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Im hella late... but man that Rudy Giuliani press conference at Four Season Landscaping was absolutely the biggest Highlight of 2020.
This shit was like an episode of Veep.
On God
Trump's power has already begun to die.
No.
These cac's are doubling and trickling down on Trumpism. His loss is their loss and their fragile ass egos can't take it. They still have bots and Trolls pushing the bullshit. These fucks are unable or willing to fact check anything. if they saw an article saying Biden was fucking Obama while Michelle and Kamala were eating each other out in the middle of times square they would believe it.
They are that fucking stupid and hard-headed.
Did Trump’s lawyers really mean to call a press conference at a landscaping company?
The Four Seasons Hotel - the intended venue.
Four Seasons Landscaping - the actual venue.
Now, this is one of those stories that will go down in history as truth being weirder then fiction.
For many years the general word in the bars of Georgetown is that the Trump White House and Campaign, normally separate organizations, have a problem. A list political operators wont work for them. Let’s go a bit further and say B listers who work for state delegations also won’t work for them and the C listers steer clear.
Let’s put this into context in that one of my jobs is to hire people who ethically gets things done - no matter what - for men and women who need things to get done without screw ups. My job is to be a fixer, and the people I hire are called A listers. Those people get paid an immense amount of money because if the idea of the day is a bottle of lemonade needs to be on Mars at a certain time, they are the ones who either get it done, or give advice on what is doable and how much it costs.
These A-listers are the bread and butter of Hollywood and Washington DC. Oddly enough I work for a lot of Trump supporters, and the one thing they wont let me do often is hire dyed in the wool Fox watching Trump supporters because they do not need fanatic idiots, they need people who get the work done in a clean, ethical, effective manner.
Now Trump comes to DC and he brings with him a bunch of baggage. He rarely pays bills. I know police officers who pull security for him who have never been paid, he is several million behind in payment. He also tends to compliment one second and then has no problem to throw around someone’s name in public to humiliate and destroy them the next second.
Name means a lot to A listers as does pay. None will work for him.
People who are forced to liaison with the Trump Campaign or the White House say that the English language is incapable of truly describing the quality of the people staffing these groups in political positions. Idiot, imbecile, and moron does not work and they suggest something that could occupy a position ten or twelve steps lower. One operative told me that the idea of buttons on coat sleeves was to keep the servants from wiping their noses on their sleeves, but in the Trump sphere it just causes all of them to have bloody noses.
All of this is prolog for the reader to understand what a bunch of d-listers who run the shops in the Trump world truly means. While Trump has the competence of the secret service, the rest of these groups routinely schedule events without securing bathrooms making staff have to designate alley ways or corners for urination, cars are never where they are supposed to be, flights are not booked correctly and individual staff are used to being left behind, and now, the crowning idiocy, this.
According to insiders Giuliani tasked a D lister to set up a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel. The D-lister now has a huge duty to perform, contacting the venue, arranging the schedule, planning transport, moving people, informing the press, and typically this is a big fail, but we do not notice because the press keeps the covers closed on the Benny Hill show that is Trump organization. I get asked, why do they not improve? The same reason why no one gets smart watching Fox News. Improvement requires truth, and the Trump campaign is so invested in lies that they cannot have a post mortem to learn from the mistakes, they are always firing the lowest guy on the rung and hoping the next one will be an A-Lister, which they of course won’t be.
Now we leave the realm of reason. Many, many businesses will not allow Team Trump onto the their property. They are destructive, rude, entitled, bring hateful and pugnacious followers with them, and of course they urinate and defecate in corners when they do not arrange enough bathrooms and leave little old ladies to freeze in the rain when the Trump train moves on. It is very possible the Four Seasons said “up yours” to the campaign and what you got was a saving of face for the pre-announcement.
When the Trump campaign went to a small town that was supposedly devastated by riots they found only one burned store. The owner of the store refused to let them use it because he felt that since it was White Supremacists that burned the store and the police let them, using the store as a way to attack BLM was not something he was interested in. So the Trump campaign, unwilling to admit fault, found a fake property owner and interviewed them on the burnt store. Oh, and the campaign had to poop behind a screen and left it for the real store owner to clean up.
The Four Seasons Hotel - the intended venue.
Four Seasons Landscaping - the actual venue.
Now, this is one of those stories that will go down in history as truth being weirder then fiction.
For many years the general word in the bars of Georgetown is that the Trump White House and Campaign, normally separate organizations, have a problem. A list political operators wont work for them. Let’s go a bit further and say B listers who work for state delegations also won’t work for them and the C listers steer clear.
Let’s put this into context in that one of my jobs is to hire people who ethically gets things done - no matter what - for men and women who need things to get done without screw ups. My job is to be a fixer, and the people I hire are called A listers. Those people get paid an immense amount of money because if the idea of the day is a bottle of lemonade needs to be on Mars at a certain time, they are the ones who either get it done, or give advice on what is doable and how much it costs.
