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Wrestling for the White House: Trump wants to sue for the presidency - that's the bitter interim balance

2020-11-16T21:43:18.711Z


US President Donald Trump continues the wave of lawsuits against the result of the US election: Now his lawyers are suffering a bitter defeat - but Rudy Giuliani continues to fight.


US President Donald Trump continues the wave of lawsuits against the result of the US election: Now his lawyers are suffering a bitter defeat - but Rudy Giuliani continues to fight.

  • US President Donald Trump *

    fails with most of the lawsuits against the result of the US election in 2020 *.

  • Although a defeat in

    Pennsylvania is

    particularly heavy, his personal

    lawyer Rudy Giuliani

    wants to

    keep fighting for Trump.

  • Meanwhile, with each

    defeat in court,

    the number of his Republican supporters diminishes.

Pennsylvania - The fact that the incumbent

President Donald Trump *

continues to refuse to

admit

his

election defeat is

keeping the

United States

in suspense.

With an immensely expensive

wave of lawsuits

and the demand for

recounts

, Trump still wants to

avert

the victory of his

democratic challenger

- and meanwhile "President-Elect" -

Joe Biden *

in some states, although experts attest him only negligibly small chances of success.

Last week, a court had

Trump

to a small

success

helped and some absentee votes in

Pennsylvania

declared invalid.

Otherwise the

Republicans

and their lawyers have so far been largely unsuccessful.

US President Trump: Will a wave of lawsuits lead him to re-election?

in eight out of 16 cases there were defeats

The

New York Times

writes of

a total of

16 lawsuits

:

Half of them have already been rejected, for example the

Conservatives

in

Michigan

flashed

a lawsuit and an appeal in

Pennsylvania

.

The air for the

Republicans

in court is now apparently getting thinner, so that

Trump's

lawyers have

already

withdrawn their lawsuits

in two cases

due to a lack of prospects of success.

This was

the case

in

Arizona

, for example

.

Five cases are still under negotiation, one in

Michigan

, two in

Pennsylvania

, one in

Nevada

and one in

Wisconsin

.

If you believe the

New York Times

,

Trump

doesn't have good cards here either.

Among other things, the well-known

law firm

Porter Wright Morris & Arthur

announced that they would no longer work with

Trump

on election fraud campaigns - but no official reason was given.

Shortly afterwards, the largest law firm in the

United States

,

Jones Day

, also declared its collaboration with

Trump

over.

While

Trump could

potentially

lose support

within the

Republican Party

with every defeat in court

,

Rudy Giuliani remains

a prominent ally at his side.

US election on video: Trump holds on to allegations of election fraud

But

Giuliani

, the closest advisor and personal lawyer to the incumbent but voted out president, reportedly suffered severe defeat: In Pennsylvania, a legal team withdrew

one of the

main counts

,

according to the

Washington Post

.

It is about the claim that

no Republican election observers were allowed

on

election day November 3rd

.

This allegation turned out to be unfounded, so that Trump's lawyers backed down in court.

Trump

himself had repeatedly relied on this accusation and

propagated

it especially on

Twitter

- so the news should have hit him quite a bit.

But anyone who now thinks that

Trump

will

no longer go to court

in

Pennsylvania

is clearly wrong.

Trump's campaign spokesman

Tim Murtaugh

announced at least on Monday on

Twitter

that

682,479 absentee ballots

would be sued, which

allegedly - according to the allegation of the

Republicans

- had been counted "in secret"

in "Swing State"

Pennsylvania

.

On Friday,

Murtaugh made a

polemical

claim

that the “left mob” cracked down on the lawyers who withdrew the lawsuits until they collapsed under the pressure.

Who will be US President?

Trump's team is making new allegations in Pennsylvania

According to a report by the

AP

agency

, the

“restructured” lawsuit by Trump's team is

not based on this allegation, but on the thesis in some - predominantly democratic - counties, voters were given the opportunity

to improve

ballot papers

because of a formal error

.

That did not happen in counties that were dominated by the Republic.

Here one sees unequal treatment.

This story is completely erroneous.

Our lawsuit in Pennsylvania absolutely still makes an issue of the 682,479 mail-in and absentee ballots that were counted in secret.



To write that we had scrapped that argument requires not reading the amended complaint.

https://t.co/39CvzAoIyl

- Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) November 16, 2020

Despite Trump's efforts,

Joe Biden's team

is surprisingly calm and publicly classifies the lawsuits as pure

"theater"

.

Trump,

on the other hand, still speaks of the fact that the election could ultimately be

decided

by the

Supreme Court in Washington

.

Six of the nine judges there are now considered to be conservative *, as

Trump appointed

three of them himself.

Legal experts believe it is

impossible

- mainly because of

Biden's

comparatively large lead in many states - that

the US Supreme Court

could overturn

the

election result

due to the individual lawsuits.

Excuse me, Mr. President @realDonaldTrump



Sir, You've LOST your Re-Election



Sir, It's Time for you to CONCEDE



Sir, It's Time for you to have some DIGNITY



Sir, It's Time for you to GO

- The Resistor Sister ♥ ️🇺🇸🦅🙏🏻 (@the_resistor) November 15, 2020

The fact that

Trump

still refuses to acknowledge his defeat makes

the handover extremely difficult

for

Biden

- support for the incumbent is actually provided for by law for the transition.

With Republicans

continuing to publicly

portray

Biden's election victory

as uncertain,

Trump

gains

time to plan any next legal steps.

By December

8,

the states certify their

election results

and report them to Washington.

On

December 14th,

the

538 electors

vote and elect the new president and his deputy.

On

January 6

, the result will be announced in Congress and on

January 20

the new president is solemnly sworn in.

(cos) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.

Source: merkur

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