David Kupelian’s introductory essay from the issue of WND’s sparsely read Whistleblower magazine pushing bogus election fraud claims is headlined “How the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.” Because it wasn’t, Kupelian can’t possibly prove otherwise. First of all, he’s obviously so filled with hate and bile for Biden that he can’t possibly be objective. He writes:
The numbing spectacle of America being humiliated and mocked by the rest of the world and ordered around by Afghan terrorists, and of the greatest nation on earth being led by a babbling, obviously senile, unprincipled, corrupt, mindless shell of a man – with a vice president arguably even worse – should compel every American to carefully consider how on earth we got here, and whether the presidential selection process so employed was truly legitimate.
[…]A shuffling, peevish and often confused Joe Biden attracted no more than 100 to 200 people to his pre-election rallies where he stumbled through short scripted speeches. His vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris, selected entirely for being a woman of color (Biden had committed publicly to choosing a woman VP and said he’d prefer one of color), turned out to be so jarringly repellant, even to Democrats, that she dropped out of the presidential race during the primaries, winning zero electoral votes.
Yet Biden and Harris won the 2020 election – supposedly.
Kupelian then ranted:
Most allegations that last November’s election was stolen from Donald Trump center on election fraud and abuse. Indeed, the number of documented “irregularities” is overwhelming: five crucial swing states bizarrely announcing on election eve they were going to stop counting votes for the night when Trump was ahead, only to report the next morning that Joe Biden was in the lead; the clearly unconstitutional last-minute changes in voting regulations in various states, all obviously intended to invite fraud and abuse; Philadelphia election workers refusing to allow Republican observers to witness the vote count and Detroit election personnel likewise plastering cardboard over windows in a vote-counting room to avoid being observed as required by law; the refusal of some states to check voters’ signatures on ballots; the hundreds of affidavits, sworn under penalty of perjury and imprisonment, all testifying to having witnessed overt election fraud; and so on ad infinitum.
We addressed most of these bogus claims here. But Kupelian simply tossed out allegations that he makes no effort to defend (perhaps because he knows they’re bogus and discredited). Instead, most of this essay is devoted to re-litigating Trump’s presidency, painting him as a wonderful man and his critics as nothing less than evil. He concluded:
From the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, to the two fake impeachments, to false claims Trump praised “very fine” Nazis in Charlottesville, to claims he instituted a “Muslim travel ban,” to claims he “locks children in cages” and “makes women and children drink from toilets,” to the continual comparisons with Hitler, the media and tech monopolies, along with Democrats and the “deep state,” had been interfering with Trump’s re-election bid for more than four years.
One more thing: If a nation’s leader truly is another Hitler, as top Democrats and media personalities insisted continually, not only should that leader obviously be defeated, but there is an absolute moral imperative to cheat in order to defeat him.
Except they never really believed Trump was another Hitler. They were just lying – because they love power more than truth, more than honor, more than what’s right. More than anything.
We would once again remind Kupelian that he and the rest of WND spent years likening President Obama to Hitler and other Nazis. By his own reasoning, if Kupelian believed that Obama was another Hitler, that meant not only that he believed Obama should be defeated but also that there is an absolute moral imperative to lie in order to defeat him. That explains WND’s obsession with Obama’s birth certificate. Portraying it as fraudulent was a lie and Kupelian likely knew it, but he and Joseph Farah also knew it could build a conspiracy theory around it that perpetuate itself throughout Obama’s presidency and possibly beyond.
Kupelian’s repeated harping on this particular talking point is not the brilliant argument he seems to think it is — it’s more of a self-own. He’s accusing Trump’s critics of doing what exactly he and WND did to Obama and are doing to Biden. Talk about an unrepentant hypocrite.
And, of course, Kupelian doesn’t have the guts to venture outside of his far-right bubble to push his case — again, because he likely knows he’s lying and would get immediately shredded apart (as we’ve already done). That’s why he’s stuck doing things like appearing on the allegedly “popular” podcast of a former WND columnist to promote this bogus venture.
Kupelian’s essay was capped off with a plea to buy the magazine, with Kupelian adding: “I urge you to get this issue. It is flying off the shelves, but we printed 10,000 extra copies to meet the demand.” Kupelian offered no proof that such “demand” for the magazine exists — heck, he won’t even release Whistleblower’s circulation numbers.