The Trump vengeance and retribution campaign seems unlikely to end.
The Department of Justice sued Fulton County, Georgia, for access to its 2020 votes.
Trump wants to prove that the election was rigged, despite numerous investigations that concluded it was fair.
He lost. In his mind, he never loses so he will pursue every path that might prove that he won.
The 2020 election was not close.
Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232.
Biden won 81,283,501 votes.
Trump won 74,223,975 votes.
The Washington Post reported:
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, over records related to the 2020 election, escalating the Trump administration’s efforts to boost the president’s false claims that his loss to Joe Biden was rigged.
Citing a need to investigate “compliance with federal election law,” the lawsuit demands Georgia election officials turn over “all used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County.”
Fulton County officials previously told the Justice Department that those records are sealed and cannot be produced without a court order, according to the lawsuit.
The Justice Department’s lawsuit comes amid increased pressure by President Donald Trump for members of his administration to find evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, despite those claims having been repeatedly debunked and dismissed in dozens of cases by the courts over the past five years.
In a statement Friday, Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, indirectly and without evidence accused Georgia officials of “vote dilution.”
“States have the statutory duty to preserve and protect their constituents from vote dilution,” Dhillon said. “At this Department of Justice, we will not permit states to jeopardize the integrity and effectiveness of elections by refusing to abide by our federal elections laws. If states will not fulfill their duty to protect the integrity of the ballot, we will.”
Fulton County election officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The lawsuit against Fulton County is also in line with Trump’s years-long fixation on voting results in Georgia, where Biden became the first Democrat to win the state since 1992. In January 2021, Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) in a phone call to “find” enough votes to reverse Biden’s win in the state.
“All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state,” Trump told Raffensperger then.
One evidence of character is the ability to concede loss gracefully.
Trump is a SORE LOSER.
Trump will spend the rest of his life insisting that he won in 2020 despite losing over 60 appeals to courts, which found no evidence of fraud.
His revenge tour is also faltering. James Comey seems to be out of Trump’s reach because the statute of limitations has run out.
Letitia James was indicted for “mortgage fraud” in her first trial, but the indictment was thrown out because of errors by Trump’s hand-picked prosecutor Lindsay Galligan, who previously was Trump’s personal lawyer.
Yesterday a jury in Alexandria, Virginia, refused to indict James.
ProPublica dug up evidence that Trump himself had signed mortgages on two homes next to Mar-a-Lago, claims both as his primary residence, when they were not.
We will see whether the Justice Department goes after a third indictment against New Tork State Attorney General James.
And then there are Senator Adam Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell, who are also at the top of Trump’s enemies list.
“It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game” is a famous quote often attributed to American sportswriter Grantland Rice, emphasizing that sportsmanship, integrity, character, and effort matter more than the outcome, focusing on fair play and respect for opponents.
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Trump: sore loser, sore winner, sore whiner, an all-around sore-head. He has a soreness quotient the size of a blue whale, no disrespect to blue whales.
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According to my handy laptop calculator, if Biden won 306 Electoral College votes and Trump won 232, that’s a 74 Electoral College vote difference. So then the 16 Electoral votes from Georgia would be a far cry from enough votes needed to substantiate a presidential win. That means he’d still need to find a lot more votes in several other states, too –so he was not even close from being a single state away from winning.
And that election, with Raffensperger, a Republican, as Secretary of State of GA, in charge was not rigged; he was just not willing to purger himself and “find” those 11,780 votes Trump needed to win, as Trump requested. So I don’t think he’s got a leg to stand on –or a substantial reason to gripe about how this matter played out.
My guess is that he thought that he had bought the vote by distributing all those hand-signed COVID checks to the nation –and he just could never get over the fact that Americans could NOT be bought by him. HE JUST PLAIN LOST and needs to own it and move on already!
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Correction: I remember we had to wait for the COVID checks because he had insisted on his signature going on every check, but no doubt some kind of auto-pen was used to sign them all.
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Also, I think that, at the time (during the pandemic) a lot of voters could easily remember how many people were struggling with COVID (over 1 million Americans died from it) or were contending with long COVID, but when Trump caught it and he recovered quickly, that was because he was given an experimental antibody cocktail known as REGN-COV2 designed to help the immune system fight COVID-19. That was administered under a “compassionate use” exemption for him –which most other people were not able to get…
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We should also not be forgetting that fresh on voters’ minds then probably were how Trump and his advisor/son-in law Jared Kushner (mis)handled major COVID pandemic responses, such as the following:
1. The comprehensive national testing plan. See this: https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-covid-19-plan-maybe-axed-for-political-reasons-report-2020-7?op=1
2. Obtaining Personal Protective Equipment (PPE, i.e. gloves, masks etc. for health care workers and citizens) See: https://theweek.com/speedreads/938226/why-covid19-response-been-bad-jared-kushner-vanity-fair-suggests
3. The national stockpile debacle. See: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/apr/03/fact-checking-jared-kushners-comments-national-sto/
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Have to remember all the misinformation that was spread here about COVID as well, especially by the Trump Administration. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation_by_the_United_States
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What really bothers me is that all of these faux legal machinations are a waste of the tax payer’s dime. Considering our interest payment on the debt now exceeds that of a Defense Department that cannot pass audits, why aren’t we upset about that? According to the Justice department, hourly rates for prosecutors range from $333 to $665. Considering that most lawyers work massive hours, that isn’t chump change. The corruption in our Federal Government is overwhelming.
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That is meant to be an audit, not autism…autocorrect! The irony is somewhat compelling however…
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I think this is worse than a “sore loser” hissy fit. First, it further weakens our democracy by portraying our elections as corrupted and corruptible especially to low information folks. Second, it also makes any future Russia Republican electoral losses more likely to be rejected. In Russia, the autocracy simply refuses to acknowledge results they don’t like and then they reverse engineer the process until it’s the “correct” outcome. The complicity of Republican Congress in allowing this sort of abomination is now sadly commonplace. They are also the willing enablers of Putin destroyer of the United States just as much as is the grifting rotting puppet.
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