Trump's last straw: is the US constitution leveraging the election again? His lawyer works out a perfidious plan

Donald Trump and his team are not giving up.

They just don't want to acknowledge the election defeat.

Now they are setting out to attack the democratic process.

• The still-US President

  Donald Trump

  refuses to recognize his election defeat against the Democrat

  Joe Biden

  .

• After unsuccessful lawsuits against the count in several states, attention has turned to the

  Electoral College

  .

• Trump's personal attorney

  Rudy Giuliani

  has worked out a plan - which he doesn't seem to believe in himself.

Washington - In the

, the new President of the United States is not elected directly, but through electors.

The

306 of them

.

This makes him the winner of the

.

Just not for

and his loyal followers.

He is now trying to use the

, the electoral body, for his own purposes.

Because: The results are not yet official.

First a complicated system is set in motion.

That's exactly where Trump wants to throw a stick into the thread.

To be

for

another four years

.

His approach is very unlikely in practice, but at least possible in theory.

Reasons for this include:

the US Constitution.

US election: Trump team are not running out of ideas

The

not

running out of ideas

.

Their strategy of proving an allegedly bogus election in several states has failed.

So now a change of plan: The

comes into focus.

On December 14th, the electorate will meet to cast their votes for

or

.

Should electors suddenly be different

vote or some states fail to certify their electorate, a tiny window could open for Trump.

He obviously wants to slip through that.

The desired situation must be such that neither

nor

at least

.

Then the

could

go to Congress, says US constitutional lawyer

in the

.

And the

votes on who is the next

.

Trump's game with democracy: the US constitution could still make him the US election winner

This is

where

the

comes into play.

"However, if the vote goes to the House of Representatives after the twelfth amendment, every state receives one vote, so there is no proportional vote," says

in the

.

hope

is then that he could win like this.

Because the still-US president assumes that there are more republican states than democratic ones.

For that, however,

a miracle

would have to

happen

for

on December 14th in the

.

The two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers refusing to approve the election results in Wayne County is a blatant attempt to undermine the will of the voters.

pic.twitter.com/2m8eN6Cfpy

- Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) November 18, 2020

The

also starts with this and another thought game

: the certification of the

.

If the deadline by December 8th is not met, in theory the

the federal states could independently

select

their

.

And

send

a

instead of a

for example

.

That too: more than unlikely.

After the 2020 US election: Donald Trump harms democracy - the goal is the electoral committee

Nevertheless:

According to the US newspapers

and the TV broadcaster

the

fact that

even playing with such a thought harms

American democracy.

"The problem is, he's speaking for the President of the United States," Republican attorney

told

.

The

writes that “the prospect that a presidential election could be stolen from within” represents a “historical level of risk” according to legal experts. As the

further argues

Trump would have to leave

the Republicans

in at least three of the six

convince them to discard their own voters' votes.

A plan that goes back to Trump's personal lawyer:

.

This recently had a bizarre appearance at a press conference.

In the state of

, the Trump team is currently trying to file a lawsuit not to confirm the election result there.

Instead, as in the theory of the

,

the state parliament should

appoint its electorate.

The explosive for Trump: In the local parliaments, the

the majority.

The

reports

.

He is pursuing the plan that they will

vote

for him,

on December 14th

instead of

.

Against the wishes of their own constituents.

Something similar is going on in

.

The still-US president has

invited

Republican representatives from parliament to the

, reports the

, among others

.

Trump's lawyer Giuliani: Joe Biden's victory should be called into question - Whitmer opposes it

That something like this would happen is

unlikely

even for

.

That's what it says behind closed Republican doors.

But according to this information, Giuliani seems to believe that he can delay the results enough

to cast doubt on

victory.

A recent poll by

says that 70 percent of

believe

won by cheating.

Although there is no evidence of

.

The democratic *

,

- that was almost like a conspiracy victim - meanwhile said: "I implore the people to put the country on the party and to do the will of the people - to respect the law and for to ensure that the will of the people is reflected in our electorate and not to play with this fundamental part of our democracy.

“

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