You Will Anyway: Clown show

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Clown show

President Donald Trump called into a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, "hearing" on Wednesday hosted by GOP state lawmakers over baseless allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election after his planned trip to the event was canceled.

The President had planned on appearing in-person with his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, but two sources told CNN Trump's trip was canceled. The move came shortly after news broke that Giuliani was exposed to another person who had tested positive for coronavirus.

CNN

So why would that mean Trump couldn't go? He told us he's immune. Doesn't he believe that?

One of Trump's campaign advisers, Boris Epshteyn, said Wednesday morning that he has tested positive for the coronavirus and was experiencing mild symptoms. Epshteyn appeared with Giuliani at a campaign legal team news conference in Washington, DC, six days ago.

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One of Trump's campaign advisers, Boris Epshteyn, said Wednesday morning that he has tested positive for the coronavirus and was experiencing mild symptoms. Epshteyn appeared with Giuliani at a campaign legal team news conference in Washington, DC, six days ago.

Trump had expressed strong interest in joining Giuliani for Wednesday's event and directed aides to make plans for him to travel to Pennsylvania, multiple sources said. The trip, which would have been his first outside of the Washington area since Election Day, was not listed on the public schedule released by the White House on Tuesday night, but was being handled internally as an unannounced movement.

Speaking Wednesday as a witness via speakerphone during the event, Trump once again falsely claimed that he won the 2020 presidential election. He made unproven, unspecified allegations of voter fraud, ballot dumping and voter suppression against his supporters.

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It was the first of three similar events the Trump campaign has scheduled in coordination with Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Michigan.

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Trump is also considering attending a similar event in Michigan next week. The Michigan State Board of Canvassers certified Biden's victory in that state on Monday, after Trump's legal efforts and a pressure campaign on state and local officials collapsed.

Please, god, make it stop.

Giuliani, the leader of the Trump campaign’s legal fight, appeared to have arranged the list of witnesses, who mostly leveled anecdotal allegations about inadequate access to watching the vote-counting on Election Day.

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The remarks from the president came virtually, as Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis — seated beside Giuliani in a Wyndham hotel ballroom — raised her phone to the microphone at their witness table, allowing Trump to participate in the hearing from the Oval Office.

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“I really appreciate being asked to speak,” Trump said, going on to falsely state that he had “easily” won a second term, that the White House race was “rigged,” and that the election’s outcome “has to be turned around.”

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“I want to thank Rudy Giuliani for having the courage to do this. There were other lawyers who backed down because they were being screamed at,” Trump said, adding that the former New York mayor’s work on his behalf “is going to be your crowning achievement.”

Politico

A clown crown.

It's going to be hard to choose. He's had so many.

Rudy and Trump should go to hell. Soon.

UPDATE:

Well then. They MUST be in the right.

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GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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ROSENCRANTZ : The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

GUILDENSTERN: But we don't know what's going on, or what to do with ourselves. We don't know how to act.

PLAYER: Act natural. You know why you're here at least.

GUILDENSTERN: We only know what we're told, and that's little enough. And for all we know it isn't even true.

PLAYER: For all anyone knows, nothing is. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions.

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GUILDENSTERN : We act on scraps of information... sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct.

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PLAYER: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.