Trump - The Long Goodbye

A US federal appeals court has firmly rejected the Trump campaign’s attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden from being declared winner in Pennsylvania.

The panel of three judges deemed the case was without merit, saying the Trump campaign had not made specific allegations or provided proof.

The ruling is another major setback for President Trump in his attempts to overturn the 3 November election.

The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals had been asked to consider a lower court’s decision to dismiss the Trump campaign’s attempts to invalidate millions of mail-in votes in Pennsylvania.

The lower court ruling had paved the way for the battleground state to certify Joe Biden’s win, giving him 20 vital electoral college votes and effectively the presidency.

In giving the appeal court’s opinion, Judge Stephanos Bibas, who was nominated by Trump, wrote:

How will history judge Trump … “Without Merit” … :lol:

“Trump’s Economy Really Was Better Than Obama’s”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-30/trump-s-economy-really-was-better-than-obama-s
:wink:

That link is coming up subscription only. But without reading it, you’d expect him to be an improvement because Obama inherited the fallout from the biggest financial shock this century (pre-Covid that is…).

Trump attacks FBI for not investigating his conspiracy claims in wild TV interview

In a furious interview with Fox News on Sunday morning, President Donald Trump promoted false conspiracy theories surrounding his electoral defeat while claiming some states allowed voters to turn in ballots after Election Day and that the FBI, the Justice Department and the federal court system were complicit in an attempt to cover up alleged election fraud.

“The President’s Brain is Missing” … :081:

Would that be where Shrub had to sort out the catastrophic mess that cigar boy Clinton created - and that cost so very very much?

In spite of best efforts it STILL cost a fortune and was so huge in every way that couldn’t be worked down much by GWB because of the huge costs to address the military issues alone, something that would have certainly have “gone critical” if just left to fester.

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Desperate Trump gives first TV interview since election loss

(extracts from The Ramblings)

Trump finally broke his media silence by joining Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo for his first interview since losing to Joe Biden – 26 days after the election. He called into the Sunday morning show from Camp David, where he spent the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Trump “went off” on the election results in the more than 45-minute interview where most of his answers spanned several minutes and repeated claims he has already made over the past weeks on Twitter.

The president claimed without any evidence during the interview that even ‘most Democrats’ believe ‘election fraud’ led to Biden’s win. The president also told Bartiromo there’s ‘no way’ Biden earned more votes than Barack Obama in his two presidential elections. He also said the U.S. will never have another Republican president, senator or representative elected if they allow Democrats to get away with ‘stealing’ the election for Biden. Trump suggested that Democrats now know how to ‘cheat’ the system effectively and will have their candidates win from now on.

Trump blamed the media for portraying his lawsuits and case against the election results as voice of any evidence.

Is “The Deluded Dictator” deranged … :?:

Dictators rig elections…

I just popped in to see if anyone had wondered why no publicity had been given, during the recent Presidency, to any work being done to prevent fake voting.

Why do things, such as this, only become important as the election happens?

If nothing is done, it will continue.

Maybe, if the President had concerns, he would have had the power to start sorting it out way before this!

(Note: This is a thought, not an “assertation”)

Anyway it’s very quiet, in here, so I’ll try again another time…:cry:

:shock:

In fairness to Trump, he had been expressing concerns about potential pitfalls in postal voting. However, AFAIK he didn’t put forward any proposals on how to counter the potential fraud, other than state that physical attendance would be the only real solution. Trouble is, as he must have known, especially in the context of covid, this was never a viable proposition.

Am sure that the more learned members on here will correct me, which I look forward to, along with their own solutions to what is and will be a perpetual problem unless resolved.

‘It’s statistically impossible that I lost’: White House releases 46-minute ‘address’ by Trump

Soon-to-be ex-President Donald Trump released a bizarre 46-minute video that he posted on Facebook where he called for the election to be ‘overturned’ and admitted his remarks would be ‘disparaged.’

Rather than pick any number of venues where he might deliver important remarks before an audience or with reporters present who might ask questions, Trump spoke before cameras from the White House, with repeated and awkward cuts by editors. There were five editing jumps in the first three minutes of the video alone, giving in an awkward pace despite being shot at the center of U.S. Government power.

He made repeated claims of fraud, dead people voting, mysterious anomalies in voting machines, and alleged corruption in big cities with Democratic votes that went for Joe Biden – despite his attorney general and a raft of judges not accepting claims of widespread fraud.

