So biased is our media reporting around the US election (with disappointing premature responses from both the PM and the Leader of the Opposition), that I refuse to read past the sensational headlines like “Trump falsely alleges counting fraud”. As this is being investigated, we don’t yet know the truth but the media have decided the election before all the votes are counted.

CNN’s and our media’s favourite reference, “Sources” have revealed that Melania is to divorce Trump and wants him to concede. Not according to Breitbart, however, who on Sunday reported that she came out in support of him.

The media are simply making stuff up. They do not decide the election (phew thank goodness for that) and Trump will be in power for (at least) more than 2 months. Trump can litigate to his heart’s content, whilst the media make a pretty good show of grabbing the narrative to prematurely run their creation, the most hated president in the history of the world, out of town. It’s all grandstanding.

Reporters are now commentators, telling us what to think. According to the NZ Herald Trump will be in jail as soon as President Biden has restored the US’s Paris Climate Accord status, opened the borders to all (including Muslims from terrorist countries like Iran, yippee!) stopped systemic racism and opened the southern border wall to all comers including criminals. All in a day’s work!

Not so fast. Biden may well be President on the 20th of January but with so many inaccuracies and questions around vote-counting, surely the 70 million Americans who voted for Trump deserve due process to show that the integrity of the system is robust. 

Republican Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota said on ABC on Sunday Trump should be given the same consideration to address perceived inaccuracies as Democrat Al Gore in 2000, who was given 37 days. Gore went all the way to the US Supreme Court, supported by a compliant media, of course.

However, by grabbing the narrative and pushing it with the help of eager world leaders, led by a gushing and drooling Ardern with her newly crowned, inexperienced foreign Minister Mahuta by her side, their hatred and bias against Trump is showing.

Ardern and the global media are bit players in this. US authorities have the final say which won’t be for a while. Much water has to flow under the bridge before they get their beloved ‘Sleepy Joe’ installed in the White House.

A Michigan software error in one county saw 6,000 votes transferred from Trump to Biden. That is a fact and it has been admitted by authorities as a ‘glitch’ (A fact, missed by our MSM here, when they were out to lunch, peut-être?)

The same software is used in about 30 counties. Could it have been replicated, with 180,000 votes falsely attributed to Biden? The State legislature is now convening an oversight hearing. A recount would put minds at rest.

Georgia is pretty definitely having a recount which will strike fear into Democrats who think they have that state in the bag.

And Pennsylvania is quite a mess! With so many people willing to swear an affidavit about dodgy things observed or not as the case may be (with Republican observers herded out of some counting places to cheering from workers). What have they got to hide? Last election it was all about election impropriety with Russian interference. Now it’s all about ‘nothing to see here’ from the, now, squeaky clean Democrats.

And why are so many battleground states still not completely counted? And why the pause in the dead of election night then suddenly, when no one’s watching, massive increases for Biden? Some 33,000 in a mysterious ballot dump, reportedly 100% in favour of Biden. That’s simply not possible.

Trump’s large legal team need to be smart with concrete evidence, many sworn affidavits and top experts to explain in words of one syllable to bemused judges, for example, how software does not have ‘glitches’. It is programmed by humans to do their bidding and errors are actually ‘intentional changes’ to steal an election.

Not all judges, like the public, understand technical computer stuff or the science and maths around election counting so persuasive communication with concise and precise explanations is crucial. Can they do it?

And are the courts, with the world against Trump courtesy of the media, brave enough and unbiased enough to be fair and honest in their deliberations?

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I did my writing apprenticeship as a communications advisor. Like all writers, I am highly opinionated, so freelance writing is best for me. I abhor moral posturing, particularly by NZ politicians. I avoid...