OUCH! Trump Legal Team's Supposed Evidence of Fraud is From the WRONG STATE

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Power Line blog, via Mediaite and Joe.My.God.

OUCH! Trump Legal Team’s Supposed Evidence of Fraud is From the WRONG STATE

By Charlie Nash Nov 20th, 2020, 11:12 am

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.

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On his Power Line blog, Thursday, John Hinderaker pointed out the major error.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/11/do-trumps-lawyers-know-what-they-are-doing.php

“Here’s the problem: the townships and precincts listed in paragraphs 11 and 17 of the affidavit are not in Michigan. They are in Minnesota,” Hinderaker declared. “Monticello, Albertville, Lake Lillian, Houston, Brownsville, Runeberg, Wolf Lake, Height of Land, Detroit Lakes, Frazee, Kandiyohi–these are all towns in Minnesota.”

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/ouch-trump-legal-teams-supposed-evidence-of-fraud-is-from-the-wrong-state/

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Hat tip, David Farhenthold

The Fyre Festival of the legal world, Day 17.
Trump lawyers confuse Michigan with Minnesota.

Link to tweet

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And it's at Joe.My.God. and everywhere else.

Trump Lawyer Listed MN Towns In MI “Fraud” Affidavit
November 20, 2020

https://www.joemygod.com/2020/11/trump-lawyer-listed-mn-towns-in-mi-fraud-affidavit/

[underpants]

1. 🤪

[Thomas Hurt]

2. But of course, to the RWNJs if it is happening in one state it is happening in others...

that is how the world wide liberal conspiracy works.

[empedocles]

3. trump gang goes so far beyond 'the gang that couldn't shoot straight'

They will fuel judicial conferences, trial lawyers, law school professors with jokes for ages to come.

[dalton99a]

4. They're close enough

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. No wonder tRump team got it wrong. They watch Hannity, where Canada invaded Michigan

[SWBTATTReg]

33. Oh no!

[Chellee]

34. Okay, I want to move to Michigan if Canada has plans to invade.

I mean, all the citizens of the newly formed Province of Michigan would be automatic citizens of Canada, right?

[reACTIONary]

37. Shish, didn't even have to use a sharpie. nt

[Blue Owl]

5. Not even up to Amateur Hour standards

[dhill926]

7. these guys make the Keystone Cops look like...

Seal Team 6...

[ProfessorGAC]

36. Beauty!!!

A superb comparison!

[Escurumbele]

8. These lawyers should be penallized, and Rudy should be disbarred

Why would the legal community want to have someone like Rudy in their lists as an active lawyer? He is a disgrace making the legal profession look horrible, not that it needs any help from Rudy, but Rudy is out there where no lawyer has gone before.

[TeamPooka]

9. Trump is getting his money's worth, legally.

[CentralMass]

10. Who did they bribe to pass the BAR exam ?

[Midnightwalk]

11. They are both northern states starting with Mi

Maybe they just have to not ask for less than strict scrutiny?

Yeah that’d do it.

/sarcasm

[pnwmom]

12. This is interesting but I think you should delete the right wing source

and just leave the two others.

Powerline is probably right about the error, but Mediaite would be a better source to have here.

Not a source that falsely says:

"There is circumstantial evidence of more than a normal amount of voter fraud in this year’s election, but Trump’s lawyers have not yet presented most of the evidence" and -- about the Republican lawyers pushing these claims: "I hope their claims turn out to be well-founded and provable."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

21. I understand your concern, but:

I give credit to the person who did the work or made the discovery. Power Line did the work. They get the credit.

You will never see me use the odious Rawstory as a "source."

[pnwmom]

22. When you post a rightwing source, you give credit to its false claims also

Like its false claim that there has been more than the usual amount of fraud in this election.

And you help condition some readers into trusting it as a source. Just because they were right in this particular case doesn't mean they're a source people should rely on.

[llashram]

31. this

[catbyte]

13. Yeah, well, it's understandable. We both are in The Great White North & start with the letters "Mi"

jfc. The incompetence and/or gaslighting is mind-boggling.

[JHB]

14. Republicans: Quality is the farthest thing from Job One

[Midnight Writer]

15. The same guy who hired these lawyers is the same guy who just appointed hundreds of Federal Judges

The damage he does to this country will long outlive him.

[CaptYossarian]

16. At least Trump proved he won WYsconsin.

These are the same morons who don't know Puerto Ricans (PA?) are Americans.

[Chakaconcarne]

17. Does this just buy them more time to re-file.....

Is that the strategy?

[marble falls]

28. The clock is running out. Wasting time on purpose is foolish. In fact, the entire enterprise is ...

... foolish. That's how you can tell they're spending other people's money.

[IronLionZion]

18. Blue states all conspire among each other to go blue

the proof is that the University of Michigan's slogan is M go Blue. So that also makes other M states go blue like Minnesota. That's absolute evidence of deep state conspiracy.

[tinymontgomery]

19. The gang that couldn't shoot straight. n/t

[keithbvadu2]

20. Would using false evidence be fraud or perjury?

[marble falls]

27. Maybe, if it's intentional. This is incompetence.

[sprinkleeninow]

24. I second that ⤵️

🤪

🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡s

[barbtries]

25. it's almost as if it doesn't matter how stupid they are.

they just catapult the propaganda and massive numbers of people believe it. no matter how absurd, stupid, false, it does not matter.

who the fuck are these people?!

dammit. i need a klonopin and to tune out today.

[marble falls]

26. "the gang that couldn't sue straight."

[marble falls]

29. Well to be fair, Wisconsinites do look a lot like Michiganders.

[Marie Marie]

30. They are an embarrassment to our nation.

[SWBTATTReg]

32. Ha ha heh ha ha heh ha...ohhh, I've got to catch my breath!! Ha ha heh...whooo, so much for the ...

vaunted legal team of trump's, eh? This leaves a good taste in one's mouth, knowing that these idiots are in charge of government until Jan. 2021.

[Cha]

35. Holy Failed Geography, Batshit insane!

[BHDem53]

38. Only the best people....

[riversedge]

39. Giuliani's Rant About Suspicious Voting Was Based On A Massive Error A Trump campaign lawsuit master

POLITICS 11/20/2020 07:58 pm ET
Giuliani’s Rant About Suspicious Voting Was Based On A Massive Error
A Trump campaign lawsuit mastermind mixed numbers from Michigan and Minnesota to come up with fake overvote percentages.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/giuliani-michigan-minnesota-voter-fraud-mistake_n_5fb84237c5b680f7c38baebc?locale=en-US&messages=undefined&utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation




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By Mary Papenfuss

Rudy Giuliani’s epic rant in his latest wild news conference about suspicious voting in Michigan was based on a glaring mistake: President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer was complaining about vote counts in Minnesota districts, not in Michigan.

That obliterated Giuliani’s claims Thursday of discrepancies in district populations and suspiciously large voter turnouts. The figures mangled overvote percentages by comparing the number of expected district votes in one state to the populations of completely unrelated districts in another state.

“In Michigan and Wisconsin, we have overvotes in numerous precincts of 150%, 200% and 300%,” Giuliani gloated in one of his imagined “gotcha” moments.

The man in charge of Trump’s assault on election results also argued that there were more votes than voters in some districts — again, because he confused the states.

The erroneous numbers used by Giuliani and others on the legal team challenging presidential election results were based on an affidavit submitted — and already thrown out by one court — by self-proclaimed election fraud expert and failed Texas congressional candidate, Russ Ramsland, the Powerline blog first reported Thursday.

[ck4829]

40. K&R