The U.S. Department of Defense announced this week that it is moving military assets to the Middle East to deter continued Iranian aggression against the U.S. and Israel after Iran vowed this week to hit Israel following last week’s strikes in Iran.

The Pentagon ordered the deployment of “additional ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighter squadron and tanker aircraft, and several U.S. Air Force B-52 long-range strike bombers to the region.”

The forces will arrive in the region in the coming months as the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group prepares to leave the region.

The move of B-52s and missile defense is interesting. The B-52, it should be noted, is strictly an offensive platform, and its use presumes U.S. air superiority where the BUFFs are deployed, thus perhaps the movement of fighters. //

“These deployments build on the recent decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system to Israel as well as DoD’s sustained Amphibious Ready Group Marine Expeditionary Unit (ARG/MEU) posture in the Eastern Mediterranean,” a statement said. //

anon-nn7q
11 hours ago
Is this a decision made by our senile president Biden? If not, then by whom?

This decision is a very big deal, irrespective of whether one thinks we should or should not intervene. Harris, as VP, does not have the Constitutional authority to give such an order. Biden doesn't have the mental capacity to do anything other than what someone tells him to do.

Is this Doctor Jill's decision? //

anon-x8p1
12 hours ago
JOE BIDEN is the sole commander-in chief. He gives the orders.
Let that sink in. Harris does not care. let that sink in too.

The Obama game plan is to leave a huge stinking pile of garbage on your successors lap, before you get booted out the door.

Obama's plan is still working perfectly. Obama made sure all the biggest Obamacare costs and impact kicked in only after he left office. Then Trump gets blamed for raising the public debt.

You cannot hate Democrats enough.

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JUST IN: Biden has been CANCELED over his "garbage" comments 🤣

“Fox News has learned multiple campaign calls that were publicly advised for yesterday were canceled as he faces continuing fallout over his ‘garbage’ comment… Biden has no official campaign events on his schedule...

8:24 AM · Nov 2, 2024 //

So the decision seems to have been made. It's the basement for Biden to ensure he doesn't mumble something else that lowers the vice president's chances in the final days of the race. Instead of doing rallies and interviews to help her, he's been plugged.

That's pretty scandalous, isn't it? Harris, the current vice president, has repeatedly asserted that Biden is at the top of his game, perfectly lucid, and capable of continuing to serve as president. Yet, he's so far gone mentally and physically that he can't even do campaign events for her in what appears to be the closest presidential election in modern history.

Harris should be disqualified for that alone. If she can't be trusted to tell the truth about Biden at this late hour despite all the evidence piling up that his remaining president is a dangerous proposition for the nation, then she certainly can't be trusted to tell the truth if she attains the White House. This is an issue that she should have been pushed on over and over. //

MizRando
13 hours ago
So, let me get this straight. Joe is so senile he can't possibly run for a second term. Joe is so senile he's not allowed to campaign for his vice president. The only thing Joe is capable of doing is being POTUS? If this doesn't tell you what Democrats truly think about America and its citizens, I don't know what does.

RedinOR MizRando
13 hours ago
It demonstrates their grasp on power and the corruption that is being hidden are far more important that the country or her citizens. These people are the real garbage. //

flguy
14 hours ago
Come on, Dr. Jill! Do not stand for this! Get Joe out there and talking up a storm! They've done you wrong so many times, don't stand for it! Get Joe talkin'!

The problem? He is too senile and too much of a liability, and that was on glorious, hilarious display on Saturday. Standing in front of an array of "Harris-Walz" signs, making the moment that much more perfect, Joseph Robinette Biden said and did the following. Buckle up.

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Biden: MAGA Republicans "are the kind of guys you'd like to smack in the ass."

3:57 PM · Nov 2, 2024

The above is not a misquote. It is not taken out of context. The President of the United States actually said of Republicans, "These are the kind of guys you'd like to smack in the a**." He then made the face pictured below. //

As one person put it on social media, I'm not sure if Biden was threatening violence against Republicans or flirting with them. This is the absolute state of the United States right now, and it's both unbelievably funny and absolutely terrifying. We have a president who is so mentally gone that he can't stop himself from saying something that mindboggling and ripe for mockery. This guy has the nuclear codes. //

CovertJeff
6 hours ago
He secretly wants Kamala to lose and lose big. He wants the "I told you so" moment when he can declare that he is the only one to ever beat Trump and if they had left him alone, he would have done it again. //

anon-07ty
7 hours ago
Ok, that settles it. He is purposely sabotaging Harris campaign and it is glorious!! GO JOE GO!!