These A-listers are the bread and butter of Hollywood and Washington DC. Oddly enough I work for a lot of Trump supporters, and the one thing they wont let me do often is hire dyed in the wool Fox watching Trump supporters because they do not need fanatic idiots, they need people who get the work done in a clean, ethical, effective manner.
Now Trump comes to DC and he brings with him a bunch of baggage. He rarely pays bills. I know police officers who pull security for him who have never been paid, he is several million behind in payment. He also tends to compliment one second and then has no problem to throw around someone’s name in public to humiliate and destroy them the next second.
Name means a lot to A listers as does pay. None will work for him.
People who are forced to liaison with the Trump Campaign or the White House say that the English language is incapable of truly describing the quality of the people staffing these groups in political positions. Idiot, imbecile, and moron does not work and they suggest something that could occupy a position ten or twelve steps lower. One operative told me that the idea of buttons on coat sleeves was to keep the servants from wiping their noses on their sleeves, but in the Trump sphere it just causes all of them to have bloody noses.
All of this is prolog for the reader to understand what a bunch of d-listers who run the shops in the Trump world truly means. While Trump has the competence of the secret service, the rest of these groups routinely schedule events without securing bathrooms making staff have to designate alley ways or corners for urination, cars are never where they are supposed to be, flights are not booked correctly and individual staff are used to being left behind, and now, the crowning idiocy, this.
According to insiders Giuliani tasked a D lister to set up a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel. The D-lister now has a huge duty to perform, contacting the venue, arranging the schedule, planning transport, moving people, informing the press, and typically this is a big fail, but we do not notice because the press keeps the covers closed on the Benny Hill show that is Trump organization. I get asked, why do they not improve? The same reason why no one gets smart watching Fox News. Improvement requires truth, and the Trump campaign is so invested in lies that they cannot have a post mortem to learn from the mistakes, they are always firing the lowest guy on the rung and hoping the next one will be an A-Lister, which they of course won’t be.
Now we leave the realm of reason. Many, many businesses will not allow Team Trump onto the their property. They are destructive, rude, entitled, bring hateful and pugnacious followers with them, and of course they urinate and defecate in corners when they do not arrange enough bathrooms and leave little old ladies to freeze in the rain when the Trump train moves on. It is very possible the Four Seasons said “up yours” to the campaign and what you got was a saving of face for the pre-announcement.
When the Trump campaign went to a small town that was supposedly devastated by riots they found only one burned store. The owner of the store refused to let them use it because he felt that since it was White Supremacists that burned the store and the police let them, using the store as a way to attack BLM was not something he was interested in. So the Trump campaign, unwilling to admit fault, found a fake property owner and interviewed them on the burnt store. Oh, and the campaign had to poop behind a screen and left it for the real store owner to clean up.
ICB
so it begins
Like I said earlier Republicans better step in and stop this bullshit because they are going to go down the hole with Trump if they don’t.
Im hella late... but man that Rudy Giuliani press conference at Four Season Landscaping was absolutely the biggest Highlight of 2020.
read this shit
I knew it. I mentioned days ago that he would still be doing rallies. Dude needs to be stopped. Governors or city mayors need to step in and deny him from rallying.
Must not overlook or underestimate that 71 million people voted for this moron.
a guy who reads with his fucking finger?!? got 71 million americans to vote for him.
So treason it is then....
At the very least they need to get paid up front and require masks.
Trump is determined to fuck up everything going out the door this motherfucker really wants to start a Civil War.
so it begins
They are trying to sabotage Biden's first few months here with this shit, thinking he'll have to play catch up on shit.
These are seriously some bitch made people.
Dems in GA better take note and overwhelmingly show up in January and send those two Democrat Senators to DC.
I keep saying it but a majority of the cacs, young and old, alive during the Obama presidency are mentally broken. Seeing a Black man with a Black family admired by the nation and world was too much for them.
They will let this bitch literally burn down before they admit that trump was a failure.so it begins
At some point, Trump is going to turn on the main-stream Republicans. His base is going to turn off Fox News and start watching the alternatives He is going to start calling out the members of the establishment that haven't come to his rescue. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't start his own political party, the America First Party. Kind of incredible the con that a failed businessman was able to pull off. Christians running to support an immoral man.
I saw Donald Trump’s presidency come crashing down at Four Seasons Total Landscaping
The Trump presidency ended in the parking lot of a landscaping company next to an adult bookstore. Richard Hall was there
Trump and Biden supporters outside a press conference where Rudy Giuliani spoke to the media in the back parking lot of landscaping company on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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It began, as all good 2020 capers do, with a tweet from the president of the United States. It ended with his personal lawyer in the parking lot of a landscaping company, struggling to be heard over a man in his underpants shouting about George Soros.
They say a star burns brightest just before it dies, and this was the Trump presidency in all its flaming glory.
For five straight days, the world had waited for news, any news, from Pennsylvania, which for all of that time had been expected to imminently decide the winner of a bitter election. The president had spent much of the intervening period making grave and entirely unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud, but even so he was unusually quiet.
