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Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had canceled a press conference scheduled for next week to release a report into the 2020 election in Georgia, saying his attorneys would put his arguments in court filings instead.

Trump said earlier this week that he would hold the press conference on Monday to release a detailed, 100-page report into what he described as "election fraud" in the state of Georgia during the 2020 election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what, they couldn't book the landscaping place?

[–] cybervseas 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you think that was the weirdest moment of the 2020 cycle? I think so.

[–] Son_of_dad 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me it was the trifecta of four seasons landscaping, dropping hair dye and farting in court.

[–] piranhaphish 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] BagelEmbezzler 4 points 1 year ago

I was not expecting that title to be so literal

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

see this is what i need.. i forgot the fart!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

i am still in serious Giuliani-shock from that one.. and i want to hold onto that feeling and savor it just a little longer here on the internet..

[–] 2piradians 88 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Strongman won't act on his initial whim? What is Stongman afraid of? Strongman looks like pansy RINO now. Strongman of old never worried about weak court weenies. Stop doubting, make Strongman great again!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The adjective is pusillanimous. The origin of "pussy" as an insult.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Donald Trump was so close to releasing a 100-page-report on the 2020 election fraud in Georgia. That’s obviously PROOF that there was in FACT an election FRAUD taking place in 2020 in Georgia!

/s

[–] kescusay 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh God, why is the random capitalization for emphasis always so irritating? You did an excellent job of mimicking the writing style of an aggressively ignorant Trump supporter, and by that I mean I started getting angry even though I knew what you were doing.

Ugh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That says a lot about how terrible his supporters are tbh, totally get it.

[–] phx 3 points 1 year ago

Well there probably was, but it was by his own party so...

[–] AA5B 3 points 1 year ago

Dammit, now we’ll need to read the indictments to find out about election fraud

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd bet his lawyers threatened to walk.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How does he even still has lawyers given not only his problematic persona, but also his tendency of not paying his lawyers?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's paying them 30-50% of his campaign funds. It also must be a reputation builder. They get to argue in Federal Court, and if they lose all they have to do is point to the fact that it's Donald Trump. Who is a criminal.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, unless they are complete morons (looking at you Rudy) they are requiring payment in advance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Retainers are pretty common. I don't know how other attorneys got screwed.

[–] CADmonkey 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are retainers common when dealing with the wealthy? Honest question.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No idea, but any lawyer who represents Trump and doesn't demand cash up front deserves what they get.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not to mention they've also got a tendency to be indicted themselves.

[–] breadsmasher 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Orange clown strikes out again

[–] danielbln 7 points 1 year ago

Honk! Yuuge honk!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Awwwww damn….so close to keeping himself out of prison. /s

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To the surprise of no one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm a little surprised he apparently listened to his lawyers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His 'Press Conference' (where he takes no questions from anyone but Newsmax and OAN) was probably just going to be another rambling bunch of his usual lies, sprinkled with a good dose of stochastic terrorism. I'll bet his lawyers threatened to walk if he did it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Well yeah that's the part we were looking forward to. He would have likely repeated a bunch of lies about the election which would've gone straight to the prosecution as more acts in furtherance of the conspiracy and with a bit of luck he would've threatened someone and ended up being denied bail because of it. We all knew this was gonna be a shit show but for once his blatant crimes committed on live television seem to be inching toward actual consequences and I for one am a bit heartbroken we didn't get to watch him get arrested in the middle of his speech because he thought he was slick in calling for the murders of his opponents.

[–] sturmblast 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't wait to see the wad of bullshit that he puts forward about this

[–] HWK_290 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember that table full of stacks of blank pages from when he took office?

Yeah, that probably

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fuck, that was embarrassing. He's like a shitty carny.

[–] teamevil 4 points 1 year ago

Well Roy Cohen helped Joe McCarthy create the red scare using boxes of blank paper

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Aug 17 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had canceled a press conference scheduled for next week to release a report into the 2020 election in Georgia, saying his attorneys would put his arguments in court filings instead.

Trump said earlier this week that he would hold the press conference on Monday to release a detailed, 100-page report into what he described as "election fraud" in the state of Georgia during the 2020 election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

He has been charged in Georgia and in federal court with attempting to overturn those election results.

"Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020 Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings," Trump said on Truth Social.

Since his defeat in 2020, Trump has repeatedly claimed that the election was marred by widespread fraud.

Those claims have been rejected by courts, state reviews and members of his own administration.


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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Just more lies from a POS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election_from_Georgia

What on earth could his lawyers be putting in court filings? Just copy paste these again?

From the Wikipedia page:

"Rather than presenting their evidence and witnesses to a court and to cross-examination under oath, the Trump campaign wisely decided the smartest course was to dismiss their frivolous cases,"

:D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's amazing how many of these trump articles I can reply with "of course he did". This is yet another one.

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