Anyway, after Georgia voting official @GabrielSterling basically implored people to tone down the rhetoric that's leading to violent threats, Trump ally L. Lin Wood says "You listen up, Gabriel. You're not going to sell our votes to China." Trumps ex-lawyer is in the background.
And now they crowd has moved on to a "lock him up" chant for Georgia's Republican governor.
This is insane. There's no other word for it. This isn't planet Earth.
Wood says he demanded that Georgia's governor swear on a Bible that he didn't take money from China, but the governor didn't take him up on it, so that's evidence of fraud.
Ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell encourages "all Georgians to make it known that you will not vote at all until your vote is secure." She says there shouldn't be a Senate runoff.
She says we need to have voter ID and paper ballots. Georgia has both of those things.
Trump ally L. Lin Wood - a plaintiff in one, err, long-shot suit to overturn the election and a lawyer in another - says "Joe Biden will never set foot in the Oval Office of this country. It will not happen on our watch. Never gonna happen."
Wood says Republicans should withhold their votes from Sens. Perdue and Loeffler unless they publicly endorse these utterly unsubstantiated claims that the Nov. 3 election was rigged.
Wood: "How about Sidney Powell and Mike Flynn in 2024."
Related:
Wood: China's "making its move." It needs "our land" to grow its food. This is quite the multinational conspiracy.
Somebody asks why, if Dominion secretly switched lots of votes, you couldn't just prove that by conducting a hand recount. This is a good question that blows up the whole theory.
Wood and Powell just flat-out lie and say Georgia didn't do a hand recount. It did.
The lawsuit filed on Wood's behalf literally included affidavits from people who watched the hand recount.
Overturning elections in the name of freedom.
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Trump's lawyer to a federal judge just now: "It's been a long time since my civil procedure class."
The judge asks why, if Trump's lawyers say only the legislature can redress violations of the Electors Clause, are we here at all? Why didn't you just ask them?
Judge: "I have a very, very hard time seeing how this is justiciable in the federal court."
Judge Ludwig: Trump's request to have the case remanded to the state legislature is "a little bizarre."
A new report to the FEC shows President Trump's campaign has dumped about $8.8 million into its flailing efforts to overturn the results of the November election he lost. That includes about $2.3 million for legal services.
That's obviously a lot less than the $207 million Trump raised after the election, as he launched a blizzard of messages to his supporters seeking their help to overturn its outcome.
The details are interesting:
Trump's campaign paid $30k to Jenna Ellis. There's no record of money going to Giuliani, who reportedly wanted to be paid quite a lot.
Sidney Powell's back with a new filing in Michigan. The election, she says, "is a lie." She has experts to prove it. Up first: The guy who confused Minnesota for Michigan, who clearly doesn't know how vote totals get reported.
Michigan: Results get reported in batches, after we've counted a bunch.
Powel: Aha! But you didn't say *these* results were in batches. Ergo, "289,866 ballots tabulated on November 4 must be disregarded."
Did I mention that some of Powell's witnesses now get cool codenames? Here's "Spider."
He worked on anti-aircraft systems, and with that experience he has proved that Iran AND China hacked Dominion's vote-counting machines (which aren't connected to the internet).
President Trump has filed his own lawsuit challenging the results of the election he lost in Wisconsin. Unlike other cases, this one is brought in his name.
Trump wants a federal district court to "uphold the exclusive authority of the Wisconsin Legislature," rule that various state laws were violated thereby also violating the U.S. Constitution and "remand this matter to the Wisconsin Legislature." Don't see that often.
This suit is going to run into the same laches problem that has befallen others. Trump is complaining about Wisconsin's expansion of absentee voting, which he says is unlawful. But that happened in March and he waited until after the election and people voted that way to sue.
Sidney Powell has filed an amended complaint in her Wisconsin "Kraken" lawsuit, removing @derrickvanorden, who said he was included as a plaintiff without his permission.
There's no explanation for what happened.
They're also trying to fix the emergency TRO motion that the judge said they had screwed up.
Interestingly, Powell & Co. say they should win this case based entirely on "questions of law that may be resolved without factual investigation or determination."