I’ve been following the updates about Joe Biden’s transition, and the updates have all been refreshingly boring. Big surprise, Joe Biden has spent the better part of 50 years in Washington. He understands how government works, and he’s hiring a team of competent, qualified, professional adults who will do their jobs well. We might be slowly going back to a time where regular old celebrity gossip blogs like this one don’t *have* to cover politics/fascism with any kind of regularity. That being said, I imagine the final car crash and flame-out of the Trump era will last a few years and we’ll totally cover that, because the schadenfreude is real. Speaking of, the “Trump campaign” and their “legal team” is still being nominally led by sweaty Rudy Giuliani and a crack team of con artists and clowns. The legal team is in disarray, because LMAO.
President Donald Trump is sweating over his campaign lawyers’ dismal and often outlandish efforts to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s projected electoral victory. Trump is worried that his campaign’s legal team, which is being led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, is composed of “fools that are making him look bad,” NBC News reported Monday.
That group, which has unironically called itself an “elite strike force team,” to date has failed to win any legal victories that would invalidate votes for Biden, the former Democratic vice president, even as they tout wildly broad claims of fraud for which they have offered no convincing evidence. On Sunday, one of the team’s members, conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell, was effectively fired after suggesting — again without any proof — that the Republican governor and secretary of state of Georgia were part of a plot to rig the election for Biden.
Powell’s ouster came days after she made similarly over-the-top claims at a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington.
Trump has complained to White House aides and outside allies about how Giuliani and Powell conducted themselves at that event, NBC reported. On Sunday before Powell got the axe, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a close Trump ally and former top federal prosecutor, called the president’s legal team a “national embarrassment.”
But when asked why Trump doesn’t fire Giuliani and other attorneys who remain on the team, a person familiar with the president’s thinking gave a profane shoulder shrug of an answer. “Who the f— knows?” that person said to NBC News.
Sources point out that Giuliani is still “the president’s point man on the election challenge,” even though Trump was “not happy” with Rudy’s sweaty, hair-dye-running performance last week. Because Trump is obsessed with how sh-t LOOKS and nothing else. Trump saw a sweaty, dye-running madman quoting My Cousin Vinny and even Trump thought something looked off.
Also: the Trump legal team still included Jenna Ellis, who referred to Republican pollster Frank Luntz as someone with, I sh-t you not, “MicroPenis Syndrome.”
Again, I’m not laughing off the past three nightmarish weeks. They were awful and people had every right to be concerned. But I also just felt like… we could f–king handle it. We spent four years dealing with this MAGA bullsh-t and we waited and we voted and we were prepared for the skullduggery and ratf–king and we were okay. It wasn’t f–king pretty but we got there.
There was a serious, sustained attempt by an entire political party to overthrow the results of a free and fair election. That effort is still ongoing! We’re just going to laugh that off and go back to business as usual?
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) November 24, 2020
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
He’s BROKE.
When you complain about your lawyers, it’s because you can’t afford to hire better. We still have no idea where his campaign war chest of almost 1B went. Legal defense, Brad Parscale’s luxury buys…who knows
Exactly. He doesn’t have the money to pay for a competent legal team. And most wouldn’t touch the case anyway if they to have any respect.
Hiring better lawyers can be difficult when you have a reputation of not paying your lawyers.
added to that, even respectable firms that WERE working for him were like “nah” after a few defeats and scoldings from the judge on how LAME their arguments were.
The fact that Trump did not realize he was being represented by a clown show until dye was running down Giuliani’s face really puts into perspective his cognitive state.
God I hope the Georgia senate race goes to the democrats after these weeks of absolute nonsense.
Today, he is taking legal advice from Randy Quaid.
LOL omg really? Well, I guess it can’t get worse than Rudy?
I can’t even tell if this is a joke or not. Oh god.
It’s on Trump’s Twitter.
Now he’s agreeing with Randy Quaid that the election should be re-done using only paper ballots. Insane.
Sure, in 2024, we can all use paper ballots. Right now, Biden won, get over it.
4 days ago my mother in law was posting links to Sidney Powell’s claims of the “mountains of evidence.” Unfortunately after reading it, the mountains of evidence were only claims that there are mountains of evidence and no substance. She still thinks it’s all going to come out at the Supreme Court. I wonder how she feels today now that Trump has fired her?
My dude, a Judge had to explain to Rudy what an Opposition Morion was….the time to be concerned was a while ago. But you do you. Also, you can fire every employee but the problem was always you and you cabal of enablers.
Christmas is coming up and the PS5’s and new cars aren’t paying for themselves!
Well this is true
He’s re-Tweeting Randy Quaid now and telling Republicans to listen to him. The posts are unhinged and the one of him talking while red and green lights flash on his face is nightmare inducing. I can’t wait until he’s out of office and Twitter can suspend or permanently block him.
That’s hilarious given that Randy Quaid is well understood to have a mental illness. Remember when he posted video of himself banging his wife while she wore a Rupert Murdoch face mask? Lmao
Wait…. WHAT???? I’m dying. Please tell me that really happened.
OMG. Was that when they were fugitives in Canada? Maybe Trump will give him the Medal of Freedom before he leaves office. Imagine how jealous Chachi would be?
Why is his hair suddenly grey?
No one willing to come to a COVID hot spot in order to dye his hair or paint on his fake tan.
Rudy stole the rest of his hair dye.
