Dragonlady
Designing Woman
That's what campaigns and debates are all about - the contest for the votes. That's the ONLY contest that matters. When elections are "contested" in the courts, it's because the loser has evidence that there has been fraud or deceipt in the result, or that all votes have not been counted.
Trump filed no evidence of any improprieties in either the conduct of the elections, or in the counting of the votes. In fact, Trump tried to STOP the counting of the votes while he was leading, saying the mail-in votes should not be counted, knowing that most Democrats voted by mail, due to the pandemic.
The only attempt to "steal" the election, came from Trump's attempts to install fake electors, and to keep the House from certifying the states' counts, and when that failed, to send a mob to stop the certification and give him an excuse to declare Martial Law.
There is nothing that Trump ordered with respect to fake electors, or stopping the certification of the election on January 6th, that is either legal or Constitutional.
You don't "contest" the election in the courts. You contest the election during the campaign, and if you lose the contest for the votes, you put on your Big Boy pants and you concede that you lost. And then you retire.
Look at Trump's business history. When his company is fired from a project, he sues for years, all while billing for work no one wants him to do. He loses every case, and then appeals to a higher court. When all appeals are lost, the condo owners have to get the SHERIFF to throw him out and change the locks on the doors.
This is a life-long pattern of criminal behaviour by this con artist.
She told the Court in the Dominion defamation case that no one in their right mind would believe the claims she was making about Dominion, were true.
What I find shocking is the number of supposedly intelligent, highly educated people who seem enthusiastically willing to do ANYTHING Donald Trump asks him to do, legal or otherwise. Now they complain he never paid them, and he's just left them hung out to dry. Poor dears.
And then there are the members of the Trump Cult who refuse to believe that Trump is guillty of anything - ever. Proof positive that you can fool some of the people all of the time. The problem for Trump is that he fooled the public into electing him the first time, and it ain't gonna happen again. You cannot fool enough of the people all of the time to make that happen.
I keep harping back to the CIA's loss of agents the world over, in 2021. This article came out months before we knew that Trump has stolen boxes of highly classified documents and was keeping them in toilets and ballrooms at his beach resort. Did Trump expose American agents to his buddies in Russia, Turkey, and China?
Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants (Published 2021)
Counterintelligence officials said in a top secret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost.
Then there's his abandonment of the Kurds, who were holding ISIS prisoners,, and were forced to release them when they fled the Turkish assault, after Erdogan's late night phone call to Trump:
Nobody Has a Plan for ISIS Fighters Detained by Kurds in Syria
The abrupt U.S. withdrawal from Syria means nobody knows who will eventually control the 10,000 ISIS fighters there or where they will wind up.
theintercept.com
Now we see Hamas using ISIS techniques in their attacks on Isreal. How did THAT happen???