Joe Biden's now-infamous "garbage" comment in which he referred to Trump supporters with the derogatory term continues to haunt both the White House and the Kamala Harris campaign. On Thursday evening, things developed into a full-blown scandal, possibly including criminality.

After Biden made the statement while speaking to CNN, the White House immediately edited his remarks to insert a magical apostrophe. The narrative then shifted to claiming that the president was actually referring to a specific Trump "supporter's" garbage, in this case, a comedian who made a joke about Puerto Rico. As expected, the press ran with the revisionist history. //

This is no longer just about politics, though. According to a new report, the White House altered the transcript despite objections from the stenographer, who did not feel an apostrophe should have been added. The problem? That was almost certainly a crime. //

The supervisor, in the email, called the press office’s handling of the matter “a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.”

“If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor wrote, adding, “Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives — is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.” //

It is a violation of the Presidential Records Act for anyone to tamper with and spoil an official transcript. Any requested changes are supposed to go through the Stenography Office, and they have no duty to abide by such requests if they believe them to be incorrect. The White House press office changing the transcript over their objections appears to be illegal. That it was done for obviously political reasons to protect not only Joe Biden but the Harris campaign as well, only makes the situation that much worse. //

Will the Biden-led DOJ push this issue and bring charges? Of course, not. That's not even a question at this point. Should Donald Trump's DOJ, if he were to win the election, push the issue? Absolutely. Democrats have had no mercy on Republicans the last four years, including weaponizing the law in ways it was never meant to be used. The only way that stops is by re-establishing some kind of deterrence.

"While I am running a campaign of positive solutions to save America, Kamala Harris is running a campaign of hate. She has spent all week comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history," Trump's statement began.

This is in reference to Harris attempting to paint Trump as a Hitler figure, a lead many on the left followed by referring to Trump supporters as "Nazis," especially during his Madison Square Garden rally.

"Now, on top of everything, Joe Biden calls our supporters 'garbage,'" Trump continued, leading to the most important sentence in his statement. "You can't lead America if you don't love the American People."

"Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have shown they are both unfit to be President of the United States. I am proud to lead the biggest, broadest, and most important political coalition in American history. We are welcoming historic numbers of Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. It is my desire to be the President of all the people.". //

NavyVet Midwestern Copper
38 minutes ago
The campaign is supposed to be a debate about ideas and policies. President Trump has upheld his end of that.

In contrast, Harris has done nothing but lie, slander, demean, and defame her opponent. The only policy she has presented clearly is pro-abortion. That's it. The rest has been hateful bigoted lying spew hurled President Trump's way.

Walz's connections with the CCP have never been publicly explained. If DHS has doubts about those ties, America needs to know. America also needs to know why Kamala selected someone with deep ties to Communist China as a running mate. Mayrokas's refusal to comply with this subpoena should land him a criminal indictment if Trump wins next week. Of course, if Kamala wins, we'll find out about those ties pretty quickly. //

Random US Citizen
40 minutes ago edited
How to invade Taiwan without repercussions:

1) Groom a Democrat politician using honey traps during his time in China. Blackmail him as needed.

2) Get him on a major party ticket as VP nominee by using your connections within the party.

3) Corrupt the election using money, lies, and voting machine hacking so his party wins

4) Assassinate the new President using one of the tens of thousands of illegals you've infiltrated into the US

5) Profit! //

anon-isiz
27 minutes ago
This would have been enough to deny him a security clearance in the days when DOD wasn’t giving classified Israeli defense plans to terrorist organizations. Now? He’s probably more trustworthy than anyone in the White House.

“My answer is no. I know what Hitler has done and I know what a fascist regime looks like.

"I think, as I have called for over and over again, that the level of conversation, I think we can all dial down the temperature [emphasis mine].” //

The embattled mayor was indicted on corruption charges in September and is facing his own challenges. Many pundits noted, however, that the government came after him only after he’d criticized the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris disaster at the border. //

Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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President Trump on Eric Adams: "I watched about a year ago when he talked about how the illegal migrants are hurting our city... and I said, you know what, he'll be indicted within a year — and I was exactly right."

5:33 PM · Sep 26, 2024 //

Adams may or may not be guilty of the charges against him; that story is for another day. What he said Saturday, nevertheless, rings true: This is America. Kamala and Co. seem to have forgotten that, or more likely, they don’t care about such niceties in their desperate attempts to cling to power.

