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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,132 posts)
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 03:59 PM Nov 2020

Trump doing what he does best, filing nuisance lawsuits right and left to cling to presidency

If there's one thing Donald Trump knows how to do, it's filing lawsuits. Come to think of it, that might be about all he's really perfected in life. In Pennsylvania and Michigan and Georgia and Nevada, the Trump campaign is throwing whatever ridiculousness they can come up with at the legal wall, and so far, nothing is sticking. Because he's got nothing.

A challenge in Chatham County, Georgia, is among the silliest. The campaign alleged that a poll watcher saw 53 ballots separated out from a bin of other ballots and so that must have meant that they weren't delivered on time to be counted by 7 PM Tuesday. But asked if he had any evidence—at all—that they weren't delivered on time, he said he didn't know. The campaign put up another poll watcher who said he had "questions" about the chain of custody of those 53 ballots. Did he have any evidence they arrived late? Nope. An elections official then testified that those 53 ballots "were, in fact, received by GA's Election Day deadline, saying they were handled separately because they didn't show up on a manifest of absentee voters so they had to be checked." And the case was dismissed after having wasted a lot of people's time, including an election official in a state that right now has both a presidential and Senate race down to the wire.

They've got another one in Pennsylvania, apart from the suit they've filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, that's just a nuisance suit to gum up the works. They wanted their observers to have "closer observation" in Philadelphia's canvassing center than the 6 feet ordered by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. They appealed that 6 feet of distancing but were denied. They can't try to infect the vote counters by standing closer than 6 feet to them. They have a second request at the Commonwealth Court asking "officials to segregate/preserve ballots that were already canvassed so they could check to make sure they complied with election law." The court didn't address that in its order. As Mark Sumner noted, the campaign made the most of that order so that their observers can continue to observe. From 6 feet away. As if that was ... something.

The campaign is also filing a federal suit in Nevada to stop the counting, alleging voter irregularities including dead voters and non-residents. Pressed by local reporters and by NBC's Jacob Soboroff for any evidence at all of thousands of fraudulent ballots being cast in Nevada, former Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, who was acting as a Trump surrogate, refused to answer. They say they'll show their evidence later in the day, when they formally file. So right now you can imagine a whole bunch of Nevada Republicans desperately trying to manufacture "evidence."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/5/1993022/-Trump-doing-what-he-does-best-filing-nuisance-lawsuits-right-and-left-to-cling-to-presidency

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Trump doing what he does best, filing nuisance lawsuits right and left to cling to presidency (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
And spending other people's money as he drives his administration into the ground C_U_L8R Nov 2020 #1
They are getting thrown out as fast as he is filing them. leftyladyfrommo Nov 2020 #2

C_U_L8R

(44,897 posts)
1. And spending other people's money as he drives his administration into the ground
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 04:07 PM
Nov 2020

This bozo is the king of breaking and bankrupting his own business.

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