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gummibarenaked 1 point ago +1 / -0

Even a written confession by a defendant without any corroboration is also speculative.

So, we would be talking about facts which have some level of corroboration.

Take for example the subject of the agency gaming foreign elections. Do you believe that there is no evidence of this?

But if this subject does not interest you, then you do not need to engage in it.

It does seem to me that all in all, Trump has never been Nixon. The Leftists insistence of trying to make Trump rhyme with Nixon have been incredibly myopic of Trump's personal sense of what is Good for the Republic.

If Trump has such evidence, which I believe that he does, then it makes complete sense why Trump has been positioning his own IC resources to make such a full disclosure if it becomes final that he won't stay in office.

How would such a full disclosure affect us geopolitically? There are far too many "ends" of loose strings here even to imagine. However, I don't think it would be "Good". That's for certain. We, myself included, are products of the times in which we were raised and the events that we lived through. For example, I understand why Nixon resigned. I still support the ideology behind his resignation. But I also am not so naive to know that those days are long behind us. Under today's rules, Nixon would never have resigned and he would have outlasted the ensuing impeachment efforts. After that, it would have been politically moot.

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Damiano -1 points ago +1 / -2

I think that you're bringing up a lot of interesting points. Short answer, I don't think we can know for certain. I don't mean that to be dismissive. As I said, these are interesting topics.

One area of particular interest to me is your approaching this from a perspective of global importance. I think that this idea hasn't gotten nearly enough attention. There's a vast amount that can be discussed from that perspective. I will touch on a fairly simple example: If things go as the media seems to want them to go: January 20th comes, Biden get's sworn in, Trump retires to FL and is never heard from again... this is impossible. The entire world is watching this election. Our country has, correctly, refused to acknowledge other nation and/ or heads of state for far less that has just been broadcast to the world. What is CNN's solution when some other nation refused to acknowledge the United States as legitimate and uses CNN's own reporting as the basis for doing so?

I have no idea what any of these answer are. My simple opinion is that, for all these reasons and countless more, unless this election is fully and transparently audited, validated, and lots and lots of people go to jail, there will be a cascade of horrifying, widespread, long term consequences. Even if that happens, I still do not see a happy ending for a very long time.