Images emerging from trail cams placed on a family farm in a small Vermont town are a stark reminder that border security in the North is also a disaster under the Biden-Harris administration.

The images come from Newport Center, a town with a population of about 1,500. The cameras are situated roughly 2.5 miles south of the U.S.-Canadian border.

The Newport Dispatch reports that multiple cameras on the LeBlanc family farm caught multiple groups of men traversing the property, including one image capturing "what appeared to be several men led by a guide wearing a turban."

The property owner notes that the man in the turban, eyes glowing in the images, was spotted making separate runs "back and forth" to guide different groups. //

LeBlanc indicates that the activity is consistent and widespread, claiming neighbors have witnessed groups of illegal aliens emerging from the woods.

“This is an everyday thing,” he explained. “It’s definitely concerning, and we definitely have an uneasy feeling. You can’t really let the kids go alone anymore. It just puts a spin on things that we’re not used to.” //

VTDigger published an extensive report in August indicating border patrol agents have been surging to the location as they battle "record numbers of migrants attempting to cross the Canadian border into Vermont and neighboring states."

A border patrol official overseeing operations in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York, told the outlet his agency has "seen a number of apprehensions that we’ve never seen in our recorded history in this area.”

Back [to] all the things that he's been saying, and all the people in his administration who've said he's a fascist, he wants to be fascist, his friends are all dictators.

KELLY: I don't care about that at all. Not at all.

MAHER: Because?

KELLY: January 6th was not good.

MAHER: Wait, why don't you care about that at all?

KELLY: Because they've been saying that about Trump for years, they've been saying that about Republican candidates for years. It has like a long storied history. If you are at all center or center-right, you are used to having your candidate of choice completely demonized, whether it's the f-word, the r-word, the misogynist word.

They tried to tell us Mitt Romney was a raging sexist because of binders full of women. They tried to tell us John McCain was a raging racist not withstanding the fact that he adopted a daughter from Bangladesh. They've been doing this for every Republican and they get to Trump and we are not longer listening to them. Trump has incendiary rhetoric, there's no question, but we have four years to judge him by, and the country was going pretty well, unlike the four we've had with these two. //

MAHER: Well, first of all, Trump inherited somebody else's economy.

KELLY: That's what Barack Obama would like us to think.

MAHER: Well, it's true. Really, on day one, everything changed?

KELLY: So walk me through it. So Trump has Obama to thank for his economy, but Biden can't thank Trump for anything?

MAHER: Okay, let's get off this... //

KELLY: Trump did not go after his political enemies with the DOJ. That was Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

MAHER: Well, we had Hitler in the 30s and things were okay, and then we had Hitler in the 40s, and they got way worse. Just because we had him...

KELLY: Oh, I see, he hid his Hitlerism the first four years and is going to come out in full force the second four years.

MAHER: Well, he tried to do things like that. He tried to do dictatorial fascist things, and he was stopped.

KELLY: Joe Biden has flouted the law when it comes to these student loan giveaway programs.

MAHER: Really, you're talking about...

KELLY: He's flouted the law, Supreme Court opinions that openly told him he didn't have the right to do it, and he openly said, "I will get around the Supreme Court." He did it with respect to rent abatement programs, the same exact thing, and then he and Kamala Harris unleashed this Department of Justice against their political enemy, Donald Trump, their number one chief rival for the presidency. Is it funny? Because they did it. You want to talk fascism? That's fascist.

MAHER: I don't think history is going to be kind to your point of view, but I appreciate you coming on again. //

GBenton
an hour ago
Kelly is sharp but she needs to get better about J6. It was a false flag. Most of what disturbed people like her and Guy Benson was planned and executed by the Democrats and Antifa. It was bad but not because of Trump. And the sheer hypocrisy of the left cheering on BLM riots and Antifa riots and all the rest utterly disqualifies them from selective outrage over a mild incident largely instigated by the left.

Tuberculosis used to be a global plague. Many contracted TB, and many died from it, from Britain's Henry VII to America's John Henry "Doc" Holliday. It's also a fairly simple disease, caused by an agile little bug, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which has the unfortunate propensity to develop into antibiotic-resistant strains. And what's more, it's a bug that's contagious, can be spread by aerosol, and is a prime subject for use as a biological agent.

On Wednesday, a report surfaced that Lousiana's Governor, Jeff Landry, and the state's attorney general, are suing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the case of an illegal immigrant, from China, who was discovered to be carrying a rare, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis: //

The very notion of biological warfare should scare the ever-loving kapok out of anyone who understands it, and if one was going to introduce a biological agent into another country, this is one way you'd do it - but you wouldn't send just one carrier. You'd send hundreds or thousands.

Like the tens of thousands of Chinese nationals who have entered the country illegally since January of 2021, through our wide-open southern border. //

Mongoose
an hour ago
TB (also known as consumption or "the white plague" or in Spanish, "La Miseria, which sort of captures the essence of the TB experience...) is easily the greatest killer in world history. TB death rates at times were as high as one in every five or six people who shuffled off the mortal coil each year. It still kills over a million people each year worldwide and it's been doing that or much, much more for at least 4,000 years, so do the math. Drug resistant TB is a national security threat. If antibiotics start failing against TB, we're in real trouble. It should scare everybody.
Unfortunately, I don't believe Alejandro Mayorkas gives a hoot in hell about this threat.

A group of eleven former Republican prosecutors and elected officials have asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to open an investigation into Elon Musk for paying registered voters in seven states to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. //

As Musk has elevated his profile in politics (see 'To Hell With Them': Elon Knocks Those Who Are 'Fundamentally Anti-American' As He Stumps for Trump in PA), he has become a target of the US government. Sunday, the New York Times wrote a gleeful story on all the federal agencies investigating either Musk or his business ventures, complete with a helpful infographic. //

If Harris wins in November, Musk's grim prediction to Tucker Carlson will probably be vindicated: "If he loses, I’m f—-d.”. //

Mr. Bear
3 hours ago
Someone suggested to me that they would check their pursuit of Elon Musk because SpaceX IS the US space program now. I warned them that they didn't understand leftists at all. Leftists care that you conform or get destroyed; nothing else matters to them. Hell, they don't like the space program anyway, and never have ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4 )

Pol Pot was a typical leftist at the end of the movement. He murdered everyone who could do something useful. People who can do things tend to be rational thinkers, which is dangerous to leftist regimes. They murdered millions and wrecked their country and economy for decades, and I don't think they ever regretted it. And they will do it here if good people don't stand up and stop them. It's going to get messy. //

mopani Mr. Bear
3 minutes ago edited
"This perfume could have been sold for a year's wages and the money given to the poor!" said the man who was helping himself to the purse.

"This space program is wasting money that could be given to the poor! And it's only beneficial to rich people!" //

Laocoön of Troy streiff
3 hours ago
Ran across this story: George Washington was running for a seat in the VA House of Delegates. As usual Washington leveraged his sterling reputation in his campaign. His opponant fortified his own appeal by delivering alcohol to his speeches. It was customary, but Washington wanted to eliminate any suggestion of impropriety. He lost. When Washington ran again he delivered rum, beer, whisky, and other beverages from the distillery he ran on his farm to his events. He won.

Lesson learned: Washington may have been the most careful American leader in terms of his reputation and cultivating the power of it. But he was also mindful of the customs of his day. America was blessed by God for the leadership of Washington. He was the essential man for his time.

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🚨🚨 NEW: A US intelligence source tells RedState that the Top Secret documents leaked were leaked from the Pentagon's office of low intensity conflict/special operations - which is where suspected Iranian spy Ariane Tabatabai works with Christopher Maier https://wilsoncenter.org/person/ariane-tabatabai
11:04 PM · Oct 19, 2024

As Van Laar and Streiff have reported, numerous red flags have been raised regarding Tabatabai and Biden's special envoy for Iran, Rob Malley. //

Rep. Mike Waltz
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It’s crystal clear: the Biden-Harris administration has been infiltrated by pro-Iranian apologists.
Jason Brodsky
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Very serious: CNN reports the documents that appeared on a pro #Iran regime Telegram channel are authentic and were marked top secret and have markings indicating they are to be seen only by the Five Eyes.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/19/politics/us-israel-iran-intelligence-documents/index.html
8:35 PM · Oct 19, 2024 //

Indeed. Biden's and Harris' silence on the matter thus far speaks volumes. //
StPHarper
an hour ago
In the mid-1970s, other soldiers and I were told that; because we were 'in the know,' as holders of TSSI clearances, if we ever simply commented on the validity or falseness of any published articles, we would be subject to punishment. Such punishment could include: loss of clearance, reduction in rank, court martial, and possibly time in Leavenworth. And now we can read this:

According to CNN, one person in the intelligence community confirmed the authenticity of the documents, thereby raising the level of seriousness of the breach.

We are not the same country for which others, and I, have served. This sh*t has got to stop.

soxfan4life StPHarper
37 minutes ago
Weird I was told for the rest of my natural life. These people spill the beans and face zero consequences. And then wonder why we hate them. //

bk
2 hours ago

Waltz: "It’s crystal clear: the Biden-Harris administration has been infiltrated by pro-Iranian apologists."

I wouldn't say "infiltrated", since that means they sneaked in for nefarious reasons opposed to what is intended.

For our global adversaries, who are numerous now, that window of weakness is still open. Taking advantage must be tempting. No wonder when asked previously, Russia's Vladimir Putin said he preferred a Biden reelection because the Democrat was more "predictable" than Donald Trump.

Most of the nation's attention since summer has been focused on the presidential election campaign, now nearing its second anniversary. With early voting well underway, the outlook was reported to be close until quite recently. Media would like to keep it close for business reasons.

Ninety-five days of opportunity remain for Russia and China and Iran and North Korea and other possible troublemakers. Which means 95 more long days of anxiety for the U.S.

myx0mop
4 hours ago
I don't think they're trying to do what's right. They simply realize they're about to lose the election, and are trying to score some popularity points with the American voters, most of whom realize that our foreign policy has been a complete CF, and we've become a laughing stock and a toothless tiger under the FJB-FKH pathetic regime.

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POTUS: "She beat Trump so badly in the debate, he's scared to death to beat her again." 🥴

8:32 PM · Oct 15, 2024 //

10-uh-see'-n
2 hours ago
"Wise people store up knowledge, But the mouth of the foolish is near destruction." //

A.B.
an hour ago
Listen again.

He said "meet her again," not "beat."

HadEnoughYet? A.B.
41 minutes ago
I thought so too so I listened again several times. He definitely says "beat". //

Atrox
2 hours ago
What scares me is their cheat machine. Everything is STILL in place. What's going to stop them from doing it? They know they're in trouble so I expect a bigger effort. They don't even care if they get caught, WHO is going to stop it? Poll watchers, nope. This whole thing is no different than the last time. Kamala is without doubt the biggest ZERO to EVER run for president and yet it's still "close"? That is not possible and yet it is. She is literally a moron (no offense to morons). The fact that after all her word salads, her fake accents, her "middle class" upbringing (reminds me of Kasich and my Dad was a mailman), it's still close? What do you think their "points" are with the cheat in place? Three, more? Anyone who is watching and buying into sound bites and the lies are morons as well. I don't believe for a nano-second that there is ONE "undecided" voter, other than those who crave attention. I know what SHOULD happen and are we going to have to wait a month for them to keep "finding votes" in desk drawers in abandoned warehouses? Cause if she wins, it is officially over for The United States of America...

NEWS: The Biden-Harris administration now admits that an Afghan national accused of plotting an election day terror attack did not undergo certain vetting they previously claimed he passed. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi was never vetted or approved by the State Department for special immigrant (SIV) status, despite officials from other agencies claiming that he cleared that stringent process. //

The story is deeply troubling for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it confirms the worst suspicions of Americans that the Biden-Harris administration is incompetent at best and malicious at worst. They think they can just lie about important security matters like a planned terrorist attack on U.S. soil by a dangerous man they should have never let into the country, then have it all swept under the rug by its media mouthpieces. //

They stabbed him in the back after it was clear he had no path to victory. He made the Democrat Party look weak, and for a party obsessed with power above all things, Biden's failure during his debate with Trump was an unforgivable sin. He had to go, and he didn't want to. They forced him out anyway, and now the man who dedicated the vast majority of his adult life to the party had to watch as the party pushed him out and abandoned him.

To be fair, he should have seen that coming. The Democrat Party doesn't have friends, just relationships of convenience. If you advance the party, you're the toast of the town. Become a hurdle and you're as good as roadkill.

That said, if Biden really wanted to take the knife out of his back and drive it into the Democrat Party's, particularly Harris's, he really only needs to do one thing.

Just say, on a live camera where everyone can watch it happen in real-time, that Donald Trump is not a threat to Democracy. //

One word about how Trump isn't as bad as all that in, that would send the news cycle into a tailspin. They would have to make commentary about how Biden has actually been mentally unwell. This would, of course, throw into question how long he's been mentally unwell and how long the Democrat Party has known.

The property management firm managing several buildings in Aurora, Colorado, that have been taken over by members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, is speaking out. The company has taken to X to provide a full description of how the buildings were invaded and taken over by the illegal alien gangsters, how the tenants fled, how people were threatened and assaulted, and how the local government reacted.

