Trump is obsessed with overturning the election he lost. He continues to tweet that he won and that the election was tainted by widespread fraud, even though his campaign lost every lawsuit in state and federal courts for lack of evidence and was twice rejected by the US Supreme Court. Trump appears to be delusional, egged on by conspiracy theorists and his inflated ego and raging narcissism.
The New York Times published a story about a long meeting at the White House on Friday where Trump considered ways to reverse the results of the election. Trump consulted with attorney Sidney Powell, who was previously ousted as one of his campaign lawyers after she unveiled her theories about voting machines programmed in Venezuela by followers of deceased dictator Hugo Chavez. No court accepted her evidence.
President Trump on Friday discussed naming Sidney Powell, who as a lawyer for his campaign team unleashed conspiracy theories about a Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States, to be a special counsel overseeing an investigation of voter fraud, according to two people briefed on the discussion.
It was unclear if Mr. Trump will move ahead with such a plan.
Most of his advisers opposed the idea, two of the people briefed on the discussion said, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer. In recent days Mr. Giuliani has sought to have the Department of Homeland Security join the campaign’s efforts to overturn Mr. Trump’s loss in the election.
Mr. Giuliani joined the discussion by phone initially, while Ms. Powell was at the White House for a meeting that became raucous and involved people shouting at each other at times, according to one of the people briefed on what took place.
Ms. Powell’s client, retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser whom the president recently pardoned, was also there, two of the people briefed on the meeting said. Some senior administration officials drifted in and out of the meeting.
During an appearance on the conservative Newsmax channel this week, Mr. Flynn pushed for Mr. Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to “rerun” the election. At one point in the meeting on Friday, Mr. Trump asked about that idea.
Ms. Powell’s ideas were shot down by every other Trump adviser present, all of whom repeatedly pointed out that she had yet to back up her claims with proof. At one point, one person briefed on the meeting said, she produced several affidavits, but upon inspection they were all signed by a man she has previously used as an expert witness, whose credentials have been called into question.
The White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, and the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, repeatedly and aggressively pushed back on the ideas being proposed, which went beyond the special counsel idea, those briefed on the meeting said.
Mr. Cipollone told Mr. Trump there was no constitutional authority for what was being discussed, one of the people briefed on the meeting said. Other advisers from the White House and the Trump campaign delivered the same message throughout the meeting, which stretched on for a long period of time...
Mr. Trump, egged on by supporters like Ms. Powell, has never conceded and, holed up inside the White House, he continues to assert that he actually won — even though the baseless claims Ms. Powell and others have made of widespread fraud have been thoroughly debunked and even many of Mr. Trump’s closest allies have dismissed as preposterous her tale of an international conspiracy to rig the vote...
Ms. Powell accused other Trump advisers of being quitters, according to the people briefed.
But the idea that Mr. Trump would try to install Ms. Powell in a position to investigate the outcome sent shock waves through the president’s circle. She has repeatedly claimed there was widespread fraud, but several lawsuits she filed related to election fraud have been tossed out of court...
Part of the White House meeting on Friday night was a discussion about an executive order to take control of voting machines to examine them, according to one of the people briefed on the discussion.
Mr. Giuliani has separately pressed the Department of Homeland Security to seize possession of voting machines as part of a push to overturn the results of the election, three people familiar with the discussion said. Mr. Giuliani was told the department does not have the authority to do such a thing.
Mad King Donald had a farm.
Me, I, Me, I Owe
And on his farm he had some sheep,
Barr and Pompeo
With a Rudy here and a Rudy there
Here a Pence, there a Mitch
Everywhere they twitch, twitch, twitch
Mad King Donald had a farm
Me, I, Me, I. Owe.
Fred, good one!
LMAO! Great, Fred!
Trump is an insane malignant narcissist, serial liar, fraud, a master crime lord, and socio or psychopath. Nothing he tweets, nothing he says, nothing he thinks, and nothing he does should surprise anyone.
