Trump’s Election Fraud Case Score Board: Zero for 10 cases.
Excellent review here from
the Washington Post (November 14, 2020) with this headline:
“It goes from
bad to worse for the Trump legal team”
Two prominent law firms have sought to withdraw from representing the Trump legal effort in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
The campaign was forced to reverse course in an Arizona case, acknowledging that the lawsuit, even if successful, wouldn’t overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s lead in the state.
Those high-profile developments come as more of Trump’s arguments
fizzle in court.
In AZ, Trump’s attorney Kory Langhofer conceded that he was not alleging fraud or that anyone is stealing the election — in direct contradiction with Trump’s repeated public claims that this was indeed what has happened in multiple states.
Langhofer said the Trump legal team was simply raising concerns about
a “limited number of cases involving good-faith errors.”
It was not the first time that Trump’s attorneys have
declined to allege fraud in the same way Trump personally has, with the same
thing that happened earlier in PA.
Witnesses for the Trump side in
the Arizona case acknowledged something else that
previous cases have revealed — that they weren’t even sure the
irregularities being alleged were true.
The Trump campaign’s lawsuit alleged that poll workers
nullified votes by pressing or having voters press a button after the voting
machine recorded more than one vote in the presidential race. This was the
baseless alleged scandal dubbed “Sharpie-gate.”
As reported by Law and Crime’s Adam Klasfeld, Trump attorneys
tried to object to their witnesses being cross-examined, and it turned out they
did so for good reason: The Trump campaign’s parade of witnesses
hardly bolstered their case.
Examples:
When pressed by the Arizona Democratic Party’s counsel Daniel Arellano, each of the witnesses in turn conceded they did not know whether their vote was counted. He asked voter Mia Barcello: “Do you have any basis to believe your vote wasn’t counted?”
She
replied: “Uh, I’m not sure.” When she was pressed about it further, Ms. Barcello replied: “No.”
Ms. Barcello had
plenty of company, with another witness responding: “I couldn’t say” to the same
inquiry, and another replying: “That’s correct” when asked if he did not know
one way or another whether his vote was counted, a matter that could have been
quickly settled by consulting the public record.
Not even the Trump campaign’s Arizona State Election Day
operations director Gina Swoboda
believed otherwise — and she admitted as much under oath saying: “I don’t know
whether they were counted or not, but otherwise had I no way of knowing whether
or not that was true,” then Ms. Swoboda
added that she could not speak for other witnesses.
Testimony by the Trump
campaign’s expert witness took a turn to the absurd when Zack Alcyone, whose business bio boasts of his experience in
“ballot access calculations” conceded that he is the business partner of Kory
Langhofer, the lawyer who was arguing Trump’s case.
My 2 cents: Not much to add to this on-going Trump sh*t-show.
This rundown by the WaPo article says it all.
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