White House not stolen, but bought with Zuckerberg’s money: Goodwin

Trump offers his own answer, of course, declaring incessantly that the election was stolen. His efforts to get then-Vice President Mike Pence to block certification of results and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have made his arguments out of bounds for most Americans. 

Numerous courts rejected claims made by Trump lawyers involving manipulation of voting machines, bags of secret ballots emerging and other kinds of alleged fraud. 

But rejecting Trump s claims is one thing, solving the riddle of Biden s triumph is another. Lacking any other explanation, two-thirds of Republicans still believe the election was rigged and stolen from Trump, while only 18 percent believe Joe Biden won fair and square, according to a recent Yahoo News/YouGov survey. It found that 28 percent of independent voters agree Biden s victory is illegitimate. 

Such wide suspicions are corrosive, which makes the findings of a new book all the more important. 

In Rigged, author Mollie Hemingway lays out what amounts to a fascinating alternative to the stolen charge. She presents a strong case that the $419 million that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ostensibly spent to get out the vote was actually used by Democrat activists to infiltrate local election operations and take over jobs government workers were supposed to do. 

Hemingway, a senior editor at The Federalist and a Fox commentator, shows how two Zuckerberg nonprofits used their unprecedented deep pockets to line up left-wing groups in key cities that in turn hired poll workers, collected absentee ballots and cured those with errors. 

via nypost.com

Sounds plausible and legal too. Just not terribly democratic. But hey, who’s counting?