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18 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
As a legal project, President Trump’s various (false) claims that the election he lost was rigged have been an absolute train wreck. As a political project, they’ve been remarkably effective.

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You'll often hear the trope that Democrats never recognized that Trump won the 2016 election or that his presidency was illegitimate. But no, what we are seeing right now among Republicans is new and different.
President Trump -- despite losing basically every battle in court and never producing *any* evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities -- has significantly eroded Americans' confidence in elections, which wasn't stellar to begin with.
Read this -> reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Coda: The President of the United States confirms that, yes, he is trying to undermine confidence in the election and takes a victory lap for having succeeded at this.

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20 Nov
President Trump's lawyers have filed a new motion in Pennsylvania making clear that they only want to block the state from certifying the results of the presidential election, which they claim was fraudulent. It can certify the other races, decided on the same ballots, they say. Image
Marks v. Stinson has become the hydroxychloroquine of the president's post-election litigation. Image
Interesting concession in Trump's filing: If PA certifies its electors by Dec. 8, its certification "shall be conclusive" when Congress meets to count electoral votes. (That's in the statute, but you'd think they'd want some wiggle room here.) Image
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19 Nov
NEW: Multiple Trump campaign officials tell @Reuters the president's strategy for staying in power despite losing the election is to persuade state legislatures to do what their voters did not and simply declare him the winner.

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President Trump called at least one Michigan election official who's now trying to take back her decision to certify votes in the state's largest county, she said. And he has summoned the leaders of the state legislature to the White House tomorrow. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Trump's legal team nodded toward this strategy yesterday in a proposed amendment to the campaign's Pennsylvania lawsuit. They want the judge there to declare the state election "defective" and have the Republican-controlled legislature choose a winner instead. Image
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19 Nov
Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis seems to be saying the campaign has lots of evidence of "election official fraud," but they can't show it to us yet. This is just the campaign's opening statement, she says.
Giuliani says our votes are counted in German and Spain by companies affiliated with Maduro and Chavez (who died 7 years ago).

"Did you ever believe that was true?"

It isn't.
"There is nobody here who engages in fantasy," Giuliani says, after claiming some kind of conspiracy to rig the election by voting machine manufacturers, Hugo Chavez, antifa and others.
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19 Nov
Yet another of President Trump's lawyers has gotten permission to leave his Pennsylvania lawsuit. Image
The court also says it'll OK the release of audio of Tuesday's hearing. Image
That's good because this exists ->
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18 Nov
President Trump's campaign says this case is a matter of grave national consequence, a stolen election and an illegal scheme to oust the president. But -- oops! -- it accidentally dropped all of that from its lawsuit the other day because it got confused. Image
Trump's lawyers say they hope to go through all the mail-in ballot envelopes, determine which of them were "illegally counted," then extrapolate how many votes to disqualify and then try to subtract a bunch from Biden's total. Image
The Trump campaign is explicit about its strategy: It wants to find a way to invalidate a large number of mail-in ballots over things like signatures. If it can, "the Court should set aside these votes and declare Trump the winner." Image
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18 Nov
President Trump's campaign is moving to amend its Pennsylvania election case again, this time to "restore claims which were inadvertently" deleted the last time plus add some other new stuff. Image
Since the campaign has already amended its complaint once, it needs either consent from the defendants [which it won't get] or leave of court.
The Trump campaign's latest lawyers say things got pretty mixed up when its previous lawyers all quit, and "because of a lack of clear communication ... certain counts were improperly withdrawn." Image
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