"Lawyers Press Conference at Four Seasons, Philadelphia. 11:00 A.M," he wrote to his 88 million followers on Saturday morning.
How Trump’s presidency came crashing down at Four Seasons Total Landscaping
Journalists from around the world who had gathered in Philadelphia, most of whom had spent the last four days transfixed by moving maps on CNN, were eager for stimulation, and perhaps as a side note to see evidence of massive election fraud the president and his lawyers had alleged.
I sprang into action immediately, gathered my things, and was heading out of the door towards the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Philadelphia when the next tweet came.
“Big press conference today in Philadelphia at Four Seasons Total Landscaping — 11:30am!”
Some mistake, I thought. A presidential typo? We’d seen worse over the last four years. Remember Covfefe?
I did a quick Google search. There was indeed a place called Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia, but it was a small business in a drab industrial area on the edge of town. I struggled to think of any reason why the president’s lawyers would hold their press conference here, at this establishment, with its 3.1 star rating on Google reviews.
I decided to call the Four Seasons Hotel, from whom I was sure I would get confirmation that this press conference was indeed being held on their premises — perhaps in a grand ballroom or conference room.
A woman answered — she was primed: I was obviously not the first person to call.
“Yes there has been some confusion about this,” she said politely. “The press conference is not taking place here, it is taking place at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.”
It’s hard to explain the confusion I experienced as I sped along the highway out of downtown Philadelphia towards Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Was this one last act of revenge by the president against the lying fake news media while he still had our enrapt attention? Was it a ruse to get all the journalists out of town for when the results were announced?
Truth be told, it didn’t matter. However this turned out, Four Seasons Total Landscaping was the story now.
I arrived to see a media scrum around a chain link fence that led into the parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping. The building itself was one-storey, with a neat lawn and a row of hedges at the front. It was in that part of town that every town has, where businesses which have no right being grouped together nonetheless gather due to one reason or another — usually the cheap rent.
Across the street from Four Seasons Total Landscaping was a crematorium. Next door to it was an adult book store with a bright yellow sign that displayed its offerings: DVDs and lotions, novelty gifts, viewing booths. It was called Fantasy Island. In retrospect, it was an omen of what was to come.
The Fantasy Island adult bookstore, next door to the place where the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, held a press conference to allege voter fraud.
(Richard Hall / The Independent)
The media was told to line up outside while the press conference was prepared. Journalists from Japan, Germany and Britain took their place as a crowd of Trump supporters gathered around them.
I approached by a man named Ron, who held a sign that read: “Biden Laptop Matters.” Since we were about to hear from the president’s lawyers about how this election was stolen, I wanted to hear what he thought about the process.
“What they did is they got ‘em fearful with corona, and once they got them in a fearful state, they suppressed them, they funelled all the ballots through mail-in, where they controlled that process, they can manipulate better,” he said.
As we waited outside Four Seasons Total Landscaping, we began to wonder what had led us to this point. Had a Trump campaign booked the wrong Four Seasons and diverted to the landscaping company as a quick fix? Was the owner of the business a witness to this massive voter fraud the president was alleging?
The day after the event, a cryptic Facebook post by the owners of Four Seasons Total Landscaping revealed little about how this all came to be.
“Four Seasons Total Landscaping is a family-owned small business run by life long Philadelphians. We were honoured to be asked to host a press conference at our facility. We thank all of those that have shown support for our business and while we understand the negative comments, it saddens us that we have received such harsh judgement. Our team at Four Seasons would have proudly hosted any presidential candidate’s campaign at our business. We strongly believe in America and in democracy” they said, before adding that they would soon be selling T-shirts on their website.
One journalist remarked that the entire episode was beginning to acquire a Muammar Gaddafi flavour to it. When Nato powers started to bomb Tripoli in support of Libyan rebels and it appeared the leader was on his last legs, he emerged briefly from hiding riding a golf cart and holding an oversized umbrella. It was intended to project perseverance and strength — it had the opposite effect.
Private security guards hired by the president’s lawyers began to call in media outlets by name so they could enter the parking lot. When a media outlet was called, the gathered Trump supporters booed those which they felt had been unfair to the president. “Washington Post”.. “Boooo.” “Fox News”.... “Boooooo!” “CNN” “BOOOOOOOO!”
This was an American pantomime.
In the Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot the cameras were assembled, the sound levels checked, the pens were poised and the gates were closed. The world’s press waited for the evidence that would blow this big scam wide open. The sun shone brightly.
Then, out of nowhere, a journalist with a European accent announced the news: “CNN called the presidency for Biden!”
The assembled journalists were paralysed for a moment. Phones started to ring and calls were made. Some were given instructions to leave and started to do so.
Soon after, the sound of car horns honking and cheers in the street began to drift into the backlot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
Kelisha Carter and her daughters outside of four Seasons Total Landscaping
(Richard Hall / The Independent )
A car with a young Black woman named Jada Carter stopped in front of the Trump supporters. She screamed at the top of her lungs: “Black lives matter! Black lives matter!” A flag with a picture of Donald Trump’s head superimposed onto the body of Rocky Balboa fluttered in the wind as she cried out.
