President Trump was correct when he said in the early morning hours Wednesday that “Frankly, we did win this election.”
The 45th president of the United States added that he wanted to “ensure the integrity” of the vote, and that the law be “used in a proper manner.” Making these statements is his winning strategy, and his way of saying, “I’ve got to do what I’ve got to do. I’m the president, the first among equals, no matter what anybody else says.” The country is in national crisis, there is an open insurrection against him, and he must win for the American Republic to survive.
In making these statements, President Trump has fulfilled his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, from the wrongful interference in the Pennsylvania and North Carolina elections by the United States Supreme Court last month. This was a shameful decision. By wrongfully interfering once and with more legal challenges potentially on the way, the Supreme Court will again have to interfere a second time, and that scenario can do nothing but embarrass the stature of the court and precipitate a Constitutional crisis around separation of powers.
Just a week ago last Wednesday, the Supreme Court for the second time declined to disturb extended mail-in ballot deadlines in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and North Carolina, leaving all states more time to receive mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day. The court’s newest justice, Amy Coney Barrett, didn’t participate in either decision, but the next time, she is likely to side with the court’s four conservative justices and disapprove of these shenanigans that led to the type of voter fraud that has stolen the president’s legitimate landslide if the election had been contested fairly.
The high court did not explain its reasons for rejecting Trump campaign and Republican challenges. However, at least three of justices want the cases retried now that the election is over. Also, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that the Covid-19 pandemic wasn’t a natural disaster that can give state boards of elections a license to change voting rules, which are set by state legislatures and federal law.
These machinations by the court, state and local Democrats, and the entire federal anti-Trump judiciary are all ridiculous intellectual prattle and the president knows this – just like the Russia hoax and impeachment proceedings. The president is doing the will of the people and he is correct to declare victory. The defects of the legal arguments before the court are self-evident to all, including President Trump. He has no choice, but to remain president, and not allow the Supreme Court to decide the presidency, except in the rarest of circumstances, for example, when it had to rule in Bush v. Gore in 2000 on a specific matter concerning the presidential election in Florida that year.
Today’s Democrats are giddy at the prospect of Joe Biden prevailing, but they ought not be. The election was a solid result for the president, with the GOP holding the U.S. Senate, and even winning some key races in the U.S. House. There is no clear Joe Biden mandate to become president, and the Supreme Court cannot support that without losing all credibility, especially if the president says and believes he has won.
A continued legal battle cannot do anything but end badly for the Democrats, primarily for the following two reasons:
The Supreme Court by ignoring state and federal election laws has agreed that Covid-19 created extenuating circumstances for voting. This is just not true, as all the early voting took place without incident. Everybody ought to be able to get to a polling place and hand insert a ballot into a tabulating machine. There is no justification for widespread use of mail-in ballots which traditionally have been designed to be used only in extenuating circumstances and other specific conditions, which include an oath taken that a person is not able to vote in their home state on Election Day. In a return case, the high court would have to admit they got it wrong and numerous if not the majority of mail-in ballots would be disqualified because they were not "requested," by voters but were sent "unsolicited" to voters in violation of state election laws. The Democrats are “harvesting” these ballots without sufficient oversight; this is well-known and documented. If these issues are re-litigated, the high court will be forced into a "make-up call" to correct its error and there will be state recounts that ensure Trump victories where there are disputed results.
By interfering in this election once, the Supreme Court has put itself in the untenable position of having to decide later that a sitting president must leave office, despite his belief that he has won re-election. The high court would then precipitate a Constitutional separation of powers crisis in which the judicial branch would have to put itself above the executive branch. This is not possible; the court does not have 66 million followers the way President Trump does. Even Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who has been a thorn in the side of the president, will not go for that. Roberts will have no choice, but to join the other five conservative justices for a 6-3 majority in favor of Trump and four more years. Roberts may not be liked, but he has shown a tendency to “stay in his lane,” and he cannot steal the election from the American people when there is no clear mandate for Biden and he knows that Trump will have his five justices to back him, just like President George Bush did in 2000 against Al Gore. By not losing, Trump won. He is telling the high court to "pound sand," and saving its dignity as well.
Daniel Wiseman is an independent political commentator, who focuses on national and international affairs. He spent nine years as a professional journalist in Wyoming before working in fund-raising, non-profit management, and is now working in New York City. Wiseman focuses his writing on how to bring the United States back to its Constitutional moorings. He writes exclusively for Canada Free Press.
President Trump was correct when he said in the early morning hours Wednesday that “Frankly, we did win this election.”
The 45th president of the United States added that he wanted to “ensure the integrity” of the vote, and that the law be “used in a proper manner.” Making these statements is his winning strategy, and his way of saying, “I’ve got to do what I’ve got to do. I’m the president, the first among equals, no matter what anybody else says.” The country is in national crisis, there is an open insurrection against him, and he must win for the American Republic to survive. 
