I tend to agree with the OP.
Roberts is up to his neck in dirt.
Trump should have done many things.... starting with stopping the stolen election, oh well.
Well. . . there was a problem there.
The only circumstantial proof that the folks were bringing to the president that the election was stolen, was that the Software in the machines used to conduct the election gave Biden a substantial number of votes in swing states to turn the elections.
. . . this was based on mathematics and statistics.
Of course, they also had some anecdotal reports, of things like "ballot stuffing the machines," but that? That is not concrete evidence of wide scale fraud that could turn an election.
Now. . . the CIA does have a tool which could reveal massive machine tampering of the vote, this tool of course is software called "KRAKEN," which, I'm sure you know, Sidney Powell was aware of. And, in her hubris, I'll bet she was quite sure that Trump would authorize to be used on these various states machines.
Now, this is my own speculation here as to what happened;
See, the thing is, the CIA is a foreign intelligence agency. Likewise, I do believe that both Pompeo, and especially it was known that Gina Haspel, the head of the CIA, was not going to get involved in this. And then, of course, you heard all those dumb fake news stories about the US military fighting CIA troops in Germany. . . this I think was just disinformation, because folks in the know were really pissed that the Kraken was not being used to discover the absolute truth about the integrity of these various state elections.
But we have to look at it from a Constitutional perspective. Conservatives are for the concept of federalism. Each state SHOULD have the right to administer their elections however they see fit. Just as the various state courts kept throwing Trump's suits out, b/c he didn't have standing, which he didn't, he was not a voter in them . . . it is none of the Federal Government's job to make sure elections aren't corrupt, they have never done that before.
Chicago throughout history has had notoriously corrupt elections. That is their right. D.C. hasn't ever gotten involved before.
Most conservatives would not want the UN to come in and tell the US their elections were rigged and so global government is going to monitor them with troops and statisticians to make sure they are fair, right? Well. . .that is pretty much what this comes down to. You can't let the Federal authorities seized control of election law here, it isn't their job. Unless you can find foreign interference in the election, or prove a violation of the voting rights Act. . . I am pretty sure Trump's cabinet made it clear to him, he had no grounds to act.
. . . and if he did? And DIDN'T find fraud? He would become the very authoritarian POS his enemies said he was, and he would destroy the republic, THAT, is not a legacy I think he wanted. It was probably easier to just continue to point out the statistical anomalies and give up power. THIS, is what all politicians in America do when they think they have been cheated, it is our tradition.
