President posts the Italian-satellites theory after the FBI seizes 2020 ballots in Fulton County.

Italygate. Italygate. Buddy. Italygate. I want you to say it out loud with me. Italygate. It is, as a string of letters and the syllables they make, a goofy word. I love this word. I love it the way I love a man at the end of the bar explaining how he beat the casino at blackjack by counting the cards on the back of the dealer’s necktie.

Italygate. The theory, first posted in 2020, posted again on Wednesday, is that the 2020 election was rigged for the previous President because Italian military satellites were used, coordinated through the United States Embassy in Rome, to remotely change the votes coming out of the Dominion voting machines in the United States.

Folks. Folks. Listen to me. I am going to do you a favor.

The voting machines used in the 2020 election do not connect to the internet. They are air-gapped. That is a technical term. It means there is literal air between the machine and the network. There is no wifi. There is no satellite link. There is no cellular modem. The USB port is taped over. I am not making any of this up. This is published in the technical specifications of the equipment. The Italians, even on their best satellite day, cannot reach into a piece of plastic in a polling station in Cobb County, Georgia, with anything. They cannot do it with prayer. They cannot do it with a satellite. They cannot do it with a microwave dish on the embassy roof.

The theory also, as a separate problem, requires the 2020 vote count to have been wrong by enough margin to flip the election, by satellites that don’t have the access, with no physical evidence ever recovered, in the audits that have been redone seventeen times.

Sixty courts. Sixty. Republican judges, Democratic judges, judges the President himself appointed. All looked at the evidence. All ruled the same way.

And then. Wednesday. Federal agents went into the Fulton County, Georgia, election office with a search warrant, looking for the original 2020 ballots. The President saw the news, opened his social-media app, and posted the Italygate theory again, fresh, on the same Wednesday, on the same hour, in 2026.

The country has been told this is debunked. The country has been told sixty times. The country has been told. And on a Wednesday in January 2026, with most of the news cycle being eaten by Greenland, the President posted it again, and the news cycle had to discuss it again, and the columnists had to write the column again, and the fact-checkers had to publish the article again. The whole country had to do the homework over, on a Wednesday, for free, while the original homework was right there on the bookshelf.

I’m arguing with the television. The television is, on Wednesday, re-running 2020. The television does not even know it is re-running. It thinks it is live.