Despite serial setbacks, Trump tests the limits of defeat in failed election challenges

WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday he summarily rejected the defeated president Donald trumpEffort to revoke election results in Pennsylvania. Most Republican lawmakers joined with Democrats in passing a $ 740 billion defense policy bill that Trump has vowed to veto. And another Trump attorney has contracted the Covid-19 infection as the pandemic spreads across the country.
Those embarrassing setbacks aside, Trump continues to serially challenge the election results. He now supports a lawsuit filed by Texas on Tuesday to overturn the four-state result won by Joe Biden in a case that pits Republican states against Democratic states.
“We will be INTERVENING in the case of Texas (and many other states). This is the most important. Our country needs a victory!” Trump tweeted Wednesday, adding: “There is massive evidence of widespread fraud in the four (most) states named in the Texas lawsuit. Just look at all the tapes and affidavits!”

It was unclear what he meant by “intervene,” but following the Pennsylvania case, where the conservative-majority Supreme Court peremptorily dismissed Trump’s effort without offering any reasoning or a dissenting note, legal experts give little chance of success in the case. long term. fired lawsuit in Texas.
Trump’s “tapes and affidavits” have been laughed at outside of court and mocked in the public forum. Justices, including those appointed by Trump and past Republican presidents, have been tough in their dismissal of the lawsuits. Charges that poll workers took out suitcases full of ballots for Biden when no one was looking has been denied even by Republican officials who reviewed the tapes. Yet Trump stubbornly insists on courting one legal defeat after another.
In another humiliating political setback, dozens of Republican lawmakers joined Democrats on Tuesday in passing 335-78 of a defense policy bill that Trump opposes because it seeks, among other things, to remove the names of the generals. Confederates from military bases.
“I hope House Republicans will vote against the very weak National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which I will pass. It should include the termination of Section 230 (for national security purposes), preserve our National Monuments and allow 5G and [sic] Reductions in foreign lands! “Trump had warned. But more than 100 Republican lawmakers ignored his threat, suggesting they are ready to move on and work with the new administration, though many do not publicly acknowledge a Biden victory for fear of losing Trump’s support base.

Trump also opposes the bill because it does not repeal legislation, known as Section 230, that protects social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook from liability for what is posted there. While Trump is angry at being humiliated on platforms every day with denigrating hashtags, he and his followers are being singled out all the time for false accusations of voter fraud and spreading conspiracy theories.
Dubbed the “clown show,” the antics of Trump supporters have turned to gold dust for comedians. On Tuesday, Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who worked with Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, himself a butt of jokes, also tested positive for Covid-19. Ellis, who in 2016 had called Trump an ‘idiot’ and said his supporters didn’t care about facts or logic, before becoming a Trump loyalist, had recently tweeted that there was no pandemic.
Ellis was also seen at the White House staff Christmas party on Friday. There she is. No mask, no brain, “observed late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, showing a clip of the event and pointing out the idiocy of parties at the White House without mask mandates.” So … I’m starting to think that the virus sense of humor about all this. ”