Pete Riehm
Americans have always known: The steal was obvious
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By Pete Riehm
July 25, 2026

In his recent prime time speech, President Trump only declared what Americans have always known that the 2020 presidential election was corrupted by rampant voter fraud and foreign interference. Average Americans sort of shrugged, because they were not fooled then and are now relieved that evidence is finally being released, but the Democrat Media Complex was apoplectic. Progressive politicians, the press, and leftist pundits are wedded to the brazen lie that the 2020 presidential election was “the safest in history” because if it ever unravels, the Biden Administration and all its actions were illegitimate and their Democrat schemes to cheat will be exposed and hopefully removed.

Americans remember going to bed election night in 2020 with President Trump comfortably in the lead only to wake to an improbable Biden victory. Recall that counting in swing states oddly paused about 10pm and many poll watchers were sent home, but the counting resumed once witnesses were gone. Ballots were dumped and some scanned multiple times and voting machines manipulated adding almost ALL votes after midnight to Biden, a statistical impossibility.

The recent fraudulent Los Angeles mayoral election was Déjà vu. Spencer Pratt closed out election night with a 9-point lead over third place, Nithya Raman, but two weeks later almost all the “mail-in ballots” were for Raman putting her in second place – a 12-point swing, another statistical impossibility. Americans had seen this movie before.

Immediately after election night 2020, there were multiple reports around the country of gross election irregularities. In Fulton County Georgia, election officials claimed there was a nonexistent water leak at the vote counting center and sent everyone home except security video later showed election workers stayed and pulled bags of ballots out from under tables and ran them through county machines multiple times. A New York trucker came forward to tell that he delivered an 18-wheeler load of pallets of ballots from New York City to Pennsylvania after midnight.

Election officials in Muskegon Michigan alerts state officials to thousands of fake voter registrations in just that city. Michigan initiated an investigation into GBI Strategies that was paid by Democrats including the Biden Campaign to register voters for this massive voter fraud scheme, but the Michigan Secretary of State covered it up. The FBI stepped in and buried it.

New Jersey just admitted that software errors allowed non-citizens to vote in New Jersey elections. How long has that been going on? Does anyone think New Jersey is the only state?!

All that and much more was ignored by the media and Democrat election officials. Whistle blowers were intimidated and silenced. Colorado Election official, Tina Peters, exposed voter fraud in Colorado; she was smeared and imprisoned for not backing down. Her sentence was finally commuted only recently, but she still stands by her convictions that there was election cheating.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has so far found over 278,000 non-citizens on US voter rolls; that’s already more than the vote differences in swing states. Blue states are still refusing to release their voter rolls to DHS. Why?! Imagine how many more non-citizens are on voter rolls in sanctuary states and states with ridiculous motor voter registration programs. In California, people can register to vote with a medicine prescription or even a gym membership.

In 2020, the CIA and FBI discovered that China had accessed 220 MILLION American voter files, but they hid this information from President Trump! WHY?! Does anyone think that China did not act on that information. China was also paying US journalists to write negative press about Trump. China was desperate to be rid of Trump. They were so desperate that they released the COVID virus to shut down the American economy and change election procedures to allow massive voter fraud through ballot harvesting, mail-in ballots, and ballot drop-off boxes.

It will also eventually come out that COVID was a foreign attack on our Constitutional Republic. Anthony Fauci, deep state operatives, and Democrats were complicit.

It also became known that Dominion Voting machines were connected to the internet and could be manipulated. There were also numerous instances of Dominion machines miscounting votes, but all was swept under the rug by the Democrat Media Complex and corrupt federal officials. Dominion originated in Venezuela. Nickolas Maduro has been oddly quite since he was apprehended. Is he singing for a lighter sentence? Is Maduro Trump’s ace in the hole? Trump did not go public without the goods.

Democrats will moan this is all old news and long settled, but stealing the American presidency cannot be ignored. It is the greatest theft of our time. For those still unconvinced, an honest examination of the presidential elections exposes the abject aberration of 2020. In 2000, 120 million votes were counted in the presidential election. Over the next four elections (2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016), the votes counted rose to 129 million in 2016; that’s about a 2,250,000 vote increase every four years. The votes counted in 2020 sky-rocketed to 155 million votes counted! That’s more than a tenfold increase in just one cycle! An utter statistical impossibility.

Then in 2024 only 140 million votes were counted. What happened to 15 million voters?! And does anyone really believe Biden got more votes than Obama, the most popular Democrat in generation? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see at least 15 million votes in 2020 were fraudulent. How was Venezuela involved? Is that how Chine abused their ill-gotten information?

The American public has long known there was something gravely amiss in the 2020 presidential election. Democrats, the deep state, and the media thought they could hide it, but they never expected Biden to implode and Trump to return. The truth won’t be denied, and America needs to root out this cancer. That’s why it’s imperative we pass the SAVE America Act! Our Constitutional Republic depends on it.

“I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth” (1 John 2:21).

Pete Riehm is a Navy Veteran, conservative activist, and columnist in south Alabama. Email him at peteriehm@bellsouth.net or read all his columns at http://www.renewamerica.com/.

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Pete Riehm

Born to German immigrants, Pete Riehm grew up in Texas as a first generation American. Working his way through college, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve. After graduating from the University of Houston, Pete was commissioned into the United States Navy through Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. He also earned a Master's Degree in National Security from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas... (more)

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