Just a few minutes later Rudy Giuliani appeared. This was the second press conference Mr Giuliani had called in Philadelphia in a matter of days, both to make unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud. The first took place at an airport hangar.
The president’s personal lawyer was serious and solemn as he took his place at the podium, in front of a garage door covered with Trump campaign posters and a bright yellow hose pipe attached to the wall.
“I’m here to describe to you the first part of a situation that is very troubling,” he began. He went on to claim that dead people were still voting in Philadelphia.
“Joe Frazier is still voting here. Also Will Smith’s father voted here twice since he died.”
He said he had brought with him a number of poll watchers who alleged that they had been blocked from monitoring the vote count. When they spoke, however, their complaint appeared to centre around how far they had been asked to stand away from the counting process. Not the evidence of massive fraud Mr Giuliani or the president had promised.
Amid all the drama of the last 30 minutes, it appeared no one had told him that Joe Biden had been projected the winner of the election. A member of the press asked him how these lawsuits would overturn the call for the former vice president.
“Who was it called by?”
“All of them,” came the response.
Mr Giuliani took a moment before erupting in mock incredulity: “All the networks? Wow! All the networks!” He raised out his arms and looked to the sky, for a moment looking and sounding like Larry David doing a bit. But the wind had been sucked out of him. The smile had gone.
I walked out onto the street, where more Biden supporters had gathered across the road. A Trump supporter in his underwear and a Biden mask pulled up over his head (who appeared to be dressed as an embodiment of Trump’s insult “Sleepy Joe Biden”) shouted: “Who pays for all that? Who pays for it all. George Soros! George Soros! Tell your daughter who George Soros is hun! Give her a real education. Look it up!”
Next to him, a man wearing an American flag suit and hat, and a full Donald Trump mask, stood silently and still. Even the mask he wore seemed to wear a dejected expression.
Across the road, Kelisha Carter was jubilant. She had come down with two of her daughters and a giant Biden flag to soak up the atmosphere.
“Relief! There’s some hope coming. God, I prayed for this,” she said, when asked how she felt about the victory.
“It’s not even that I don’t like that man, I just don’t like his tactics,” she said of Mr Trump. “He just divides everybody. He brings the racists out of the closet. It’s scary for Black people, it’s scary for a lot of people. I have daughters and I have a husband that goes out every day and I want him to come home at night.”
Her daughter Jada, who had earlier argued with the Trump supporters from her car, was too excited to stand still. She performed a backflip in the middle of the road.
The owner of the Fantasy Island adult book store had come out onto his porch to watch the circus. He stood and stared in disbelief until a customer jolted him awake again.
“Are you open?”
“Yes,” he said, before following him inside.
It felt like an ending.
"Lawyers Press Conference at Four Seasons, Philadelphia. 11:00 A.M," he wrote to his 88 million followers on Saturday morning.
How Trump’s presidency came crashing down at Four Seasons Total Landscaping
Journalists from around the world who had gathered in Philadelphia, most of whom had spent the last four days transfixed by moving maps on CNN, were eager for stimulation, and perhaps as a side note to see evidence of massive election fraud the president and his lawyers had alleged.
I sprang into action immediately, gathered my things, and was heading out of the door towards the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Philadelphia when the next tweet came.
“Big press conference today in Philadelphia at Four Seasons Total Landscaping — 11:30am!”
Some mistake, I thought. A presidential typo? We’d seen worse over the last four years. Remember Covfefe?
I did a quick Google search. There was indeed a place called Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia, but it was a small business in a drab industrial area on the edge of town. I struggled to think of any reason why the president’s lawyers would hold their press conference here, at this establishment, with its 3.1 star rating on Google reviews.
I decided to call the Four Seasons Hotel, from whom I was sure I would get confirmation that this press conference was indeed being held on their premises — perhaps in a grand ballroom or conference room.
A woman answered — she was primed: I was obviously not the first person to call.
“Yes there has been some confusion about this,” she said politely. “The press conference is not taking place here, it is taking place at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.”
It’s hard to explain the confusion I experienced as I sped along the highway out of downtown Philadelphia towards Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Was this one last act of revenge by the president against the lying fake news media while he still had our enrapt attention? Was it a ruse to get all the journalists out of town for when the results were announced?
Truth be told, it didn’t matter. However this turned out, Four Seasons Total Landscaping was the story now.
I arrived to see a media scrum around a chain link fence that led into the parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping. The building itself was one-storey, with a neat lawn and a row of hedges at the front. It was in that part of town that every town has, where businesses which have no right being grouped together nonetheless gather due to one reason or another — usually the cheap rent.
Across the street from Four Seasons Total Landscaping was a crematorium. Next door to it was an adult book store with a bright yellow sign that displayed its offerings: DVDs and lotions, novelty gifts, viewing booths. It was called Fantasy Island. In retrospect, it was an omen of what was to come.
The Fantasy Island adult bookstore, next door to the place where the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, held a press conference to allege voter fraud.
