“Calling an election unfair does not mean it is”, “The charges require specific indictments and then evidence. We do not have here”, “Voters, not lawyers, elect the president” and “Ballots, not summaries, decide elections “were among scathing remarks made by a Philadelphia Court of Appeals on Friday in a harsh rebuke of Trump’s efforts to hamper election results in court.
The three-judge panel accused the Trump campaign of engaging in “repetitive litigation” and noted that the public interest strongly favored “counting the vote of all legitimate voters and not disenfranchising millions of Pennsylvania voters who voted for mail”. All three justices were Republican-appointed with Chief Justice Stephanos Bibas who wrote the opinion being appointed by Trump.
Legal and political opinion increasingly points to Trump’s effort to disenfranchise voters and invalidate the votes of Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta and Milwaukee, all cities with large black populations, where the defeated president says voter fraud it is rampant. Historically, America’s white establishment has made it extremely difficult for blacks to vote, particularly in red states like Georgia.
Separately, a vote recount in Wisconsin Milwaukee County, for which the Trump campaign paid $ 3 million in fees, caused Biden’s leadership to rise by 132 votes, sparking joy among Trump critics over his political strategy and business acumen.
Trump, however, continued to denigrate and undermine the election results, even rolling back the implicit concession he made Thursday that he would leave the White House if the Electoral College certified the results.
“Biden can only enter the White House as president if he can show that his ridiculous” 80,000,000 votes “were not obtained fraudulently or illegally. When he sees what happened in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Milwaukee, a massive electoral fraud You have a big unsolvable problem! ”he tweeted after the Pennsylvania Court of Appeals ruling.
Biden can only enter the White House as president if he can show that his ridiculous “80,000,000 votes” were not f… https://t.co/kyFRUnUL46
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 1606492573000
In reality, Trump has a responsibility to prove electoral fraud and his lawyers have lost case after case on this front, inviting ridicule.
Meanwhile, Chris Krebs, the fired director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told CBS 60 Minutes that the allegations of US voting machines manipulated by foreign countries or of votes counted abroad were unfounded.
“I don’t understand this statement. All votes in the United States of America are counted in the United States of America. Period,” Krebs said, adding: “There is no evidence that any machine that I know of has been tampered with by a power. Foreign. Period. “Numerous Republicans and moderate Democrats have affirmed this, while acknowledging rare instances of errors that are counted in the dozens only, not enough to change the results.
But the fundamentalist Republicans seem to have made it a mission to undermine the electoral process, however imperfect, in an effort to protect their already enhanced primacy by gerrymandering, that is, the creation of electoral districts in accordance with political allegiance.
“The more data that emerges about voting anomalies that are clearly not legitimate, the more it appears that 2020 may be the biggest presidential robbery since Adams and Clay robbed Andrew Jackson in 1824. State legislatures should require recounts,” the former president said of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich on Friday, leading the chorus of Trump Republicans trying to steal the election claiming the other party stole it.
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