TEN Losses Since Election Day (0-10 overall). Trump's Lawyers Are Just Taking His (Donors') Money

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Marc E. Elias @marceelias 23m
Just to remind everyone--this is what the GOP produced to the federal court last week to support their losing case (yep, this is all, just these two affidavits).

This is one of the TEN losses the other side has had in court since E-Day (0-10 overall).

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[Andy823]

1. Well with trump

money is all the counts. Too bad his cult followers aren't smart enough to see the con he is running on them.

[StTimofEdenRoc]

2. Never miss a chance to fleas the flock.

[SheltieLover]

3. Judge shopping imo

[Blue Owl]

4. Donald "Gimme Gimme Gimme" tRump

Fuck that grifter

[Bengus81]

5. I hope they keep bleeding them dry with that con job.............

I hate to see Trump and his POS grifter family pocket millions but those MAGOTS deserve it.

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9. it's an intricate con

...from Mediaite:

___Donald Trump is sending out appeals to donors for an “Official Election Defense Fund” as the his prospect for re-election dim, but the fine print of the solicitations reveal that half of the money will actually be used to pay off the campaign’s debt.

As a Wall Street Journal story noted, both the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee began to inundate their donor lists with frantic texts and emails on the day after the Election Day using rhetoric like “We must PROTECT the Election!” Other appeals have been sent under the name of Donald Trump Jr., where he pleads: “My father’s calling on YOU to help bolster our critical Election Defense Fund.”

Other campaign fundraising appeals online include similar, tiny print disclaimers that acknowledge 50 percent of the donations will not be used for recount efforts or legal challenges, but instead will go to vendors or staffers that the campaign has not paid yet.



Other Trump fundraising pitches in recent days ask for help to “protect the integrity of this election” but lead to a donation page for Mr. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” committee. The fine print on those solicitations says 60% of a contribution helps the campaign retire debt and 40% goes to the Republican National Committee.

read: https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/trump-raising-money-for-official-election-defense-but-fine-print-reveals-half-of-it-will-pay-off-campaign-debt/

[keithbvadu2]

6. Donald's legal strategy is called barratry.

Donald's legal strategy is called barratry.

[TeamPooka]

11. yup, vexatious litigation.

[Progressive Jones]

7. His lawyers know this is a losing battle. They get paid anyway. Hopefully. nt

[lunasun]

8. Duh & @this point I actually want his magats to lose all their money to trump & he will not

let go of this honey pot of fools . I call bullshit on economic anxiety and say they have lots of cash for lots of trump griifts and stand offs
I read somewhere trump was email fundraising on a particular challenge that a judge had already struck down 🤑
fleece‘em while you got ‘m

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10. it's just good sense to highlight the con

...it's not just that we want them to lose, we don't want to let them forget it.

[lunasun]

12. His people are high right now he almost won (or did win 👽)when they were told by polls he was going

to lose bigly and he has a perfect con Plus look @millions Jill Stein worked out of recounts

“The short answer is that I believe Stein’s spending is likely compliant with FEC rules,” Noti, now senior director for trial litigation at the Campaign Legal Center, wrote in an email. “The somewhat longer answer is that for many years the FEC has allowed candidates and political parties to get away with pretty much anything in the context of recount accounts, so the restrictions on those accounts, to the extent there can even be said to be restrictions, are a complete mess.”

Judith Ingram, a press officer with the FEC, would not directly comment on the Stein campaign’s filing but noted that, once in its coffers, campaigns can spend their money on just about anything campaign-related. The commission, she said, “decides on a case-by-case basis whether legal expenses are considered ‘personal use’ and thus are expenses that a candidate may not pay for using campaign monds.”

The “wisest course of action,” she said, is for candidates “to ask for an advisory opinion.”

The Stein campaign could even keep on its campaign staff, and pay them whatever it likes, until the last recount dollar is gone. That appears to be what it is doing. Campaign manager David Cobb, according to the latest FEC filing, earned $11,280 in May 2018. That’s up from $7,520 a month before, and three times what he was making during the 2016 campaign.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jill-steins-recount-cash-pays-for-her-russia-legal-defense
He can tap that bs at least until inauguration because so many of his voters seem insane enough to continue right along with him 💸💸💸💸

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