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Most voters now believe President Trump should admit that he lost the election, although they’re less certain their friends and neighbors would agree. They’re more closely divided, however, over whether the Democrats stole the election as Trump contends.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters think Trump should concede the presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden. Just 33% disagree. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Eighty-four percent (84%) of Democrats, 37% of Republicans and 59% of voters not affiliated with either major party believe Trump should concede. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Republicans disagree.

when I saw Rudy. Jezzus Chrisse he looked like some goddam creature from those HELLBOY MOVIES leaking brown pus down hs crazy eyed face.

NY investigating millions in tax write-offs from the Trump Organization

New York authorities investigating the Trump Organization have expanded their inquiries to include
tax write-offs involving millions of dollars in consulting fees, according to people familiar with the
investigation.

Investigators with the Manhattan district attorney's office, which is conducting a broad criminal
investigation, and the New York attorney general's office, which has a civil inquiry under way, have
subpoenaed the Trump Organization seeking records relating to the consulting fees.

The subpoenas were in response to a New York Times investigation into Trump's tax returns that first
disclosed that he took $26 million in write-offs that came from fees he paid to consultants, including
an apparent $747,000 fee that the Times said matched a payment disclosed by Trump's daughter,
Ivanka Trump...

Arizona Judge Tosses GOP Suit Seeking Maricopa Ballot Audit

(Bloomberg) An Arizona judge dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to force the state’s biggest county to re-do a hand recount of some ballots despite having no evidence of voter fraud or software errors.

The suit by the Arizona Republican Party was thrown out Thursday by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah, who expressed skepticism about the case at a hearing this week in Phoenix. Democrats had accused the state GOP of intentionally trying to make the county miss the state’s Nov. 30 deadline for certifying election results.

Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, favored President-elect Joe Biden in the election, helping deliver his narrow margin of victory in the state over President Donald Trump.

The Nov. 12 lawsuit argued the county’s state-mandated hand count of a sample of ballots -- to audit voting machine accuracy -- must be repeated because officials sampled votes from 2% of polling places, called vote centers, instead of 2% of precincts.

Late Challenge
Hannah suggested at the Wednesday hearing that the GOP could have challenged the audit rules before the election but failed to do so. He said he was “having a hard time” understanding why Republicans waited so long, given that they had a representative involved with the process more than two weeks before the election, during early voting.

“This audit process effectively started before the election,” Hannah said at the hearing. “They waited until after the election, until they knew how the vote had apparently come out, before they filed” the lawsuit.

The Arizona Democratic Party, which intervened in the suit, said in a motion to dismiss the case that the county’s audit was already complete and that it found “zero discrepancies from the machine tabulated count.”

At the hearing, GOP attorney John Wilenchik said it doesn’t matter if the county’s original audit didn’t find anything wrong because doing it again “makes sure there’s no fraud.”

“This is about ensuring integrity,” he said. “You gotta do them because it could turn up something.”

Geoff Burgan, the Biden Campaign’s Arizona communications director, said in a statement that the lawsuit was “frivolous and rightfully dismissed” and asked Governor Doug Ducey to move on.

“Arizona’s election was well-run and transparent, and far-right fringes of the Arizona Republican Party should stop trying to undermine Arizonans’ faith in free and fair elections,” Burgan said. “This ruling is a win for Arizonans who turned out in record numbers this fall. It’s time for Governor Ducey and others to move forward and recognize the will of the voters, given the pressing issues Arizona is facing with COVID-19.”

Detroit Elections Worker Says She Was Instructed to Change Ballot Dates

A Detroit city worker who was assigned to the election has sworn in an affidavit that she and others were ordered to change mailing dates on ballots and observed supervisors “coaching” voters to cast ballots for Democratic Joe Biden.

Jessy Jacob, a longtime city worker, signed the affidavit in a lawsuit by the Great Lakes Justice Center – which says it focuses on freedom of speech, religious liberty and sanctity of life, among other issues — on behalf of two Michigan voters.

It claims ballots were forged, voters were coached to cast ballots, dates were changed on absentee ballots, people were allowed to vote in person and cast an absentee ballot, ballots were counted for which there was no registered voter, and tens of thousands of ballots arrived late, all for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

“The suit states Wayne County election officials allowed illegal, unlawful, and fraudulent processing of votes cast in last Tuesday’s election,” the Great Lake Justice Center said Sunday in a release. “Numerous witnesses have filed sworn affidavits under oath attesting to the fraudulent activities they observed directly. These acts disenfranchised lawful voters and potentially changed the outcome of the election.”

The suit asks that the election results be voided and a new election ordered.

Trump is very possibly a threat to US intelligence-gathering efforts in Russia given his friendship with Putin and given his tendencies to vengeance. It just occurred to me that we're really very lucky that Trump hates reading or listening to any briefings that last more than 34 seconds.

In one of the most outrageous and lopsided politically partisan acts of the 2020 General Election, the Wisconsin Elections Commission has seated 118 Democrats to the 176 recount poll worker positions giving access to just 58 Republicans to the process.

Those Trump Elite Legal Strike Force Teams are striking terror wherever they go.

