.
At least one activist wants to forbid absentee voting completely. The only exception he will willingly make is for U.S. service members stationed abroad. Even regular Officers of Election, in his view, must sacrifice their right to vote to accept assignment out-of-precinct. But CNAV reminded him that seven percent of votes cast in the French system, are by proxies for registered voters who could not vote in person. To that, he made no answer – so perhaps the French proxy-voting system can substitute for absentee ballots.
Which costs more? Storing, securing, and using electronic pollbooks and scanner-tabulators? Or hiring “closing officers” (high-school civics students, perhaps?) to count the ballots after close-of-polls? No one knows – yet.
One more thing
One last item bears mention. Donald Trump has consistently suffered from a lack of imagination, and poor judgment of people. His own people stopped his investigation of the steal of Election 2020, just as they aided and abetted the Russiagate plot.
Whoever replaces Trump as a candidate in 2028, must have the skills to hire the right people. Furthermore, he should share the Three Musketeers/Emerald Robinson findings, as his real reason for going to war with Venezuela. (For that matter, this election interference beats the Zimmerman Note of 1918 as legitimate casus belli.)
Scott Leiendecker should simply conduct the fire sale, turn State’s evidence, and join the effort to replace hard-to-count Australian ballots (that list every race and public question) with secure individual “bulletin” ballots that lend themselves to a manual count. Make election work – especially the ballot count – an extra-credit activity in high-school civics. (Or for cadets in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.) By all means, install the proxy system. That way, anyone who can’t vote in person, can trust another to vote in his stead.
This is how you achieve not only accountability but also deterrence. Make it not only expensive but impossible to steal another election as the Venezuelans did (likely for the Chinese). If one good thing can come out of these revelations, this is it.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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