John Chuckman
EXPANSION OF A COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN FORT RUSS
Trump Denies Biden’s Fraudulent ‘Victory’, Promises Legal
Action
You cannot call an election fraudulent unless you have
abundant and convincing proof.
As in all important matters, the larger and more sweeping your claim, the greater the requirement for you to provide convincing proof.
It is irresponsible for a President to speak the way Trump has about fraud, but then that's what Trump has been for four full years, irresponsible.
Anecdotes and gossip just will not do. There have always, always been little corners of cheating and fraud and just plain error in the elections of a country with 330 million people and a crazy-quilt pattern of many jurisdictions.
Anecdotes prove nothing to anyone who thinks, but of course this President has a proven record of not thinking about almost everything he does.
He thinks only about himself, and he appears determined to leave office in a legal shamble.
Interestingly, his niece, a clinical psychologist who knows his personality well, recently said that he will start tearing up things in his anger over the election result.
Well, today he fired his Secretary of Defense and he threatened firing other officials, including the heads of CIA and the FBI. So, it does appear he has started tearing things up.
He is having election lawsuits filed as quickly as staff can type, and he has made a plea to supporters for funds to fight a fierce set of legal battles.
Rudy Giuliani, a man who once many decades ago seemed an admirable criminal prosecutor, is out echoing Trump’s ill-supported claims, claims made immediately with no evidence, much resembling some his shabby claims and recommendations during the pandemic, while rooting around for any gossip and scraps of anything he can find that seem to support Trump.
Giuliani, in his old age, seems to relish playing the role of Doctor Frankenstein’s twisted little assistant, Igor, who used to search for bodies to please the Master.
LATER NOTE
As part of Giuliani’s hunt for bodies, he started a telephone hotline for whistleblowers to report suspicious election activities they had seen. Of course, a hotline number must be advertised. Apparently, the line was quickly jammed with prank calls.
The absurdity of advertising for election complaints just does not register with Trump’s mob. And it is only one of a whole range of efforts underway to interfere with the normal transition following an election. Even transition funding by the GSA (General Services Administration) is being held up by its Trump-appointed head.
I hadn’t known the fact, but I just read that Trump has a longstanding reputation for malicious lawsuits in his business dealings. It is one of the methods he used to intimidate those with whom he was doing business.
Trump goes out in the same absurd and hateful way that he served. A vicious clown.