The Cancel Culture Moves Against Trump Lawyers

Now, the Never-Trumper "Republicans" of the Lincoln Project... have dreamed up a way to self-righteously interfere with legal due process.

Reminder: our system of justice guarantees citizens the presumption of innocence and the ability to access the courts to address torts and grievances.

The larger point to consider is that should a Biden presidency come about, these sorts of tactics -- and the general, national shift to centralized government control -- will increasingly be compulsory. It is a philosophical thing. Big Government, Big Media, Big Tech, Big Medicine, Big Solutions -- all at the expense of the individual: Individual rights, individual property, personal wealth, personal privacy, individual responsibility, personal conscience. Those will all have to be compromised supposedly for the greater good -- especially if you supported Trump.

According to civil rights attorney Harmeet Dhillon (pictured), lawyers representing Republicans have received death threats and been "doxxed" by people opposing the Trump-Pence campaign's ability to lawfully challenge contentious election results.

Biden Loses Almost 2,000 Votes in Georgia Recount, Trump Campaign Preparing Lawsuit Over Fraud

“Headlines are already falsely reporting that Joe Biden is declared the winner in Georgia. Sorry, media, that’s not how it works. The State of Georgia has not certified its results, and it should not. This so-called hand recount went exactly as we expected because Georgia simply recounted all of the illegal ballots that had been included in the total,” it said. “We continue to demand that Georgia conduct an honest recount, which includes signature matching. We intend to pursue all legal options to ensure that only legal ballots are counted.”

Yesterday, Rudy Giuliani and the legal team for President Donald Trump laid their “opening statement” out by discussing the massive amount of evidence they say they have compiled in multiple battleground states. The former New York City mayor says there is enough evidence of voter fraud in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Michigan that, if those illegal ballots are thrown out, President Trump would win the election.

“I can prove to you that he won Pennsylvania by 300,000 votes. I can prove to you that he won Michigan by probably 50,000 votes,” he said.

Giuliani said these states need full audits and recounts of the vote and indicated the recount in Georgia and other states “means nothing” because fraudulent ballots will be counted again.

Is the following the same case you are speaking of? I read both and it seems like it is, but it's legal stuff and I might easily mistake something.

DO TRUMP’S LAWYERS KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING?

‘Exhibit Q’: Lawyer Lin Wood Submits that Michigan Is Really Minnesota in Failed Pro-Trump Election Affidavit

The first one was yesterday and second is today. So I am pretty sure both are one and the same. the Judge is a Trump appointed judge.

In late October, a federal judge denied the Department of Justice’s effort to fend off rape allegations against President Donald Trump in a defamation suit on the taxpayer’s dime, but the court’s docket did not catch up with that reality for weeks.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan made the record abundantly clear in a 1-page order on Friday.

“[T]he docket sheet erroneously lists Mr. [Stephen] Terrell and another attorney as counsel for defendant Trump,” Kaplan wrote, referring to a Justice Department lawyer. “That is incorrect. They represent only the United States.”

Carroll says that Trump defamed her by denying that he raped her in the dressing room of the department store Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s.

The Justice Department tried to barge into the case in September, insisting that Trump responding to rape allegations with comments like “She’s not my type” is just one of the duties befitting of the President of the United States.

Carroll’s legal described that proposition as wrong and obscene the next month.

“There is not a single person in the United States — not the president and not anyone else — whose job description includes slandering women they sexually assaulted,” attorney Roberta Kaplan wrote last month in a blistering legal brief. “That should not be a controversial proposition. Remarkably, however, the Justice Department seeks to prove it wrong.”

The Justice Department nevertheless persisted, only for Judge Kaplan to reject their effort mere days before the presidential election.

“As explained above, the undisputed facts demonstrate that President Trump was not acting in furtherance of any duties owed to any arguable employer when he made the statements at issue,” the judge said. “His comments concerned an alleged sexual assault that took place several decades before he took office, and the allegations have no relationship to the official business of the United States. To conclude otherwise would require the Court to adopt a view that virtually everything the president does is within the public interest by virtue of his office. The government has provided no support for that theory, and the Court rejects it as too expansive.”

The judge ordered on Friday that Trump’s prior private counsel in the state lawsuit represent the outgoing president in federal court.

“Accordingly, by virtue of their appearance on behalf of Mr. Trump in the state court, Messrs. [Marc] Kasowitz and Burgo and Ms. Montenegro represent Mr. Trump in this removed action unless and until relieved by this Court,” the order said, referring to Trump campaign’s lawyer for the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

Kasowitz did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.

An initial pre-trial conference has been scheduled for Dec. 11 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

Rasmussen Reports (the pollster that Trump likes and uses)

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Most voters now believe President Trump should admit that he lost the election, although they’re less certain their friends and neighbors would agree. They’re more closely divided, however, over whether the Democrats stole the election as Trump contends.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters think Trump should concede the presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden. Just 33% disagree. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Eighty-four percent (84%) of Democrats, 37% of Republicans and 59% of voters not affiliated with either major party believe Trump should concede. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Republicans disagree.

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/61_think_trump_should_concede_to_biden