Trump files first election lawsuit in chilling sign of what’s to come

His lawyers deserve what they'll get from doing this -- being unpaid.

He's riling up his base. People are going to die for this skidmark

Hasn't even lost yet and he is already being a sore loser.

Imagine idolizing this loser.

Chlling? More like pathetic.

Ok, I am officially done with US election news and will apply filters on my app.

The way american law enforcement and the judiciary works there is absolutely idiotic.

Here you have a convicted felon who keeps spewing libellous and damaging lies aimed at destabilizing the political system and the election process and even when rare prosecutors get a judge to hear out the case, the judge cowls and refuses to apply the law just because the guy is a presidential candidate. But then Trump files suit after suit and can bog down the judiciary to the point of actually interfering in the election process and somehow this is allowed in the USA?

On the other hand there is a billionaire (Musk) who does the same, even breaking state law in addition to federal law, and then the judge also refuses to take action - even if some of the offences were squarely under state jurisdiction - presumably because the billionaire is too rich (on the PA case, Musk laywers argued that "Musk is an extremely busy man" and could not show up - if it was a non-billionaire, the judge would definitely issue an arrest warrant to bring the poor soul's ass back into court).

If America elects Trumps and the world descends into unmitigated chaos, that's because America's weak-ass institutions and laws were completely ineffective to those with either money or power. No wonder MAGA and non-MAGA alike resort into extremism, since institutions and laws are applied so differently to people with money.

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Now Trump is encouraging killing of his political opponents. And only one state AG did something.

Pennsylvania is cheating

How?

and getting caught

Where?

at large scale levels rarely seen before.

When?

"Law enforcement must act, NOW!"

By doing what exactly?

I would actually call it a ho-hum sign. It's just his fingernails scraping the floor as he gets dragged out of the spotlight to spend the rest of his sad-ass life in court.

Bonespurs knows this bogus litigation won't even cost him anything, his flock will pay for it.

Ironic that the qons always bitch and whine about "lawfare".

More like the typical qon MO, I guess, and not at all ironic at this point...

Its so weird to see this unfold now where they know they can't win in any legitimate manner so they are doing stuff like this before the election is even over. Its like, hey guys we only need the election to have a pretense that cheating is going on, which we all know is happening, but we blame it on the other side and seize power.

Nice of him to get all the denial stuff started early so both sides have a nice heads start.

/s

On a serious note though, dems can weapons this

“Trump is a sore loser even before people vote”

But they won’t.

Quite a lot of the misinformation out of PA stems from a willful ignorance of how all this stuff works.

For example... the voter registration drives turning in invalid registrations:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/voter-registration-probes-launched-crucial-keystone-state-counties-amid-claims-potential-fraud

"District attorneys and election officials in both Lancaster County and York County are looking into potential election-related fraud after authorities received large batches of voter registration materials from a "third-party organization." Both York and Lancaster counties have more registered Republican voters than Democrats, according to state data, with York Republicans holding a 63% majority in the area and Lancaster Republicans at a 61% majority."

When you do a voter registration drive, you are legally obligated to submit all registrations, valid or not. The only entity with the legal authority to reject registrations as valid is the State Secretary of State office.

This is because, back in the day, parties would do registration drives and just shit-can any registration for opposing parties.

Now, even if some dumbass fills out a registration for "Mickey Mouse" or "Superman", it STILL has to be submitted to the Secretary of State for rejection.

That's not "voter fraud".

From The Guardian:

The queues for late mail ballots were a result of Pennsylvania not having an early on-site voting system at designated spots, as is the case in some other states. Instead, voters can apply for ballots on demand at election offices before filling them out and submitting them on the spot, a procedure that takes about 10 minutes.

The flood of late applicants overwhelmed electoral workers in Bucks county’s administration building in Doylestown, leading to a long queue, which was cut off at about 2.45pm on Tuesday

I went to drop off my ballot on Saturday and when I got there, not to the main office in Doylestown, but one of the smaller remote offices, and there was a huge line all the way across the front of the building and I was wondering what the heck was going on.

As I was getting to the end of the line, a person came over and asked if I already had my ballot, and when they saw it, they said I could go right in and drop it off. There was only one couple ahead of me there.

I had been wondering what the line was for, and now that makes sense. The Republicans had made the mail in ballot more complicated than necessary during COVID, so now they seem to feel it biting them as their potential supporters have been screwed by it.

“Democrat election officials are seeing our numbers. They’re seeing our turnout. They are seeing us breaking early vote records across Pennsylvania,” he said. “They are terrified. And they want to stop our momentum. We are not going to let them suppress our votes.”

Pennsylvania does not start counting votes before election day. Nobody has any clue as to who is voting for whom.

They've broken the system and want to say "look at this broken system, we can't trust it!" To me that just shows we can't trust you!

I really hope Pennsylvanians do the right thing. These people need to be stopped.

if the courts werent so loaded in his favor those suits could be more easily dismissed.

Blame Weird Old 34's enablers for not holding him accountable when they had the chance: Moscow Mitch McConnell, the conservative SCOTUS Justices, Merrick Garland's slowness, and so many more!

The campaign did not point to any instance in particular that led it to believe that voters had been treated unfairly in Bucks County, but county officials had observed that there were complaints on social media (shared by the Trump campaign) about long lines to obtain mail-in ballots on Tuesday, the last day of their availability.

If you wait until the last minute you might have to wait in line with the other procrastinators. This is not cheating or fraud it's just common sense. But it tracks for Boomers to throw a tantrum if the world doesn't magically accommodate them and they have to wait for anything.

He wants SCOTUS to give him a gift in a state that matters. Virginia was nice but not necessary for Democrats.

but county officials had observed that there were complaints on social media (shared by the Trump campaign) about long lines to obtain mail-in ballots on Tuesday, the last day of their availability

This is all about allowing people to vote by mail in ballot??? What the fuck was his 2020 complaints all about???

If he loses PA, he's done.

Not very surprising, they'll likely push multiple lawsuits in swing states. At least the state justice systems learned from 2020 and 2022 and are expediting these lawsuits to avoid dragging them out and further erode confidence in the electoral system.

LegalEagle published an early access video on Nebula for their paid subscribers explaining the different scenarios to come, and it should show up on YouTube soon.

EDIT: The video is out

Didn't it used to be a crime to file frivolous lawsuits?

Did his file it himself? Because Im amazed that any lawyer will help him without cash up front.

Democrats should file a lawsuit every time he does, just because.

Good! Even though Last Year Literally NONE of his Lawsuits went Forward because there wasn't Evidence and then earlier This Year Trump admitted he lost in 2020 I KNOW this year he's going to be RIGHT!

Good. If either side spots bullshit it needs to be called out.

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