It arrived in my inbox half an hour before midnight on Monday.
When I saw it early Tuesday morning (hey, I was just recovering from New Year’s Eve) it was from Donald Trump and looked a lot like a legal filing.
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So I was encouraged to file a motion with Trump’s courts, no doubt to challenge his expulsion from the primaries in Maine and Colorado.
But it was not like that.
(This wasn’t just for me, by the way. An assistant sent it to a long list of media outlets.)
It included a 32-page document with many footnotes, based on the work of Trump’s lawyers, but it was not presented in any court. The issue that will ultimately reach the Supreme Court is not the ethics of the 2020 election, but the merits of the Democratic officials and judges who rejected the leader of the Republican front from the state ballot.
Michael Cohen takes a break during former President Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial at the New York Supreme Court, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in New York. Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, says he unknowingly passed along to his lawyer fake AI-generated legal case subpoenas that he obtained online before sending them to a New York judge. Cohen made the admission in a court filing opened Friday, Dec. 29, in Manhattan federal court as a judge decides whether to punish one of Cohen’s attorneys, who cited the bogus cases in a presentation to the judge. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, File)
Trump wrote that “if the Republican Senate does not step forward and address this ATROCITY, it will happen again and it will be virtually impossible to WIN ELECTIONS in the future. What he was doing is bringing to light the fact that the election was, without place undoubtedly, Rigged and Stolen.” Otherwise, Trump says, he would have been violating his presidential oath.
(Trump certainly knows that the Senate is tightly controlled by Democrats.)
The legal document deals with five swing states. It begins by saying that the investigation reveals “that hundreds of thousands of votes were altered and/or not legally cast in the presidential election. Joe Biden needed them. On election night, November 3, 2020, President Donald J. Trump He was sailing toward re-election with overwhelming leads in numerous battlegrounds.
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“In Georgia, President Trump was leading by 12 points and more than 335,000 votes, with 56 percent of the vote at 10:17 p.m. In Wisconsin, President Trump was leading by 121,380 votes and 51 points at 12 :12 a.m., which Fox news anchor Bret Baier noted is “not a small margin.” In Pennsylvania, President Trump was leading by 659,145 votes as of 12:38 a.m., a full 15 points. In Michigan, President Trump was leading by 293,052 votes and 10 points.2 The election was over. However, the precincts in Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Milwaukee continued counting until the results reached the desired result, which was the opposite of the will of the voters “.
Georgia Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee and former President Donald Trump (Getty Images)
There’s much, much more, but to be fair I have to say that pundits had been warning viewers for days that (this is a rush of early Republican votes) this is how the election would play out. In many past races, big cities, most of them Democratic, took much longer to count the votes because there are so many more. Three years ago, due to the pandemic, there were many more mail-in votes and many were counted later.
I should also say that with all the lawsuits filed, no court has found widespread fraud in the election, and Trump’s Justice Department came to a similar conclusion.
But I want to give the floor to the former president. “There is no evidence that Joe Biden won,” he says. And many of his solid supporters believe him.
Lindsey Graham, Trump’s closest friend in the Senate, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”: “I accept the 2020 election results. I’m worried about 2024. “If President Trump lays out his vision, it will get better. the security and prosperity of Americans. , He will win. If he looks back, I think he will lose.”
Meanwhile, the New York Times has not published an editorial on whether courts should overturn Trump’s voting ban in Maine and Colorado.
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A Washington Post editorial did not reach that point. The issues are complicated, the newspaper said, but “in the absence of clarity, a body of unelected officials should be reluctant to prevent the country’s citizens from electing an elected official to lead them. Hopefully the Supreme Court will understand this.” .
Times editorial writer Jesse Wegman wrote a column in which he interviewed Democrat Jamie Raskin and strongly suggested that the Supreme Court should uphold Trump’s exclusion as an insurgent under the 14th Amendment:
“The challenge for the judges is not to bend the law in a cowardly effort to appease an authoritarian movement that sees violence as the answer, win or lose.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 28, 2023. The hearing is the first formal hearing into the investigation of impeachment trial of the House of Representatives against the president of the United States. Joe Biden. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The two newspapers did not cover Trump’s legal document yesterday. Neither did Politico or HuffPost.
Meanwhile, despite his attacks on Fox News, Trump agreed to an Iowa town hall interview hosted by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. It is blatant counterprogramming, since a candidate debate is scheduled on CNN at the same time.
It will be interesting to see the ratings.
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So far, Trump has directed his campaign toward energizing his base, even as analysts say he needs independents to win a general election. But the four indictments clearly helped him, and the voting ban will help him too. Ten months later, Trump leads Biden, whose numbers have been abysmal for an incumbent, in numerous polls.
Maybe you know something the experts don’t.