(Richard Hall / The Independent)
The media was told to line up outside while the press conference was prepared. Journalists from Japan, Germany and Britain took their place as a crowd of Trump supporters gathered around them.
I approached by a man named Ron, who held a sign that read: “Biden Laptop Matters.” Since we were about to hear from the president’s lawyers about how this election was stolen, I wanted to hear what he thought about the process.
“What they did is they got ‘em fearful with corona, and once they got them in a fearful state, they suppressed them, they funelled all the ballots through mail-in, where they controlled that process, they can manipulate better,” he said.
As we waited outside Four Seasons Total Landscaping, we began to wonder what had led us to this point. Had a Trump campaign booked the wrong Four Seasons and diverted to the landscaping company as a quick fix? Was the owner of the business a witness to this massive voter fraud the president was alleging?
The day after the event, a cryptic Facebook post by the owners of Four Seasons Total Landscaping revealed little about how this all came to be.
“Four Seasons Total Landscaping is a family-owned small business run by life long Philadelphians. We were honoured to be asked to host a press conference at our facility. We thank all of those that have shown support for our business and while we understand the negative comments, it saddens us that we have received such harsh judgement. Our team at Four Seasons would have proudly hosted any presidential candidate’s campaign at our business. We strongly believe in America and in democracy” they said, before adding that they would soon be selling T-shirts on their website.
One journalist remarked that the entire episode was beginning to acquire a Muammar Gaddafi flavour to it. When Nato powers started to bomb Tripoli in support of Libyan rebels and it appeared the leader was on his last legs, he emerged briefly from hiding riding a golf cart and holding an oversized umbrella. It was intended to project perseverance and strength — it had the opposite effect.
Private security guards hired by the president’s lawyers began to call in media outlets by name so they could enter the parking lot. When a media outlet was called, the gathered Trump supporters booed those which they felt had been unfair to the president. “Washington Post”.. “Boooo.” “Fox News”.... “Boooooo!” “CNN” “BOOOOOOOO!”
This was an American pantomime.
In the Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot the cameras were assembled, the sound levels checked, the pens were poised and the gates were closed. The world’s press waited for the evidence that would blow this big scam wide open. The sun shone brightly.
Then, out of nowhere, a journalist with a European accent announced the news: “CNN called the presidency for Biden!”
The assembled journalists were paralysed for a moment. Phones started to ring and calls were made. Some were given instructions to leave and started to do so.
Soon after, the sound of car horns honking and cheers in the street began to drift into the backlot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
Kelisha Carter and her daughters outside of four Seasons Total Landscaping
(Richard Hall / The Independent )
A car with a young Black woman named Jada Carter stopped in front of the Trump supporters. She screamed at the top of her lungs: “Black lives matter! Black lives matter!” A flag with a picture of Donald Trump’s head superimposed onto the body of Rocky Balboa fluttered in the wind as she cried out.
Just a few minutes later Rudy Giuliani appeared. This was the second press conference Mr Giuliani had called in Philadelphia in a matter of days, both to make unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud. The first took place at an airport hangar.
The president’s personal lawyer was serious and solemn as he took his place at the podium, in front of a garage door covered with Trump campaign posters and a bright yellow hose pipe attached to the wall.
“I’m here to describe to you the first part of a situation that is very troubling,” he began. He went on to claim that dead people were still voting in Philadelphia.
“Joe Frazier is still voting here. Also Will Smith’s father voted here twice since he died.”
He said he had brought with him a number of poll watchers who alleged that they had been blocked from monitoring the vote count. When they spoke, however, their complaint appeared to centre around how far they had been asked to stand away from the counting process. Not the evidence of massive fraud Mr Giuliani or the president had promised.
Amid all the drama of the last 30 minutes, it appeared no one had told him that Joe Biden had been projected the winner of the election. A member of the press asked him how these lawsuits would overturn the call for the former vice president.
“Who was it called by?”
“All of them,” came the response.
Mr Giuliani took a moment before erupting in mock incredulity: “All the networks? Wow! All the networks!” He raised out his arms and looked to the sky, for a moment looking and sounding like Larry David doing a bit. But the wind had been sucked out of him. The smile had gone.
I walked out onto the street, where more Biden supporters had gathered across the road. A Trump supporter in his underwear and a Biden mask pulled up over his head (who appeared to be dressed as an embodiment of Trump’s insult “Sleepy Joe Biden”) shouted: “Who pays for all that? Who pays for it all. George Soros! George Soros! Tell your daughter who George Soros is hun! Give her a real education. Look it up!”
Next to him, a man wearing an American flag suit and hat, and a full Donald Trump mask, stood silently and still. Even the mask he wore seemed to wear a dejected expression.
Across the road, Kelisha Carter was jubilant. She had come down with two of her daughters and a giant Biden flag to soak up the atmosphere.
“Relief! There’s some hope coming. God, I prayed for this,” she said, when asked how she felt about the victory.
