Trump campaign lawsuit will seek to block certification of Michigan election results

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican President Donald Trump's campaign said on Tuesday it would file a lawsuit in Michigan requesting the results of the U.S. election in the state not be certified until it could be verified that votes were cast lawfully.

The new lawsuit is the latest in a string of lawsuits the Trump campaign has filed in an effort to keep hopes of a second term for Trump alive after former Vice President Joe Biden became president-elect on Saturday.

"We want to make sure that no vote tally includes fraudulently or unlawfully cast ballots," Trump campaign attorney Matt Morgan told reporters on a conference call.

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Judges already have tossed lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia, and legal experts have said Trump's litigation has little chance of changing the outcome of the election.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-campaign-lawsuit-will-seek-to-block-certification-of-michigan-election-results/ar-BB1aTjAv?li=BBnb7Kz

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Just keep throwing shit at the wall and hope something sticks. In the mean time hit up your sycophants for more money.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Enough of this stupidity.

I only hope this is costing them lots of money. It's certainly making the GOP look even more ridiculous. Let's kick their ass again in Georgia.

[dem4decades]

2. Buh bye

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Wouldn't the court start off with the presumption that all votes are "legal" and then the

burden of proof would fall to Trump to show that "illegal" votes were cast?

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. That makes perfect sense. n/t

[marybourg]

12. There is also a presumption that public officials

are doing their jobs properly. This suit is dreck.

[Talitha]

13. Yes!!!

[tclambert]

19. But it makes the President sad. Isn't that illegal?

Listen! You can hear him crying. Because he's a whiny little bitch.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Every ballot is already cast lawfully.

This like asking me how I know that the sun is in the sky. I can’t believe this. How does this suit NOT get laughed out of Court?

[frazzled]

6. Not gonna fly

It’s incumbent upon the plaintiff to provide evidence of fraud. The defendant state does not have to prove that no fraud existed. They’re batting zero on these suits. It’s just mendacious and frivolous, an attempt to throw shade on the results.

[Thekaspervote]

7. So they didn't get close enough for a recount in any of the states, and dotard doesn't want to

Pay for them at 3 million a recount, so they pull this??

The vote was overseen by the gop and tallies were correct, but we want to block certification?
Delay tactics..where’s the evidence that votes weren’t cast lawfully?

Somehow I don’t think team Biden is going to play along, nor will the courts

[TwilightZone]

8. With zero evidence. They should start sanctioning them for filing frivolous lawsuits.

[mjvpi]

9. They are just hoping to get this in front of one of he premier jurists the Senate....

....... has confirmed.

[rzemanfl]

10. You know, 20% is getting down into flat earth, moon landings were faked, territory.

Maybe we should just ignore these stupid fucks.

[catbyte]

11. Just try invalidating the votes of 146,123 of us and they'll have a riot like they've never seen.

But it'll never get to that point. I expect them to be laughed out of court just like the last lawsuit was.

[TeamPooka]

21. This country will burn to the ground if they get away with this. I'll bring the matches.

[Gore1FL]

14. With GA, AZ, PA, and WI we can afford losing MI

But fuck him. We won MI.

[moose65]

25. But...

Michigan is the state where Biden’s lead is the largest! He won by almost 150,000 votes. Are they seriously trying to claim that that many votes are “illegal”? Ridiculous

[Gore1FL]

27. Every statement since they took office has been ridiculous.

They could claim the sky is pink and the cult would start parroting it.

[AKing]

15. Burden of proof is on Trump. Just another Trump Kamikaze lawsuit that will flame out and crash...

into the ocean like all the others.

[IsItJustMe]

16. Not sure of all the legalities

but it seems to me like the courts, at some point, would get fed up with these frivolous law suits and start penalizing the parties that are bringing them. I am sure that courts have a way of taking care of situations like this. Obstruction of Justice or Contempt of Court charges.

[progree]

17. All this from a fuckhead who told his supporters to vote twice. /nt

[SergeStorms]

18. It's not up to the State of Michigan to prove there were no fraudulent votes.

It's up to TrumpCo. to prove there were fraudulent votes. They can't, so tell them to go fuck themselves.

[Lock him up.]

20. Who's paying for all these batshit cRazy lawsuits?

Taxpayers??

[SunSeeker]

22. Kinda reminds me of Jill Stein's 2016 recount grift. nt

[C Moon]

23. Did anyone think this election was going to be a cakewalk? I didn't.

I celebrated Biden becoming president—you don't even know: I was so fucking happy and relieved—but I knew this was coming.
Their goal is to take it to the Supreme Court.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

24. It's high time that judges start fining Trump and his attorneys

the maximum amount possible, for deliberately bringing forth fraudulent evidence and frivolous lawsuits.

They are criminals who are committing serious felonies.

This has gone on long beyond totally stupid.

[rlegro]

26. Besides...

The reason weeks are set aside by law between the vote and the filing of results is so that elections officials have time to canvass those results. TrumpCo wants to canvass the canvass, mostly just to sow confusion, push conspiracy theories, collect more campaign cash, and hope for a miracle which might include getting a high court decision taking away Biden's win. If TrumpCo wants to get upset about something real (I know, I know), tell them about touch-screen voting machines that return a paper QR code to the voter as "proof" his or her ballot was recorded but not proof it was properly recorded. Or get upset about electronic voting machines in general, which are convenient but which are too fraught with potential problems. Oh, but Republicans *like* those kinds of problems. It's the Help America Vote Our Way Act. While your vote should remain secret, it shouldn't remain secret from you.