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brooklynite

(94,679 posts)
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 05:26 PM Nov 2020

Trump campaign deploys Giuliani to assist flailing legal effort

Source: Politico

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s 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 state’s election tallies should be thrown out because they’re 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 state’s 20 electoral votes.

“The best description of this situation is it’s 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 I’m here, Your Honor, because it is not an isolated case.”

Taking the helm of the Trump campaign’s 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 didn’t 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
"America's Mayor" bit the dust today, but that won't stop him. Judi Lynn Nov 2020 #1
It gets a little bit cold murielm99 Nov 2020 #2
Release the crackpot!!! nt Midnightwalk Nov 2020 #3
Good one! Blue Owl Nov 2020 #5
Ha! mahina Nov 2020 #10
If anyone could make it flail more, it would be Rudy. n/t Harker Nov 2020 #4
I heard the last time he argued something in court was 1992 BumRushDaShow Nov 2020 #6
I wonder how far Giuliani Turbineguy Nov 2020 #7
Headline could also have read chriscan64 Nov 2020 #8
"Star power" - That's being very generous. keithbvadu2 Nov 2020 #9

Judi Lynn

(160,593 posts)
1. "America's Mayor" bit the dust today, but that won't stop him.
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 05:36 PM
Nov 2020


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.

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