It starts when you’re always afraid….
The outgoing president wants a second recount in Georgia where the Biden victory margin is inside 0.5 percent. The state completed a hand recount last week and certified election results on Friday. But the losing team is determined to make the rubble bounce atop its political grave (AP):
A Trump legal team statement said: “Today, the Trump campaign filed a petition for recount in Georgia. We are focused on ensuring that every aspect of Georgia State Law and the U.S. Constitution are followed so that every legal vote is counted. President Trump and his campaign continue to insist on an honest recount in Georgia, which has to include signature matching and other vital safeguards.”
Except signature matching won’t be included in the recount they have requested, NBC News explains:
Campaign-requested recounts involve rescanning paper ballots, which would not address Trump’s call to “include signature matching.” The statewide audit did not verify signatures because once outer envelope signatures are verified before votes are originally tallied, they are separated from the ballots inside to maintain voter secrecy.
Plus, “signatures for mail ballots in Georgia have already been verified twice to ensure that each voter only voted once,” the Washington Post adds.
None of which will cool either the hot mess of Trump’s efforts to undo his loss or the fever gripping Trump cultists everywhere. In Atlanta Saturday, Trump supporters held “Stop the Steal” rallies at the Georgia State Capitol, outside the CNN headquarters, and later outside the Georgia Governor’s Mansion in the Buckhead neighborhood. Counter-protesters gathered at City Hall (AJC):
Broadcasts of the rallies showed the crowd shouting “Stop the steal” and “We want justice” while waving Trump 2020 flags.
Police in riot gear lined up between protesters at the pro-Trump rally and counterprotesters, and some counterprotesters lined up holding their own shields. The Capitol rally lasted close to two hours, before coming to a close when police started clearing the roads at 2 p.m.
A few protesters from both camps arrived bearing weapons.
The only outcome Trump supporters will accept is a second term. Democracy (and cogency) be damned.
President 20,000+ lies assured them the only way he could lose the election is if Democrats stole it. They believed him, of course.
His faithful are out there, vigilant, still sniffing about for “evidence” to confirm their suspicions that the election was stolen and the perpetrators in Republican-controlled Georgia are covering it up.
Attorney Lin Wood has filed a lawsuit in Georgia alleging improprieties in verifying absentee ballot signatures there. On Friday, Wood unleashed a volley of retweets of breathless videos by a Trump super-sleuth who spotted a shredding truck outside a Cobb County facility used for ballot processing. “They may be destroying evidence,” he tweeted.
There were several others like that as the sleuths went in hot pursuit of the truck. The social media chatter was enough that Cobb County officials had to issue a statement on the matter:
It reminded me of the time someone alerted me that “windowless” white rail cars used to transport conservative victims to Obama’s FEMA camps were parked in the local rail yard. PROOF! Uh-huh.
This is not going to end well.