The President who said he hires the best people put Rudy Guiliani in charge of his legal strategy and has lost all his cases save one.
Sidney Powell keeps promising more and more elaborate evidence and now claims Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia is getting paid off by Dominion Voter Systems to save Georgia for Joe Biden. She ignores the hand count of printed ballots matches the machine count of those same ballots.
Just this weekend, Sidney Powell alleged that Republican Senators and Congressmen who won must have paid for their victories. This is not only conspiratorial nonsense, but it is also deeply unhelpful and risks provoking unstable people in the same way the Democrats’ rhetoric in 2017 provoked James Hodgkinson.
Now the President’s team is disowning Sidney Powell, throwing her under the proverbial bus. They say she is operating on her own and is not part of the campaign effort. But this comes after she whipped a bunch of people into a frenzy with insane allegations and the President endorsed her as his lawyer in a tweet.
So far the President’s legal team has offered no proof of fraud except a handful of precincts in Michigan where more than 100% of registered voters turned out. The only problem is those precincts were actually in Minnesota and went for Donald Trump.
It is time to move on.
The bottom line is that the President did a lot of good for the country in terms of foreign and domestic policy, including his tax cuts that gave America full employment until the pandemic hit.
If the President and this legal farce continue to bellyache about the election, he risks handing the United States Senate to the Democrats and they will systematically undermine, repeal, and eliminate every good he did.
President Trump has a legacy of positive results for America. The Democrats would like nothing more than scrap the filibuster so they can repeal every major accomplishment passed by this President and, more importantly, wipe out his regulatory reforms.
It is vitally important that you all understand this — any regulation passed in the last three months of this administration can be repealed by Congress and that repeal will permanently block future Republican administrations from re-passing those regulations. The rules in Congress that allow this exempt these regulatory votes from the filibuster in the Senate.
Even if the Democrats cannot repeal the filibuster, if Loeffler and Perdue lose in Georgia, the Democrats will be able to unilaterally wipe out most major regulatory initiatives done at the end of the Trump Administration. If they wipe out the filibuster, they can wipe out all the regulatory reforms passed by the Trump Administration.
The President now has a choice — continue the nonsense and lose the Senate or accept his lose and save his legacy. Trump voters who fear an empowered leftwing mob running the country will get exactly that if the GOP cannot hold the Senate.
Loeffler and Perdue have loyally stood with the President, including opposing impeachment. David Perdue has been the President’s friend in Washington and a trusted ally.
The President can save them, the Senate, and his legacy. But to do so he must make Sidney Powell and Rudy Guiliani go away and accept his loss. The choice is his.
Three things don't make sense to me in your analysis.
1. If someone believes that voter fraud can be proven, in whose interest is it to drop the case? The public's? Undoubtedly a majority of people now believe their vote is not counted fairly since 40% of Americans believed that in 2018 when only 9% of Republicans believed it. It seems to me you are underestimating how serious this is to the American people and our democracy.
2. The filibuster now is almost a dead letter with Democrats and Republicans eliminating it almost at will. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/filibuster-or-bust-how-the-senate-could-get-rid-of-the-filibuster/ It seems "saving" it is not a real option for the minority, and it's not a useful tool for the majority.
3. How does Trump's legal case make Loeffler and Perdue lose? Unless you believe a wave of Democrats who didn't vote in November will rise up in Georgia because of their anger at the legal case.
Of course, legal cases can have political impact, but to not pursue legal action against fraud just to win politically seems a distortion of everything one wants in a just society.
Next Move: The good people of Georgia should demand a special session of the Georgia legislature to fix the loopholes before the Democrats try to " steal" the Senate seats.