Trump attorney Giuliani spreads wild theories – until paint runs down his face

Donald Trump’s lawyers are delving deeper and deeper into conspiracy narratives in their attacks on the outcome of the lost presidential election. They claim, among other things, that the Democrats manipulated the election with the help of communists from Venezuela. They also insist on the repeatedly refuted allegations that the software used in the count converted votes for President Trump in favor of his victorious challenger Joe Biden.

Donald Trump’s team lost several lawsuits

At the same time, the Trump side lost in court proceedings in the states of Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona on Thursday alone. After the Georgia vote recount, state authorities have confirmed Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. The manual re-counting of votes showed “that the original machine-based vote counting accurately reflected the winner of the election,” the Georgia polling officer said. The authorities had decided to recount because of the extremely tight election result.

So far, the Trump side has collected more than 30 slaps in court, with a small success. Trump’s longtime lawyer and confidante Rudy Giuliani, held out further lawsuits.

Biden called Trump’s obstructionist attitude “completely irresponsible”. His refusal to recognize the result of the November 3rd election is damaging the reputation of democracy. Regarding Trump’s efforts to undermine the election result, Biden said he would make the history books as America’s “most irresponsible president”.

Trump’s legal team also said at a press conference on Thursday that no evidence for the allegations could be presented to journalists in view of the pending proceedings. In addition, important witnesses did not want to appear before the general public. That didn’t stop Giuliani from saying, “We can’t let these crooks steal the election from the Americans. They voted Donald Trump. They didn’t vote Joe Biden.” All electoral authorities have so far confirmed that there was no election fraud – or major errors that could call the election result into question.

Rudy Giuliani runs hair dye down his face

Giuliani claimed, however, that he could prove that Trump did not actually lose the important state of Pennsylvania, but won it by a margin of 300,000 votes, and Michigan by 50,000 votes. Among other things, ballot papers were scanned several times. Giuliani’s statement: “I think it is a logical conclusion that there was a joint plan that emanated directly from the Democratic Party and its candidate.” There was no evidence of that either. Giuliani was once a prosecutor himself and later mayor of New York.

Meanwhile, there was amusement that the heavily sweating Giuliani apparently ran hair dye sideways over the face. Photos of the 76-year-old with brown stripes on his cheeks quickly became a hit on online networks. A journalist from the conservative news broadcaster Fox News spoke of a “colorful press conference” – and then emphasized: “So much of what he said is simply not true.”

Trump attorney Sidney Powell made further unsubstantiated claims during the press conference: “What we are really dealing with here is massive leverage of communist money over Venezuela, Cuba and presumably China to interfere in our election.” She also alleged that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, had backdoors built into the software used in the vote count. Allegedly it was possible that a vote cast for Biden was worth 1.25 votes. The software was only used when scanning ballot papers. The electoral authorities stress that there is a paper receipt for every vote cast.

Christopher Krebs, recently fired by Trump, who was a senior government official responsible for safeguarding the elections, described the press conference on Twitter as “the most dangerous 1:45 hour TV in American history”. “And probably the craziest,” he added.

Joe Biden won the majority of the electorate

State results are key to winning a presidential election. The head of state is not elected directly by the people, but by electorates who cast their votes according to the results in their state. According to calculations by the US media, Democrat Biden has 306 electorates behind him, he needs 270 for the presidential election. Trump has 232 electorates. Pennsylvania is a particularly valuable state with 20 voters, Georgia has 16 votes, and Wisconsin 10.

In Pennsylvania, the Trump side, under the direction of his longtime personal attorney and confidante Rudy Giuliani, is calling in a lawsuit, which has been revised for the second time, not to confirm the election result in the state at all. Instead, the local parliament – in which Republicans have a majority – should appoint the electorate. The goal: These elected voters should not vote for election winner Biden on December 14, but for Trump.

In Michigan, Trump has a similar plan. He invited Republican members of the state’s parliament to his White House. Legal expert Lawrence Tribe warned on CNN that such a meeting could be illegal.

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