Byron York's Daily Memo: What next for Trump legal team?
by Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent |
| November 23, 2020 08:14 AM
WHAT NEXT FOR TRUMP LEGAL TEAM? The Trump campaign's top lawyers -- Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis -- went into the weekend on the offense. On Thursday they held a news conference vowing to prove the existence of a far-ranging conspiracy to defeat the president. They were pressing a case alleging unfair voting practices in Pennsylvania. They were predicting victory. By Sunday night, everything had changed. A judge threw out the Pennsylvania case. Then, amid widespread skepticism, Powell, the author of a theory that voting machines had changed millions of Trump votes into Biden votes, was booted from the team, leaving an uncertain future.
First, Pennsylvania. No one should be surprised that Trump lost. The suit was against the Pennsylvania Secretary of State, Kathy Boockvar, and seven individual counties. It relied on two plaintiffs -- two Pennsylvania men who said their mail-in ballots had been canceled for technical reasons, and they were not given a chance to correct them.
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