Trump is not just deluded anymore - to any sane person, he appears to be “bonkers” … the archetypal “Mad Dictator” … :091:

This week’s Private Eye has a nice little piece:

"Joe Biden wins election for 38th time since winning election.

With the Pennsylvania result being ratified, Joe Biden has once again won the election he won 16 days ago, despite President Trump’s refusal to concede. Sources close to Mr Trump say he’s growing increasingly frustrated that his attempts to have himself declared the winner of the presidential election are being hampered by the fact he lost it"

:lol:

Trump’s latest batch of election lawsuits fizzle as dozens of losses pile up

For a man obsessed with winning, Donald Trump is losing a lot.

In the month since the election, the president and his legal team have come no closer in their frantic efforts to overturn the result, notching up dozens of losses in courts across the country, with more rolling in by the day.

According to an Associated Press tally of roughly 50 cases brought by Trump’s campaign and his allies, more than 30 have been rejected or dropped, and about a dozen are awaiting action.

The advocacy group Democracy Docket put Trump’s losses even higher, tweeting on Friday that Trump’s team had lost 46 post-election lawsuits following several fresh losses in several states on Friday.

Of course, Trump’s mugs are paying for all this litigation:

Even in defeat, President Trump continued to raise money at some of the fastest rates of the year, pulling in $207.5 million in the month since Election Day along with the Republican Party.

Mr. Trump’s campaign apparatus has continued to aggressively solicit donations under the guise of supporting his various legal challenges to the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr., but as of now 75 percent of donations goes to a new political action committee that Mr. Trump formed in mid-November, up to the PAC’s legal limit of $5,000. The other 25 percent goes to the Republican National Committee. Only if a donor gives more than $6,000 do any funds go to Mr. Trump’s formal “recount” account.

His campaign did not release a breakdown of how the $207.5 million was divided. The funds are split among the new PAC, called Save America, the R.N.C. and two committees operated jointly by the party and the campaign, with some money also going toward paying off Mr. Trump’s campaign debts.

Much good will it do him …… :lol:

Keep it up Donny baby. Lets see if the Dems can take the Senate!

It will be boring but safer when he’s gone.

US Supreme Court rejects Trump-backed bid to overturn election

The US Supreme Court has rejected an unprecedented attempt to throw out election results in four battleground states that was backed by President Donald Trump.

The lawsuit, filed this week by the state of Texas, sought to invalidate results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The lawsuit was supported by 19 state attorneys general and 127 Republican members of Congress.

But the Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Texas did not have legal standing to bring the case, in a brief order rejecting the bid.

Another one bites the dust … :lol:

It can’t come soon enough. This is seriously nuts.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-protests/pro-trump-protests-decry-presidents-election-loss-tensions-rise-in-washington-idUKKBN28M0E1

Electoral college vote may be knockout blow to Trump’s ploy to subvert election

Trump on Monday could suffer a withering blow to his increasingly hopeless effort to overturn the results of the US presidential election when 538 members of the electoral college will cast their ballots and formally send Joe Biden to the White House.

Under the arcane formula which America has followed since the first election in 1789, Monday’s electoral college vote will mark the official moment when Biden becomes the 46th president-in-waiting. Electors, including political celebrities such as both Bill and Hillary Clinton, will gather in state capitols across the country to cement the outcome of this momentous race.

Normally, the process is figurative and barely noted. This year it will carry real political significance.

Trump continued his hopeless effort over the weekend, sparking political unrest in several cities including the nation’s capital. On Sunday morning he tweeted in all caps that this was the “most corrupt election in US history!”.

In an interview with Fox & Friends that aired on Sunday, he insisted that his anti-democratic mission was not over. “We keep going and we’re going to continue to go forward,” he said, before repeating a slew of lies about the election having been rigged.

Trump’s barefaced untruths about having won key states including Pennsylvania and Georgia went entirely unchallenged by the Fox News interviewer, Brian Kilmeade.

Who knows how this will end … ?

Was it also in that interview that he (once again) stated that he was, in effect, the second coming in that if it wasn’t for him, there would be no vaccine for another 5 years.

Indeed it was:

President Trump said finding a coronavirus vaccine would have taken “five years” if he weren’t president during an interview that aired Sunday.

Barefaced lies … but Trump’s mugs will believe them and Trump’s chumps will spread them … :shock: