11/28/20: President Trump plans to spend Saturday in seclusion at Camp David. He has no public events scheduled.
In the wee hours of the morning, however, the soon-to-be-ex-president did fire off the first of several angry tweets. At 12:09 a.m. we had this: “The 1,126,940 votes were created out of thin air. I won Pennsylvania by a lot, perhaps more than anyone will ever know. The Pennsylvania votes were RIGGED. All other swing states also. The world is watching!”
Legions of the dead continued to march through Trump’s nightmares, voting for Joe Biden by mail, every time. (See: 11/27/20.)
It would appear that the president is slowly moving beyond the first two stages of grief: “Denial,” and “Tweeting.” He has now reached the third and fourth stages: “Anger” and “Golfing.”
(See: 11/25/20 for the growing list of
stages, 12/15/20 and 12/16/20, still growing, and 1/22/21, for the updated list of the stages of
denial.)
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“This bill was not written to benefit one party or the other, or any one candidate or single election.”
Pennsylvania House Majority Leader
Representative Bryan Cutler, a Republican, in 2019
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AT 10:20 A.M. there’s a change of plans. Trump decides Marine One should fly him from Camp David to his golf club in Potomac Falls.
Again.
This will make three rounds of golf (#313, #314 and #315) in the last three days, forcing us to wonder if Trump really cares about finishing off his first term as president, let alone being gifted a second.
You also have to ask. How much taxpayer money
is Lame Duck Don going to waste before the White House door bangs on his fat ass
for a last time?
Friday night, as originally planned, he helicoptered north from the White House, roughly 60 miles by air, to Camp David. Saturday morning, a change, and he had Marine One carry him back to his golf course, ten miles from the White House.
A round of golf followed; then the president jumped
aboard Marine One and flew back to Camp David.
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CBS films Marine One landing at Trump golf course. |
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IF MR. TRUMP enjoyed his morning golf outing and flying hither and yon, his afternoon darkened.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out his legal team’s lawsuit asking for 2.5 million mail-in ballots to be disqualified.
The ruling was unanimous, ending the case with “prejudice,” meaning Team Trump could not rework a few details and resubmit. The Court cited a lack of “due diligence,” noting that the law creating no-excuse mail-in voting in Pennsylvania passed in October 2019. The lawsuit was filed a year late, too late for the judges to overturn an entire statewide election.
In a concurring opinion, Justice David N. Wecht noted that petitioners “failed to allege that even a single mail-in ballot was fraudulently cast or counted.”
Note: No fraud alleged.
It’s just not that hard to figure this out. When Pennsylvania lawmakers passed the new voting law thirteen months ago, Republican leaders in both the House and Senate were clear. “This bill was not written to benefit one party or the other, or any one candidate or single election,” said House Majority Leader Bryan Cutler. “It was developed over a multi-year period with input of people from different backgrounds and regions of Pennsylvania. It serves to preserve the integrity of every election and lift the voice of every voter in the commonwealth.”
Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman agreed. “The people of
Pennsylvania have sent divided government to Harrisburg and, with that, this is
what governing looks like,” he said. “We are thankful for the governor’s
willingness [Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf] to work with us to enact the most
historic change in how we cast votes since the election code was enacted in
1937.”
Corman went on to tout the law: “Compromise has given
Pennsylvanians a modernized election code that preserves the integrity of the
ballot box and makes it easier for voters to choose the people who represent
them.”
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