Greg Palast is not only one of our nations finest investigative reporters but also, in How Trump Stole 2020, a master storyteller.
THOM HARTMANN
Palast [has] dropped a bomb into the elections that has left credibility shrapnel all over the democratic process, if anyone cares to look for it.
CHARLES PIERCE, Esquire
No one has told our story as Greg Palast has.
REV. JESSE JACKSON
Palast is one our great investigative reporters. If you are not outraged by what Palast has uncovered, you have no heart. A searing indictment of a rigged electoral system.
CHRIS HEDGES
Greg Palast is my hero. The most thorough and incisive journalist on the matter of electionsand hes f!#@ing hilarious! Read this! It might just save us.
JOSH FOX , director, Gasland
Americas wittiest muckraker.
Pacifica News
[The Best Democracy Money Can Buy is] a wild and woolly ride, peppered with moments of wry sardonic humor that would make Dashiell Hammett smile. Theres so much more Id love to tell you about what Palast dug up. But then Id have to kill you.
Salon.com
An impressive amount of old-fashioned gumshoe data-sifting, document-collecting, and gotcha source-baiting in pursuit of the truth about voter fraud. Palast slices through all the BS... Keep in mind, hes got just the facts, maam.
Village Voice
Palasts work is invaluable for our community.
LATOSHA BROWN , Black Votes Matter
The information is a hand grenade.
JOHN PILGER
Palast, with equal parts humor and indignation, cleverly shows the pattern that has dominated American presidential elections since 2000. He connects dots to explain why this is happening, who is benefiting, how the dirty business is done.
Alternet
The planets most tenacious investigative reporter.
JOHN NICHOLS , The Nation
Greg Palast is my favorite investigative journalist with a hat on! Of course, hes also my favorite investigative journalist period. Spewing truths that make the ruling elite cry.
LEE CAMP
Funnier and better writing than Moore, more accessible than Chomsky, Palast has made a fine contribution to the honourable tradition of leftist belly-aching. And I mean that as a compliment.
Sunday Business Post, Dublin
PRAISE FOR TED RALL
If Doonesbury and Michael Moore are the cutting edge of American political comedy, Rall is its bludgeon. Humour is his offensive weapon.
The Guardian
Rall channeled his bitterness to become one of the best political cartoonists in America.
Salon.com
Also by Greg Palast
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits
Vultures Picnic
Armed Madhouse
Steal Back Your Vote (comic book)
Regulation and Democracy
Also by Ted Rall
Political Suicide: The Fight for the Soul
of the Democratic Party
Bernie
Francis: The Peoples Pope
Trump
Snowden
The Book of Obama
The Anti-American Manifesto
Silk Road to Ruin
HOW TRUMP
STOLE 2020
The Hunt for Americas Vanished Voters
GREG PALAST
with comics by
TED RALL
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Names: Palast, Greg, author. | Rall, Ted, illustrator.
Title: How Trump stole 2020 / Greg Palast ; with comics by Ted Rall.
Description: New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2020]
Identifiers: LCCN 2020017384 (print) | LCCN 2020017385 (ebook) | ISBN 9781644210567 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781644210574 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Trump, Donald, 1946- | Presidents--United States--Election--2020. | Presidents--United States--Election--2016. | Presidents--United States--Election--Forecasting.
Classification: LCC JK526 2016.P35 2020 (print) | LCC JK526 2016 (ebook) | DDC 324.973/0933--dc23
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Portions of this book appeared in The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Salon, Vice, and on Al Jazeera, Democracy Now!, and BBC Television Newsnight.
Palast co-hosts The Election Crimes Bulletin with Dennis Bernstein on Pacifica Radio Networks Flashpoints.
For Leni Badpenny,
investigatrix extraordinaire
Take it to The Bridge!
James Brown
Contents
Use Ted & Gregs New, Improved Ballot Condom
CohereOne Address
Verification Process
The End
Donald Trump was re-elected President on November 7, 2018.
Two years before a single ballot was cast.
You Are Not Guilty
America, lets talk.
I get it: Youre stunned you elected an orange-stained, gelatinous bag of malicious mendacity, a snorting porcine pustule of bloviating bigot hinged to grasping little griplets, a bloated ball of gracelessness and cry-baby petulance as President of the United States.
America, you can stop hiding your face in shame: you are not guilty.
Trump didnt win in 2016. And Im not talking about Trump losing the popular vote. Trump lost the Electoral College. That is, he lost if you count all the votes burgled, jacked, swiped, shoplifted, purloined, filched, fiddled and snatched from citizens not of a whitish orange hue.
And unless we wise up, 2020 will be dj vu all over again.
Lets get this clear from jump: Trump didnt mastermind the steal of the vote. He doesnt have the native smarts to pull off the caper. For that, he has his stable of Rhodes Scholars, database gurus and lethal legal weenies. Ill give you their names later, those who did the dirty.
If youre reading this during Trumps second term in 2021 or third term in 2025, keep reading, because theres nothing new under the sun. This is a con thats as old as Jim Crow and older, back to the time when George Washington fought to give Jews and Catholics the right to vote.
Ive spent 20 years cracking the code on ballot burglary. Schemes with names like Crosscheck and Caging and Spoiling.Expose one, another pops up like electoral Whack-a-Mole.
Every four years, some new cheat. I just couldnt figure this one outhow are they going to take 2020?until I started tracking a character with a shotgun, a chainsaw, a pick-up truck, a dynamite detonator and a lot of love from Koch Industries.
On November 7, 2018, it all snapped into place when Chainsaw was elected the 83rd white Governor of Georgia.
HORRIBLE
It was raining that day in Atlanta. But I could see the large tears tracking down the face of Christine Jordans niece.
Its horrible, she said.