If you a true American and love freedom, this should scare the crap out of you. This man will go to no ends to remain in office and he will burn this country to the ground before he is forced out of office. He is a classic Narcissist who cares only about himself and his own power, to hell with the peoples will.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, but his pleas to Michigan lawmakers to overturn the will of their constituents appeared to have left them unswayed.
Trump summoned a delegation of the battleground state’s Republican leadership, including the Senate majority leader and House speaker, in an apparent extension of his efforts to persuade judges and e******n officials to set aside Biden's 154,000-v**e margin of victory and grant Trump the state's e*****rs. It came amid mounting criticism that Trump’s futile efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 e******n could do long-lasting damage to democratic traditions.
Trump's efforts extended to other states that Biden carried as well, amounting to an unprecedented attempt by a sitting president to maintain his grasp on power, or in failure, to delegitimize his opponent's victory in the eyes of his army of supporters.
Rick Hasen, an e******n law expert and professor who has been meticulously chronicling the 2020 race, wrote that there would be “r**ting" in the streets if an effort was made to set aside the v**e in Michigan, calling it tantamount to an attempted c**p.
“We should worry because this is profoundly antidemocratic and is delegitimizing the victory of Joe Biden in a free and f**r e******n,” Hasen wrote on his blog. “It is profoundly depressing we still have to discuss this. But it is extremely unlikely to lead to any different result for president."
In a joint statement after the White House meeting, Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield said allegations of fraud should be investigated but indicated they were unmoved by Trump’s claims thus far. “We have not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the e******n in Michigan and as legislative leaders, we will follow the law and follow the normal process regarding Michigan’s e*****rs, just as we have said throughout this e******n,” they said.
“The candidates who win the most v**es win e******ns and Michigan’s e*******l v**es,” they added, saying they used the meeting with Trump to press him for more p******c aid money for their state.
The president on Friday again falsely claimed victory, declaring as an aside during a White House announcement on drug pricing, “I won, by the way, but you know, we’ll find that out.”
Trump's roughly hourlong meeting with the Michigan legislators came days after he personally called two local canvassing board officials who had refused to certify the results in Wayne County, Michigan's most populous county and one that overwhelmingly favored Biden. The two GOP officials eventually agreed to certify the results. But following Trump’s call, they said they had second thoughts.
The Board of State Canvassers is to meet Monday to certify the statewide outcome and it was unclear whether Republican members of that panel would similarly balk.
Some Trump allies have expressed hope that state lawmakers could intervene in selecting Republican e*****rs, as the president and his attorneys have pushed baseless allegations of fraud that have been repeatedly rejected in courtrooms across the country. It was with that in mind that Trump invited the Michigan legislators. He was also said to be considering extending a similar invitation to lawmakers from Pennsylvania.
“The president could be calling Republican legislators and others to the White House to try and squeeze them," tweeted former Trump national security adviser John Bolton. “Republicans at all levels — state, county, e******n boards, legislatures — must resist this political pressure.”
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters that the meeting with Michigan officials was “not an advocacy meeting” and insisted Trump “routinely meets with lawmakers from across the country.” But such meetings are in fact rare, particularly as Trump has maintained a low profile since the e******n.
As he departed Detroit for Washington on Friday morning, Shirkey was swarmed by activists bearing signs that read “Respect the V**e" and “Protect Democracy.”
Chatfield tweeted before the meeting with Trump: “No matter the party, when you have an opportunity to meet with the President of the United States, of course you take it. I won’t apologize for that."
Trump's effort to set aside the Michigan v**e was sure to fail. Experts on Michigan e******n law said the Board of State Canvassers' authority was limited in scope.
“Their duties are to receive the canvass and certify the canvass, that’s it,” said John Pirich, a former assistant attorney general who teaches at Michigan State University College of Law. “They have absolutely no power to investigate allegations, theories or any half-brained kind of arguments that are being thrown around."
