The Donald Trump Score Card

Black voters sue Trump campaign for trying to overthow election result.


Black Detroit voters sue Trump campaign over effort to invalidate election results

 

Federal judge throws out Trump lawsuit.


Judge tosses 'speculative' Trump lawsuit challenging Biden win in Pennsylvania

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"A federal judge on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s campaign that sought to throw out millions of mail-in votes in Pennsylvania, dealing a major blow to Trump’s flailing efforts to overturn his Nov. 3 election loss to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, described the case as “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations.”

Brann added that he “has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens.”"

 

OUCH! Trump Legal Team’s Supposed Evidence of Fraud is From the WRONG STATE
By Charlie Nash
Nov 20th, 2020, 11:12 am

Trump Team's Evidence of Fraud in Michigan is from Minnesota

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"President Donald Trump’s lawyers have seemingly confused Michigan with Minnesota in an affidavit attempting to prove 2020 election fraud.

In their effort to demonstrate voter irregularities in the state of Michigan — which Trump was projected to have lost to Joe Biden — Trump’s lawyers appeared to mistake Michigan’s abbreviation “MI” for Minnesota."

 

Giuliani: "I'm a victim of soycumstance, Judgy Wudgy. Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk!"

 

To be fair... They both start with the letter M and there is a lower case i right after that... Must be the same place. Right?

 

In scathing opinion, federal judge dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit in Pennsylvania

U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann granted a request from Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar to dismiss the suit, which alleged that Republicans had been illegally disadvantaged because some counties allowed voters to fix errors on their mail ballots.

The judge’s decision, which he explained in a scathing 37-page opinion, was a thorough rebuke of the president’s sole attempt to challenge the statewide result in Pennsylvania.

Brann wrote that Trump’s campaign had used “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations” in its effort to throw out millions of votes.

“In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state,” Brann wrote.

Trump was beaten in Pennsylvania by Joe Biden, who currently holds a lead over the president of more than 81,000 votes. Counties are due to file their official results Monday to Boockvar, who will then certify the statewide tallies.

Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) said in a statement after Brann’s decision that Trump had “exhausted all plausible legal options” in the state and acknowledged that Biden won the election. “I congratulate President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris on their victory,” said Toomey

 

In the PA lawsuit, the Trump campaign tried an associational standing ploy. It didn't work

It's competitive standing argument didn't work either.



Trump's Pennsylvania Election Case Was Ruined In Court

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“Prohibiting certification of the election results would not reinstate the Individual Plaintiffs’ right to vote,” Brann wrote. “It would simply deny more than 6.8 million people their right to vote.”

The Trump campaign’s argument for why it had standing to bring the case was “particularly nebulous,” Brann wrote, explaining that the lawyers hadn’t clearly stated what the campaign’s injury was, so he had to do his own analysis of each of the cases cited by the campaign to “piece together” the theory. The judge found that the campaign’s interests were different from those of voters — knocking down their argument for what’s known as “associational standing” — and that they weren’t claiming that an ineligible candidate was on the ballot — knocking down their argument for what’s known as “competitive standing.”

 

Judge Brann mentioned the stilted remedy of the Trump campaign trying to disenfrachise millions of voters (mostly Biden voters) instead of trying to restore the claimed denied rights of a smaller percentage of Trump voters.

Moreover, there's the issue of making grievances about ballots but selectively applying it to only one race, the presidential race, and not to all the other races in the state of PA that would also be affected by that same grievance.



https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/a-judge-demolished-the-trump-campaigns

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“Plaintiffs seek to remedy the denial of their votes by invalidating the votes of millions of others. Rather than requesting that their votes be counted, they seek to discredit scores of other votes, but only for one race,” Brann wrote. “This is simply not how the Constitution works.”

 

Biden's popular vote victory over Trump is now more than 6 million


Biden's margin of victory over Trump surpasses 6 million votes - CNNPolitics

 

Just For Henchmen.

He's dyeing up there.



Giuliani Got a Bad Batch of ‘Just for Henchmen’ Hair Dye, Colbert Says
“Remind me, is it a good sign when your lawyer starts melting?” Stephen Colbert joked after Rudy Giuliani appeared to sweat hair dye during a news conference.
By Trish Bendix
Nov. 20, 2020

Giuliani Got a Bad Batch of ‘Just for Henchmen’ Hair Dye, Colbert Says

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" “Looks like Rudy got a bad batch of ‘Just for Henchmen.’” — STEPHEN COLBERT

“Wow, nothing screams ‘confident lawyer’ like a guy standing in front of everyone dripping in sweat.” — JIMMY FALLON

“You know your legal strategy is [expletive] up when even your hair starts crying about it.” — TREVOR NOAH

“It was going down both cheeks. This dude was growing a chin strap beard in real time.” — TREVOR NOAH

“I mean, Trump always said that he had leakers in his administration, but I didn’t know it was this bad.” — TREVOR NOAH

“Later, they had to clean Rudy off like a sea gull in those commercials for Dawn dish soap.” — JIMMY FALLON

“His face looks like what happens when you wring out a rag at Jiffy Lube.” — JIMMY FALLON

“But this is good — Rudy dried himself off by standing in front of a leaf blower from Four Seasons Total Landscaping.” — JIMMY FALLON"

 

Republicans in PA are now calling a PA election law unconstitutional that they passed with wide margins in 2019.


