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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 12:58 AM Nov 2020

Trump challenges cement Biden triumph

Trump challenges cement Biden triumph

Glen Johnson at Axios

https://www.axios.com/trump-election-challenges-loss-biden-fb42c9df-485d-4494-aeb2-6b2acadeb32a.html

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President Trump's frantic post-election challenges are having the opposite effect of what he intended: He's documenting his demise through a series of court fights and recounts showing Joe Biden's victory to be all the more obvious and unassailable.

Why it matters: The president’s push to overturn the election results is dispelling the cloud of corruption he alleged by forcing states to create a verified — and legally binding — accounting of his election loss.

"Each loss further cements Biden's win," says election law expert Richard Hasen.

"History shows that any leader who constructs a major myth, that is later shown to be false, will eventually fall," says Harvard science historian and "Merchants of Doubt" author Naomi Oreskes. "The risk is that he takes his country down with him."


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Trump challenges cement Biden triumph (Original Post) applegrove Nov 2020 OP
Well...there you have it. Thekaspervote Nov 2020 #1
not for 80 plus percent of RWNJs Thomas Hurt Nov 2020 #2
A Trump lawsuit is like a backhanded compliment. dchill Nov 2020 #3
Imagine tRump standing in a 30-gallon galvanized tub... Blue Owl Nov 2020 #4
Got that visualization perfectly!! Thx Thekaspervote Nov 2020 #5
KR! Cha Nov 2020 #6

Thekaspervote

(32,606 posts)
1. Well...there you have it.
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 01:01 AM
Nov 2020

With showboating the likes of rudy and company today. Other than his most rabid base who would believe all that

Blue Owl

(49,934 posts)
4. Imagine tRump standing in a 30-gallon galvanized tub...
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 01:19 AM
Nov 2020

And each failed challenge is another layer of cement poured in, drying, and forming a nice weighted base, before they take little Donny on a long vacation to the lake of oblivion...

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