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RestoreAmerica2020

(3,434 posts)
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 11:36 PM Dec 2020

'The jig is up for Trump,' Laura Coates, Senior Legal Analyst @CNN

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'The jig is up for Trump' Coates reacts to election ruling
CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates says that the Supreme Court ruling denying a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block certification of the commonwealth's 2020 election results leaves the Trump campaign with no more options to overturn the election.Source: CNN



https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/12/08/laura-coates-supreme-court-pennsylvania-trump-jig-is-up-sot-vpx.cnn
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'The jig is up for Trump,' Laura Coates, Senior Legal Analyst @CNN (Original Post) RestoreAmerica2020 Dec 2020 OP
It's all over but the pouting... Enterstageleft Dec 2020 #1
Very funny. underpants Dec 2020 #6
This is just ridiculous and always with Trump. The jig has been up since the Thurs after LizBeth Dec 2020 #2
The media can't resist slavishly running after the clown show, cameras and spotlights at the ready PSPS Dec 2020 #3
True, but it is also becoming increasingly untenable for the press to support the illusion kurtcagle Dec 2020 #5
it is not by any measure. drray23 Dec 2020 #4

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
2. This is just ridiculous and always with Trump. The jig has been up since the Thurs after
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 11:41 PM
Dec 2020

the Nov 3rd vote. We knew, everyone knew. The jig never was. Ever day we allow ourselves thru another ne of these.

PSPS

(13,571 posts)
3. The media can't resist slavishly running after the clown show, cameras and spotlights at the ready
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 11:54 PM
Dec 2020

They'll still be doing this crap for years.

kurtcagle

(1,601 posts)
5. True, but it is also becoming increasingly untenable for the press to support the illusion
Wed Dec 9, 2020, 02:31 AM
Dec 2020

that somehow he could pull out a miracle.

There's a line that I think the press won't cross. It had nothing to do with democracy per se, but everything to do with the 1st Amendment freedom of the press. Trump may have set off a land mine by trying to bury what amounts to the nullification of FOTP in the recent Defense Bill by attempting to remove the ability of the government to sue social media (Section 230). The problem is that in this day and age, this applies to EVERY media organization, not just Facebook and Twitter. It would essentially have made it possible for the legal muzzling of any reporting that wasn't favorable to the government. I think there was a very palpable shift in coverage, and even Fox, which had been cheering him along, suddenly became MUCH less enamored of him, at least on the news side.

drray23

(7,615 posts)
4. it is not by any measure.
Wed Dec 9, 2020, 12:04 AM
Dec 2020

Of course he is not going to stay president but he sure will scam his followers by many more millions before he finally leaves. I think he knows he has lost but he has this cash cow he can milk. Between donations to his pac and selling pardons he is trying to pad his bank account.

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