December 13, 2020: Team Trump Claims of "Stolen Election" Shot Down by Trump-Appointed Judge

 

12/13/20: In what has become a regular refrain since the election, we learn that Donald Trump is goofing off again today. 

His full agenda for Sunday reads: “The President has no official events scheduled today.” 

This is the same schedule he has followed on most days since he got thumped in the election, as, for example, December 1, December 4, December 6, December 9, and December 11. Plus today. 

On December 2, Trump worked like a dog for the American people, with his schedule packed with: “Lunch with the Vice President.”

 

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“As we’re a nation of laws, and this is the Constitution, and this is the law, and this is how it breaks out, and the courts have ruled, then President Biden’s going to be our next president.” 

Sen. Bill Cassidy

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A FEDERAL JUDGE, and a Trump appointee to the bench, by the way, throws out another challenge to the November voting results, this time in Wisconsin. It’s Team Trump’s seventh court loss in ten days. 

Describing the case as “extraordinary,” U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig rules that Wisconsin officials followed state laws when they conducted the Nov. 3 election.  

A sitting president who did not prevail [emphasis added] in his bid for reelection has asked for federal court help in setting aside the popular vote based on disputed issues of election administration, issues he plainly could have raised before the vote occurred. 

 

This court allowed the plaintiff the chance to make his case and he has lost on the merits. In his reply brief, plaintiff “asks that the Rule of Law be followed.” It has been.

Ludwig shoots another hole in the Trump boat.

 

On the flip side of the rule of law, Lin Wood, the nutjob pro-Trump lawyer who keeps getting smoked in court whenever he claims to have evidence the election was rigged, offers up a new strategy. Forget judges! He suggests that like-minded “patriots” who love America so much they’d be happy to kill not-so-patriotic Americans to save it, stock up on “Second Amendment supplies.” 

“Our leader is Donald Trump, not Joe Biden,” he adds. 

Let’s start shooting!

 

Other Republican leaders, like Sen. John Thune, the second ranking member of the U.S. Senate say it’s time to move on: Joe Biden won the election. Lindsey Graham, a Trump loyalist, Rob Portman, Roy Blunt, the Senate’s No. 4 Republican, and Shelley Moore Capito concur. Sen. Bill Cassidy is clear. On January 20, Joe Biden takes over. “Obviously, he is the president-elect. He has 270 Electoral College votes. As we’re a nation of laws, and this is the Constitution, and this is the law, and this is how it breaks out, and the courts have ruled, then President Biden’s going to be our next president.” 

“There comes a time when you have to realize that, despite your best efforts, you’ve been unsuccessful,” Sen. John Cornyn agrees, “that’s sort of the nature of these elections. You’ve got to have a winner. You’ve got to have a loser” he tells reporters at the U.S. Capitol.

 

The LOSER is Donald J. Trump.

 

Sen. Lamar Alexander says during an interview that he hopes the president will put the country first and congratulate President-Elect Biden. But we know that’s not going to happen. 

Trump would be happy to heed the advice of Mr. Wood, save for the fact that if he bought guns, he’d have to join any fighting. 

Bone spurs, you know.

 

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MEANWHILE, the spreading virus continues to kill our friends, neighbors, and family members in staggering numbers. The Centers for Disease Control has posted these grim figures. 

12/6:              1,118 dead

12/7:              1,532 dead.

12/8:              2,566 dead.

12/9:              3,411 dead.

12/10:            2,760 dead.

12/11:            3,013 dead.

12/12:            2,283 dead.   

12/13:            1,448 dead

 

That brought the total, in the first thirteen days of the month, to 30,964, equivalent to a Pearl Harbor attack every day. 

To make matters worse, record numbers of people are hospitalized with coronavirus (109,331 as of Sunday).

 

The president continues to focus on other matters, in the wake of yet another devastating court defeat on Thursday. And another on Friday. Yes, thousands of Americans are dying from disease. No, that’s not his worry. 

Rather, at 10:36 this morning, Trump fired off this emerald of Twitter wisdom: 

“MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY!”

