Now that the personal stuff is hopefully done... if you haven’t yet, give top Republican lawyer Ben Ginsberg’s piece a read... he was the GOP lawyer behind the 2000 recount battle, and worked for just about every Republican campaign and major voting case since (Sorry, just realized you may need a WaPo subscription to read it?)
“The president’s actions — urging his followers to commit an illegal act and seeking to undermine confidence in the credibility of election results — are doubly wrong... The president’s words make his and the Republican Party’s rhetoric look less like sincere concern — and more like transactional hypocrisy designed to provide an electoral advantage. And they come as Republicans trying to make their cases in courts must deal with the basic truth that four decades of dedicated investigation have produced only isolated incidents of election fraud.”
We are in such a strange time... Trump is literally committing a crime when he repeatedly urges his followers to vote several times, and he is urging them to commit a crime. But it seems that it simply doesn’t matter anymore if the President blatantly and on video breaks the law.
And Trumps longtime friend, political advisor, and self-described dirtiest player in the game, is advising Trump to use federal forces to seize ballots, arrest journalists, and possibly invoke martial law if he loses?
I really hope this is just a bizarre blip in American history and not a sign of what’s ahead, because our country can’t take this being the new norm.
But at least Trump isn’t doing something REALLY crazy, like accusing Joe Biden of being a drug add...
“The president’s actions — urging his followers to commit an illegal act and seeking to undermine confidence in the credibility of election results — are doubly wrong... The president’s words make his and the Republican Party’s rhetoric look less like sincere concern — and more like transactional hypocrisy designed to provide an electoral advantage. And they come as Republicans trying to make their cases in courts must deal with the basic truth that four decades of dedicated investigation have produced only isolated incidents of election fraud.”
We are in such a strange time... Trump is literally committing a crime when he repeatedly urges his followers to vote several times, and he is urging them to commit a crime. But it seems that it simply doesn’t matter anymore if the President blatantly and on video breaks the law.
And Trumps longtime friend, political advisor, and self-described dirtiest player in the game, is advising Trump to use federal forces to seize ballots, arrest journalists, and possibly invoke martial law if he loses?
I really hope this is just a bizarre blip in American history and not a sign of what’s ahead, because our country can’t take this being the new norm.
But at least Trump isn’t doing something REALLY crazy, like accusing Joe Biden of being a drug add...