Posted originally on Jul 20, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

QUESTION: Are you just supporting Trump with his conspiracy theory about the 2020 election?

Joshua

ANSWER: The fact that the press keeps blasting Trump claiming the 2020 was not rigged and in Pennsylvania they claim Trump lost every legal challenge so that somehow proves he was wrong is just absurd. Courts are also political. Why do they fight so hard about which president will appoint people to the Supreme Court if the law was just the law?

Rigging elections have been a passtime for thousands of years. Even Joseph Stalin commented on that practice famously saying its the people who count the votes who decide everything. That is so true and that rose to the surface during the Scottish Referendum. When the ethnic Russians of Crimea voted to separate from the mother-land of ethnic cleansing Ukraine with its Neonazi agenda, because the EU did not like the outcome they claimed Russia rigged the vote. The UN General Assembly passed a resolution declaring it invalid under pressure. They pulled the same stunt in Romania declaring the election invalid. The press routinely publishes fake polls to deliberately try to swing elections. The historical record for thousands of years is one continuous Greek tragedy when it comes to rigged elections.

In 1948, the Chicago Daily Tribune was so certain that New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey would defeat President Harry S. Truman that they ran the now-infamous front-page headline “Dewey Defeats Truman.” This is considered one of the most legendary blunders in American journalism. 

Newsweek’s famous Madam President versions of the magazine were selling for a few hundred dollars as another token of elections. MS NOW had the audacity to say Trump’s view of the 2020 election was a conspiracy theory, but Russia did interfere in 2016 against Hillary to Trump’s benefit. The sheer dishonesty in MS NOW’s reporting has surpassed CNN in its worse days. It is just too much and is becoming a major factor in the polarization of the United States that computer has been warning about. The investigation demonstrated that Hillary made up the story and the Democrats even paid a fine for that fake news.

The Obama administration was actively involved in investigating and responding to alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, that was entirely based on the infamous “Steele dossier,” which was funded by the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign that was found to have been fabricated and the Democrats were fined for this action. It was as corrupt and imprisoning an opponent which is what President Wilson did to Eugene Victor Debs (1855–1926) because he was anti-war. To have a president imprisoning an opponent to influence an election is outrageous, but Obama used the Intelligence and FBI to investigate the opposing party in an election.

The Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s investigation into Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign also proved John McCain  (1936–2018) was feeding info to Comey to stop Trump because McCain was a ruthless Neocon who wanted war. McCain provided the FBI the Christopher Steele dossier which was funded by Hillary. It was that report which McCain received from Hillary that was then used before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court by the FBI to obtain the wiretap on former Donald Trump campaign official Carter Page. This was even AFTER the Department of Justice found no probable cause for the wiretap.

The Inspector General’s report has confirmed indeed that Senator John McCain provided the cover for Hillary since it was a Republican who handed FBI Director James Comey the Steele report even after the FBI had terminated the former British intelligence officer as a source. Russian-born lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin worked closely with the research firm Fusion GPS which commissioned the infamous Steele Dossier on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC to smear Trump and begin the entire Russia-Gate affair. Interestingly, Akhmetshin also attended the infamous Trump Tower meeting.

John McCain was also the sponsor of the Magnitsky Act, which was to punish Russians for claiming that Magnitsky was killed in a Russian prison. But it was the Clintons who gave the wink and nod for the bankers to try to take over Russia by blackmailing Yeltsin for the 2000 election. McCain led the charge among Republicans to support Schumer’s resolution to deny any investigation into the Magnitsky affair. The Senate vote was a resounding 98-0 to deny the questioning of ANY Americans by Russia.

It was McCain who was leading the attack on Russia for sanctions and trying to stop the pipeline into Europe. McCain was also setting up his own version of the Clinton Foundation.

Let us not forget that the hackers who broke into John McCain’s laptop were operating from Ukraine. The hacking that the Democrats have blamed Russia for was operating in Ukraine, not Russia. That was retaliation for the Democrats installing their people after the coup and told the people if they overthrew this government, then they would be on their own. The motive to hack the Democrats had nothing to do with Russia. It was all in Ukraine.

I grew up in the 1960s. My father had taken me to Willingboro, New Jersey to listen to John F. Kennedy during the 1960 election. I shook his hand being just 11 years old like Bill Clinton, but that did not inspire me to become president. The country was also deeply divided and I would hear people rant against JFK as they do against Trump today, but then it was because he was Catholic insisting the Pope would run the country. It was the religious hatred that fostered the English Civil War nearly 300 years before. Then it was the resurfacing Protestant Reformation. It took the assassination to gloss-over that division.

