White House trade adviser Peter Navarro released another report on Tuesday documenting what he considers evidence of the Democratic Party’s yearslong effort to “steal” the election from outgoing President Trump, following up on his December report detailing 379,000 “possible illegal votes.”
Having exhausted his search for illegal votes in the first report, in which he assessed “the fairness and integrity of the 2020 Presidential Election by examining six dimensions of alleged election irregularities across six key battleground states,” Navarro used his sequel to describe a two-pronged approach taken by Democrats to effect President-elect Joe Biden’s “narrow and illegitimate ‘victory'” by more than 7 million votes in the general election, which earned him the same 306 Electoral College votes Trump won in his “landslide” 2016 win.
“Volume Two,” titled the Art of the Steal, was released one day before Congress meets to certify the Electoral Colleges results, and Republicans in both the House and Senate are planning a long-odds bid at overturning the election. Navarro and others in Trump’s inner circle have been instrumental in analyzing and sharing with lawmakers on the state and federal level findings showing what they claim was a stolen election.
The Democratic Party’s “Stuff the Ballot Box” strategy, according to Navarro, relied on expanding voter access to absentee and mail-in ballots and relaxing ballot verification protocols and other impediments to registering to vote.
“It is important to point out here that much of what the Democrats did was legal; but some of what they did at times also bent, and arguably sometimes broke, the rules or the law,” Navarro wrote as he strung together changes in Pennsylvania voting laws to expand access to absentee ballots that were passed by the state’s Republican legislature in 2019 and a federal court ruling from 2018 that prevented Georgia from implementing an “exact match” voting law to complete his narrative of an election that was stolen from Trump.
“The practical result of the Democrat Party’s two-pronged Grand ‘Stuff the Ballot Box’ Strategy was to flood the six key battleground states with enough illegal absentee and mail-in ballots to turn a decisive Trump victory into a narrow alleged Biden ‘victory,'” Navarro wrote, referring to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Much of Navarro’s fire was trained on “the corrosive effects” of “Wall Street oligarch George Soros” and the “CCP virus pandemic,” but he saved fusillades for “unwitting ‘useful idiot'” Republicans such as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, whom Navarro claimed “ran the table on behalf of the Democrats,” despite both officials repeatedly articulating their support for Republican candidates in the Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections.
Throughout the report, Navarro also deviated from his electoral grudge to criticize federal institutions for failing to attack Trump’s political enemies.
“It is as remarkable as it is abhorrent that the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice did not conduct a full investigation and issue indictments in a Russia Hoax that ended in a complete exoneration of President Trump,” Navarro decried, despite investigations conducted by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz and U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was recently appointed special counsel to investigate “any violations of law related to the inquiries conducted by the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane operation and, later, special counsel Robert Mueller.”
“Volumes 1 and 2 of the Navarro Report — The Immaculate Deception and The Art of the Steal — together make the strong case for a full investigation of the election irregularities and strategic gaming of our political process that in all likelihood have led to a stolen presidential election,” Navarro concluded. “Any such investigation must begin immediately as this nation simply cannot risk the inauguration of a president who will be perceived by a large segment of the American people as illegitimate.”