Trump would willingly sacrifice a hundred million people or even more to win.
As president, even with 31 days left before January 20, 2021, arrives, that makes Trump very dangerous for the United States and the world if no one stops him.
Tomorrow is day 31. Monday is 30. Those days are like a ticking time bomb and Trump is the bomb. Without his enablers, he’d be no one.
What if this is Trump’s “pardon scenario”? Trump has a “mental breakdown” and needs to be removed from office (Mar A Lago). Pence to the rescue and he pardons Trump for all of his wrong doings. Joe Biden takes office on Jan 20th and is tasked with mopping up the mess for the next 4 yrs.
I don’t know how much more “broken” mentally Trump can be. Since it would probably take the rest of his term to finally get him declared unfit for office, I think we have to pray really hard.
OR….maybe Trump has figured out the he has been Putin’s useful little idiot and now Putin has no need for him anymore? What happens to those who are no longer “useful” to Putin and have too much information? The jig is up, the loans are due and the only people who love him are his grifter children, the Proud Boys and some crazy QAnon adherents…..sounds like a very scary scenario for someone who craves adoration, wealth and status. It all seems like a cheesy episode straight from The Twilight Zone!
No disputin’, Putin bootin Trump-a-tootin
Makes me think of that monk Rasputin
Do you think Vlad Putin is the grandson of Ras-Putin?
Nice!!!
Believe it or not, there are some people in Japan marching for the American ‘BAKATONO'(Stupid King) last month. They are duped into the myth that he could help the government to find the individuals who were abducted to North Korea and confront China over trade and national defense. Not surprisingly, most of those are right wing folks hostile to China and South Korea, inherently bigoted toward resident foreigners, and addicted to cheesy magna and animations.
One big difference is that they are law-abiding citizens who wear masks–unlike many unruly Trumpers marching and gathering without masks elsewhere in the US.
Fascinating, Ken! And weird and scary.
And this guy has his fingers on the nuclear launch buttons….he could send entire armies into battle, and destroy our planet…. This privileged idiot, who got the votes of millions and millions of our fellow citizens?
Our country is really, really hurting. What an embarrassment.
Dare I ask, have we bottomed out? Or, could it get even worse?
Trump likes to think of himself as a macho man and the decider in chief who takes action without delay, even if STUPID…like his off-the-cuff cures for the Covid-19.
Watch out for Trump’s uptake of Flynn’s ideas.
“During an appearance on the conservative Newsmax channel this week, Mr. Flynn pushed for Mr. Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to “rerun” the election. At one point in the meeting on Friday, Mr. Trump asked about that idea.”
That is scary.
The idea will appeal to Trump on many levels but most of all because he IS the Commander in Chief.
I pray that the military will refuse any forthcoming order to “rereun the election.”
Keep fiddling around until we have another Civil war.
Darth Vader is not the only one who has discovered the power\
of the dark side.
Truth, the first victim …..
A production company can build a replica of the White House, put Trump in the replica, keep giving him his meds, and move on …
Great idea, Peter! Put it in Florida.
Yeah, but it’ll have to be away from Mar-a-Lago. There’s some kind of ruling/zoning that has forbidden the it45 family to take up residence there (it’s supposed to serve only as a resort, not for permanent residents). Anyway, one of my “snowbird” friends had told me that, in part, she & her FL neighbors were so hap it45 lost, so they wouldn’t have to put up w/all the traffic jams created by the it45 entourage (Secret Service SUVs, etc.). However, it will still be protected by the S.S. (oh, an analogy, here–weird), likely still causing traffic jams, unless they can keep it out/away.
Not Flor-uh-duh, Diane! We already have Trump’s Mini-me, Governor DeSatan!
Actually, it45 can go to St. Petersburg…might be more welcome there, in the FL S.P. than Russia!
A recent cover version of Under Pressure, a David Bowie classic, by Karen O and Willie Nelson seems so appropriate for these horrible times. Hope some of you “enjoy” this:
Solace Salts Strawberry
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