“It’s not even that I don’t like that man, I just don’t like his tactics,” she said of Mr Trump. “He just divides everybody. He brings the racists out of the closet. It’s scary for Black people, it’s scary for a lot of people. I have daughters and I have a husband that goes out every day and I want him to come home at night.”
Her daughter Jada, who had earlier argued with the Trump supporters from her car, was too excited to stand still. She performed a backflip in the middle of the road.
The owner of the Fantasy Island adult book store had come out onto his porch to watch the circus. He stood and stared in disbelief until a customer jolted him awake again.
“Are you open?”
“Yes,” he said, before following him inside.
It felt like an ending.
DamnDid Trump’s lawyers really mean to call a press conference at a landscaping company?
The Four Seasons Hotel - the intended venue.
Four Seasons Landscaping - the actual venue.
Now, this is one of those stories that will go down in history as truth being weirder then fiction.
For many years the general word in the bars of Georgetown is that the Trump White House and Campaign, normally separate organizations, have a problem. A list political operators wont work for them. Let’s go a bit further and say B listers who work for state delegations also won’t work for them and the C listers steer clear.
Let’s put this into context in that one of my jobs is to hire people who ethically gets things done - no matter what - for men and women who need things to get done without screw ups. My job is to be a fixer, and the people I hire are called A listers. Those people get paid an immense amount of money because if the idea of the day is a bottle of lemonade needs to be on Mars at a certain time, they are the ones who either get it done, or give advice on what is doable and how much it costs.
These A-listers are the bread and butter of Hollywood and Washington DC. Oddly enough I work for a lot of Trump supporters, and the one thing they wont let me do often is hire dyed in the wool Fox watching Trump supporters because they do not need fanatic idiots, they need people who get the work done in a clean, ethical, effective manner.
Now Trump comes to DC and he brings with him a bunch of baggage. He rarely pays bills. I know police officers who pull security for him who have never been paid, he is several million behind in payment. He also tends to compliment one second and then has no problem to throw around someone’s name in public to humiliate and destroy them the next second.
Name means a lot to A listers as does pay. None will work for him.
People who are forced to liaison with the Trump Campaign or the White House say that the English language is incapable of truly describing the quality of the people staffing these groups in political positions. Idiot, imbecile, and moron does not work and they suggest something that could occupy a position ten or twelve steps lower. One operative told me that the idea of buttons on coat sleeves was to keep the servants from wiping their noses on their sleeves, but in the Trump sphere it just causes all of them to have bloody noses.
All of this is prolog for the reader to understand what a bunch of d-listers who run the shops in the Trump world truly means. While Trump has the competence of the secret service, the rest of these groups routinely schedule events without securing bathrooms making staff have to designate alley ways or corners for urination, cars are never where they are supposed to be, flights are not booked correctly and individual staff are used to being left behind, and now, the crowning idiocy, this.
According to insiders Giuliani tasked a D lister to set up a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel. The D-lister now has a huge duty to perform, contacting the venue, arranging the schedule, planning transport, moving people, informing the press, and typically this is a big fail, but we do not notice because the press keeps the covers closed on the Benny Hill show that is Trump organization. I get asked, why do they not improve? The same reason why no one gets smart watching Fox News. Improvement requires truth, and the Trump campaign is so invested in lies that they cannot have a post mortem to learn from the mistakes, they are always firing the lowest guy on the rung and hoping the next one will be an A-Lister, which they of course won’t be.
Now we leave the realm of reason. Many, many businesses will not allow Team Trump onto the their property. They are destructive, rude, entitled, bring hateful and pugnacious followers with them, and of course they urinate and defecate in corners when they do not arrange enough bathrooms and leave little old ladies to freeze in the rain when the Trump train moves on. It is very possible the Four Seasons said “up yours” to the campaign and what you got was a saving of face for the pre-announcement.
When the Trump campaign went to a small town that was supposedly devastated by riots they found only one burned store. The owner of the store refused to let them use it because he felt that since it was White Supremacists that burned the store and the police let them, using the store as a way to attack BLM was not something he was interested in. So the Trump campaign, unwilling to admit fault, found a fake property owner and interviewed them on the burnt store. Oh, and the campaign had to poop behind a screen and left it for the real store owner to clean up.
Bright and early Monday morning a camera needs to be put in each and every GOP senators face when they're asked for their thoughts on this political appointee's refusal to do her job in support of a peaceful transition of power.
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He still holds the office until the end of January and Trumpers are just in their feeling right now. He will not hold the same amount of power and influence once he leave because over time the Trumpers wil die off, tamper down, and move onto the next movement.
The Bogus Fraud Claims Are All About Giving Trump An Off-Ramp, Officials Say
Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
By COLLEEN LONG and Zeke Miller
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November 8, 2020 12:39 p.m.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has promised legal action in the coming days as he refused to concede his loss to Democrat Joe Biden, making an aggressive pitch for donors to help finance any court fight.
Trump and his campaign have leveled accusations of large-scale voter fraud in Pennsylvania and other states that broke for Biden, so far without proof.
But senior officials, campaign aides and allies told The Associated Press that overwhelming evidence of fraud isn’t really the point.
