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Trump campaign deploys Giuliani to assist flailing legal effort
Source: Politico
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. President Donald Trumps campaign on Tuesday sought to add some star power to its flailing legal effort to contest the election results, deploying former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to this small central Pennsylvania city to argue that the states election tallies should be thrown out because theyre tainted by fraud.
Arriving to cheers from a band of Trump supporters gathered in a mall parking lot across the street, Giuliani strode into the modest, four-story federal courthouse for hearing on a bid by Pennsylvania officials to dismiss a lawsuit the Trump campaign filed last week to try to block certification of President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the states 20 electoral votes.
The best description of this situation is its a widespread, nationwide voter fraud, Giuliani said during a half-hour-long opening statement at the court session. This is a part of the reason Im here, Your Honor, because it is not an isolated case.
Taking the helm of the Trump campaigns legal team after days of chaos and tumult, the former mayor put forward a double-barreled argument: that the election in Pennsylvania was deeply flawed because hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots were processed with inadequate access by Republican observers, and because some counties allowed voters to fix or cure mail-in ballots that didnt follow state requirements.
Arriving to cheers from a band of Trump supporters gathered in a mall parking lot across the street, Giuliani strode into the modest, four-story federal courthouse for hearing on a bid by Pennsylvania officials to dismiss a lawsuit the Trump campaign filed last week to try to block certification of President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the states 20 electoral votes.
The best description of this situation is its a widespread, nationwide voter fraud, Giuliani said during a half-hour-long opening statement at the court session. This is a part of the reason Im here, Your Honor, because it is not an isolated case.
Taking the helm of the Trump campaigns legal team after days of chaos and tumult, the former mayor put forward a double-barreled argument: that the election in Pennsylvania was deeply flawed because hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots were processed with inadequate access by Republican observers, and because some counties allowed voters to fix or cure mail-in ballots that didnt follow state requirements.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/17/giuliani-federal-judge-pennsylvania-tallies-tossed-437066
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Trump campaign deploys Giuliani to assist flailing legal effort (Original Post)
brooklynite
Nov 2020
OP
Judi Lynn
(160,593 posts)1. "America's Mayor" bit the dust today, but that won't stop him.
Arriving at the Courthouse in Williamsport, he beheld the throng of fierce, courageous supporters of His Lardship.
If Trump needs them again, they'll be up out of their mothers' basement in a flash.
murielm99
(30,754 posts)2. It gets a little bit cold
and they stay home. Wimps!
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)3. Release the crackpot!!! nt
Blue Owl
(50,482 posts)5. Good one!
🙌
Harker
(14,030 posts)4. If anyone could make it flail more, it would be Rudy. n/t
BumRushDaShow
(129,304 posts)6. I heard the last time he argued something in court was 1992
Turbineguy
(37,361 posts)7. I wonder how far Giuliani
has to go before he hits rock bottom and seeks help.
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)8. Headline could also have read
Trump campaign deploys flailing Giuliani to assist legal effort.
keithbvadu2
(36,869 posts)9. "Star power" - That's being very generous.
"Star power" - That's being very generous.