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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 11:02 AM Sep 2020

Trump admits he wants Supreme Court seat filled to make sure he keeps the White House

By Emily Singer -September 23, 2020 9:52 AM
Trump said he needed nine justices on the court to help him when he files lawsuits against counting absentee ballots.

Donald Trump on Tuesday said the reason he needs to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court ahead of the election is because he needs another justice to rule in his favor if he challenges the counting of absentee ballots.

Trump's campaign has filed numerous lawsuits to try to make it harder for Americans to vote this fall, trying to ban the expansion of voting by mail in the midst of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, as well as trying to block the use of ballot drop boxes that make it easier for voters to hand their absentee ballots in without fear of U.S. Postal Service delays invalidating their vote.

"We need nine justices. You need that. With the unsolicited millions of ballots that they're sending — it's a scam, it's a hoax, everybody knows that and the Democrats know it better than anybody else. So you're gonna need 9 justices up there," Trump said Tuesday before a campaign trip to Pennsylvania, where he held another rally for supporters who mostly disregarded social distancing guidelines meant to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

"I think it's going to be very important, because what they're doing is a hoax with the ballots, they're sending out tens of millions of ballots, unsolicited, not where they're being asked, unsolicited, so you're going to need to have nine justices. So doing it before the election would be a very good thing, because you're going to probably see it," Trump added.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/trump-supreme-court-seat-mail-in-voting-absentee-ballot-challenge/

Lets see he invites assholes into the white to have talks from countries that sorta rig's election, and what do these countries do when they first change the courts to there favor, they help the authoritarian rig the election count ….. hmmmm which countries have done this, Poland, Hungary, Egypt for starters and he has said nothing about Belarus...….and then his all time favorite bud Putti....see a pattern here....

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough

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Trump admits he wants Supreme Court seat filled to make sure he keeps the White House (Original Post) turbinetree Sep 2020 OP
Judges can be very useful to dictators dalton99a Sep 2020 #1
Idiot. LakeArenal Sep 2020 #2
Lies. Lies. Lies. Laelth Sep 2020 #3
Undermining the very idea or concept of democracy is antithetical to the very foundations Volaris Sep 2020 #4
+1000 Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #5
Trump's plan all along. Claim victory on election night. Lawsuit every swing state claiming sarcasmo Sep 2020 #6

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
3. Lies. Lies. Lies.
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 11:07 AM
Sep 2020

None of the ballots being sent out are “unsolicited.” They have all been “requested,” and they have only been sent to legitimate, registered voters.

Now, applications for ballots HAVE been sent out, unsolicited, in some states, but actual ballots are only sent out to legitimate, registered voters.



-Laelth

Volaris

(10,270 posts)
4. Undermining the very idea or concept of democracy is antithetical to the very foundations
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 11:25 AM
Sep 2020

Of western civilization, all way back to ancient greece.
One way or another, these people are going to have to be punished for this behavior under just and written Law to the extent that this NEVER can happen again.

sarcasmo

(23,968 posts)
6. Trump's plan all along. Claim victory on election night. Lawsuit every swing state claiming
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 11:49 AM
Sep 2020

"ballot fraud."
Gore V Bush 2
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