In an embarrassing beating for Trump, Judge Matthew Brann dismissed his case and ruled that “this court has been presented with tense legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, with no basis in the operative complaint and without evidence.”
The judge also said that granting relief would have meant invalidating the ballots of all the people who voted in Pennsylvania, noting: “Rather than request that their votes be counted, they (Trump’s attorneys) seek to discredit dozens of other votes, but only for one race. This is just not how the Constitution works. ”
Judge Matthew Brann’s reprimand was so severe that Trump’s henchmen immediately accused him of being an Obama-appointed judge, except that he turns out to be a deeply conservative Republican and a member of Federalist society whose name was proposed by Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. Republican Senator.
Toomey himself urged Trump to abandon his fight, saying that “with today’s decision by Judge Brann, a longtime conservative Republican that I know is a fair and impartial jurist, to dismiss the Trump campaign’s lawsuit , President Trump has exhausted all plausible legal options to challenge the outcome of the presidential race in Pennsylvania. ”
But the suggestion only infuriated Trump, whose legal ploys have now assumed ridiculous dimensions. Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani’s press conference, with sweat and hair dye dripping down his face, has become fodder for late-night comics, even as Trump continues to avoid questions from the media more than two weeks later. of conclusively losing the election, but refuses to budge. accusations that most rational analysts consider false, including conservative icons. By one count, the Trump campaign has lost more than 30 cases challenging the election result, which most of the world, including India, has acknowledged and reached out to Joe. Biden as president-elect.
In a face-saving retreat after Judge Brann’s censure, Trump’s lawyers said they were happy with what they saw as a swift partisan decision because it would allow them to appeal it and take it to the Supreme Court.
More Republicans have urged Trump to back down, but the defeated president is taking refuge with more extremist party members apparently determined to carry their fight to the bitter end that could end up dividing the Republican Party, if not the country.
Among those who advised Trump to back down was Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and also an influential member of the House. “The United States is governed by the rule of law. The president and his attorneys have filed complaints of criminality and widespread fraud, which they say could affect election results. If they have genuine evidence of this, they are obligated to present it immediately. in court and to the American people. If the President cannot prove these claims or demonstrate that they would change the outcome of the elections, he must fulfill his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States while respecting the sanctity of our electoral process ” Cheney, who is also the Speaker of the House Republican Conference, said in a statement Saturday. Trump attacked her.
“I’m sorry Liz, I can’t accept the results of an election with hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes cast, enough to easily change the election. You’re not happy I’m taking the troops home where they belong!” said in a tweet that Twitter flagged for misinformation. Dozens of those tweets by Trump and his henchmen have been flagged for false claims, forcing many of them to retreat to new extremist echo chambers where conspiracy theories are recycled between them.
Sorry Liz, I cannot accept the results of an election with hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes cast, enough to e… https://t.co/LI6bcqUJmM
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 1606009795000
As Trump’s troll patrol boiled with outrage, the president himself, who was in a shelter, was playing golf over the weekend, making token virtual appearances at the G-20 webinar summit, which critics they dubbed Trump’s Golf-20 summit. He did not attend a panel session on the pandemic that had Germany Angela Merkel and Frenchman Emanuel Macron on it, and instead tweeted “Fake news is not talking about the fact that” Covid “is freaking out all over the world, not just the US I was at the virtual meeting of the G20 this morning and the biggest issue was Covid. We will heal fast, especially with our vaccines! ”
The daily case count in the United States is now approaching 200,000, and deaths have exceeded 255,000. No country even comes close.
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