The Michigan Legislature would be called on to select e*****rs if Trump succeeded in persuading the board not to certify the results.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could seek a court order forcing board members to certify the e******n and could remove those who refused, said Steve Liedel, another e******n attorney.
Trump's play for Michigan was among a series of last-ditch tactics in battleground states that his team is using to challenge his defeat. They also have suggested in a legal challenge that Pennsylvania set aside the popular v**e there and pressured county officials in Arizona to delay certifying v**e tallies. There have been multiple lawsuits in battleground states that have failed so far to reverse any v**es.
In two Democratic-leaning counties in Wisconsin that are recounting v**es, Trump’s campaign sought to discard tens of thousands of absentee b****ts that it alleged should not have been counted.
The objections were twice denied by the three-member Dane County Board of Canvassers on bipartisan v**es. Trump was expected to make the same objections in Milwaukee County ahead of a court challenge once the recount concludes.
Former Bush administration official Christine Todd Whitman called Trump's efforts "the actions of a third-world dictator. It is not who we are as Americans, and we do not want the public coming away from this thinking this is the norm. There is no basis for trying to overturn this.”
The increasingly desperate and erratic moves by Trump and his allies have no reasonable chance of changing the outcome of the 2020 e******n, in which Biden has now received more v**es than any other p**********l candidate in history and has clinched the 270 E*******l College v**es needed to win.
Some Republicans have embraced Trump’s faulty narrative and are helping him spread it. In Georgia, where a hand audit found Biden had still won, Gov. Brian Kemp said a court order made it so he had to certify the results. But he suggested Trump demand a recount and wanted answers to the alleged “irregularities.”
In Minnesota, a state Biden won handily, some GOP officials are now raising concerns over “data a******lities.”
Biden legal adviser Bob Bauer said Trump’s efforts were harmful to democracy.
“It’s an abuse of office," he said. "It’s an open attempt to intimidate e******n officials, it’s absolutely appalling. ... It’s also pathetic.”
[quote=Michael10]If you a true American and love freedom, this should scare the crap out of you. This man will go to no ends to remain in office and he will burn this country to the ground before he is forced out of office. He is a classic Narcissist who cares only about himself and his own power, to hell with the peoples will.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, but his pleas to Michigan lawmakers to overturn the will of their constituents appeared to have left them unswayed.
Trump summoned a delegation of the battleground state’s Republican leadership, including the Senate majority leader and House speaker, in an apparent extension of his efforts to persuade judges and e******n officials to set aside Biden's 154,000-v**e margin of victory and grant Trump the state's e*****rs. It came amid mounting criticism that Trump’s futile efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 e******n could do long-lasting damage to democratic traditions.
Trump's efforts extended to other states that Biden carried as well, amounting to an unprecedented attempt by a sitting president to maintain his grasp on power, or in failure, to delegitimize his opponent's victory in the eyes of his army of supporters.
Rick Hasen, an e******n law expert and professor who has been meticulously chronicling the 2020 race, wrote that there would be “r**ting" in the streets if an effort was made to set aside the v**e in Michigan, calling it tantamount to an attempted c**p.
“We should worry because this is profoundly antidemocratic and is delegitimizing the victory of Joe Biden in a free and f**r e******n,” Hasen wrote on his blog. “It is profoundly depressing we still have to discuss this. But it is extremely unlikely to lead to any different result for president."
In a joint statement after the White House meeting, Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield said allegations of fraud should be investigated but indicated they were unmoved by Trump’s claims thus far. “We have not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the e******n in Michigan and as legislative leaders, we will follow the law and follow the normal process regarding Michigan’s e*****rs, just as we have said throughout this e******n,” they said.
“The candidates who win the most v**es win e******ns and Michigan’s e*******l v**es,” they added, saying they used the meeting with Trump to press him for more p******c aid money for their state.
The president on Friday again falsely claimed victory, declaring as an aside during a White House announcement on drug pricing, “I won, by the way, but you know, we’ll find that out.”
