Trump’s forces invade the ATL
Trump has never gotten over his loss to Joe Biden. I can’t blame him. I would also be embarrassed losing to Joe Biden. He talks about it over and over and is obsessed with it. I guess this means that he will endorse the “Pillow Man” in his race to be governor of Minnesota. You do remember that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was all over Fox claiming that there was widespread fraud and accused a Dominion Voting Systems employee as personally involved. That employee sued Lindell and was awarded a $2.3 million verdict when no evidence of fraud was found. One of Trump’s lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, also claimed that Dominion manipulated its results in favor of Biden. Dominion sued Giuliani for defamation. Giuliani reached a settlement in 2025. Giuliani was disbarred in New York and Washington, D.C. for repeating false statements regarding the 2020 elections. Meanwhile, nationwide Trump and his allies filed over 60 legal cases to overturn the 2020 election results. All failed, even those before Trump-appointed judges.
None of any of this matters to Trump who still is obsessed with his loss. In his speech in Davos at the World Economic Forum – of all places – the president again asserted that the war in Ukraine “wouldn’t have started” if the 2020 U.S. presidential election “weren’t rigged.” “It’s a war that should have never started and it wouldn’t have started if the 2020 US presidential election weren’t rigged. It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that. They found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did.” Although there was circumstantial evidence pointing to election irregularities there leading to multiple investigations no voter fraud was found.
Well still furious at Georgia where he lost to Biden by 12,000 votes, Trump had his forces invade the ATL. Here there were valid questions raised about voter fraud occurring in Fulton County (Atlanta) where the voter count was suspended for several hours and then restarted. Trump had demanded that both the governor and secretary of state – both republicans – investigate the case. Trump also famously called the secretary of state asking that he “find” him enough votes to win. Trump subsequently railed at both the governor and the secretary of state and is credited with dissuading his supporters from voting in a runoff election that resulted in the defeat of two incumbent republican senators. Trump was also indicted in Fulton County, arrested and booked in the Fulton County jail on thirteen charges relating to his efforts to overturn Georgia’s election results – remember that famous mug shot? Trump had to have been humiliated. This might explain, in a part, his actions. I wonder why he didn’t try to indict Fani Willis, the Fulton County DA who prosecuted the case. Maybe that comes next.
Trump had his “Justice” Department sue the Fulton County clerk over the election records. Trump’s attorney general Pam (Blondie) sent letters to Fulton County demanding records and citing “anomalies” in counting the votes. Fulton County Clerk Ché Alexander didn’t respond to the letters but said in a court filing that the federal government had no right to the ballots and documents, which were under seal because of ongoing cases related to the election. Alexander said that if Bondi could “identify a legitimate basis” for accessing the election materials, then she should seek an order from a Fulton County Superior Court judge to unseal them. So the FBI executed a warrant to obtain the election records in Fulton County. FBI agents then descended on the warehouse containing the documents and seized them. Remember I had been wondering “where’s Tulsi”? Well she – the director of National Intelligence – was with the FBI agents who served the warrant. Go figure.
I think this is an unprecedented action. The warrant was for ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls which the warrant alleges provide “evidence of the commission of a criminal offense.” Was there evidence of a criminal offense? Well Fulton County Commission Chair Robb Pitts (one of my many cousins) said that the ballots had been “safe” in the county’s custody and that the election results were “fair and accurate”. But then he cautioned that now that the ballots had been seized and are in the hands of the Feds that the county “can no longer satisfy that those ballots are still secure.” Ouch! Pitts also said “Every audit, every recount, every court ruling has confirmed what we the people of Fulton County already knew: Our elections were fair and accurate and every legal vote was counted. These ongoing efforts are about intimidation and distraction, not facts.”
Just like all the economic data paints a rosy picture now that Trump’s people are in place, will the ballots now show that Trump “won” Georgia now that his “Justice” department has the ballots? Stay tuned.
haroldblackphd.com 
Lack of shame, class and facts make a toxic brew…
Poor Tulsi – this must be like being sent to upper Siberia to investigate who stole the pint of ice cream in the gulag…
I truly don’t have TDS. But he is unhinged, and with no more elections, unaccountable. He couldn’t care less about legacy or posterity – and Republicans had better start pushing him down more. Sinking ships (via the mid term elections), have a tendency to pull down anything close to them. My hope is that good people like Marco Rubio create distance, and people like Stephen Miller are sucked into the deep, and never given a microphone again.
To be clear – I think there were voting irregularities in several states. But the facts don’t point to them being of material impact. Trump will go to his grave knowing the election wasn’t stolen, but unable to deal with the fact. Maybe his tombstone should say “RIGGED” or “HOAX!” He’d better hope that an equally thin-skinned next President doesn’t write his biography under his photo in the white House. They might start by using that ATL mugshot.
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Love the comment on Tulsi. Why was she in Atlanta instead of on the beach in Hawaii? You are correct to point a finger at Stephen Miller who would be an embarrasment to any other president. He needs to go. And you are right about the presidential portrait wall. What will Trump’s say?
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I’m not sure those words have been imagined yet…
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If there is going to be anything come of this, the Opposition will fail to make their case. Fani Willis didn’t seem to provide the Moral Ground, in her personal dealings that involved her job..
The scary part is , Trump will always have his supporters. And the supporters can’t wait to show Trump won..
Remember that MADURO was always surrounded by crowds..
Here’s a 2023 KEMP rebuttal to Trump, mentioning my Favorite Chris Christy:
…“Our elections in Georgia are secure, accessible, and fair and will continue to be as long as I am governor. The future of our country is at stake in 2024 and that must be our focus.”
Kemp’s message was immediately endorsed by Chris Christie, the Republican former governor of New Jersey who is challenging Trump for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination.
“This is a strong leader ( Kemp) telling the truth. Others should try it,” Christie wrote on Twitter, taking his own dig at Trump’s honesty…” The Guardian
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Trump went after both Kemp and the secretary of state both of whom subsequently won reelection.
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Watching Bloomberg right now about future of Warsh. This is related to today’s topic, because the interviewed is saying Warsh is young, cares about his career, won’t be a Trump puppet..
Can’t wait to see what your essays say about that.
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I have written about Warsh before who left the Bernanke Fed over the expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet. Trump will likely turn on Warsh too because he believes that the Fed should stick to monetary policy and extricate itself from fiscal policy.
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Trump understands how this action could be perceived by his base and Independents. Dems don’t matter cause of TDS. Why do you think he is instigating this action in spite of the potential blowback? Maybe he has a reason for doing it besides an embarrassing loss to a feeble old man. If by chance he can prove fraud, it will be a watershed. If not it won’t matter to those afflicted with TDS. It could be a small impact on Independents. But the real issue besides illegal immigrants is the economy. He needs to focus, focus, focus on economic improvement.
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100 percent.
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Dr. Black,
Resident of Fulton County here.
I encourage you to look into the work of Voter GA. This organization has been work for election integrity for a very long time. The organization has evidence of concerns with many aspects of Georgia’s voting system. They have had a case in the Fulton County court since November 2020 for the same ballets that have now been ceased by the FBI. The court has delayed access to these ballots for a hand recount at every turn. This access is the right of the citizens.
Our President does have a large ego. However, this does not mean that there is not fraud in Fulton County.
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Thank you very much. I did know that the records were being held for the case in Fulton County and wondered why it has taken so long to adjudicate. There are reasonable questions that need to be addressed. Maybe one positive is that this will finally be resolved. Again that’s for pointing this out.
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BTW Atlanta is my hometown. I went to Washington High and the University of Georgia. I have family there and a love for the city. I hope you continue to read the blog and comment.
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