WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, but his pleas to Michigan lawmakers to overturn the will of their constituents appeared to have left them unswayed.
Sooooo…Michigan should not expect to get any covid funds until January 21.
OK class …
Provide an example of a “Freudian Slip”…
How about:
During a telephone interview for CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Mnuchin said “we’re working on mass distribution of the virus.”
Well Trump said we would tire of winning - do we get to be tired of his losing?
They said no because it would be illegal for them to do what Trump wanted them to do. Even had they wanted to placate Trump, they couldn’t. This whole trip was just more headlines, chaos, division and attention for Trump. IOW, it’s what he thrives on.
Can’t believe we’re consumed with this drama all for the sake of an idiot’s ego. Send him to another country where coups and dictators are more appreciated.
“Will no one rid me of these troublesome electors.”
-King DJT
What a sad, sick and disgusting orange turd.
Trump is still trying to hang onto the goodies / toys etc.
Where this is going to get real scary is when he finally has to come to grips with the fact that it will not be his to play with any more …
Because that is when the psycho gets really ugly and screams “if I can’t have it then NOBODY can have it!!!” And tries to totally destroy everything.
Someday, we may fondly look back on this as the 70 times Donald Trump lost the election.
I’m taking no laps and counting no chickens, but nevertheless…
If this Republic stands (and we overcome COVID, and worldwide gangsterism and poverty, environmental degradation, authoritarianism and the rest of the sad litany of 21st century human greed and stupidity), historians are going to look back a century from now, on this 4+ years (and what led to them, and what followed) as an absolute watershed moment in the history of participatory democracy.
I’m sorry that ANY of us had to live through the reign of this mad king, but–and all recognition and mourning for the pointless loss of the 275K+ who didn’t make it–living through it will have been an extraordinary victory for Our Side.
Surprise surprise
People taking to the streets if votes are thrown out or otherwise the results are somehow changed is a feature for the hard core like Bannon or Stone and I believe for Trump too. For that will allow the police in various forms and then the military, in their dream anyway, to step in. I firmly believe the installation of the hack Defense Secretary was done in hopes that the military could be called in. Which assumes the military command would follow orders. In a perfect nightmare scenario one can imagine that Miller taking direct civilian control of Special Forces was done with a mind to using said forces onto the streets, especially the streets of the Capital. Call me paranoid, fine.
per WaPo
It’s true there is no precedent for this type of event. Yes, his term will be up, but wonder if he won’t leave which I think is really likely.
If they had tried to steal the elections via the legislatures I’m pretty sure that the protests that kicked off would have made this past summer seem like a girl scout soiree. We’re one close election from an authoritarian state and the if the next wanna be Stalin that Republicans come up with has any amount of charisma and competence then we will be deep in it for sure. Which is why, imho, that AG Garland should absolutely prosecute every single instance of malfeasance by Trump and his enablers. If you let them go in the spirit of ‘comity’ and ‘moving on’ you only encourage the next ones to try even harder. If there are no consequences for trying to subvert our democracy why would they ever stop trying?
“That Woman” wasn’t going to get anything anyway… But this just seals it.
Interesting column in the Times by Jamelle Bouie arguing that the stimulus payments were what prevented a Biden landslide. If that’s the case, which could well be, then McConnell was the one who caused Trump’s defeat by blocking a second stimulus. Interesting speculation, was that deliberate?
If we are counting every time a 
needs to go in the “L” column …
Count every single time that in one of these court cases , the Trump lawyers are directly asked
“So are you arguing that FRAUD has been committed ??” … and the Trump lawyers retreat faster than if they just spotted a grenade with the pin pulled. For all of the ugly trash talk about widespread fraud …these cowards will absolutely not make a genuine legal claim of it in court… because this talk is nothing but lies.
Living in Michigan I don’t think they said NO as much as they feared the target on their backs when it became known that tRump had summoned them to Michigan. They knew by law that they had NO power to give tRump the electoral votes and they knew the AG was paying close attention. Messing with this could have made them ineligible for public office permanently. So my take on this rather than the PR statement they put out afterwards about speaking to tRump for COVID relief, something they had never done or thought about before because of their disdained for Gov. Whitmer, this was about the tRump base in Michigan. If they ignored the summons, the base would retaliate in the next election-so they went. It’s as simple as that.
Does this make him a loser?