{"id":12176,"date":"2020-02-05T10:56:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12176"},"modified":"2020-02-05T10:58:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:58:33","slug":"the-art-of-warping-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-art-of-warping-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Warping Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No sooner were Democrats\u2019 Trump-Russia collusion charges debunked than they began to claim that Trump will do again in 2020 what Robert Mueller found he did not do in 2016: rig the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After 22 months, nearly 500 subpoenas, and somewhere around $35 million in costs, special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s much praised progressive \u201call-star\u201d team of lawyers and investigators found no evidence that Donald Trump had colluded with the Russians. Trump did not warp the 2016 election, and so he had not unfairly defeated the supposed sure-winner Hillary Clinton. But again those who have investigated and attacked Trump nonstop probably are seeking to do in 2020 what they falsely accused Trump of doing in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mueller\u2019s failure to find any collusion evidence was not for want of the dream team\u2019s \u201cbombshell\u201d and \u201cwalls are closing in\u201d leaks to CNN and MSNBC talking heads, over the course of 88 weeks. Almost daily we heard ad nauseam that Trump was soon to be indicted, convicted, removed, or summarily dispatched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/02\/the-art-of-warping-elections\/\">Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review No sooner were Democrats\u2019 Trump-Russia collusion charges debunked than they began to claim that Trump will do again in 2020 what Robert Mueller found he did not do in 2016: rig the election. After 22 months, nearly 500 subpoenas, and somewhere around $35 million in costs, special counsel Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3ao","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11817,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/progressives-face-a-bleak-post-mueller-landscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":12176,"position":0},"title":"Progressives Face a Bleak Post-Mueller Landscape","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr\u2019s indifference to their hysteria over the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. 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They are admissions that constitutionally mandated institutions don\u2019t work \u2014 and can be rescued only by supposed superhuman moralists,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mueller&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mueller","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/mueller\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11798,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mueller-investigation-was-driven-by-pious-hypocrisy\/","url_meta":{"origin":12176,"position":5},"title":"Mueller Investigation Was Driven by Pious Hypocrisy","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. 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