The Trump team's legal efforts have turned into a pitiful misinformation campaign
by Kaylee McGhee White, Commentary Writer |
| November 19, 2020 05:14 PM
No serious conservative denied President Trump’s right to contest the results of the presidential election given the tight margins in several states. But his campaign has failed to provide substantive evidence to back its claims and now seems bent on embarrassing, rather than vindicating, itself.
In an outlandish press conference on Thursday, Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and attorney Sidney Powell repeatedly claimed that the election is not over and that Trump’s team has enough evidence to overturn the results in several states. Except, such evidence has yet to appear, and nearly every single one of the Trump campaign’s lawsuits have been dismissed by the courts for that very reason.
Giuliani and Powell also pushed the debunked theory that Dominion Voting Systems played a part in boosting the vote totals for President-elect Joe Biden. If this were the case, why did Georgia’s by-hand recount confirm Biden’s margin of victory? To believe this conspiracy, one would need to believe that Georgia’s Republican officials were actively working against the leader of their party, which is essentially what Powell suggested.
Things only got worse. At one point, Powell said she has discovered that the “massive influence of communist money through Venezuela, Cuba, and likely China†affected the election’s results. She claimed the late Hugo Chavez directly contributed to the development of Dominion Voting Systems as a means of making sure he never lost an election — an allegation that is substantiated by only one witness, according to Powell.
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Is Trump acquainted w/anyone mentally stable?????