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I want to take your advice to be hopeful. But I’m a senior citizen and I spent the last nine years worrying about Donald Trump and now I know I must spend at least four more doing that. That is not the way I wanted the end of my life to go.

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Steven: While I truly appreciate your beautiful message this morning, I too feel too old to keep the fires warm and the fight for democracy in the forefront. I haven't slept in days and I am nearly 80. I won't stop this fight of course, but the majority of this country voted Trump into office again. This was an impossible fight from the beginning, since Trump had - and still has - the entire Russian government as well as the Republican Party pushing for his win. This campaign was not just an independent Russian government election interference, this was a coordinated clandestine control effort of our political processes and government. Putin has won. He has once again maneuvered a Russian asset into the White House.

Rachel Maddow published on November 5th an informative message yet displaying the same level of ignorance exhibited by most Americans. She titled it "The question isn't whether Russia is targeting U.S. elections efforts to help Donald Trump. It's why?" She wrote "As Election Day got underway in Georgia, a handful of polling locations in Fulton County were temporarily evacuated after receiving bomb threats. The threats, fortunately, weren't credible. As for who was responsible for making the threats, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger briefed news organizations on the developments. "We identified the source, the Republican official told reporters, and 'it was from Russia." In case you forgot, Brad Raffensperger is the same person who taped a phone call from then President Trump in 2020 asking him to find 11,680 more votes. Also, Fulton County in Georgia is the site of the failed attempt to prosecute Trump for "election interference." These bomb scares via Russia is just the beginning of Trump's revenge toward those who oppose him. The fact that this threat came from Russia also verifies Russia's intimate involvement with Donald Trump- not just in planning his election win, but in orchestrating his plan for revenge against those individuals in our country attempting to uphold law and order.

To answer Maddow's question ":why" are the Russians interfering in U.S. Elections - well, I have been writing, shouting, and screaming at Americans about this threat for many, many years. I lived and worked in Russia and other dictator-led countries over a period of twenty years. I became "Russianized" enough to think, look like, speak, and behave like a Russian. Vladimir Putin blames the United States for the downfall of the Soviet Union, and he has pledged his revenge. In the 1990's, the newly formed FSB was headed by Vladimir Putin and their goal was to enlist more Americans to work for Russia. This is the same time that Trump filed six bankruptcies and U.S. banks would not loan him more money. The Russians did give him money and his sons bragged about the Trump Organization receiving $100 million from a Russian bank. (www.vanietyfair.com, www.businessinsider.com). ALL RUSSIAN BANKS ARE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE FSB AND PUTIN. Russians lure Americans by using flattery, women, and money. They also gave Marie LePen a loan of $9.8 million to overthrow the French government.

Putin has now maneuvered a man into the U.S. Presidency for a second time, that will provide him with U.S. top-secret information, that will not allow the U.S. to help Ukraine in their fight for freedom, and will JUMP THROUGH HOOPS to keep Putin happy in any way. This time around, Trump may pull the U.S. out of NATO - an alliance of democratic countries started in 1947 to protect the world from another Hitler. Unfortunately, another Hitler is now about to sleep in the White House again for not just another 4-year term but perhaps for the rest of his life. Remember Trump’s quote to Christians “that if you vote for me in November, in four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.” (Reuters, “Trump tells Christians they won’t have to vote after this election,” by Tim Reid, July 28, 2024)

Let me remind you that Putin was duly elected in Russia to be the President for a term of six years. He is still in office about 25 years later and he is planning the same thing for the U.S. President. Just watch!

The massive ignorance of “red-state” voters and others has once again allowed a criminal to rule this country. Trump is a convicted fraud (business, tax, and bank reports proved it without a doubt); he was convicted of 34 felony counts; and adjudicated and legally labeled a “sexual predator.” He instigated the insurrection to prevent the certification of the 2020 election. This, my friends, is treason. All of these criminal charges will now disappear.

What has happened to our democracy and land of the free is about to radically change. As of November 5th, Trump will have control of the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. AND, as much as it appears that Trump is the person sitting in the Oval Office, it is Vladimir Putin who is controlling Trump.

We all know that Trump is a vain, narcissistic, arrogant, and immoral person who has little to no understanding or caring about the feelings/needs of others. What the American public still does not recognize is that he was either bought by the Russians or photographed with his pants down and/or with Russian prostitutes - who all work for Putin. The reason that the public does not know the truth about Trump is that both William Barr and Merrick Garland failed to do their jobs as the Attorney Generals of the United States. This topic of course could fill a chapter in a book.

As a born and raised American, I am an eternal optimist. However, as an American who spent the majority of my career living and working in dictator-led countries - I am also a realist. From where I sit, the American public has been duped, the country is in serious trouble, and we are once again led by a man with a serious personality disorder - much like Hitler, Stalin, and now Putin.

Elizabeth Graham, www.democrazy2020.org

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