The strategy to wage a legal fight against the votes tallied for Biden in Pennsylvania and other places is more to provide Trump with an off-ramp for a loss he can’t quite grasp and less about changing the election’s outcome, the officials said. They spoke to AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy.
Trump aides and allies also acknowledged privately the legal fights would — at best — forestall the inevitable, and some had deep reservations about the president’s attempts to undermine faith in the vote. But they said Trump and a core group of loyalists were aiming to keep his base of supporters on his side even in defeat.
There has never been a presidential election in memory where such widespread fraud was alleged.
Moments after the AP called the race for Biden, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani stood in front of campaign banner taped over the garage door of a landscaping company in Philadelphia, wedged between a cremation center and an adult book store, with a handful of poll watchers and declared they’d been kept too far away to check for any inaccuracies.
“We have no way of knowing, because we’ve been deprived of the right to inspect ballots,” he said.
Partisan poll watchers are designated by a political party or campaign to report any concerns they may have. They are not poll workers who actually tally ballots. Monitoring polling places and election offices is allowed in most states, but rules vary and there are certain limits to avoid any harassment or intimidation. They are not allowed to interfere with the conduct of the election and are typically required to register in advance with the local election office.
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Saturday Nov. 7...MORE
This year, because of the coronavirus that has killed more than 230,000 people across the country, there was litigation in a few states, including Pennsylvania, over where poll watchers could stand to ensure social distancing.
Lawyers could potentially argue the vote tally should be cast aside over fraud observed by poll watchers, but in order to win that argument they’d need evidence, not just allegations the monitors weren’t allowed to see clearly enough. Judges are loathe to disenfranchise any voters and there would need to be substantial proof that fraud had damaged the count so much that it must be set aside.
Democratic poll watchers, who were also given the same access, have not raised concerns. Giuliani called evidence of fraud circumstantial at the news conference. He said he’d be filing suit in federal court, but the issue has already been before judges.
A federal judge in Philadelphia Thursday night ordered the two sides to work out an agreement on the number of poll watchers and how close they could be to the counting. The judge also voiced concerns about the safety of poll workers during the pandemic if poll watchers were allowed to peer over their shoulders.
Eric Trump, son of President Trump, and wife Lara Trump listen as Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks off camera during a news conference on legal chall...MORE
On Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” Sunday, Giuliani said two additional lawsuits were in the process of being drafted, in addition to existing litigation in Pennsylvania.
By the end of this week, Giuliani predicted the campaign would have filed “four or five” lawsuits, with a total of 10 possible.
Voter fraud is extremely rare, and when it does happen, people are generally caught and prosecuted and it does not change the outcome of the election. Typically, it involves someone wanting to honor the wishes of a loved one who recently died and either knowingly or not commits a crime by filling out that ballot.
Trump campaign officials have also alleged that more than 21,000 had been cast in the name of the dead in Pennsylvania. The claims stem from a conservative legal group’s lawsuit against the Secretary of State, accusing her of wrongly including some 21,000 supposedly dead residents on voter rolls.
The federal judge who has the case, John Jones, has said he was doubtful of the claims. He said the Public Interest Legal Foundation that brought the claims was asking the court to accept that there were dead people on voter rolls, and he asked for proof and questioned why they had waited until the “eleventh hour” to file suit.
“We cannot and will not take plaintiff’s word for it — in an election where every vote matters, we will not disenfranchise potentially eligible voters based solely upon the allegations of a private foundation,” he wrote in an Oct. 20 ruling.
Even Trump’s own administration has pushed back at the claims of widespread voter fraud and illegal voting though it didn’t mention Trump was the one making the allegations. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the federal agency that oversees U.S. election security, also noted local election offices have detection measures that “make it highly difficult to commit fraud through counterfeit ballots.”
Top election officials in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada — both Republican and Democrat — have all said they see no widespread voting irregularities, no major instances of fraud or illegal activity.
Meanwhile, on a call with supporters Saturday, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien encouraged them to be ready to continue the fight for Trump, including standing by for rallies and demonstrations. Other aides outlined what they argued were irregularities in the count.
And Republicans were sticking to the idea that all “legal” votes must be counted — the language freighted with a clear implication that Democrats want illegal votes counted, a claim for which there is no evidence.
It’s was precarious balance for Trump’s allies as they try to be supportive of the president — and avoid risking further fallout — but face the reality of the vote count.
According to one Republican granted anonymity to discuss the private conversation, Republicans on Capitol Hill were giving Trump the space to consider all legal options, and allowing the process to play out.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has not yet made any public statements — neither congratulating Biden nor joining Trump’s complaints about the results.
“I’m not sure his position would have changed from yesterday — count all the votes, adjudicate all the claims,” said Scott Jennings, a Republican strategist in Kentucky allied with McConnell. “My sense is there’s won’t be any tolerance for beyond what the law allows. There will be tolerance for what the law allows.”
It was a view being echoed by several other Republicans neither supporting or rejecting the outcome.
