It landed in my inbox half an hour before midnight Monday.
When I saw it early Tuesday morning – hey, I was recovering from New Year’s Eve – it was from Donald Trump, and looked very much like a legal filing.
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So I roused myself for a Trump courthouse motion, undoubtedly to challenge his eviction from the primary ballots in Maine and Colorado.
But it wasn’t.
(By the way, this wasn’t just to me. An aide sent it out to a long media list.)
It included a 32-page, heavily footnoted document, based on work from Trump’s attorneys, but it was not filed in any court. The issue that will ultimately reach the Supreme Court isn’t about the ethics of the 2020 election but the merits of Democratic officials and judges bouncing the Republican front leader from state ballots.
Trump wrote that “if the Republican Senate does not step forward and address this ATROCITY, it will happen again, and be virtually impossible to WIN ELECTIONS in the future. What I was doing is bringing to light the fact that the Election was, without question, Rigged and Stolen.” Otherwise, Trump says, he would have been violating his presidential oath.
(Trump undoubtedly knows the Senate is narrowly controlled by Democrats.)
The legal document deals with five swing states. It begins by saying that the research reveals “reveal hundreds of thousands of votes were altered and/or not lawfully cast in the Presidential Election. Joe Biden needed them. On Election Night Nov. 3, 2020, President Donald J. Trump was sailing to reelection with landslide leads in numerous battlegrounds.
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“In Georgia, President Trump was up by 12 points, and over 335,000 votes, with 56 percent of the vote in at 10:17 p.m. In Wisconsin, President Trump was leading by 121,380 votes and 51 points at 12:12 a.m., which Fox News anchor Bret Baier noted was ‘not a small margin.’ In Pennsylvania, President…
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