A Summary of the “Conspiracy” Unveiled by Time Magazine to Stop Trump’s Reelection

Time Magazine published a long and detailed account of how, in their own words, “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information,” regarding the US 2020 Presidential election.

The Time Magazine article, titled “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election”, includes many details that had not been publicly available prior to its publication. This summary seeks to pick out the key quotes and contextualising the information the extremely long article provides. 

Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud have not been proven in court despite his efforts. Although the Time Magazine article falls short of admitting ‘rigging’ the election, much of the unusual behaviour surrounding the 2020 election, as outlined in Trump’s legal cases, appears to be explained in it.

The article recounts a sudden change in the wind when Trump’s former institutional supporters turned on him. Then, the piece openly admits that there was an orchestrated attempt to anoint Biden the winner, even before the final results had been announced.

“[A]mid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result[,] corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. ‘It was all very, very strange,’ Trump said on Dec. 2. ‘Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted’ … In a way, Trump was right.”

The author refers to this “orchestrated attempt” to push against Trump as a “conspiracy” by many actors to suppress protests against the outcome of the election. She also explicitly states that businesses allied with left-wing activists.

“There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.”

She recounts that the cosy relationship between big business and labour unions was solidified by the violent riots linked to George Floyd over the summer last year. This claim is supported by hundreds of large businesses coming out in support for the cause. The author tenuously relates these race riots to Trump’s concerns about election integrity. Although there is no formal link, she suggests that the alliance went further than simply the issue of race. She refers to this collaboration as a “shadow effort”.

“The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy … The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election – an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.”

The author refers to these conspirators as “operatives” and to Trump as an “autocratically inclined President” - this seems to be the rationalisation for the subversive actions. 

“For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President.”

She claims that the conspirators touched every aspect of the election, suggesting that the controversies surrounding the 2020 election were all rooted in the actions of these “operatives”. 

“Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.”

The changes to voting systems and to laws made by these “conspirators” caused significant controversy, alongside the irregularities in the conduct of poll workers. Many of these controversies have been outlined in great detail on hereistheevidence.com. As an illustration, in this summary, only one of many issues will be detailed - an electronic voting system company that was plagued in controversy: Dominion Voting Systems. 

Dominion Voting Systems were used for the first time in all potential “battleground” (swing) states in the 2020 presidential elections. However, despite their usage becoming more widespread, there was a significant issue with the machines. At the DEFCON hacking convention, held in August 2019, the ImageCast Precinct optical scanner system used in Dominion’s voting machines were hacked - providing clear evidence that the machines were vulnerable. 

The head of strategy and Security at Dominion, Dr Eric Coomer, is an ‘anti-Trumper’. In leaked images from a series of his social media he can be seen ranting about then-President Trump in an incredibly agitated manner. For example, an extract from one of these posts states “Only an absolute F*CKING IDIOT could ever vote for that wind-bag f*ck-tard FASCIST RACIST F*CK!”. It was alleged by businessman Joe Oltmann that he had infiltrated a group call between members of Antifa and Dr Eric Coomer, where they asked him: “What are we going to do if f*cking Trump wins?” to which Coomer replied: “Don’t worry about the election. Trump is not going to win, I made f*cking sure of that. Hahaha.”

In 2016 Coomer told the Illinois States Board of Elections that it was possible to bypass election systems software. This can be seen in a video where he admits the machines are wireless and support all networks - making them vulnerable to tampering. In October 2020, USB sticks and a laptop used to program voting machines were stolen in Philadelphia prior to the election - potentially making them even easier to tamper with. Dominion also received $400 million through a Swiss bank with links to China a month prior to the election, as detailed on Lotuseaters.com.

Although there is no direct evidence of anything unlawful in this case, the circumstantial evidence is damning and certainly runs contrary to the view espoused by some that the election was “the most secure in US history.” This piece of evidence is only a small part of a much bigger picture that covers many different domains. These changes that caused much controversy can now be put at the feet of these “operatives” that sought to “fortify the election”. 

The “conspirators” also claim to be behind the mass censorship efforts of the Silicon Valley social media companies who cracked down heavily on claims of election fraud. This famously extended even to then-President Trump himself, as most have resorted to removing him entirely from their platforms.

“They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears … They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result,”

The article paints the attack on the Capitol as a deliberate effort orchestrated by Trump, despite the then-President repeatedly emphasising that he wished his supporters to remain peaceful and asking those in the Capitol to peacefully return home after violence broke out. 

“Trump plotted to block a legitimate vote count. And he spent the months following Nov. 3 trying to steal the election he’d lost – with lawsuits and conspiracy theories, pressure on state and local officials, and finally summoning his army of supporters to the Jan. 6 rally that ended in deadly violence at the Capitol.”

“That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream – a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.”

The full Time Magazine article provides much greater detail about how these “operatives” supposedly “saved” the 2020 election, but the summary above includes most of what they actually did. When the actions of these “conspirators” are viewed in the context of the allegations of widespread voter fraud, it makes their actions appear all the more sinister. Rather than “fortifying” the election, the actions did more to undermine the faith in the result by secretly conspiring against Trump rather than openly “seeking to ensure election integrity”. The impressions of shadowy figures behind the scenes controlling the outcome of the election was clearly not lost on Trump, and even if the actions are framed as having “saved the 2020 Election” it provides a damning window into how the democratic process can be tampered with behind the scenes - be it illegitimate or not.