Based on historical records, Richard Nixon did believe that the 1960 election had significant problems, but he ultimately chose not to challenge the official results, prioritizing national unity over a protracted legal fight. Nixon understood the deep division in the country was based on religion. He put the country first.

Nixon and his campaign identified what they considered serious issues, particularly in critical states like Illinois and Texas. These included allegations of voter fraud, ballot irregularities, and the effectiveness of the Kennedy campaign’s use of political machines. Privately, Nixon maintained that he had legitimate grounds for contesting the outcome. Despite these beliefs and significant pressure from his party, Nixon explicitly refused to demand a recount or challenge the results. He made a public statement on November 8th, 1960, conceding the election, and further solidified this stance during a subsequent press conference.

Nixon’s decision was largely driven by a desire to avoid a constitutional crisis and what he saw as a damaging national spectacle. He also expressed concern that a prolonged legal battle would undermine the public’s faith in the democratic process, especially given the tense Cold War context. He famously stated:

“I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who were trying to preserve their own freedom, than that of the United States arguing over the outcome of its election.”

In short, Nixon viewed the election as “stolen” in a political sense, but he made a conscious choice to put the country’s stability ahead of his personal ambition, forgoing a challenge to prevent what he saw as a national crisis. Hillary never took the high road, and the press thinks it has the right to decide elections and when it turns out against them, they divide the country with their personal animosity.

Nigel Farage came to our 2019 WEC in Rome. He said of course he came. Our computer was the only one to forecast that BRIXT would win. Every London newspaper said BREXIT would fail. The press tries to manipulate society with their fake news all the time. They have attacked Nigel with every breadth they take ever since. They are just so damn prejudiced that FREE PRESS to them is distort the facts to push their personal agenda. To me, that is just treason.

Nevertheless, the historical record is abundant with fake elections. The historian Cassius Dio  (c. 155–c. 235) wrote about the laws passed to combat electoral corruption and how leaders manipulated the Roman system. For instance, he noted that under Augustus, bribery was punished by a five-year exclusion from office and that candidates had to deposit a sum of money to deter corruption. A modern scholar has specifically identified “electoral bribery and the challenge to the authority of the Senate” as a theme in Dio’s history of the late Republic.

The historian/biographer Suetonius (Late 1st/early 2nd-century AD), author of the 12 Caesars, in his Life of Augustus, he mentions that Augustus passed a law to curb bribery . He also reports on Julius Caesar’s consolidation of power, noting that after Caesar took control, he “used to recommend some of the candidates to the people, who, of course, followed his recommendation.” This is a clear instance of an election being controlled from the top.

The historian Tacitus   (c. 56 – c. 120) recorded the specific ways in which laws were manipulated. In his Annals, he writes about how the lex Papia Poppaea, which gave preferential treatment to candidates with children, was exploited by childless men through “fictive adoption,” adopting someone just for the election and then freeing them afterward. This led to a senatorial decree to stop the abuse. Tacitus also records the end of meaningful elections under Emperor Tiberius, when the power to elect magistrates was transferred from the people to the Senate.

The orator and Statesman Cicero, while not a historian in the same sense, his speeches and letters are a primary historical source. His Pro Plancio is a defense of a client, Gnaeus Plancius, who was prosecuted for ambitus, the crime of electoral bribery and corruption. In this speech, Cicero details the illegal methods used to secure votes, such as organized political clubs (sodalicia) designed to facilitate bribery. The legal term ambitus itself, which means “going about” or canvassing, came to represent the entire problem of illegal electioneering in Rome. The Democrats were caught canvassing votes door-to-door getting people to sign mail-in ballots.

Mollie Hemingway, American author, columnist, and political commentators, wrote a book, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections. The Democrats used COVID to to control the election. They began claiming that the Wisconsin election would be a “super spreader” of the coronavirus. “[W]ith voters’ very lives at stake,” the New York Times wrote, “the legitimacy of the election” would be in question.

“They will kill people to stay in power, literally,” said Democratic strategist James Carville on election night. In the end, there was no spike of cases from voting, despite hundreds of thousands of people showing up to the polls.

The first report of pneumonia in China was December 30th, 2019. The World Health Organization claimed it was an unknown virus on January 5th, 2020. Two days later they said it was a new variety of SARS, then just 3 days later the first PCR tests were shipped. I have stated that I was told that the WEF had informed “friends” that a virus was coming well before December 30th. That is why I refused to be vaccinated and instructed my family to not get vaccinated.

The COVID scam was created (1) for climate change, and (2) to interfere in the US 2020 election.