It is Time to Move On
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important that you all understand this — any regulation passed in the last three months of this administration can be repealed by Congress and that repeal will permanently block future Republican administrations from re-passing those regulations.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.
Amen. If you ever find yourself in Senioa again, I would love to buy you a cup of coffee. I live in the area.
There is only one court case that counts in lawsuits for a Presidential election and for Trump to win his lawyers knew beforehand that it would require a unanimous verdict of 5 justices (Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett). One doesn't have to be a Biblical prophet to reach that conclusion. And if Trump was winning lower court cases, the same 5 people would make the final decision, as the Democrats would also appeal to the happy/bitter end. The Supreme Court will ultimately make the decision to either take a case or let lower court rulings stand. According to the rule of law, the time to move on is when all appeals have been exhausted, and the highest court has issued its ruling.
Alan Dershowitz believes Trump has two strong cases that could win at the Supreme Court if they could prove enough votes were in play to change election results: 1) That judges in PA (not the legislature) changed the law allowing ballots to be received after election day. 2) That PA voters were disenfranchised by different ballot curing processes. Consequently, in Dershowitz's opinion, the PA election was not constitutionally fair, even if Trump cannot prove that a fair election would have produced a different result. Thus, unfair elections are likely to continue because in the time allowed to prove massive fraud, it is a virtually impossible task.
Apart from these issues and Sidney Powell's claims of PA voter fraud, I believe the biggest questions of voter fraud involved the checks for legality and illegality of mail-in ballots. As a PA voter, I feel disenfranchised because it was clearly the case that observers were largely prevented from doing any kind of meaningful observation of this process. So it is not the case that one can honestly say that no fraud occurred. Rather, in many cases, the evidence for this type of voter fraud was never truly evaluated by somebody who had the interest and staff to perform this task. For example in GA, this is Erick's quote from his "Nope" post: "[the]state began examining signatures before the election and the Trump team and Republican Party of Georgia did not object, observe, or care." In other words, in GA no investigation was truly made to ascertain whether illegal ballots were lawfully discarded. And in this election the rejection rate for illegal ballots was often 10x or more lower than in prior elections, suggesting that this is an issue anybody who really wanted a fair verdict of the extent of election fraud would seriously look into.
In all the battleground states, the Democrats have intensely fought any effort to match signatures as this was often the only method used to verify ballots are legal/illegal. Just as there is a home field/court advantage in sports, there is likely a home field/court advantage in deciding which ballots are legal/illegal. One doesn't have to be entirely intent on cheating to have bias have some impact on critical decisions, just like a referee/umpire may see bang-bang calls differently depending on if he wants one side to win (and very many people want one side to win in any competition, especially in close political elections).
Erick is already seeking to blame Trump for possibly losing the Senate elections in GA, but Trump doesn't have a vote in GA, and GA Senate election results will be determined by 2 factors: 1. Voters choices. 2. A fair count of only legal votes as provided by GA election authorities. Trump is not responsible for either of these factors. Erick may want Trump to give up his legal rights to contest what the vast majority of his 73 million voters consider as an unfair election. People of Erick's mindset may indeed give the Senate to the Democrats just as many of them sought to give the Presidency to the Democrats. The bottom line is that voters who chose Democrats and/or election officials who arguably created a system that didn't reject illegal ballots would be the true culprits of any Democratic victory. While God may appoint political leaders (such as Senators), his appointments are not necessarily independent of the wise/foolish choices of people voting to elect their political leaders. If God's sovereignty is the sole determining factor in who he appoints with political power, the alleged fault of Trump choosing to exercise the full extent of his legal rights is a complete non-factor in the GA Senate race. Erick cannot have the theology of God's sovereignty both ways - either it is completely independent of human actions or God takes into account human actions in making his sovereign decisions, as he did with abandoning his threat to destroy Nineveh (Jonah 3:10).