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Paul Krassner Editorial on Trump Electoral College Victory and Political Accusations (File 031540)
Email from writer Paul Krassner to Jeffrey E. discussing revisions to his 'Best of' collection essay, including commentary on Trump's 2016 election victory via electoral college and past rape allegations against him.
Summary
Paul Krassner corresponds about editing his essay collection, specifically revising a piece that critiques Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election win via the electoral college despite losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. Krassner discusses his previous writings on Trump, clarifying he had no evidence of certain claims but references documented accusations of rape. The essay contrasts Trump's victory with the electoral college system's historical origins and discusses Clinton's earlier opposition to the system when elected senator in 2000.
From: paul krassnerSent: 4/22/2017 10:02:03 PMTo: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]Subject: Subject to changeImportance: HighSo the publisher wants me to trim down 700 to 400 pages in "The Best of..." collection. Tsk tsk. Below will bethe revised mini-essay to serve as the final piece. Although I detest Trump, to be fair, I realized, thanks toyou, that I had no evidence that he had raped a 13-year-old, though I did have have evidence that, as an adult,there was evidence that she made an accusation. Also, I added another sentence with a positive ending.Meanwhile, Happy Earth Day.The Last Word: Yikes!When George W. Bush was elected president in the year 2000, it was due to the electoral college (a rigged systemwhich originally intended to prevent slaves from voting and evolved to gerrymandering), even though Bush'sopponent, Al Gore, won the national popular vote. Hillary Clinton was elected senator that year, and sheannounced that the first thing she would do was to get rid of the electoral college. A few years later, as a columnistfor the New York Press, I sent her a letter asking about the status of that promise. She didn't reply.On November 8, 2016, a crooked businessman, liar extraordinaire, bragging pussy-grabber, make-America-white-again, anti-choice, anti-Semite, fake Christian, accused rapist of a 13-year-old in 1994 (she canceled a pressconference one week before the election because of death threats if she filed a lawsuit), climate-change hoaxer,twitter addict, homophobic, apprentice politician, fucking fascist, and Vladimir Putin's "useful idiot," namelyDonald Trump, who was elected as an insanely narcissistic dictator based on the electoral college, whereas hisopponent, Hillary Clinton, won the national popular vote by almost three million individuals galore, to no avail.Irony lives. But the monster has inadvertently awakened a population to resist.HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031540