@Digital Unicorn: Comment of the day! I’m still laughing ten minutes after reading …
I’m convinced someone told him about all the memes going around the past few weeks showing past presidents when leaving office and how they had gone grey and appeared older due to the stress of the job. Compared to orange boy who hasn’t changed at all. I’m sure he was talked into doing it to look more “presidential”. However, that boat sailed LONG ago.
His followers are convinced Sidney Powell is just separating herself from Trump to “really attack”
They are posting articles about how she is a registered military lawyer who is going to prosecute the folks “stealing” the election for treason/sedition at a tribunal. It’s unhinged lunacy. These people have created an uncontrollable monster. The MAGAts will go to their graves insisting Trump won. And that Dominion switched votes. It’s frightening that these people are living in their own reality.
Yeah, I’ve picked up bits and pieces on Twitter but have been afraid to look too deeply into that rabbit hole. It really is an alternate reality but for the first time I feel more like they are a subgroup of MAGAs versus the majority of people who voted for Trump, more and more of whom seem to acknowledge he lost.
Esmom- polls are showing that about 79% of Trump voters believe there was fraud. Make of that what you will.
@Rapunzel. It tells me that there are millions of people in this country that are willing to destroy democracy and submit to authoritarianism in order to maintain white supremacy.
Crooked Media called it One Flew Over the Coup Coup Nest.
Hahahahah perfection
I have to agree – this was an attempt at a coup and it was NOT FUNNY. The GOP really wasn’t speaking up against it, either.
I hope whoever gets AG has fangs and claws and goes absolutely ham on every law breaker in this administration, down even to the little lackeys (the actual ones, not the covfefe boys who actually had a seat at the table). If we don’t smack this down, it’ll be like not finishing your antibiotics and will create a seditious superbug. We already have had that problem – we didn’t really shut down the White terrorists after we abandoned Reconstruction, we still don’t care about the fact that women occupy a secondary place in society and no one even talks about it half the time, we never addressed the terrorism perpetrated upon Black citizens in the early years of the 20th century, we never really addressed the crimes of the GOP after Nixon, Reagan and Bush II….
…they just keep coming back stronger.
I wish it would be Katie Porter.
Can you just IMAGINE????
Dude. Joyce Beatty is pretty awesome too. She’s not a JD, which is too bad.
I had hoped that Elizabeth Warren would be Biden’s VP choice, and that Kamala Harris would be the new AG (not that I’m at all displeased; Harris will be a great VP, and if Biden should pass on while in office, a great #47). But Katie Porter would be an impressive AG.
I seriously doubt it. The Democratic party has not had a backbone for the last four years and even a few years before that. I don’t see it happening. And this jacka$$ has a way of getting out of everything.
All of this, @Betsy!
This is a full on coup attempt. It’s not funny, it is terrifying. Because next time the leader won’t be an orange buffoon. 1/2 of our fellow citizens are hateful, ignorant, idiots who are willing to flush democracy down the toilet in order to own the libs. None of this is funny.
I agree. The republicans now know that democrats will not stop them and will let them get away with anything. This does not end when trump is out of office. Republican are just biding their time but they will attempt this again.
I concur, and I now fully, fully understand that 70 million Americans fervently wish for all power in the USA to be held by White people, and White people only. Everything else, and I mean everything else, is simply a smoke screen.
I’ll tell y’all what we need to prosecute and lock up all these seditious, coup attempting a-holes. Four words: Attorney General Hillary Clinton.
It’ll never happen, but if she could just step in for the first 6 months of the Biden Admin, it’d be karmic. And worth the lolz we’d get watching the right wing meltdown.
Aww, man. That would be poetic justice!!
Rapunzel!!! That would be So Great!!!
All these MAGAts are moving over to Parler to openly talk about how the election was “stolen”. It’s only going to be a matter of time before there’s a domestic terrorism incident and the FBI investigation shows how Parler helped radicalize people.
Honestly, someone should catalog these people’s unhinged comments on Parler and show it to their employers. MAGAts are prone to sudden bouts of forgetfulness.
I’m kind of hoping that their being on Parler and being so open about their plans will help the FBI stop things before they start — and get a handle on who they should be watching.
Anyone on my FB that mentioned going over to Parler was immediately unfriended. It’s been kind of quiet on my Facebook since then.
I’d say that most of the people I know just went over because they “thought” FB was deleting their posts or “censoring” them and that Parler would be another FB. I did not care. If you shared your Parler handle, you were gone.
I know Parler numbers are growing, but I know a bunch of people who joined just to see what bat@@& crazy stuff is being written. I’ve thanked all of them because I don’t think I could do it and remain sane. They’ve also all said the site is a hot mess.
Chris Christie’s comment that it was a “national embarrassment” is not accurate. As a Canadian I can vouch for the fact that it was actually an “international embarrassment”.
Chris Christie has lost every ounce of credibility he ever had when he threw in with Trump. As far as I’m concerned he can stick any Trump-negative opinions he may have at this point up his #ss.
I would like Biden’s very first act on Jan. 20th to be rehiring Rick Bright and Chris Krebs. Petty, but satisfying and also the right thing to do.
Well, of course! The president is a successful billionaire who has achieved his wealth by employing only the most talented team of professionals. It makes sense he’s embarrassed by this, this is a man who knows quality work when he sees it!
😂 If you made it all the way through that without rolling your eyes, congrats! My guess is that he’s not at all embarrassed by the substance – the shoddy legal claims or lack of evidence, but he’s embarrassed by Rudy’s hair dye melting and a certain… lack of prestige in their venues.
Are they gonna start eating each other?