Gaslighting: Primary Fraud in 2024!
RNC lawyers and the media conspire to infringe on Republican delegate rights.
“Trump's choice
Of course, Trump doesn't have to win a majority in the primaries to win the nomination again. He just has to win a plurality, as he did in many of the early 2016 primaries.”
This example of media gaslighting comes from a July 20 article by Domenico Montanaro of NPR as he discussed the upcoming 2024 Republican presidential nomination process.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/30/1114578872/trump-desantis-pence-president-2024
As we have written in our previous posts, this declarative, unsourced GASLIGHTING is simply untrue.
To win the Republican nomination, a candidate must win the majority vote of the delegates to the Republican National Convention in 2024. Period.
SO, WHERE DID THIS BIG LIE ORIGINATE?
Transcripts and videos of Republican Party rule making for the past 30 years help to explain why any self-respecting “journalist” would write such a lie, especially when it is unsourced.
Many state laws unconstitutionally mandate that primaries choose Republican candidates for public office.
With complete disregard for the First and Fourteenth Amendment protections of the right of individual members of the party to give their vote freely to the person of their choosing in any nomination process, previous and current Republican leaders who advocate for Critical Primary Theory routinely dare to infringe on that right.
In the previous post introducing you to Critical Primary Theory I promised to provide further details about the Republican lawyers and consultants who have conspired to implement CPT, and how they did it.
At the national level, Critical Primary Theory steals the right of Republican National Convention delegates to choose the Republican presidential nominee and transfers that right to voters of any and all persuasions in the primaries.
Since 1996, several interrelated events have resulted in the current broad and nearly complete acceptance of Critical Primary Theory by the Republican Party.
In chronological order they are: 1. Haley Barbour’s 1996 RNC Presidential Primary Task Force. 2. Jim Nicholson’s 1999 Brock Commission: Nominating Future Presidents. 3. 2000 Convention Rules Committee. 4. 2008 Convention Rules Committee. 5. National Presidential Caucus. 6. 2012 Convention Rules Committee. 7. 2016 Convention Rules Committee. 8. 2020 canceled Convention Rules Committee.
In this post, we will leap past Barbour’s 1996 effort and focus on Jim Nicholson’s project, which is really the genesis of the current fraudulent practice of “binding” delegates.
BROCK COMMISSION SUGGESTS REORDER RULES TO CREATE THE BIG LIE
RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson created an Advisory Commission on the Presidential Nominating Process on July 2,1999, and appointed Bill Brock to be its chairman with the following lawyers, consultants, and officials as commissioners: MI Senator Spencer Abraham, Haley Barbour, VA Rep. Tom Davis, Frank Fahrenkopf, CA Secretary of State Bill Jones, OK Gov. Frank Keating, Tom Sansonetti and Jim Nicholson as an ex officio member.
The commission was staffed by RNC staff members Tom Cole, Tom Josefiak, Larry Purpuro, Kevin Murphy, Catherine Tyrell and Bill Pasco.
The stated purpose of the Brock Commission was to “Review ‘reform’ proposals to improve the selection process”.
In the end, this commission reached the conclusion that its preferred solution to a perceived problem of “front loading primaries” was the creation of the “Delaware Plan” for groups of regional primaries.
A slick 208 page final report entitled “NOMINATING FUTURE PRESIDENTS” was published to persuade the year 2000 Republican National Convention delegates to adopt the recommended “primary reform” package which, if adopted by the convention, would have formally committed the Republican Party to NOMINATE its FUTURE president and vice-president candidates in primaries; leaving no role for the convention in the nomination process.
This would have forever stripped the right of the Republican Party National Convention delegates to nominate their Republican candidates.
GEORGE W. BUSH CAMPAIGN SQUELCHES DELAWARE PLAN!
Last minute jitters by the Bush campaign sent the much vaunted Brock Commission report and its recommendations to the trash bin.
But the slick final report did reveal the BIG LIE that to this day pretends to allow primary voters to choose the Republican Nominee.
On page 9 and again on page 85 of the slick final report’s mission statement, the last paragraph that described the procedural steps to institutionalize the primary “reforms” states: “The approved Rules of the Republican Party will govern the party’s affairs from the adjournment of the 2000 Republican National Convention THROUGH (emphasis added) the 2004 Republican National Convention.”(The “next” convention)
You see what they did there?
