Rolling Stone has a piece on Trump lawyers dilemma…..
How do they overturn votes without getting judges to fine them or even throw them in jail?
This does NOT sound like some people who think their client is gonna win an election, eh?
WITH ELECTION DAY 2024 just over a week away, both the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump camps are anticipating a historically close outcome, with the winner being decided by a small number of votes in a handful of states. Both sides have assembled their respective legal war rooms, deployed their legal muscle to a slate of swing states, recruited armies of local counsel in those battlegrounds, and devoted mammoth resources to prepping for a tense fight in the courts.
They’re all ready for, as one Trump adviser puts it, “total warfare,” should the post-election period devolve into madness.
The MAGA side, however, has a unique concern gnawing at its pro-Trump lawyers, to the point that some of these attorneys have felt the need to issue new guidance to staff.
It all boils down to: How do we do this without maybe going to prison or being sued into oblivion?
In the aftermath of Joe Biden’s clear victory over Trump in the 2020 presidential contest, the then-president and conservative figures embarked on a months-long crusade to overturn the election results — in an effort that culminated in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In the years that followed, Trump and his allies cemented into Republican Party orthodoxy the anti-democratic lies and conspiracy theories that fueled his election-denial effort. Still, the sprawling Trump-led operation to nullify his 2020 loss resulted in various lawsuits, Trump’s record-setting second impeachment by the U.S. House, a high-profile congressional probe, and state and federal investigations that brought criminal charges against a host of MAGAland luminaries including Trump himself…..
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“We don’t want to get indicted or arrested, like they were last time,” says one source involved with the vast Trump 2024 legal apparatuses — which are being spearheaded and overseen in this election season by the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign itself. Rolling Stone spoke to five lawyers and advisers involved in the planning and strategy…..
Republican Trump sycophant Marco Rubio aka “ Little Marco” says General Milley and former Trump chief of Staff statements as to Trump being a “ Fascist” are Lies.
And for a little afternoon comedy…
Lindsay Graham has condemned “ dangerous rhetoric “ from Trumps critics.
The dangerous rhetoric he should worry about is the stuff people spew at him when he takes the stage at a Trump rally.