First speech since Biden’s victory: Trump almost admitted defeat

Donald Trump almost said it. That there would be a neighbor, another US government. One without him. He just took himself.

Friday afternoon (local time) he is in the White House rose garden to sell the latest developments in vaccine research as his own hit. Looking a little exhausted, he threw down the well-known superlatives with these first public statements for a good week.

Thanks to the “Warp Speed” program he set up, coronavirus vaccines have been developed in record time. Which are now practically ready and can be delivered immediately. No one else could have done it, he says. But he doesn’t seem to know exactly who he’s trying to convince.

Trump raises the threat of new blocs. And for a moment she leaves him Line that has been giving since election day: He won – and if he lost, it was only because the Democrats had cheated.

In any case, under his rule, “there will be no blockade,” he says. And then he explains: «It is hoped that – he will …» – and now he should end the sentence with «… the next government will not impose a blockade». Trump pauses. “Whatever happens in the future. Who knows what government it will be – I think time will tell – but I can tell you that this government will not order a blockade. “

Trump hasn’t been that close to publicly admitting he’s been losing since election night.

Perhaps Trump just heard that CNN, the New York Times, Fox News and the AP election researchers have declared Democratic challenger Joe Biden the close winner in Georgia. Which brings Biden to 306 votes in the constituency, which elects the president in mid-December based on the results of the elections in the States. A candidate must get at least 270 votes to become president.

Trump has so far been unsuccessful with the lawsuits

Biden gets exactly the same number of votes as Trump in 2016. At the time, Trump spoke of a landslide victory. This time he sent his lawyers to uncover what is alleged to be the largest election fraud in US history.

Trump hasn’t been very successful so far. His lawyers have filed a dozen lawsuits in various states, and so far the courts have done so throw yourself one after the other. Three of them only on Friday. According to a New York Times report, the legal battle is now led entirely by Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and unwitting right-hand man in the new Borat movie. Unlike many of Trump’s other advisers, Giuliani apparently still believes in victory.

Exemplary of the quality of the complaints is that Republican election observers were not allowed to participate in the vote count in Philadelphia. The federal judge had to ask multiple times until a Trump lawyer clumsily admitted that Trump’s representatives had been in the room in “non-zero” numbers. The lawsuit has been filed.

Only in one case were Trump’s lawyers right. In Pennsylvania, the chief of election control extended the deadline for first-time voters by a few days so they can still prove their identity. This was a violation of jurisdiction, the court said. The decision has no impact on the outcome of the elections. Only a few votes are affected that have not even been counted.

Trump’s legal strategy leads nowhere because the distances with which Biden stands before Trump in the contested states are too great, according to consistent information from the US media. A recount, for example, usually leads to a shift of several hundred votes. In Arizona, on the other hand, Biden leads with 10,000 votes, in Pennsylvania with more than 60,000 votes.

Federal prosecutor: “No evidence” of substantial irregularities

In Arizona, one of Trump’s lawyers had to admit in court on Thursday that his case “was not a fraud, not a” someone steals election “thing.” The lawsuit claimed that cards filled in with markers would lead to errors in counting machines. Trump had been talking about fraud in connection with this case for days. His lawyer eventually withdrew the case himself.

In other cases, the witnesses withdrew their testimony. The allegedly dead voters were still alive or would not vote at all. Various attempts to slow down certification processes in the United States have failed.

It was announced on Friday that the prestigious law firm Porter Wright Morris & Arthur has resigned from its tenure. She was apparently worried that her reputation would be damaged if she continued to help Trump delegitimize the 2020 election. Law firm Jones Day has announced it will not accept any new orders from Trump.

Prosecutors don’t seem convinced either. On Friday, 16 federal prosecutors hired to look for suspicious events in this election made it clear in a letter to Attorney General William Barr that “there were no indications” of material irregularities.

Not even the Trump government itself wants to help. On Thursday, the Homeland Security Department said the 2020 elections were “the safest in history” for the United States. There is no evidence that an electoral system did not work. If in fact it was Trump’s plan to reject Biden’s election victory with the help of the courts, it has failed miserably until now.

Posted today at 9:30