It arrived in my inbox 30 minutes before midnight on Monday.
I was recovering from New Year's Eve when I saw it early Tuesday morning, and it was from Donald Trump and looked very much like a legal filing.
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So I braced myself for President Trump's court motions that would undoubtedly challenge his expulsion from the primary ballots in Maine and Colorado.
But that wasn't the case.
(Incidentally, this was not just sent to me, but by a close aide to a long list of media.)
It included a 32-page heavily footnoted document based on the work of Trump's lawyers, but it was never filed in any court. The issues that will ultimately reach the Supreme Court are not about the ethics of the 2020 election, but about the merits of Democratic officials and judges in excluding Republican leaders from state ballots.
Michael Cohen leaves for a break during former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial in New York Supreme Court on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. Former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen says he unknowingly gave his lawyers fake artificial intelligence-generated case citations he obtained online before they were submitted to a New York judge. Ta. In a court filing Friday, Dec. 29, in Manhattan federal court, as a judge decides whether to punish one of Cohen's lawyers for citing the fake case in a filing before the judge, Cohen said in a court filing: This was acknowledged privately. (AP Photo/Stephen Jeremiah, File)
“If the Republican Senate doesn't come forward and address this atrocity, it will happen again and it will be virtually impossible to win elections in the future,” Trump said. “is to bring to light the fact that the election took place without any doubt.” , fraudulently stolen. ”Otherwise, Trump says, he would have violated his presidential oath.
(Mr. Trump undoubtedly knows that the Senate is narrowly controlled by Democrats.)
This legal document covers five battleground states. First, this investigation reveals that “hundreds of thousands of votes were altered or not legally cast in the presidential election. Joe Biden needed those votes.'' November 2020 On the night of the 3rd election, President Donald J. Trump was en route to his next destination. He was re-elected with landslide leads in many competitive areas.
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“In Georgia, President Trump led by 12 points, with 56% of the vote and more than 335,000 votes as of 10:17 p.m. In Wisconsin, as of 12:12 a.m., President Trump was leading by 12 points. He had a 51-point lead with 1,380 votes. Fox News anchor Bret Baier said, “It's not close.” In Pennsylvania, President Trump led by 15 points with 659,145 votes as of 12:38 a.m. In Michigan, President Trump led by 10 points with 293,052 votes. , the election is over, but races have been decided in Atlanta, Detroit, and Philadelphia. , Phoenix, and Milwaukee continued counting until they reached their desired result, which was against the will of the voters. ”
Georgia Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee and former President Donald Trump (Getty Images)
There's a lot more to it, but to be fair, it has to be said that experts have been warning viewers for days that this is what the election would look like if there was a rush of Republican votes this early. I don't get it. In many past elections, large cities (mostly Democratic) took much longer to count because of the large number of voters. Three years ago, there were far more mail-in votes due to the pandemic, and many were counted afterward.
It should also be noted that despite all these lawsuits, no court has found widespread fraud in the election, and the Trump administration's Justice Department has made a similar finding.
But I would like to express my opinion to the former president. “He says there is no evidence that Joe Biden won, and many of his staunch supporters believe him.”
“I accept the results of the 2020 election, but I'm worried about 2024,” Lindsey Graham, President Trump's closest ally in the Senate, said Sunday on ABC's “This Week.” “When the president sets forth his vision, Americans will be safer and more prosperous.” , he will win. If I look back, I think he'll lose. ”
Meanwhile, the New York Times has not published an editorial on whether courts should overturn President Trump's voting bans in Maine and Colorado.
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The Washington Post editorial didn't get that far. The paper notes that the issue is complex, but that “without clarity, unelected officials will be reluctant to prevent the people from choosing elected officials as their leaders.” “I hope the Supreme Court understands that.”
Times op-ed writer Jesse Wegman did write a column, interviewing Democrat Jamie Raskin, strongly arguing that the Supreme Court should uphold Trump's ban as an insurrectionist under the 14th Amendment. suggested.
“The challenge for judges, win or lose, is to ensure that they do not pervert the law in a reckless effort to appease authoritarian movements that see violence as the answer.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) speaks during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing at the Capitol on September 28, 2023 in Washington, DC. This hearing will be the first formal hearing on the presidential impeachment inquiry by the U.S. House of Representatives. Joe Biden. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Neither newspaper reported Trump's legal documents yesterday. Neither did Politico or HuffPost.
Meanwhile, President Trump agreed to an Iowa Town Hall interview anchored by Bret Baier and Martha McCollum, despite his attacks on Fox News. This is a blatant undercover program, as CNN's candidate debate is scheduled for the same time.
It will be interesting to see the ratings.
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Analysts say he needs independent voters to win the general election, but Mr. Trump has so far aimed to shore up his campaign base. But it's clear that the four indictments helped him, and the ban on ballots will help as well. With 10 months to go, Mr. Trump is leading Mr. Biden in numerous polls, the worst of any incumbent.
Maybe he knows something that the experts don't.
