MSNBC Claims ‘Game Changer’ Revelation About Donald Trump – Opinion

Do the Trump walls seem to be closing in? That’s the impression you’d get from MSNBC’s latest tirade about the former president, which centers on an executive order allegedly drafted after the 2020 election. According to liberal news outlets, the Jan 6th Committee is considering the document as proof of an attempted coup.

The headline screamed that the revelation could be a “game changer,” but let’s dig in and see whether that’s true, shall we?

A newly discovered draft Executive Order could make a big difference. https://t.co/wrTnFZH7tC

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 28, 2022

So what’s this all about? An unsigned and unimplemented executive directive to investigate fraud in the 2020 elections was discovered. Although it was not signed by the president, it was apparently written by another. Whether Trump ever even saw it is up for debate, though, that’s not really relevant.

Here’s MSNBC’s description.

The draft EO is titled “PRESIDENTIAL FINDINGS TO PRESERVE COLLECT AND ANALYZE NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION REGARDING THE 2020 GENERAL ELECTION.” It rehashes the gobbledygook of Trump’s election fraud “big lie” as justification for directing the secretary of defense to seize, retain and analyze “all [voting] machines, equipment, electronically stored information.” It orders the secretary of defense to deliver an initial assessment of the election to the president seven days after the seizures.

You are probably asking yourself where the bombshell is here, and if you read past the headline, MSNBC essentially concedes there isn’t one. This is the subheading.

The existence of the draft executive order doesn’t prove Trump entered into an illegal conspiracy. But it does raise questions the House’s Jan. 6 committee must investigate.

The most glaring problem for the left’s narrative is that the order was never signed. What makes a rejected draft any other than irrelevant? Donald Trump believed, regardless of whether you agreed with him, that there had been election fraud. Many suggestions were made by his advisors about how he would prove this legally. Most of the suggestions ended up on the cutting-room floor.

Trump is, according to some reports, a “regular” person. It is notDoing something in some way proves that he tried to do it. It is absurd. If the former president’s intention was to enact a “coup,” wouldn’t he have, you know, tried to enact a coup? Heck, that order in question doesn’t even constitute that, and even it was left unsigned. We are now in an absurd situation where Trump’s failure to have done anything nefarious could be evidence that he intended to do so. That line of thinking makes no sense whatsoever, and it’s blatantly transparent why the argument is being made.

Democrats, along with a few Republicans, are trying to block Trump’s bid for re-election in 2024. Its excuse making for the perpetrators of violence, which was evident in its January 6th report, demonstrates that it exists to only make a criminal referral against Trump. They are all adding up. But if the best they can come up with is an unsigned executive order, they aren’t even going to succeed at that.

It is possible that their insatiable pursuit will make it more likely for Trump to run again. He’s never been one to back down from a fight, and the more they poke him, the more they are going to push him back into the arena.

Regardless, there’s something deeply disturbing about how this is all going down. To use government power to accuse a person of thinking crimes on the basis of non-existent evidence to attempt to eliminate a rival political party member strikes me as an obvious abuse. One can think whatever they want about Trump’s election claims, but it is not incitement to violence to share them. A refusal to sign an order to investigate electoral fraud isn’t a coup. These claims are laughable and should be dismissed.