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November 20, 2020

Trump Campaign Lawyers Allege Massive Plot to Subvert Election, Offering No Proof
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In Washington, D.C., lawyers for President Trump's re-election campaign
said Thursday they've uncovered a vast conspiracy to subvert the will of
U.S. voters by manufacturing votes for Joe Biden. Trump attorney and
former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani led Thursday's press
conference, which was held in the lobby of the Republican National
Committee's headquarters on Capitol Hill. 

Rudy Giuliani: "I can prove to you that he [Trump] won Pennsylvania by
300,000 votes. I can prove to you that he won Michigan by probably
50,000 votes."

Giuliani offered no proof of his claims. As he spoke, he began sweating
profusely, causing dark liquid to stream down both sides of his face in
an apparent cosmetic malfunction. Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell
described a vast conspiracy to fix the election involving George Soros,
Hillary Clinton, Antifa, China, Cuba and former Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013. Powell has called for legislatures in
swing states to disregard the popular vote in order to appoint Trump
supporters to the Electoral College.

Christopher Krebs, the top U.S. election security official fired by
Trump this week for failing to support conspiracy theories, tweeted,
"That press conference was the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of
television in American history. And possibly the craziest."

On Thursday, Nebraska Republican Senator Ben Sasse blasted the Trump
campaign's efforts, writing "Rudy and his buddies should not pressure
electors to ignore their certification obligations under the statute. We
are a nation of laws, not tweets." Republican Senator Mitt Romney of
Utah added "It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action
by a sitting American President."


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