More Right-Wing Efforts to Distract the American People from the Facts About the 2016 and 2024 Election

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

It’s an old, and sometimes successful tactic, albeit temporary. However, desperation makes the guilty take any action to avoid closer inspection by the authorities and the American people. Trump and his incompetent supporters are attempting to move the discussion about Trump’s very close relationship to Jeffrey Epstein out of the light of day with attacks on real Americans.

Anyone who follows what happens in Washington, simply reading the headlines or seriously engaged in efforts to find the truth, will tell you that Tulsi Gabbard is a moron seeking attention and relevance without success.

Gabbard is a Trump worshiper, and is suggesting that the investigation into collusion between Trump and Putin in the 2016 election was a fabrication created by President Obama. Of course this is completely false. However, she is desperately attempting to misdirect the attention Trump is receiving for his many crimes in 2025 and in the past.

Let’s get right to it. A plethora of circumstantial evidence proves that Trump attended Jeffrey Epstein’s parties designed to allow old, white, men to engage in sexual relations with underage women. That’s reality.

I move to allegations related to the 2016 election. One confirmed meeting in the White House just one month prior to the election disputes any allegation about President Obama’s supposed attempts to incriminate Trump.

In October, 2016, a meeting was held in the Oval Office at the request of every leader of our nation’s intelligence agencies. In attendance were President Obama, Vice-President Biden, and the leaders of both political parties, Paul Ryan, Moscow Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer. They were informed that it had been confirmed by every agency that Russia was interfering in our election in support of Trump. They agreed not to inform American voters.

This story was removed from all profitable newspapers and blogs immediately. Our government continues to hide everything proving their incompetence from 340 million people.

Once again, in August of 2020, a Senate investigation was complete, and confirmed Russia’s efforts. However, the Republican controlled investigation lied, claiming that it had no effect on the outcome of the election. I call “bullshit.” Simply look a what occurred in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, the three states which gave Trump victory in the Electoral College.

The entire group of men and women calling themselves “Republicans” are nothing more the liars, hypocrites, and cowards.

I am an Independent, and proud to be an informed voter. However, since 2000 when the former Grand Old Party proved that it no longer serves the working class, I have been unable to vote for a single “Republican” in a federal election.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/politics/gabbard-threatens-obama-officials-2016-election

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/how-russia-helped-to-swing-the-election-for-trump

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-panel-finds-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-us-election