NBC News surprisingly admitted Democrats who lost the presidential election in 2016 were the original progenitors of “Big Lie” election denial conspiracy theories.
In an opinion piece published Monday, titled, “Trump’s denial is the Second Big Lie,” author Lev Golonkin breaks down how members of the Democrat Party refused to accept the results of the 2016 election long after Trump had assumed office, stating, “Democrats need to be honest about the consequences of their actions after the 2016 election.”
“Trump’s mendacity is arguably the Second Big Lie,” Golonkin opines. “Four years earlier, the Hillary Clinton campaign and leading Democrats refused to acknowledge the outcome of the 2016 election, by claiming Donald Trump was not a legitimate president.” [emphasis ours]
“The refusal to recognize Trump’s victory began early, when Clinton declined to give a concession speech on election night, waiting until the next morning, instead,” Golonkin acknowledges. “(In contrast Trump waited until after the Capitol riot, months later, to acknowledge reality in a speech that did not ever actually mention Biden by name.) By then, her campaign was already formulating a strategy to cast doubt on Trump’s legitimacy.”
“Clinton was not shy in offloading responsibility for her catastrophic loss,” the author reminds readers. “She blamed Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein and the media. She blamed racism, and she blamed Barack Obama; she blamed sexism while also blaming women. But all that was secondary to the overarching narrative: that Trump was an ‘illegitimate president.’”
The article goes on to list various prominent Democrat political figures who would not accept Clinton’s defeat, including ex-President Jimmy Carter and late Democrat House Rep. John Lewis.
“He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” ex-President Jimmy Carter said in 2019, continuing to deny Trump’s victory three years after the election.
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Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis went even further in 2017, saying: “I don’t see Trump as a legitimate president. … I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected.”
The election denial didn’t stop there, as observed in this massive compilation created by TK News editor Matt Orfalea.
The Dem’s rejection of the 2016 vote eventually spawned claims the Russians meddled in the election, with Democrats tasking the House Intelligence Committee to investigate Putin’s alleged collusion with the Trump campaign.
In 2016, Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff of California, the House minority leader and the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called on Congress to investigate Russia’s “hacking” of the election. The next year, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., argued Michigan’s votes should be discarded, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., refused to say whether Trump was a legitimate president, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she believed Russia “altered the outcome” of the election. Meanwhile, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., tried to have it both ways, calling Trump “legally elected” while simultaneously claiming his election was “illegitimate.” Two years after that, Democrats were still using the same rhetoric, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., saying Russia “hacked our elections.”
“Until we truthfully admit our mistakes, any attempts to reassure voters about election integrity will be framed as nothing more than hypocrisy,” Golonkin concludes.
Obviously one critical problem with NBC’s article is it denies Trump also won the 2020 election, but at any rate it’s refreshing to see left-wing propagandists own up to their party’s election-denying rhetoric.
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