Karl Rove: Continued election-fraud claims would turn GOP senators against Trump

WND ^ | 01/18/2021 | Bob Unruh

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President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said that as a member of the president's defense team in his upcoming impeachment trial he's preparing to argue that the president's claims of voter fraud did not constitute incitement to violence because the claims are true.

"They basically claimed that anytime [Trump] says voter fraud, voter fraud — or I do, or anybody else — we're inciting violence; that those words are fighting words because it's totally untrue," Giuliani told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl. "Well, if you can prove that it's true, or at least true enough so it's a legitimate viewpoint, then they are no longer fighting words."

Republican strategist Karl Rove told "Fox News Sunday" he thinks Giuliani has "charted a very bad course for the president" that is likely to persuade at least 17 Republicans to side with Democrats and convict Trump.

"Well, those charges and the so-called experts that the campaign has mustered to advocate them have been rejected by over 50 courts with judges appointed by President Trump, President Obama, Present Bush, President Clinton, and I think even one Reagan justice," he said.

"So if it's the Rudy Giuliani defense, there is a strong likelihood that more than 17 Republicans will (vote to convict) because essentially that argument is this was justified, the attack on the Capital and the attempt to end the congressional hearing on certifying the election was justified because all these charges are true, and frankly they aren’t," he said.

Giuliani and many of Trump's supporters have argued the courts did not dismiss the more than 60 cases based on the merits. And they point, among other things, to some 3,000 affidavits from witnesses of vote fraud.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Rove insisted the Trump team has been "given every opportunity to prove them in a court of law and have failed to do so."

As far as I know, those alleging voter fraud in this past election have never been granted an evidentiary hearing in any trial. There has never been a ruling on the merits of the claims and therefore there has been no opportunity to prove them.

Rove, Bush, FoxNews, and the professional Republican political class are all over. They're done. They can now be seen for what they really are. We have rejected them and their endless self-enrichment. Their only future lies in the Democratic Party or whatever establishment institution ends up replacing it.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Karl, take your little tablet boards and shove them where the sun don’t shine. Sorry if you suffer brain damage in the process but that’s life.

WHEN there is a good court case HEARD on real evidence presented about real election anomalies, glitches, stoppages, lost or damaged or changed ballots, banned legal observers, hidden storage bins with ballots in them, etc., then you can claim that the Trump team has been “given every opportunity to prove them in a court of law and have failed to do so”.

Other than that, are you really related to CNN’s bald, little turn Brian Stetzler?

[Old Coach1]

Fox News Sunday, huh? Karl Rove and Chris Wallace discussing the President? Fascinating.