 

Tomorrow, the electors meet to cast their votes and seal Lame Duck Donald’s fate forever, as a LOSER. 

That’s right, the man who has labeled scores of political opponents and personal enemies as “losers” on Twitter, and god knows how many more in press conferences and during rallies with the faithful, will join the club. 

The Electoral College will make it official tomorrow. Trump might not concede. Yet he will be a: 

LOSER.

Say it in Russian:       “неудачник” (neudachnik)

Say it in French:         “perdant.”

Say it in German:       “verlierer.”

Say it in Chinese:       “失败者”  (Shībài zhě)

Say it in Gaelic:          “cailleanach”

 

Pick you language. 

Trump is going down to defeat. 

 

POSTSCRIPT: On the other hand, if playing a lot improves one’s game of golf, Trump has got to be getting good. Sunday, he carded Round #316 since he took the oath of office on January 20, 2017. 

We keep repeating this, but it is a perfect measure of both the man’s hypocrisy and his utter incapacity when it comes to self-examination. It bothered Trump, or so he claimed, when Obama played “so much golf” in office. 

That would be 333 rounds total. 

In TWO full terms.

December 15, 2020: Putin finally Congratulates Biden -

 

12/15/20: President Trump suffers a stunning blow today when his most loyal pal admits he lost the election – six weeks ago – and congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden. 

We mean, of course, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin has sent Mr. Biden a “congratulatory telegram” wishing him “every success” as he takes office. Putin also expresses hope that the two great powers can work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing issues.

 

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AS FOR PRESIDENT TWITTER THUMBS, we know he’s not one baby step closer to accepting his loss. 

Some days back, we highlighted the stages of grief the president must pass through. (See: 11/25/20.) 

Now we need to add a few, because the current occupant of the White House is bogged down in the initial stages. Steps added in italics: 

The Eleven Stages of Grief 

Denial

Tweeting

Anger

Golfing

Hiding in the White House

Desperation

Bargaining

Lying

Depression

More Lying

Acceptance

 

Today, Lame Duck Donald’s itinerary reads: “The President has no public events scheduled.”

 

Otherwise, we have “desperation” tweeting. For example, a retweet: “Trump is in the process of proving he won, and Biden is pretending he did.” 

Lame Duck Don also tapped out his own claim, about voting machines being totally off: “Able to take a landslide victory and reduce it to a tight loss.” 

No Twitter Thumbs tweet-rampage is complete without a suggestion that someone needs to be locked up, even if we never bother with a trial. In this case, it comes in a retweet of a post by Georgia lawyer Lin Wood, who suggests jail time for two Republicans, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (left in the picture) and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (right). 

Their crime? Counting the votes in their state three times (two recounts demanded by Team Trump) and reporting that Mr. Biden won. 

Three times.

Governor Kemp gives "thumbs up," in happier times.

 

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THE GOOD NEWS TODAY: the vaccine rollout offers promise that the worst of the pandemic may soon be behind us. 

The bad news? We have passed the 300,000-dead mark since we recorded the first case in America on January 20.

December 18, 2020: Trump and Press Secretary Slam Supreme Court

 

12/18/20: The president and his loyalists are still sad, a week after the U.S. Supreme Court shot down their dream case to overturn results of the November election (see: 12/11/20). Press Secretary “Birther” McEnany appears on Fox News and insists the nine jurists failed. “There’s no way to say it other than they dodged,” she grumbles. “They dodged, they hid behind procedure and they refused to use their authority to enforce the Constitution.” 

Yes. The highest court in the land refused to use their authority by voting not to accept a stupid legal challenge to begin. 

 “This was on standing, dismissed on standing,” McEnany claims. “None of the justices gave a view on the facts of the case.” 

That’s a lie, of course; but McEnany holds her White House position largely because of her facile respect for the truth.

