By Harold Pease, Ph. D.
Fourteen million Democrat primary voters selected Joe Biden to be their Democrat nominee for president. The Deep State Democrat elite decided to void that vote and unilaterally replace him with one of their own choosing—unprecedented—leaving their party out of the process (The Democrat Party Forced Its Democrat Nominee Off the Ballot, By Harold Pease, Ph. D., recently published by LibertyUnderFire.org)
Constitutionally they could have accomplished the same thing by using the 25th Amendment, which would tarnish the party, lead to an open convention later this month, and take a long time. This Coup against their own party was accomplished in one week and left Deep State Democrats fully in charge without any risk that someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., hostile to the Deep State, would end up with the nomination. They could still use the 25th later if needed—but after the nomination was secured. This way potential challengers fell in line behind Kamala Harris. They billed their engineered rapid demonstration of support as a show of party unity.
That done, now how does the coup instigators get Joe Biden’s $90 plus million switched to Harris? It came from many big donors who did not like Harris and it is against the law. Sean Cooksey, Chairman of the Federal Elections Commission, told them so quoting 11CFR, Section 110.1 (b) (3). “If the candidate is not a candidate in the general election, all contributions made for the general election shall be either returned or refunded to the contributors or redesignated…, or reattributed…, as appropriate.” Following the law did not set well with them and they attacked Cooksey. He said, “House Democrats are now trying to silence me as FEC chairman for raising questions about President Biden giving V.P. Harris all his campaign cash. All I did was quote federal regulations. Why are Democrats afraid of the laws? (X22 Report hereafter not cited, Ep. 3410b, July 23, 2024, 30:29)
Consequently, Trump filed, an FEC complaint over Biden transferring campaign war chest to Kamala Harris arguing, “Kamala Harris is seeking to perpetrate a $91.5 million heist of Joe Biden’s leftover campaign cash — a brazen money grab that would constitute the single largest excessive contribution and biggest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971,” This Trump’s campaign counsel David Warrington wrote in his eight-page filing.
This complaint attempts to prevent Harris from using the war chest and comes after the Biden campaign account changed its name to “Harris for president.” The Biden money “would be on top of the over $80 million Harris raised on Monday. This is not the Harris campaign!! This is not why these people donated!! They donated to Joe Biden! They had their primary and the people voted for Biden! They did not vote for Harris to be president!!” (“’Trump files, EEC complaint over Biden transferring campaign war, chest to Kamala Harris,” Just the News, See also, Ep. 3411b, July 24, 2024, 36:40).
Refusing to abide by the rules of the Federal Elections Commission, respecting giving back to donors unused funds for that specific candidate, is not the only strange funding practice of the Democrat Party. Harmeet Dhillon cited another. “ActBlue disabled their credit card verification process so that as long as the card numbers are valid, the name and address don’t need to match the actual card owners. No other donation platform allows this, and it results in higher transaction fees.” She asks why is this allowed by the FEC? (Ep. 3412b, July 25, 2024, 37:07).
The Democrat Party will change the rules to get Biden’s $90 plus million in contributions and has installed Kamala Harris as it’s nominee weeks before the Democratic National Convention. “The shortened timeline underscores the Democrats disregard for the democratic process of selecting a candidate for president by simply choosing Harris for the nomination.” Democrats nullifying about 14 million votes for Joe Biden cast during the Democrat primary is merely collateral damage to Deep State leaders. “This is completely against democracy. The D’s are about to destroy democracy just to get rid of Trump” (Ep. 3411b, July 24, 2024, 34:25).
Democrats with moral fiber can say, “We went through the primaries and it was Biden. You’re swapping him out and the people had no say in it” (Ep. 3411b, July 24, 2024, 40:45). And when the Democrat Deep State realizes that Harris cannot beat Trump either, no matter how they manipulate the polls saying she can, what will they do again before November 5? Likely swap her out for Michelle Obama. Why Michelle and not Hillary Clinton? A black woman can replace another black woman without offending Democrat protocol. The old rule was, parties put forward their best candidate win or lose, the new rule for Democrats is, we can change opponents until we win.
With respect to Joe Biden he now is a victim of censorship, the practice he used on others so successfully to imprison J6ers and all those attempting to bring light to his Deep State government. He has just been robbed of his presidential candidacy by the very organization that seated him in his Coup d’état against Trump, and he has nowhere to take his story. They will censor his objections—they already have. We are supposed to believe he gave up his own will for the good of the party. The truth is his own Deep State friends betrayed and replaced him.
Meanwhile the non-Deep State Democrats will swallow the decaying ethics of their party and allow the destruction of democracy within it because it is their only hope in getting rid of Donald Trump. As we have said for several years, “The day will come when no-one will admit having once been a Democrat.”
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #780.
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