“My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don’t like,” one of the former officials told ProPublica. “This goes against everything CISA represents.”
That’s a much more findable paper trail than “holy shit we just found a vulnerability we didn’t know about, that means someone might have cheated so we have to invalidate the results”
Instead of “whoopsie this thing says I won even though everyone you talk to says they voted against me”
If he cheats, he still leaves the presidency. If he screams cheating, he can weasel a new election and provisory government. He doesn’t care about the party either.
Why do you think he still leaves if he cheats? Who’s going to find out, and who’s going to hold him accountable. Even if it’s discovered, he just yells that he’s framed, and if that fails he yells that he had to, and if that fails then he just yells that he’s allowed to, and there’s nothing the government, under his control, is going to do to stop that.
First, this is the mid-terms. That doesn’t come into effect for two more years. Second, when has the law stopped him before? I’ve still seen nothing to imply he’s not running again.
Yeah, I wouldn’t put it past him to cheat since he was caught cheating before, but I do believe the reason the Trump admin asked to keep any vulnerabilities under wraps is not so they could exploit them, but so they could delay the announcement of finding them after the results came in and invalidate the results if they ended up losing.
The likely motive:
Well, this and to exploit them. Like:
Step 1: exploit vulnerabilities.
Step 2: accuse opponent of exploiting them, lock them up.
Step 3: profit
Well that was…unexpected. Surely the more likely scenario is that they exploit the hack to change the results?
That’s a much more findable paper trail than “holy shit we just found a vulnerability we didn’t know about, that means someone might have cheated so we have to invalidate the results”
Instead of “whoopsie this thing says I won even though everyone you talk to says they voted against me”
His only real move in elections is to scream cheating. This is exactly what he wants to just declare the elections fake.
He has two moves: to scream cheating, and to cheat himself.
“Every accusation is an admission”
If he cheats, he still leaves the presidency. If he screams cheating, he can weasel a new election and provisory government. He doesn’t care about the party either.
Why do you think he still leaves if he cheats? Who’s going to find out, and who’s going to hold him accountable. Even if it’s discovered, he just yells that he’s framed, and if that fails he yells that he had to, and if that fails then he just yells that he’s allowed to, and there’s nothing the government, under his control, is going to do to stop that.
2-term limit.
First, this is the mid-terms. That doesn’t come into effect for two more years. Second, when has the law stopped him before? I’ve still seen nothing to imply he’s not running again.
Yeah, I wouldn’t put it past him to cheat since he was caught cheating before, but I do believe the reason the Trump admin asked to keep any vulnerabilities under wraps is not so they could exploit them, but so they could delay the announcement of finding them after the results came in and invalidate the results if they ended up losing.
Or they’ll deliberately introduce a hack that appears to benefit the Dems, in order to claim they’ve been cheated.