“Nothing that I’ve seen regarding the election raises a legal issue that could succeed. There is just is nothing there,” said Barry Richard, who represented George W. Bush in the 2000 recount in Florida that ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court. “When these kind of lawsuits are filed it just breeds contempt for the whole legal system,” he said.
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There has never been a presidential election in memory where such widespread fraud was alleged.
Moments after the AP called the race for Biden, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani stood in front of campaign banner taped over the garage door of a landscaping company in Philadelphia, wedged between a cremation center and an adult book store, with a handful of poll watchers and declared they’d been kept too far away to check for any inaccuracies.
“We have no way of knowing, because we’ve been deprived of the right to inspect ballots,” he said.
Partisan poll watchers are designated by a political party or campaign to report any concerns they may have. They are not poll workers who actually tally ballots. Monitoring polling places and election offices is allowed in most states, but rules vary and there are certain limits to avoid any harassment or intimidation. They are not allowed to interfere with the conduct of the election and are typically required to register in advance with the local election office.
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Saturday Nov. 7...MORE
This year, because of the coronavirus that has killed more than 230,000 people across the country, there was litigation in a few states, including Pennsylvania, over where poll watchers could stand to ensure social distancing.
Lawyers could potentially argue the vote tally should be cast aside over fraud observed by poll watchers, but in order to win that argument they’d need evidence, not just allegations the monitors weren’t allowed to see clearly enough. Judges are loathe to disenfranchise any voters and there would need to be substantial proof that fraud had damaged the count so much that it must be set aside.
Democratic poll watchers, who were also given the same access, have not raised concerns. Giuliani called evidence of fraud circumstantial at the news conference. He said he’d be filing suit in federal court, but the issue has already been before judges.
A federal judge in Philadelphia Thursday night ordered the two sides to work out an agreement on the number of poll watchers and how close they could be to the counting. The judge also voiced concerns about the safety of poll workers during the pandemic if poll watchers were allowed to peer over their shoulders.
Eric Trump, son of President Trump, and wife Lara Trump listen as Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks off camera during a news conference on legal chall...MORE
On Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” Sunday, Giuliani said two additional lawsuits were in the process of being drafted, in addition to existing litigation in Pennsylvania.
By the end of this week, Giuliani predicted the campaign would have filed “four or five” lawsuits, with a total of 10 possible.
Voter fraud is extremely rare, and when it does happen, people are generally caught and prosecuted and it does not change the outcome of the election. Typically, it involves someone wanting to honor the wishes of a loved one who recently died and either knowingly or not commits a crime by filling out that ballot.
Trump campaign officials have also alleged that more than 21,000 had been cast in the name of the dead in Pennsylvania. The claims stem from a conservative legal group’s lawsuit against the Secretary of State, accusing her of wrongly including some 21,000 supposedly dead residents on voter rolls.
The federal judge who has the case, John Jones, has said he was doubtful of the claims. He said the Public Interest Legal Foundation that brought the claims was asking the court to accept that there were dead people on voter rolls, and he asked for proof and questioned why they had waited until the “eleventh hour” to file suit.
“We cannot and will not take plaintiff’s word for it — in an election where every vote matters, we will not disenfranchise potentially eligible voters based solely upon the allegations of a private foundation,” he wrote in an Oct. 20 ruling.
Even Trump’s own administration has pushed back at the claims of widespread voter fraud and illegal voting though it didn’t mention Trump was the one making the allegations. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the federal agency that oversees U.S. election security, also noted local election offices have detection measures that “make it highly difficult to commit fraud through counterfeit ballots.”
Top election officials in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada — both Republican and Democrat — have all said they see no widespread voting irregularities, no major instances of fraud or illegal activity.
Meanwhile, on a call with supporters Saturday, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien encouraged them to be ready to continue the fight for Trump, including standing by for rallies and demonstrations. Other aides outlined what they argued were irregularities in the count.
And Republicans were sticking to the idea that all “legal” votes must be counted — the language freighted with a clear implication that Democrats want illegal votes counted, a claim for which there is no evidence.
It’s was precarious balance for Trump’s allies as they try to be supportive of the president — and avoid risking further fallout — but face the reality of the vote count.
According to one Republican granted anonymity to discuss the private conversation, Republicans on Capitol Hill were giving Trump the space to consider all legal options, and allowing the process to play out.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has not yet made any public statements — neither congratulating Biden nor joining Trump’s complaints about the results.
“I’m not sure his position would have changed from yesterday — count all the votes, adjudicate all the claims,” said Scott Jennings, a Republican strategist in Kentucky allied with McConnell. “My sense is there’s won’t be any tolerance for beyond what the law allows. There will be tolerance for what the law allows.”
It was a view being echoed by several other Republicans neither supporting or rejecting the outcome.
“Nothing that I’ve seen regarding the election raises a legal issue that could succeed. There is just is nothing there,” said Barry Richard, who represented George W. Bush in the 2000 recount in Florida that ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court. “When these kind of lawsuits are filed it just breeds contempt for the whole legal system,” he said.
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