Posted on 11/17/2020 11:23:21 AM PST by Red Badger
There seem to be two possibilities: A legal end-around or a brilliant misdirect. Either way, President Trump wins reelection in the end if his attorneys play their hands right.
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In Texas Holdem poker, getting an ugly win is better than getting a bad beat. An ugly win is when one bets heavily when they shouldn’t based on the cards they’re holding when they bet, but luck plays out and they beat the odds in the end. A bad beat is being on the losing end of such a play. That appears to be the bet President Trump’s attorneys are making with their current strategy that includes a constitutional crisis and a nation in which half of the people will feel cheated.
But there’s a good chance we’re not seeing the whole picture. Behind the ugly facade of getting good votes thrown out with the bad, could the team be working harder on the technological end rather than the analog side of voter fraud? There are clear indicators that what we’re seeing in court filings is only there to draw attention away from the real play.
Here’s what the forward-facing strategy appears to be. President Trump’s attorneys are claiming that actions by election officials in certain contested areas presented Democrats with too many opportunities to commit voter fraud. They wouldn’t allow Republican observers to participate, making analog voter fraud not only possible but likely in states like Pennsylvania and Michigan. Therefore, the votes must be thrown out completely.
According to Just The News:
The lawyers are prepared to argue that votes that were counted on election night and the day after without GOP observers present in Democrat-led cities should be thrown out because they were tainted by a process that was left open to fraud and abuse and illegally treated voters differently in various jurisdictions. The Trump campaign lawyers have identified 680,000-plus votes in Pennsylvania and about 250,000 in Michigan they believe fall into the category.
To augment the case, the lawyers are securing affidavits and declarations from citizens who allege:
they went to the polls to vote and were told they had already voted when they had not cast ballots they are listed as voting in a state where they did not cast ballots they witnessed fraudulent or improper vote counting activities as observers or election officials extreme statistical anomalies uncovered in a handful of battleground states’ vote totals are prima facie proof of fraudulent or untoward vote collection and counting activities
The request to discount large numbers of votes is a high legal and political hurdle to surmount, but it is not without precedent. In the last year, North Carolina threw out an entire special congressional election in its 9th District after evidence emerged that mail-in ballots were tainted by a ballot harvesting scheme tied to a GOP operative. And in New Jersey, a state judge earlier this year ordered new municipal election in Patterson, N.J., after evidence of ballot fraud emerged.
This strategy is not to “flip” contested states from Joe Biden to President Trump. It’s designed to invalidate enough votes to prevent electors from being selected, thus keeping Biden below the 270 Electoral College threshold. If that sounds ugly, it’s because it is. If it sounds risky, you’re hearing correctly. If the election is essentially voided, it goes to the House of Representatives to select the President and the Senate to select the Vice-President.
Despite the Democrats’ majority in the House, Republicans actually enjoy a slight advantage in this scenario. Every state gets one delegation vote. With more states having a GOP majority than Democrats, conventional wisdom says they would select President Trump. But if this scenario plays out, it is certain Democrats will petition their representatives to “do the right thing” and honor what they believe to be the true will of the people. It will almost certainly lead to more riots and anarchy unlike anything we’ve seen in 2020, which is saying a lot.
The Senate operates differently. Each Senator gets a vote, so control of the Senate based on the Georgia runoff elections will determine who fills the VP slot. Is it possible to have President Biden working with Vice President Pence or President Trump working with Vice President Harris? Yes.
But all of this could be moot. While the bulk of attention on the legal end is focused on filings by Team Trump in Pennsylvania and Michigan, there is another angle that has not really been touched by mainstream media. As we reported shortly after the election, Dominion Voting Systems seems to be at the heart of the technological side of voter fraud. Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell have been hammering this point, as has famed attorney Lin Wood. It seems possible, almost likely, that all of this talk of throwing out votes based on unequal protection is a feint. The real play could be widespread digital voter fraud.