The 2000 Preamble to the Rules of the Republican Party read: BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the following be and hereby are adopted as The Rules of the Republican Party, composed of the rules for the election and government of the Republican National Committee UNTIL the NEXT national convention, the rules under which delegates and alternate delegates shall be allotted to the respective states in the NEXT national convention, and the rules under which such delegates and alternate delegates shall be elected and under which contests shall be considered, and the RULES OF BUSINESS OF THIS national convention.
In the 1996 Rules of the Republican Party, the preamble read: BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the following be and hereby are adopted as The Rules of the Republican Party, comprised of the RULES OF BUSINESS OF THIS national convention, the rules for the election and government of the Republican National Committee UNTIL the NEXT national convention, the rules under which delegates and alternate delegates shall be allotted to the respective states in the NEXT national convention, and the rules under which such delegates and alternate delegates shall be ELECTED and under which contests shall be considered.
In 1996, the rules began with the PROCEEDINGS OF CONVENTION and Rule NO. 1 was “Order of Business”.
This sleight of hand happened at the January 14, 2000 RNC General Session as Tom Sansonetti, chairman of the rules committee gave his report to the full RNC as follows:
“Tom Josefiak, Chief Counsel, walked through a series of 19 technical amendments, all of which were approved by the rules committee.”
Sansonetti continued, “Most notably, the committee approved an amendment to reorder the rules so that in the future the rules will deal with the RNC and the way we operate first, and then the rules regarding the convention would be placed together at the end of the rules”.
Without any further discussion, the order of the rules was flipped, with the section containing the RNC rules coming first and the convention rules coming last.
No matter what order they appear in, however, it is perfectly clear that the two sections concerning the Republican National Committee take effect beginning at the conclusion of the convention at which the rules were adopted, while the section on convention rules is in force at the convention where it is adopted, not the next one.”
After this careful review of the Brock Commission report and the corresponding RNC Rules Committee action we can conclude, sadly, that this was not a “scrivener’s error”.
Reordering the rules was a deliberate act of deception to create the illusion that primaries preceding the convention apply to the current convention.
The Brock Commission fully anticipated that the 2000 Republican National Convention would adopt the recommended changes which then would have obviously required the Republican National Convention to FOLLOW the primary nomination.
In his presentation of the report of the Rules Committee to the 2000 Republican National Convention, Michael Grebe stated : “Several other changes were adopted…including a variety of technical amendments that clarify our rules. One such change was a reordering of the party rules, so that the rules pertaining to the national convention would be placed together.”
The last minute ditching of the Delaware Plan by the convention orphaned the changes to the Preamble.
The official records of the proceedings of the RNC Rules Committee and the Republican National Convention Rules Committee, prior to and including at the 2000 Republican National Convention, reveal that several Republican lawyers participated in this deliberate deception.
Jim Nicholson was the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Grebe was the General Counsel of the RNC and chairman of the Convention Rules Committee, Tom Sansonetti was the chairman of the RNC Rules Committee, Mike Duncan was the vice-chair of the RNC Rules Committee, William McGinley was the deputy counsel to the RNC Rules Committee, and Tom Josefiak was the chief counsel to the RNC.
Without changing a single word, simply moving the words “the rules of business of this national convention” and changing the numbers of the rules has fueled the gaslighting that supports Critical Primary Theory to this day.
Recent experience demonstrates that it is Republican lawyers, many who are past or present members of the Republican National Committee, who are powerful advocates of Critical Primary Theory, and the coerced “binding” of convention delegates, to the Republican National Convention. We will introduce you to more of these lawyers in an upcoming article on the 2008 Republican National Convention. Stay tuned.
CONCLUSION
Primaries will NOT choose the Republican nominee in 2024; the delegates to the Republican National Convention will!
Any intelligent person seeking to lead the most powerful country in the free world will understand this basic truth and promptly fire any consultants who deny this reality and instead create a campaign that recruits supporters willing to pursue election as a delegate to the 2024 Republican National Convention.
The Trump campaign understood the rules in 2016 and thus won the nomination.
(The author was the chairman of the North Dakota delegation to the Republican National Convention in 2000 and was a member of the Republican National Convention Rules Committee in 2008, 2012 and 2016.)