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The democrats spent the last 4 years saying Trump stole the election by colluding with Russia, and twitter didn't take any of that down.


Can anyone actually refute this instead of downvoting it? It's a really important point. Sorry to "both sides" it but I also think there's a good chance that if Democrats were making allegations of voter fraud it'd be trending, not flagged.


Sure, I refer you to the body of evidence presented at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump that demonstrated that he has worked with foreign governments to illegally influence US elections.


The impeachment was not over the 2016 election.

I point to Mueller report which looked for collusion between the Trump campaign and foreign countries and found none.


That's just it, though. The Mueller report found tons of collusion and obstruction of justice. It deliberately referred those to the Congress.


I challenge your assertion that the report found no collusion. You have not read the unredacted report nor has anyone outside of a select few in govt


They certainly never indicted anyone for it.


That's not true either, the investigation resulted in 34 indictments.


indictments for...


Americans were indicted for lying to Congress, lying to the FBI, witness tampering, and a few other crimes related to inconsistent testimonies and lies, etc. And of course a bunch of Russian nationals were "indicted" for "crimes against the United States" type things but nobody is under the illusion they'll actually be prosecuted.


The difference is that there is actually hard evidence and convictions supporting that, as opposed to the Trump campaign just making it up as they go along.

Very poor argument really, think about it.


What about all those people that claimed to have definitive proofs on twitter and on television and then it turned out that they had no knowledge of the facts?

The broad statements might have some supporting fact but along the way some (Brian Stelter I think) have theorized that Trump was a Russian agent since the soviet union.


I don't doubt that Biden won, but it's not like there's zero evidence for voter fraud. A USPS employee was recently arrested for trying to take absentee ballots out of the country, another in PA said that he was told to back date ballots received after the election so they could still be counted, and they've also found ballots in the trash that were mostly for Trump. He's exaggerating, but he's not just making things up either.


With 150 million ballots both sides could easily find individuals that may have had legitimate issues with voting. As to something systematic they don’t seem to have found anything.


Sure, but just listing those headlines without any details is quite reductive.

That USPS employee had a full bag of over 800 pieces of mail, 3 of which were ballots [1]

I haven’t been able to find a specific story about ballots in the trash after Election Day. I did find a story from NJ [2] and one from KY [2] about USPS dumping mail in the trash, and some of that mail was empty ballots being sent out to voters. Do you have the specific story you are talking about?

The PA employee wasn’t asked to backdate ballots, he was asked to collect ballots arriving after Nov 3 in a separate bin, and he feared that his bosses would backdate them [4]. This was also in a town of 5000 people. Here is what he said:

“On Wednesday the fourth, we checked in at the time clock,” the anonymous postal worker told Project Veritas chief James O’Keefe. “The postmaster then told us that if we were to find any ballots on our routes that day, we were to collect them, keep them separate in a hod, which is what we call our plastic bins, bring them back, and then we would put them in another hod and then they would send them to be counted.”

“The postmaster (James Malia) and the supervisor (William Wood) did not say that we’re going to, we’re going to backdate them,” the whistleblower clarifies, but “I was firmly of the belief that they were going to be backdated. We’re always hit with the Hatch Act. You know, you can’t talk about politics, you can’t influence people. On one occasion, the postmaster James Malia had gone, had attacked a carrier who had expressed support for Trump.”

...says he overheard Malia chide Wood for having “postmarked one of the ballots for the fourth, instead of the third, because they were supposed to put them for third”.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-mailman-allege...

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/07/usps...

[3] https://www.wlky.com/article/us-postal-worker-fired-after-mo...

[4] https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/another-whistleblower-alle...


The bipartisan Senate report pretty much confirmed that Russia orchestrated a campaign to benefit Trump.

At the very least that is the basis for a fair accusation, and of course the eventual impeachment for further improprieties which was bipartisan.


Exactly, they only remove false stuff.




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