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Trump’s team of lawyers made powerful arguments on social media, but the judge called the evidence they presented in court a “Frankenstein monster.”
On right-wing television and radio channels and social media accounts, President Donald Trump and his team of lawyers in six states launched the legal strategy to challenge the election results, with a focus on Pennsylvania, it appears to be ” in a calm navigation “.
The eloquent statements on the state of electoral fraud by Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s private attorney, give more confidence to the president’s supporters about the possibility of reversing the situation. Trump on the night of November 21 wrote on Twitter that “my investigators have uncovered hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes, enough to ‘nullify’ the results in at least four states, thus helping me win. Vote.”
But when it came to going to court, those “stubborn” arguments quickly collapsed, becoming a patchwork of legal endeavors, in the “drumbeat, trumpet” situation of lawyers. possibly experienced experience.
Trump’s campaign appeared in court in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on November 9, accusing Pennsylvania election officials of restricting Republican vote oversight and handling inconsistencies with voting. by mail. They asked a court to hand down a ruling preventing the state government from recognizing the results of the current elections.
On November 15, they asked to withdraw these complaints again and then three days later Giuliani appeared in court and asked Judge Matthew Brann, a Republican, to allow the re-filing of the complaints. they withdrew.
In his fierce Nov. 21 ruling, Judge Brann compared the Trump campaign’s legal arguments to the “Frankenstein monster”, concluding that they only made “forced legal arguments and arguments.” forced conjecture, not valid, “adding that” it does not have the authority to deprive even one person of the right to vote, much less millions of citizens. “
Still, the Trump campaign did not give up. On November 22, they announced that they would appeal Brann’s decision to the 3rd District Court of Appeals, one day before the deadline for Pennsylvania counties to confirm the election results for certification by Secretary General Kathy. Boockvar.
They also asked the 3rd District Court of Appeals to open a hearing on November 25 to amend the lawsuit that Judge Brann dismissed.
Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s private attorney, held up a voting envelope during a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC on November 19. Image: AFP.
Trump’s efforts in Pennsylvania appear to show that he is willing to pursue allegations of voter fraud to the bitter end, even as the legal door leading to his second term is presumed to be closed.
This legal war was launched by Trump on November 7, when the states were still counting the votes and the American media had not named the elected president. Giuliani, who “took the forefront” of the war, immediately went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to hold a press conference to spread allegations of voter fraud while the president played golf.
However, just minutes before the press conference began, news agencies simultaneously announced that Pennsylvania’s race was over, with 20 electoral votes for Joe Biden, helping the Democratic candidate win the full electoral votes. the voter needed to be elected.
Despite that, Trump declared that the elections were “far from over”, while Giuliani held a press conference saying that “some of the votes seemed suspicious”, even accusing the city of Philadelphia under the Executive of “an apparatus rotten democratic “.
“Those mail-in ballots were able to be completed yesterday, due to cheating by Democrats around the convention center (where Philadelphia has the vote count),” Giuliani said, vowing to sue until the end. “This is going to be a very, very compelling case.”
Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School in California, called Trump’s lawsuits “dangerous.”
“This is just a collateral act, but it is poisonous. The relentless making of unfounded statements is actually affecting a significant number of Americans. They are facilitating elections. In the future it will no longer work properly,” Levitt said.
While no court found validity to the Trump campaign’s major legal indictments, Giuliani and his colleagues continued to file around 20 lawsuits to challenge Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania. The president’s lawyers objected to the decision to allow the counting of votes sent by mail up to 3 days after the election, complained about the follow-up of the vote count and repeatedly confirmed that there was fraud.
“I feel like there is underlying fraud,” Lisette Tarragano, an election supervisor in Philadelphia, said at Giuliani’s press conference on Nov. 7. In fact, the Philadelphia election commission was led by a Republican and the office was threatened after Trump stepped up his criticism of the election.
An appeals court even considered Pennsylvania’s decision to extend the time to receive votes by mail as laudable, given that Covid-19 caused numerous interruptions and delays in electoral work.
The judges also found no evidence of fraud in Pennsylvania or in any other state that the Trump campaign sued, including Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia. The Michigan and Arizona judges rejected the requests to prevent the local from confirming the election results. Many of the law firms that represented the Trump campaign began to withdraw.
As a result, responsibility falls on Giuliani, the former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York, who has not argued in court in any lawsuit in three decades. “You can say a lot of things in a press conference, but you can’t do it in court,” said attorney Mark Aronchick, who represents election officials in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and various other places in the lawsuits. Pennsylvania said.
On November 17, Giuliani entered the Williamsport City Courthouse after attorneys for Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, the law firm that led Trump’s Pennsylvania legal battle, decided to withdraw. The former mayor of New York asked Judge Brann to postpone the certification of Pennsylvania’s 6.8 million votes, due to the rejection of the mail-in ballots of two Republican voters due to technical errors.
“I was dumbfounded when I heard that,” Aronchick said. “We are ready to argue, but he behaves as if he is the host of the extension of the press conference on November 7. They have no relation to reality.”
Giuliani had trouble answering even basic legal questions, but he tried to push forward the theory of voter fraud. “The best description of the situation is the widespread electoral fraud nationwide,” he argued.
However, when the judge asked again, he stated that his complaint had no allegations of fraud. None of Trump’s lawyers denounced “electoral fraud” in court, because under US law, deceiving the judge can be severely punished.
Reality hit Giuliani once again, when news that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the Philadelphia campaign against custody emerged in the middle of the trial. This is one of the last remaining allegations from the campaign.
Judge Brann allows the hearing to be extended, giving the parties time to file additional motions. The additional petition filed by Trump’s attorneys was riddled with typos, misspellings, and even misspelled “second amendment complaint” as a “second amendment complaint.”
Attorney Aronchick vehemently opposed the request of Giuliani and Marc Scaringi, a conservative local broadcaster, and once admitted that Trump’s demands would not help reverse the results. The central premise of the petition is to accuse election officials, perhaps working for the “gangster” as Giuliani put it, of conspiring to ruin Trump’s victory.
“Do you refer to election staff as part of a conspiracy? How is it carried out? Who? Where? When? How?” Aronchick asked.
In his subsequent ruling, Judge Brann said he expected the Trump campaign to present “irrefutable evidence” of “widespread corruption” in the vote count as they sought to eliminate millions of votes. Instead, he only received weird mosaic things like “Frankenstein’s monster.”
The last hope of the Trump campaign was placed in the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. However, the court, in its November 13 ruling, appeared to take its position and stated that “one thing that cannot be discussed in our democratic process is that all votes are legally cast. Of all citizens must be counted.” .
While Trump’s war remained insufficient, Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania expanded to more than 80,000 votes. In that context, Trump’s group of lawyers apparently contradicted and criticized each other.
Giuliani and attorney Jenna Ellis issued a joint statement on November 22 criticizing their colleague Sidney Powell, saying she was “doing legal work alone” and “was not a member of President Trump’s legal team.” .
Just three days ago, the two appeared at a press conference raising a series of accusations about the integrity of the US presidential election, where Giuliani introduced him, Ellis, Powell and other lawyers “to represent the General.” President Trump and his campaign “.
During this press conference, Powell pushed the most complex of theories, accusing the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez of conspiring with Democrats for election fraud. Trump’s two anonymous advisers said the president did not like the way Powell made such accusations. “She is too crazy, even with the president,” revealed the source.
“Our system depends on fair competition and everyone can lose. If that capacity does not exist, there will be no democracy. America is like that,” said Professor Levitt. to know.
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