Trump's roughly hourlong meeting with the Michigan legislators came days after he personally called two local canvassing board officials who had refused to certify the results in Wayne County, Michigan's most populous county and one that overwhelmingly favored Biden. The two GOP officials eventually agreed to certify the results. But following Trump’s call, they said they had second thoughts.
The Board of State Canvassers is to meet Monday to certify the statewide outcome and it was unclear whether Republican members of that panel would similarly balk.
Some Trump allies have expressed hope that state lawmakers could intervene in selecting Republican e*****rs, as the president and his attorneys have pushed baseless allegations of fraud that have been repeatedly rejected in courtrooms across the country. It was with that in mind that Trump invited the Michigan legislators. He was also said to be considering extending a similar invitation to lawmakers from Pennsylvania.
“The president could be calling Republican legislators and others to the White House to try and squeeze them," tweeted former Trump national security adviser John Bolton. “Republicans at all levels — state, county, e******n boards, legislatures — must resist this political pressure.”
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters that the meeting with Michigan officials was “not an advocacy meeting” and insisted Trump “routinely meets with lawmakers from across the country.” But such meetings are in fact rare, particularly as Trump has maintained a low profile since the e******n.
As he departed Detroit for Washington on Friday morning, Shirkey was swarmed by activists bearing signs that read “Respect the V**e" and “Protect Democracy.”
Chatfield tweeted before the meeting with Trump: “No matter the party, when you have an opportunity to meet with the President of the United States, of course you take it. I won’t apologize for that."
Trump's effort to set aside the Michigan v**e was sure to fail. Experts on Michigan e******n law said the Board of State Canvassers' authority was limited in scope.
“Their duties are to receive the canvass and certify the canvass, that’s it,” said John Pirich, a former assistant attorney general who teaches at Michigan State University College of Law. “They have absolutely no power to investigate allegations, theories or any half-brained kind of arguments that are being thrown around."
The Michigan Legislature would be called on to select e*****rs if Trump succeeded in persuading the board not to certify the results.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could seek a court order forcing board members to certify the e******n and could remove those who refused, said Steve Liedel, another e******n attorney.
Trump's play for Michigan was among a series of last-ditch tactics in battleground states that his team is using to challenge his defeat. They also have suggested in a legal challenge that Pennsylvania set aside the popular v**e there and pressured county officials in Arizona to delay certifying v**e tallies. There have been multiple lawsuits in battleground states that have failed so far to reverse any v**es.
In two Democratic-leaning counties in Wisconsin that are recounting v**es, Trump’s campaign sought to discard tens of thousands of absentee b****ts that it alleged should not have been counted.
The objections were twice denied by the three-member Dane County Board of Canvassers on bipartisan v**es. Trump was expected to make the same objections in Milwaukee County ahead of a court challenge once the recount concludes.
Former Bush administration official Christine Todd Whitman called Trump's efforts "the actions of a third-world dictator. It is not who we are as Americans, and we do not want the public coming away from this thinking this is the norm. There is no basis for trying to overturn this.”
The increasingly desperate and erratic moves by Trump and his allies have no reasonable chance of changing the outcome of the 2020 e******n, in which Biden has now received more v**es than any other p**********l candidate in history and has clinched the 270 E*******l College v**es needed to win.
Some Republicans have embraced Trump’s faulty narrative and are helping him spread it. In Georgia, where a hand audit found Biden had still won, Gov. Brian Kemp said a court order made it so he had to certify the results. But he suggested Trump demand a recount and wanted answers to the alleged “irregularities.”
In Minnesota, a state Biden won handily, some GOP officials are now raising concerns over “data a******lities.”
Biden legal adviser Bob Bauer said Trump’s efforts were harmful to democracy.
“It’s an abuse of office," he said. "It’s an open attempt to intimidate e******n officials, it’s absolutely appalling. ... It’s also pathetic.”[/quote😱 👉😀😀😀😀😀😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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