Chief Justice John Roberts

 

One Trump loyalist who is even more disappointed in the Supreme Court is just-pardoned loose cannon, Gen. Michael T. Flynn. In an interview with host Greg Kelly, on Newsmax, he suggests that the president gas up a few M1A1 Abrams battle tanks and force select states that went for Joe Biden to hold new elections – as many as needed, we must assume – until Trump wins.

 

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“He could take military capabilities and he could place those in states and basically rerun an election in each of those states.” 

General Michael T. Flynn

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In the make believe world of Lame Duck Don and his unwavering, generally ill-informed fans, another loyalist, Georgia attorney Lin Wood, is hinting that Chief Justice John Roberts and others on the Supreme Court are part of a Deep State fix. 

Not only that, but Wood claims to have proof of evildoing behind the scenes – which at some future date he will reveal to the horror of all. Since someone named “John Roberts” once flew on a plane with Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious sexual predator, Wood insists that the American people are “entitled” to an explanation.” Can Chief Justice Roberts prove that wasn’t him on that flight? 

This blogger will send Mr. Wood the following letter, which he will share with readers of this blog first: 

Dear Mr. Wood,

 

     Don’t be such a dolt. “John,” and “Roberts” are common first and last names. When I google, “John Roberts Ohio,” I get a John Roberts who owns several spas around the state, a tenured professor at Ohio University, and two doctors who practice in Cincinnati.

 

I even find the number for one of the spas, if I want a pedicure to end the year on a high note.

 

     When calling out right-wing idiots, Mr. Wood, I try to get my facts straight. (You should try it, yourself.) So, for fun, I check “John Roberts Akron,” curious to see if there are any individuals by that name in the city where I was born. Fifteen possibilities pop up. John E. Roberts is first. There’s John S., and John Ray, and John Thomas, and John C., and F., G., L., and several more.

 

So, Mr. Wood, you need to check them out and see if they ever rode on Epstein’s plane.

 

     Also, you will need to call or write the 46 people named “John Roberts” who reside in Cleveland, the 39 in Dayton, and, frankly, the 869 people by that name who live in Florida, where Epstein used to hang out.

 

I would like to mention that the name on the passenger manifest might be fake, as in when Trump, during his pre-president days, used to go by pseudonyms such as “John Barron” or “John Miller.” Even the apparently fictitious secretary, Carolin Gallego, who once wrote about how all the beautiful women in America were clamoring to go out with Mr. Trump – might in fact have been Mr. Trump. Then you had “David Dennison,” of hush money fame, which the president later admitted was him.

 

In closing, since you passionately believe that the American people are entitled to an explanation, could you ask former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta a question for us?

 

Why, before he joined President Trump’s cabinet, did he grant Epstein a sweet deal when he was facing trial in 2008?

 

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas to you. Or Happy Hannukah. Or whatever seasonal greeting works for you.

 

Sincerely,

John J. Viall

 

 

POSTSCRIPT: In the late hours of Friday night, on into early morning Saturday, we know the President of the United States was awake and fuming. At 12:42 a.m., he tweeted to say that Peter Navarro had handed him a 36-page report (which I think we can be sure Trump didn’t read). According to the president, Navarro had proven it was, “Statistically impossible [for him] to have lost the 2020 Election.”

 

Then, he issued a call for action – even violence, you might think. “Big protest in D.C. on January 6,”  he said. “Be there, will be wild!”

 

(See: General Flynn, above.)

 

Sean Hannity makes it clear where he stands, or kneels, to kiss the president’s ass. On his nightly Fox News harangue, he howls, “There’s no doubt this [election] was stolen. No doubt whatsoever.”

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE: A later analysis of transcripts from Hannity’s show indicates that between November 22 and January 5, on 35 of 45 episodes, Hannity referred to the election as “fraudulent,” “rigged,” “stolen” or “illegal.”

 

As for the president’s prediction that it will be “wild” in Washington D.C. on January 6, we all know what happened next.)

 

And how about that “John Roberts,” who flew on Epstein’s plane? We still don’t know exactly who that might have been. We do know, however, that Donald J. Trump took at least six rides with Epstein, over the years.