Suppose you’re Hillary Clinton.
You just lost the presidential election to Donald Trump…and you find out that members of the electoral college are being threatened because they will cast their votes for Trump – including death threats.
Do you ask them – tell them – demand of them that they stop? That they do nothing of the sort in your name?
Or do you just be quiet, let it happen, and maybe hope that enough will be scared into flipping their electoral votes so you “win” the presidency?
Excerpted from John Sexton’s article at hotair.com:
Presidential electors around the country are being harassed and threatened as part of a last-minute Democratic campaign to block the election of Donald Trump.
Democrats were in shock after Trump won the election last Tuesday but with Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote Democrats have now turned on the electoral college. This week outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer introduced legislation to amend the U.S. Constitution and remove the electoral college. Meanwhile, anti-Trump groups have been circulating lists with personal information of the actual electors and encouraging people to pressure them into becoming “faithless electors,” i.e. not voting for Trump even though he won the election in their state. The results have been predictable.
Mr. Sexton then enumerates a list of electors from different states who have been threatened, complete with links to the news stories about those threats in each state.
Mr. Sexton ends by asking – and answering – the following question:
Will the national media pick up on these incidents of death threats and harassment as well, all of which explicitly stem from a left-wing campaign to alter the outcome of the election? Don’t count on it.
His answer so far – and not at all surprisingly – is correct. Mainstream media have virtually buried this sick attempt to overturn an election. Why? Because if it succeeded it would provide the result most of them want.
And, by burying the news about these threats, the fact that Hillary Clinton – in whose name the threats are being made – has not offered so much as one word of opposition to what is being done, is buried too.
Tell me: what if Clinton had won and it was Trump supporters threatening electors in an effort to dump Hillary and get him elected. Do you think these same media would collectively look the other way?
A great many in media, I am sure, agree with Hillary Clinton about Trump supporters being “deplorable”.
I wonder when they start realizing that they have made their journalistic integrity irredeemable.
what if Clinton had won and it was Trump supporters threatening electors –
I wonder if it were Trump supporters rioting and beating up Clinton supporters in the street, would the police be arresting them???
I ask that Q because many times I have seen the police just stand there, as this mayhem is taking place.