In that scenario, the attorneys will not have to force the Supreme Court into a judgment call. They’ll be able to demonstrate unambiguous voter fraud on a massive scale. That would be ideal as it would no longer be about throwing out ballots. It would be about counting the ballots properly. From both a public narrative and a legal perspective, forcing hand-recounts and audits rather than tossing ballots altogether is more palatable.
If the President’s attorneys’ apparent strategy plays out, he will likely win with a nation sharply divided. If this is all a distraction and Dominion Voting Systems is the real play, this could be the political gambit of the ages. Either way, President Trump wins if the Supreme Court accepts the Trump team’s arguments.
Either way, President Trump wins if the Supreme Court accepts the Trump team's arguments.
They won't.
I feel like it’s “Trust Sessions, there’s a secret plan” all over again here. This isn’t Perry Mason and I’m not buying that Trump has a secret plan to make a shocking announcement that turns to whole thing around, especially if the plan requires GOP drones in several states to all find a spine and do something surprising and politically risky.
That does it. You’re no longer in charge of team morale.
I refuse to believe the president has been beating the drum for months now about election fraud & doing NOTHING about it.
That does it. You’re no longer in charge of team morale.
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LOL!
theyve already demonstrated unambiguous voter fraud on a massive scale, but it doesn’t seem there is any legal mechanism to address that.....
It’s neither of those. It’s just a Hail Mary that is not going to work. I’ve followed a lot of these claims of fraud and there is no there there. It’s as bad as the Russian collusion nonsense the libs were selling. Very disappointed that so many freepers are jumping on this bandwagon.
I worked on Trumps campaign in my area in 2016 so they have my e-mail. I would get e-mails occasionally asking for contributions. Since the election I’ve been getting 15-20 emails a day asking for contributions to fight the fraud. It’s really starting to look like this is a money grab and it’s pissing me off.
Not seeing any evidence of a plan, I suspect Trump is pissed and rightfully so and nobody can reach him at this stage..
I wonder what that person would have been saying when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Never fear. Q will gallop in to save the day! /s
Stop overthinking things.
I refuse to believe the president has been beating the drum for months now about election fraud & doing NOTHING about it.
He did that before with spygate
Who has been indicted? Nobody
Trust Sessions!
I am sick of this 34252D chess crap
The strategy is to “release the kraken!!!”
Trump does not have a Royal straight flush up his sleeve!
A recount alone, with an audit and recanvass, may prove fruitful in some states.
I saw that 2000 votes or so were “found” for Trump in just one county yesterday (700 more for Biden though). And that’s in just one county—perhaps there are more.
Well I have made some sizeable donations to the 2016 and 2020 campaigns and now they blow my phone up daily wanting more money with no evidence of a plan to win this..Fixing to unsubscribe..
the attorneys will not have to force the Supreme Court into a judgment call. They'll be able to demonstrate unambiguous voter fraud on a massive scale. That would be ideal as it would no longer be about throwing out ballots. It would be about counting the ballots properly. From both a public narrative and a legal perspective, forcing hand-recounts and audits rather than tossing ballots altogether is more palatable.
Maybe I misunderstand, but this seems fundamentally "off".
I don't want them to count "more carefully". A lot of those paper ballots are tainted and should not be counted, but there is no way, now, to know which paper is proper and which paper is bogus. So, counting "more carefully" is no clear solution.
Also, you can never find 100% of the bogus ballots. Maybe Joe won a state by 20,000 votes -- you find 15,000 improper ballots. Okay. Now Joe won the state by 5000 votes. But did you find them all? There is no way to tell. Trump may still have won if you missed 10,000 additional bogus ballots.
It's a tainted election and you can't trust any part of it.
The Software is still an important aspect. If you can show widespread systemic efforts at fraud across multiple states, then that is additional motivation to throw out the whole tainted election and throw this over to the state delegations.
But forcing the issue of "careful" handcounts really gets us nowhere.
“They won’t.”
Wassamatta u?
FIGHT!
Kracken? The only thing that can come from a giant squid is fried calamari
“It’s really starting to look like this is a money grab and it’s pissing me off”.
People like you piss me off. Get your head out of your azz and try to use some critical thinking and look at the big picture..
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