Trump Still Says 2020 Rigged He Won Not Biden: SCOTUS Squashed That Trump Delusion Bigly

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Trump and others around him spin on the Supreme Court 9-0 ruling on Texas AG Paxton’s case is as weak as Abe Lincoln once told an opponent about his argument in a Senate campaign debate was weak and when the challenger rebutted asking “how weak,” Lincoln said: “As weak as soup made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death.”

Trump’s election fraud spin is 1,000 times weaker than that soup, cite these recent points in the Washington Post with this short introduction (with my editing to fit the blog) re: the SCOTUS ruling.

That ruling by the Supreme Court on Friday night (December 11) delivered was widely expected to be a significant rebuke of Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, and it was.

In a brief statement, the court (9-0) dismissed the case that Trump had called “the Big One.” It said those who brought the case from Texas AG Ken Paxton (R), GOP leaders in 18 other states, and 2/3 of the GOP members in the House (who signed on in support), all lacked the necessary standing for the court to even consider the case.

Trump, et al rebuttal points:

   1. The court made no ruling on the merits of the suit — that they essentially punted on a technicality — and that this means the claims could still have merit.

   2. That the dissents of Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas suggest there was some merit. Indeed, some have even hailed Alito and Thomas as heroes, in contrast to the three Trump-appointed justices who declined to take a stand.

W/H  Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany summarized the former point while on Fox News and said: “There’s no way to say it other than they dodged. They dodged, they hid behind procedure and they refused to use their authority to enforce the Constitution. This was on standing, dismissed on standing and none gave a view on the facts of the case.”

Trump on Saturday morning retweeted an idea that Alito’s and Thomas’s dissents rendered them defiant defenders of his rightful election saying: “Thank you, Justice Alito. Thank you, Justice Thomas.”

Then Trump retweeted Sean Hannity saying: “Justices Alito and Thomas say they would have allowed Texas to proceed with its election lawsuit.”

Trump himself proclaimed: “Never even given our day in Court!”

Oops, actually he was given his day in court  that is now part of the string of his never-ending court case losses.

There was some confusion Friday night with some critics of Trump’s legal strategy suggesting the two justices had participated in his effort to undermine democracy. 

Also, plenty besides Trump and those he quoted hailed the justices. The two justices’ dissents, though, are considerably less significant than all that.

Justices Alito and Thomas simply echoed their long-standing positions regarding the court’s “original jurisdiction” which means it must accept such a case involving conflicts between states.

Their dissents were merely a matter of course for those two – something they have done before, but not with any kind of commentary on the substance of the claims.

In layman’s terms Alito said, and Thomas agreed: “I would like to hear the case, but would not grant relief other than that.”

Indeed, Alito actually made a pretty significant statement about the substance – but not in Trump’s favor. It reads: “I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.”

Full story continues at the Washington Post site.

My 2 cents: Pretty clear that Trump will never give up – never in his lifetime – he can’t lose or be accused of losing at anything he does, period. 

This will haunt him every single day of his remaining life and he will keep it in the public eye every single day if not weekly – wait and see.

What a pitiful man – a disgrace to the human race and blot on our proud nation to have taken us this low point of disgrace in the eyes of the world – that is a fact.

Trump loves to brag on and about himself; okay brag about dragging us to the lowest point in all of American history, Mr. Trump. Then jump with joy about that achievement – or again as Rick Perry would say: Oops...!!!

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