The Party has indulged his lunacy for their own purposes for four long years and this was always likely to be the result:
President Trump’s legal team seems bent on taking down not just Trump, but the entire Republican Party with it.
Having failed to make its case in several courts across the country, Trump’s legal team has begun to push baseless conspiracy theories that allege massive voter fraud. One of the many problems with this strategy is that it distracts from a real problem: Georgia’s two Senate run-off elections. Even worse, these accusations of fraud have actually begun to undermine Republicans’ chances in Georgia to a debilitating degree.
This weekend, attorney Sidney Powell claimed she was going to “blow up” Georgia with the “Kraken” of evidence that she refuses to give to anyone — even the rest of Trump’s legal team. She went on to accuse Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of accepting “financial benefits” to use Dominion Voting Systems, which she claims was used to switch nearly 7 million votes for Trump to President-elect Joe Biden. In other words, Powell accused Georgia’s Republican officials of actively working against the leader of their party.
Hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters will believe her. Indeed, immediately after Powell made her accusation, hundreds of pro-Trump users vowed on Twitter not to vote for either Georgia Republican senators because of Kemp’s alleged corruption. While Twitter may not be real life, this fiasco did prompt Donald Trump Jr. to urge his father’s base to show up in full force for Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
It will be interesting to see if the cult will follow instructions from the likes of Don Jr or will follow the wingnut rabbit down the conspiracy hole:
Meanwhile, on Planet Trump:
President Donald Trump is sweating over his campaign lawyers’ dismal and often outlandish efforts to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s projected electoral victory.
Trump is worried that his campaign’s legal team, which is being led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, is composed of “fools that are making him look bad,” NBC News reported Monday…
I’m afraid that ship sailed a long time ago. Why couldn’t he see that Giuliani is a drunken embarrassment before now?
On Sunday, one of the team’s members, conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell, was effectively fired after suggesting — again without any proof — that the Republican governor and secretary of state of Georgia were part of a plot to rig the election for Biden.
Powell’s ouster came days after she made similarly over-the-top claims at a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington.
Trump has complained to White House aides and outside allies about how Giuliani and Powell conducted themselves at that event, NBC reported.
But when asked why Trump doesn’t fire Giuliani and other attorneys who remain on the team, a person familiar with the president’s thinking gave a profane shoulder shrug of an answer.
“Who the f— knows?” that person said to NBC News.
For now, Giuliani has kept his job as the president’s point man on the election challenge, even after a week in which he gave a widely derided argument in Pennsylvania federal court, only to see a judge on Saturday issue a scathing dismissal of the campaign’s vote challenge lawsuit.
Giuliani, who was once a top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, also presided over the press conference at RNC headquarters, where he stood and watched Powell promote the campaign’s most far-fetched vote fraud allegations to date.
At that event, Giuliani perspired so heavily that sweat apparently blackened from hair dye conspicuously ran down his cheeks as he made baseless allegations of electoral skullduggery.
Trump, who is obsessed with television and the personal appearances of people on it, was not happy with Giuliani’s look at the press conference, a person familiar with the president’s reaction told NBC News.
I’ve always thought Trump’s patience with Giuliani was odd for someone so obsessed with appearance. (That Borat thing alone…)
Of course this is a guy who thinks troweling on make-up and wearing a bird’s nest on top of his head is attractive so his standards are a little bit obscure. But evidently, he wasn’t thrilled with the slimy, black rivulets running down Giuliani’s face when he was giving an insane press conference . Imagine that.
I don’t know where this is all going. But we have entered a new phase. The GSA has finally allowed the formal transition to begin now that today’s gambit to get the Michigan Republicans to refuse to certify the election didn’t work.
But stay tuned. I doubt Trump is throwing in the towel just yet.