TFG's lawyers had a 'law school 101 discussion' about explaining to him how the Supreme Court works

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As President Donald Trump realized last year that he was on the brink of losing reelection, his lawyers had to explain to him that being angry about the results was not enough of a reason to file lawsuits, a new book says.

The conversation took place on November 6, according to the book, three days after Election Day and the day before major news outlets and television networks projected Joe Biden as the winner. At one point, the discussion took a more elementary turn as the president's lawyers tried to figure out the best way to explain to him the basics of how the Supreme Court works.

That's according to "Peril," by The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, an early copy of which Insider obtained.

Trump's lawyers started by telling him it wouldn't be easy to bring cases alleging voter fraud because they'd need to demonstrate standing - a legal principle stipulating that a party must prove the laws or actions it's challenging have caused it harm or injury - to get before a judge.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. just another example of the rabid narcissism, not only of the Pig himself...

but of many the christofascists. Things are true simply because they think they should be. The arrogance and self-centeredness is stunning.

[underpants]

2. This ain't Burger King

You can’t just have it your way.

He never understood the job. He never had any reverence for the office. He thinks he can sell anything.

[Bristlecone]

3. Probably thought he invented it afterwards.

There had been no bigger clown to hold the office.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. I would have love to been in that lecture

TFG really believed that the idiots who appointed to the SCOTUS would save him

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They specified that being upset about the election results did not constitute legal standing, the book says. Trump then took a different route.

"Well, why don't we just get up to the Supreme Court directly?" he asked, according to the book. "Like, why can't we just go there right away?"

The president's advisors told him that there was a specific legal process to follow to get before the Supreme Court. Trump instructed them to go figure that process out, the book says.

What followed was what Woodward and Costa describe as a "tense, basic, law school 101 discussion" between the lawyers "about what they should tell Trump."

"They knew they could never go straight to the Supreme Court," the book says. "Trump would have to file in district courts, then get a federal appeals court to hear the case, then file for the Supreme Court. It would take time."

Trump said frequently and publicly on the campaign trail that he was banking on the Supreme Court to hand him the election if he lost the Electoral College to Biden.