Did Donald Trump Steal The Election?

Did Donald Trump steal the election? After years of Trump falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen, this might seem like a strange question to ask. Nevertheless, a lot of weird things have happened that are causing Americans to do exactly that. While it would be silly and irresponsible to jump to that conclusion without evidence — and to be clear, all evidence at this point that Trump somehow cheated is anecdotal — there are for once legitimate reasons to ask this question.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, a Rhoades Scholar, sounded the alarm earlier this year after Trump told his followers that if they vote for him, “in four years, you don’t have to vote again.” This was not the only time he has done that. But his messaging eventually dropped even requests that people vote for him at all. In fact, he started telling supporters he doesn’t need votes in this election. My instruction, we don’t need the votes. I have so many votes,” Trump said in a call-in on Fox News. In the clip, Maddow plays a montage of Trump telling people they don’t need to vote.

“That is a thing that should prick up your ears,” Maddow says. “Because what that means is that he doesn’t think he needs to win the vote to win the election. He doesn’t think he needs to win the election in order to take power. He thinks something other than votes is going to determine whether he gets back in the White House.”

Ultimately, Maddow arrives at the conclusion that Trump intended to manipulate vote tabulation — because election officials have already interfered on his behalf many times.

Election Day Was ‘The Bomb’

As you might have noticed, bomb threats targeted a lot of polling locations in high-population Democrat-heavy areas. Almost all were in counties Biden won in 2020 and almost all were instrumental in his victory. Atlanta. Phoenix. Milwaukee. Detroit. Philadelphia. There were never any bombs and the threats came from accounts associated with Russian email addresses. But that doesn’t mean no damage was done. Many people went home when their location was closed. Others had to go elsewhere to vote. But one location in particular is especially interesting: Centre County, Pennsylvania.

Centre County, PA is reliably Blue and ultimately went for Kamala, but there was a journey to get there. The county was showing deep Red early on, but then a ballot counting issue was discovered and the county flipped to Blue with Kamala Harris snagging more votes than Joe Biden did in 2020.

Before the problem was fixed, 67,000 votes had been recorded in Centre County. For comparison’s sake, there were 78,000 in 2020 and 77,000 in 2016. After the problem was discovered and addressed, the county flipped Blue. This was not an isolated issue. Voting software had a lot of surprising challenges counting votes accurately — issues that could be missed if someone was not diligent.

Enter Stephen Spoonamore

Cybersecurity expert Stephen Spoonamore, who has testified as an expert witness in cases dealing with allegations of election-related fraud, calls foul on the Centre County situation. Everything he says should be taken with a grain of salt without more evidence, but he has a reasonable suggestion for how to test if he is correct.

In a post on Spoutible, Spoonamore says that Trump cheated — and that he did it by messing with vote tabulation. Spoonamore says the machines were likely hacked in advance and a time-gated program was used to mess with the vote count:

Here is what you are seeing. The Tabulation Systems at the County level were hacked far in advance of the election. The hack was probably written into the code even before the code was installed. It will have a WHEN function and IF/THEN functions to have the machine force balance to a given outcome within a specific window of time. You could test the machines 1000 times before election night, and the result will be correct. If you run it during the time window, the force balancing will be turned on and regardless of inputs you will get a programmed output.

It is very simple to prove this. Take the two most outlandish precinct results from any county and just hand-count the ballots. They won’t match the tabulation outputs. From what I am seeing, you will find 8-11% avg. shifts from Dem to Rep. Be sure to check heavy Red areas, easier to cover up a run up of the score. That was how it was done in Ohio vs. Kerry – GOP flips in already highly red areas.

Now, why the Bomb-Threats? They were NOT to allow for hacker access. The programming was already in place, they were to break Chain of Custody and produce legal grounds to not trust arecount. Every place that GOT a bomb-threat is a place the courts will now have to consider the factual argument of whether the ballots COULD have been tampered with while the evacuations were going on. They weren’t. But that is the argument the GOP will make to prevent recounts.

Whether or not Spoonamore is correct, he sent a “Duty to Warn” letter to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. And whether or not his theory pans out, there were around 10,000 missing votes before the issue was resolved — enough to flip the county. But he has reason to think he is onto something. Cochise County, Arizona also received a bomb threat and also had irregularities in vote tabulation.

In any case, it should be easy to prove one way or the other: hand-recount a couple of counties that received bomb threats with the wildest results compared to 2020 and see if the numbers match.

Did Donald Trump Steal The Election With Elon Musk’s Help?

You may have heard some muttering about Joe Rogan and Starlink in relation to this election. It’s unclear why Elon Musk’s Starlink would be involved with election software. But one local news story mentioned how thankful they were for Elon’s help via Starlink. This is especially interesting because of Joe Rogan’s claim that he was able to get more accurate results from the Trump campaign because Elon has a special app that allows him to see election results before they are announced.

“I was texting people like Tulsi and JD Vance — apparently, Elon created an app and he knew who won four hours before the results,” Rogan says, indicating that he got that information from Trump’s close friend, UFC CEO Dana White.

So, Did Donald Trump Steal The Election?

So, did Donald Trump steal the election? Maddow is certainly correct that there is a “lot of weirdness” surrounding Trump’s statements and actions. All MAGA claims of “election fraud” tapered off almost immediately on Election Day. Ballot boxes were set on fire. Robocalls targeting Black communities and other forms of voter suppression were rampant. Combine those with the information discussed above as well as Ivanka Trump’s weird voting machine trademark and patent for postmark checking devices and the 2024 election is a conspiracy theorist’s wet dream. This is even more true of a statement than in 2020, as there is very real substance to the suspicion many Americans are feeling that this election was stolen.

But once again, every piece of evidence is anecdotal. It seems like it’s a good idea to ask a lot of questions. Audits and investigations are not out of the realm of reasonableness. At this point, it’s best to accept that Donald Trump won, that the America we thought we knew never existed. However, keep asking questions. None of what folks suspect is outside what fraudster and felon Donald Trump would do if he could pull it off.