World Affairs Brief, January 1, 2020 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.

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– The Coming Certification of Electors on January 6:

This next Wednesday, the Congress will meet in a Joint Session to certify the results of the Electoral College. As I covered in prior briefings, there are two sets of electors designated from disputed states where election fraud took place. The ones voting for Biden have been certified by complicit governors. The Trump electors have either not been certified or have been certified by the Republican legislature, neither of which are recognized by the establishment media.

To Trump supporters, this is their “last big chance” to overturn the theft of the election, aside from the “slim to impossible” chance that the courts will finally do what is right. Sidney Powell, the ever-optimistic former Trump lawyer, still expressed hope in a recent interview when she was asked,

Is it possible that President Trump, would be back as President Trump, after January 20th? Or, is it really kind of our hard cut off date?”

Answer: Sidney Powell: “Well, it’s definitely possible because the Supreme Court can do what it wants to do. But, it gets more difficult, the longer it takes. The President, has all the authority he needs now, under the executive order that was issued in 2018, on election interference, from a foreign power.

There is so much evidence of that, we put out a 270 page explanation, of all of it. And, that’s published now on kraken-wood.com, and defendingtherepublic.org, and I think probably, at sidneypowell.com too.

Sadly, her claims of foreign interference will not hold up in court. Just because Dominion Voting Systems is from Canada and has servers in other countries, or that the software was involved in Venezuelan election fraud does not mean foreign countries were directing this interference or fraud.

Powell has not named a single foreign individual that can be directly proven to have directed this fraud, and without a person, who do you prosecute? Besides the EO Trump signed only allows for sanction against any individuals or nations responsible. It doesn’t justify martial law or any other draconian measures to keep his presidency intact. Going down this foreign interference rabbit hole is silly, but the only reason Sidney Powell, Lin wood, Generals McInerney and Flynn are choosing to is that they think it will justify Trump using extra-legal powers inherent in a declaration of emergency. It won’t hold up if challenged in the courts. And neither will using the “Insurrection Act” because there is no public insurrection justifying military intervention.

I have always suspected that all of the above Trump defenders have gotten their “proofs” that “Trump will be reelected” from Q anon disinformation sources (from within the Deep State) trying to make fools of Trump supporters. We now have evidence that at least Gen. Flynn has bought into the Q myth. In this link, Flynn has allowed his name and picture to be used for an online site selling Q T shirts and other items. He also took a Q oath on a Q podcast in November after his pardon. Don’t get me wrong. I think Flynn is an honest patriot, but he, along with many others, have been fooled by the cryptic Q posts into believing Trump is going to win and lock up all the Deep State actors.

All I can tell you for certain, is that our own Deep State was controlling all of this election fraud process, not some foreign country, even if they printed ballots in China to avoid detection. And, as I have said before, forget about the cries that China is now controlling our country through corrupt Hunter and Joe Biden.

As I pointed out in a previous issue, the globalists don’t mind any of their minions making deals with China to get rich and in the process fool China into thinking they control them. The Bidens are puppets of the Deep State globalists, just like Kamala Harris; they are not puppets of China. Yes, Kamala might be a radical leftist, just like Hillary Clinton, but ultimately all these corrupt politicians take orders from the Deep State, not China, or Russia.

It will be Congress’ job to determine which electors are certified. A few Senators and tens of Representatives have indicated they will challenge the results of each disputed state when brought in for a vote. But in the end it doesn’t matter, because it only takes one, two or three turn-coat Republican Senators to vote against accepting the Trump electors. As the Epoch Times wrote,

“At least one objection from each chamber is needed to trigger a separate vote by both House and Senate on the objections. If both chambers agree, the objected voters are rejected.”

It takes a majority of the entire joint session of Congress to accept the Trump electors. The Democrats control the House, so there is no hope there; and in the Senate I’m sure Mitt Romney and a few other anti-Trump Senators will vote against Trump and sink the rest of the effort. If the Senate, by some miracle votes for the Trump electors, then we would have a hung session.

If each chamber votes differently, the set certified by the state’s governor should count. That would hand the victory to Biden.

But that is a disputed interpretation of the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Some say that the VP would have the power to decide which electors are valid.

Arizona state lawmakers and GOP electors, together with Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), have filed a federal suit asking for the court to clarify the law to the effect that the Electoral Count Act is unconstitutional and the VP’s power is paramount.

But VP Pence has rejected that role and said he will not make the decision. He has even written to the court discouraging this interpretation. And, according to Politico.com,

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has worked to dissuade his caucus from participating in the challenges, and the second-ranking GOP leader, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), drew a fierce attack from Trump after he told reporters that any challenges to the results were doomed to fail.

If the difference in the House and Senate votes persists after 2 hours of debate and no one gives in, the Vice President can resolve the issue by calling for a vote of each state delegation–one vote per state, depending on which party controls the legislature.

In that case the Republicans would outnumber the Democrats. But even then, it is not clear if the Republican delegations from the disputed states would vote for Trump. They might choose to follow what their state officially determined. While we have never gone to this extreme before in the contest over electors, this is the closest chance we have.

I don’t think it will get that far. The vote for electors takes place state by state next Wednesday. The first contested state to arise will be Arizona, and if the Trump defenders don’t succeed on that state, the joint session will likely override every other objection in turn. Game over.

That leaves the last great hope: the US Supreme Court. I firmly believe that Chief Justice John Roberts is a controlled entity and that he will do everything in his power to make sure the Supreme Court does not take up the fraud cases and overturn the stolen election. I can even see them declare the case moot because the Electoral College had an opportunity to overturn the vote and didn’t and Biden has already been sworn in.

I know a lot of Trump supporters and subscribers don’t want to hear what I have just said. I get a few emails after every radio interview I do, saying that they think Trump will still win. I hope he does, but I have seen so much in my life about the depth of power wielded by the Deep State to control things and coverup for huge wars and crimes, to be confident that Trump will win in such a long-shot. In any case, we won’t have to wait long to see who is right.

My job is to tell what I think is real, even if it is bad news. And, sadly, it is almost all bad news this year. And it is much more than election fraud, which was perpetrated by men in great secrecy. The Covid false pandemic was done openly through a series of big lies by media that have been almost universally accepted by the vast majority of people in the world. That tells us something very disturbing about the ability of people to sense a lie when it is widely accepted by others.