Lee Smith, journalist and author of three books, including “Disappearing the President,” spoke with Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, as part of the Arutz Sheva and Israel365 US Election Coverage of Donald Trump’s victory, on the situation in the US leading up the 2024 US elections, the US and Israel, and his optimism for the future.

Lee Smith was not surprised by the outcome of the US elections and says, “I did expect the outcome. Lots of people did. What we were concerned about was fraud, frankly in different polling places, especially across the Battleground States, but it appears that both the RNC, the Trump campaign, as well as state Republican parties, did a terrific job. So they were out there, fighting all the time, they were taking cases to court, they were threatening lawsuits. So they were on the ball. I thought that a Trump victory would not be announced last night. I thought we'd be waiting for some time. Now even with the immediate announcement of a Trump victory, we're looking at the second phase of Donald Trump's return to the presidency.”

“The first stage was the campaign,” Smith continued. “The campaign ended with Donald Trump's victory and now the second phase is getting Donald Trump back into the White House. The Democrats have already promised that they're going to make that exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. But we really are very fortunate though, that the result was announced very early in the morning, because as I show in my new book, ‘Disappearing the President,’ that delays and announcing election results correlate not just with fraud, but also with violence. So that's one of the concerns going forward now, over the next few months, between the election and the inauguration. Of course, we all hope there is no violence, but the Democrats have threatened it; they've been threatening it for years.”

Smith agrees that “the other side,” including the intelligence community or leaders of other governments around the world and media, are not ready to throw Trump the keys, they all have an interest in preventing Donald Trump from taking the presidency, saying “I'll give you a sense of what some of their scenarios look like and then I'll give you what I believe is crucial to resolving that situation before it gets out of hand. Rosa Brooks, who was an official in Barack Obama's Pentagon, has war gamed a number of different scenarios for the 2024 race. These all came out at the end of July and Brooks famously did this for the 2020 race and what this really did was it was not a war game forecast; these were post-election contingency planning scenarios, so that led to such things as January 6th. It led to banishing Trump from Twitter, a whole bunch of different activities. So when we see that she's talking about 2024, we can take it very seriously, that this is what activists are planning.”... Read More: Arutz-7