The letter from Rae Peipho is an example of the disinformation and distrust fomented by four years of a lying president. Rather than point by point deconstructing the nonsense presented I will just point out that every item in that entire list has been disputed, refuted and rejected by every court they have been presented to, at last count 64 judicial judgments have been made against those claims, not one has been sustained. Continuing to repeat them only contributes to continued misinformation, fosters distrust in our American system and suggests that those of us that voted by a majority of over 8 million somehow are cheaters and corrupt, and I resent that. We need to have a dialogue of acceptance, the results are in and no fraud has been found, this election was quite possibly the most secure and transparent election in history.
All of the president’s men could not find a legitimate supportable example of election irregularity, let alone a massive fraud that would have involved millions: statistically impossible. The election actually went pretty much as predicted by most observers, early voting and mail in voting gave Biden a lead at first, the in person voting had Trump catching up and finally the absentee ballots were counted and again heavily favored Biden, and once all the ballots were counted, Joe won. If fraud had occurred the Republicans would not have won so many down ballot races, evidence of ticket splitting.
It is my belief that the unwarranted distrust contributed to the sedition that occurred on January 6, that the refusal not only of a righteous segment of the right wing of the Republican party, but the refusal of the sitting president himself to accept those results, caused that assault on our democracy and threatens the foundation of our great nation; that was no protest, that was an attempted coup, we know who those perpetrators are, and they are not the Democrats.
Yes, we are entitled to our own opinions, but not our own set of facts.
Jerry Hiniker, Grand Marais
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