Trump’s post-election
strategy update from
the Washington Post:
Behind Trump’s losing
court gambit now at a rapid pace is what several Trump advisers say is his real
goal: “To sowing doubt about Joe Biden’s
victory with the president’s most ardent supporters and keeping alive his
prospects for another presidential run in 2024 while he keeps fund-raising.”
Strategy comes after Trump continues to suffer
defeat after defeat in courtrooms around the country, and that serves as a
tacit acknowledgment that Trump has failed to muster evidence to support his
unfounded claims about widespread fraud.
While Trump continues to make such false allegations on
Twitter and in fundraising emails driving money into his new leadership PAC, his
legal cases have largely been focused on attempts to discard ballots for
missing information, or on other technicalities (disputed at most state levels).
The Trump campaign agreed to a joint stipulation in a
lawsuit in Bucks County, PA that there was no fraud, even as it continued to
press for the tossing of mail ballots with voter information missing from their
envelopes.
Several Republicans now are saying that even Rudy Giuliani
believes the legal path is arduous, and the new goal now is to play for delay
and cast doubt on the overall election.
People say those conversations show Giuliani is conferring regularly with Steve Bannon, the controversial
former White House adviser who earlier this month called for Dr. Anthony Fauci,
the expert virus task force member, to be beheaded.
Boris Epshteyn, (Russian immigrant 1993), a Trump ally, and campaign
strategic adviser appeared with Giuliani at a federal court hearing in PA.
Giuliani, now Trump’s election fraud lawyer and conspiracy hunter
faced skeptical questioning from the judge said: “We continue to push forward. The
push is to determine what truly happened in this election and the point is to
get to the bottom of how many people voted legally for President Trump and how
many for Joe Biden.”
The toll of the president’s false claims on public
confidence in the election was apparent in a new poll from Monmouth
University that found that 77% of Trump supporters believe Biden’s win was
fraud.
Key Statement from William
Galston, senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution said:
“Anything that aids and abets doubts
about an election that has been conducted with integrity makes the future of
democracy darker. To weaken a democratic people’s faith in its fundamental
institutions of self-government is inexcusable.”
Trump also now faces a growing skepticism within the GOP —
and outrage elsewhere — about his drumbeat of false statements.
For example, former
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, in an interview on Fox Business,
criticized Trump’s hiring of Giuliani to litigate a federal lawsuit in PA,
saying: “It strikes me that this is
the most important lawsuit in the history of the country, and they’re not
using the most well-noted election lawyers. There are folks who do
this all of the time. This is a specialty. This is not a television program.
This is the real thing.”
Why no well-noted lawyers,
Mr. Mulvaney?
Simple, well-noted lawyers
won’t touch the Trump effort because they know there is no there, there as the
quip says.
And, they won’t be part of
this Trump charade – his biggest con ever – maybe even topping Bernie Madoff’s con / Ponzi scheme.
Finally this: Undue Trump influence from election board
member in Detroit from
this CNN story – very troublesome, re: Trump’s current strategy is to get
state GOP-run legislatures to pick electors and NOT accept the ones voters have
chosen as state law stipulates.
Meanwhile back in Michigan:
Michigan’s state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee
Chatfield have been invited by Trump and plan to fly to Washington to meet with
him over the Electoral College delegate choosing method.
Biden came out ahead of Trump by more than 150,000 votes (total MI votes cast was 878,000). All of state County Boards of Canvassers have certified the election results.
But, now the State
Board of Canvassers will convene Monday (November 23) for the final
certification.
FYI: That board is composed
of two Republican and two Democratic members. It is again unclear if the
Republican members will object to certifying the final tally as they did once
before reversing their decision and now they want to rescind that decision, too.
If the state board does
not reach a decision, then the legislature, both chambers now controlled by
Republican majorities, would be tasked with selecting presidential electors.
Note: Shirkey and Chatfield both agree: “Michigan law does not
include a provision for the Legislature to directly select electors or to award
electors to anyone other than the person who received the most votes.”
My 2 cents: Trump is pitiful human being and a disgrace to America. His awful actions, words, and approaches to government will linger and hamper us for decades.
Recovery from Trump actions could take many decades to correct. We shall see.
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