There Are No Lawyers Who Can Salvage Trump's Re-Election Bid

[soothsayer]

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Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
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Nov 7, 2020
What @DavidOAtkins said.
Donald Trump
There Are No Lawyers Who Can Salvage Trump’s Re-Election Bid
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Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
This is art, David

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So Donald Trump is doing what he always does: begging for attorneys to fix his problem for him and allow him to cheat. This is, of course, how Trump has lived his whole life. Trump has no particular expertise in or deep knowledge of anything. He’s a trust fund playboy who inherited $400 million dollars and somehow managed to go bankrupt several times while stiffing his creditors and the IRS, only escaping the wreckage by assembling an army of accountants, lawyers and fixers who do have expertise to save him. For much of his troubled career, the primary fixer was legendary racist sociopath Roy Cohn. When Cohn passed away, Trump turned to a series of other ne’er-do-wells from Michael Cohen to Roger Stone, but he never stopped lamenting the loss of Cohn....

The Trump plan (insofar as there was one) was to hold all the states he needed to win except Pennsylvania. Then, after working with GOP allies in the Pennsylvania legislature to ensure that mostly Democratic mail ballots would be counted last and slowly, attempt to throw doubt on the counting process itself and ask the courts to throw out any late absentees.

But that plan ran aground when Fox News called Arizona–a state Trump was counting on winning–for Joe Biden. The Trump team erupted in fury over the call, as it undercut their core strategy. But then the firewall also collapsed not only in Wisconsin and Michigan but also crucially in Georgia. The problem for Trump in Georgia isn’t just that he is losing due in large part to the hard work of Black organizers like Stacey Abrams–it’s that the state’s election apparatus is controlled by Republicans, which makes accusations of organized fraud much more difficult.

And Pennsylvania itself is thwarting Trump in other ways. Democrats in Pennsylvania were so wise to the Republican strategy to cheat the outcome there, that they heavily mobilized the Democratic electorate not only to vote by mail but to vote very early. That in turn means that the usual flood of late-arriving Democratic mail votes is barely a trickle this year. Crucially, the big fight over segregating and potentially discarding ballots postmarked before but arriving after Election Day won’t matter, because there won’t be nearly enough of them to change the outcome of the election even if Trump were to succeed in getting them thrown out.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. If Trump's lawyers actually tried to go to court without evidence:

1) They face a very quick dismissal for not claiming they have evidence;
2) They face sanctions for filing frivolous lawsuits (no merit, no evidence) which could mean:
a) Paying court costs, damages, and attorneys fees for Biden's counsel; and
b) Sanctions by their Bar Associations; and/or
c) Ethics charges.


They know that. And they know Trump isn't worth the risk(s).

[tanyev]

2. Kick.