Trump Timeline ... Trumpocalypse

[Michael Scally MD]

Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, the law firm leading the Trump campaign’s efforts to cast doubt on the presidential election results in Pennsylvania, abruptly withdrew from a federal lawsuit that it filed days earlier on behalf of President Trump.

“Plaintiffs and Porter Wright have reached a mutual agreement that plaintiffs will be best served if Porter Wright withdraws,” the law firm said in a federal court filing.

The firm’s withdrawal followed an article in The New York Times on Monday described internal tensions at the firm about its work for Mr. Trump’s campaign in Pennsylvania. Some employees said they were concerned that the firm was being used to undercut the integrity of the electoral process. One Porter Wright lawyer resigned in protest over the summer.

Porter Wright, based in Columbus, Ohio, has received at least $727,000 in fees from the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, according to federal election disclosures.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

President Trump has claimed widespread fraud was at play in the presidential election. Several of his lawyers have told judges in courtrooms across the country that they don’t believe that to be true.

The Trump campaign or Republican allies have brought lawsuits in several battleground states contesting election results that favored President-elect Joe Biden, seeking to stop the certification of results or have ballots thrown out. Under questioning from judges handling the cases, at least two of Mr. Trump’s lawyers have backed away from suggestions that the election was stolen or fraudulent.

In other instances, attorneys representing Mr. Trump or other Republicans have said under oath they have no evidence of fraud. Lawyers also have struggled to get what they say is evidence of fraud admitted into lawsuits, with judges dismissing it as inadmissible or unreliable. A coalition of organizations representing secretaries of state, federal agencies and other top election officials said Thursday there wasn’t evidence that voting systems were compromised during the election.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Trump supporters must be so frustrated. If not for a pandemic killing a quarter of a million people in the US, climate change mega fires and hurricanes, the total collapse of the middle class from years of punitive right wing policies...

...gun carnage unparalleled in the industrialized world, a run amok deficit, a burgeoning grassroots neo Nazi movement, an opioid epidemic that has decimated whole families and communities, naked unapologetic corruption...

...open public coddling of murderous dictators, nepotism reminiscent of a 14th century monarch, a healthcare system in collapse, systemic and pernicious racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia leading to a spike in hate crimes...

...the complete abandonment of any functional regulatory framework and a total and breath taking lack of action or leadership on any of these issues by Trump and his party...you maybe could have won the election.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

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