Cbz Management @CbzManagement
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Gangs have taken control of several of our properties in Aurora, Colorado.

In an attempt to discredit this fact for political purposes and avoid governmental accountability, some have spread false information about our situation. Let’s set the record straight...🧵

3:32 PM · Oct 11, 2024 //

But in this case, the decision was made in January 2021, when Joe Biden signed executive orders largely undoing Donald Trump's border policies and effectively throwing the border open. There was illegal immigration before that, but the Harris/Biden administration's policies have allowed it to explode.

This mess in Aurora, Colorado, is just one of the outcomes of that catastrophically bad decision. And the root cause can be laid squarely at the feet of Joe Biden and Kamala "Border Czar" Harris.

You had a case in Georgia not very long ago didn't you, they were mad about a young woman who'd been killed by an immigrant. Yeah, well, if they'd all been properly vetted that probably wouldn't have happened. But if they were all properly vetted, that doesn't happen, and America is not having enough babies to keep our population up, so we need immigrants who have been vetted to do work, there wouldn't be a problem. And he [Trump] couldn't keep people all torn up and upset.

Holy tossed under the bus Batman! Bubba didn't just yank the rug out from under Kamala Harris - he figuratively kicked her in the head after she hit the floor. //

Steprock
an hour ago
Wow, quiet part out loud???

Replacement theory, confirmed
Party of slavery, never changed
Open borders, confirmed again

This exchange proves key to understanding why Vance refuses to say, “Donald Trump lost the 2020 election,” and why the liberal press continues to demand an answer to that question.

The query includes an undefined term — “lost” — which holds a different meaning to Trump supporters and to the anti-Trump inquisitors.

If “lost” merely meant Biden is the president of the United States, then that’s an easy answer: Yes, of course, Trump lost, as Biden was inaugurated and has spent the last 3.5 years in the Oval Office.

But that’s not what those demanding Vance say Trump lost mean by “lost.” Every person posing this question injects within the concept of “lost” a concession that Trump’s 2020 challenges were frivolous, unfounded, or wrong. That’s why they pose the question and why Vance won’t provide a “yes” — because that is not what Vance and many other American’s believe.

If asked whether Trump “lost” the 2020 election, meaning that if all legal votes were counted and all illegal counts discarded — and the counting was done legally pursuant to controlling election law — the answer by Trump supporters would be a resounding “I don’t know.”

No one can possibly know the answer to that question because in 2020 there were too many election laws violated or ignored, and too many illegal votes counted. But the lawsuits challenging the elections outcomes were tossed as moot once the votes were certified, so there was never a determination on the validity of the tallies, leaving uncertain the accuracy of the election results.

But “lost” can also have a third meaning in this context: Did Trump lose a free and fair election to Joe Biden?

Yesterday Vance answered that question, telling Raddatz, “you want to say ‘rigged’” “you want to say, ‘he won,’ use whatever vocabulary term you want.” The vice-presidential candidate’s closer then cemented the point, stressing that the “censoring of fellow citizens” was such that it “violated our fundamental rights.” In other words, no, Trump didn’t lose a free and fair election to Joe Biden. //

The censorship of the laptop story, however, was but one aspect of the rigging that took place in 2020, as I previously detailed. A few examples: The 2020 election was also rigged by the “systemic violations of election law” which “disparately favor[ed] one candidate” and “allow[ed] for tens of thousands of illegal votes to be counted.” “And the election was rigged with every illegal drop box placed in Democrat-heavy precincts,” and by the unconstitutional authorization of no-excuse absentee voting and the illegal collection of ballots in nursing homes.

There’s still more: “The election was rigged with every dollar of Zuck Bucks designed to get out the Democrat vote, and with every leftist activist embedded in county clerks’ offices to push such efforts while accumulating untold voter data to the benefit of the Biden campaign.” The election was also “rigged when Georgia rendered the election code’s mandate of signature verifications inoperable and the state court delayed a hearing on Trump’s challenge to the Georgia outcome until after the vote certification, thereby ignoring evidence that more than 35,000 illegal votes were included in the state’s tally — more than enough to require a court to throw out the election.”

So, if by “lost” Raddatz and other members of the legacy press mean Trump lost a free and fair election to Joe Biden, then, the answer is no. //

Vance is right, but Trump’s running mate is also wise to not waste time in debating what “lost” means because the public doesn’t care: What Americans care about is the disaster they are living under the Biden-Harris Administration.