Republicans launch Pennsylvania lawsuit that argues GOP-backed bill allowing universal mail voting is unconstitutional
Tim O'Donnell
Sat, November 21, 2020, 3:19 PM EST

Republicans launch Pennsylvania lawsuit that argues GOP-backed bill allowing universal mail voting is unconstitutional

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"The lawsuit quickly drew heated criticism, including accusations that Kelly (who was just re-elected himself) and the other plaintiffs are "openly rejecting democracy and the rule of law," but many observers were simply perplexed. For starters, the bill was passed over a year ago, raising questions as to why its constitutionality wasn't brought up between then and now. Plus, it was pushed through thanks to a majority GOP state legislature, with only one Republican member of the state House voting against it, while GOP senators backed it unanimously."

 

Trump requests a recount in Georgia after the hand recount was completed.

The Trump campaign requested a recount in Georgia one day after the state's election results were certified and showed Biden won by more than 12,000 votes

 

G.20 Summit currently being held - and what does Hephatrump do ??? - sods off to play golf !!!

 

Yet another law suit 'thrown out of court' !!!


US Election: What Happened In Pennsylvania Yesterday And Why It's Devastating For Donald Trump
A federal judge described the president's legal claim as a "Frankenstein's Monster".

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  By Chris York

On Saturday a US judge dismissed in extraordinary terms, yet another lawsuit critical to Donald Trump’s bizarre, desperate and long-shot bid to overturn his election defeat to Joe Biden.

The Trump campaign had sought to prevent state officials from certifying the results of the election in the state of Pennsylvania where Biden won by 81,000-votes.


This is as mad as it sounds and unsurprisingly the Trump campaign has already failed in similar bids in courts in Georgia, Michigan and Arizona.

In the latest ruling in Pennsylvania, US District Judge Matthew Brann described the case as “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations”.

He added that he “has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens”.

“This claim, like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together.”

For non-lawyers, this is what a complete ass-kicking of the president's legal effort looks like. pic.twitter.com/uGrTVHT0LX

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 21, 2020
Since Biden was declared the winner two weeks ago, Trump has launched a barrage of lawsuits and mounted a pressure campaign to prevent states from certifying their vote totals.

The Pennsylvania case had been presented by Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani who presented no evidence of the voter fraud he has repeatedly said was rampant during the election.

Giuliani did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment on Saturday evening.

Asked earlier whether he had made a deal with Trump in exchange for a preemptive pardon, Giuliani told a HuffPost reporter, “get lost”.

Biden got 6 million more votes than Trump in the November 3 election, and also prevailed 306-232 in the state-by-state Electoral College system that determines who will take the oath of office on January 20.

He has spent the past several weeks preparing to take office, though Trump’s administration has refused to provide funding and security clearances to do so.

Critics say Trump’s refusal to concede have serious implications for national security and the fight against the coronavirus, which has killed nearly 255,000 Americans.


ASSOCIATED PRESS
Trump skipped a global coronavirus pandemic meeting to play golf on Saturday.
In order to remain in office, Trump would somehow need to overturn election results in at least three large states - an unprecedented feat in US history.

A recount in Georgia only affirmed Biden’s win there, and officials certified the result on Friday. Trump’s campaign said late Saturday it would request another recount.

In Wisconsin, election officials have criticised Trump volunteers for slowing a partial recount that is not expected to overturn Biden’s victory.

With recounts and lawsuits coming up short, Trump is now pressuring Republican-led state legislatures to throw out the vote totals and declare him the winner.

“Hopefully the Courts and/or Legislatures will have ... the COURAGE to do what has to be done to maintain the integrity of our Elections and the United States of America itself,” he wrote on Twitter after the Pennsylvania ruling.

On Friday, he summoned two top Republicans in Michigan’s legislature to the White House. After the meeting, they said they saw no evidence that would lead them to intervene. Biden is leading Trump in Michigan by 154,000 votes.

Election officials across the country say there is no evidence of significant voting fraud, and Trump’s own administration has called the election the “most secure in American history”.

But Trump’s accusations have continued to inflame his hard-core Republican base.

Half of Republicans believe the election was stolen from Trump, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling, and supporters have staged rallies across the country to protest the outcome.

 

And he complained about Obama's golf game to start with, huh?

 

Trump tweet Nov. 21:

“Why is Joe Biden so quickly forming a Cabinet when my investigators have found hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes, enough to ‘flip’ at least four States, which in turn is more than enough to win the Election? Hopefully the Courts and/or Legislatures will have the COURAGE to do what has to be done to maintain the integrity of our Elections, and the United States of America itself. THE WORLD IS WATCHING!!!”

 

Trump is becoming increasingly desperate.


Trump calls on GOP state legislatures to overturn election results

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"To succeed, Trump's plan would require several unprecedented legal steps. First, Republican-led legislatures in states Biden won would need to move to overturn their state's popular vote and appoint a slate of Trump electors when the Electoral College meets on Dec. 14. In Pennsylvania and Michigan, such maneuvers would be certain to meet vetoes from Democratic governors, so the lawmakers would also need to secure a legal determination that they hold the sole power to appoint electors — a disputed legal premise that has never been tested.

Trump's call for lawmakers to hand him the election is the most overt call he's made yet for state lawmakers to overturn the election results. But it also underscores his dwindling options: Michigan is due to certify its vote totals on Monday, as are Pennsylvania counties, which would hand the statewide certification duty to Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat. On Friday, Georgia certified Biden’s victory."

 

There is a medical explanation for that one, huh?

 

Trump might want to consider inviting more state legislators to the White House and give them a free luxurious stay at his Trump International Hotel.

He might need to expand his invitations to judges and governors, including Democratic governors in PA, MI, WI, MN, and NV whose confirmations (near impossible) he would need to pass his desired legislative maneuvers (highly unlikely) by Republicans in those states that are needed to overturn the election.

 

Trump remark at his Nov. 20 White House briefing:

“I won, by the way, but you know, we’ll find that out.”