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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.

  • @2piradians@lemmy.world
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    8911 months ago

    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!

  • @brainrein@feddit.de
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    7411 months ago

    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@lemmy.world
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      1711 months ago

      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.

    • Chariotwheel
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      3711 months ago

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

      • @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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        1411 months ago

        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.

        • @Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1311 months ago

          Offender: Why should I hire you?? You’re a terrible defence attorny! Look at how badly you did with the Trump indictment!

          Trump’s Lawyer: I maintain that case is not a reflection of my capabilities in a court of law.

          Offender: Oh yeah? How so??

          Trump’s Lawyer: You see, my client at that time was, in fact, a criminal.

      • AttackBunny
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        1011 months ago

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

        • Tigbitties
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          611 months ago

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

            • @knotthatone
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              511 months ago

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

        • @knotthatone
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          3911 months ago

          Post how you like. Don’t mind pedantic gatekeeping.

        • theodewere
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          11 months ago

          you gotta BELIEVE in that sarcasm, and let it run free in the world… it don’t need no fence of /s holding it back!!

          • @PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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            1111 months ago

            I have honestly seen other people tell someone to use it when it wasn’t obvious that they were being sarcastic.

            I would love to accommodate everyone here on this issue but I don’t think it’s possible so how about if I think something might be too obscure wrt sarcasm, I’ll use it, but on other stuff I won’t. I know some folks whose first language isn’t English may appreciate it at times?

            • @SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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              311 months ago

              Satire is pretty much dead these days, but you can still communicate obvious sarcasm by really making it over-the-top.

              If you don’t want to make it that strong, then I question the point of making the comment in the first place.

          • theodewere
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            411 months ago

            commit or go home… that’s the spirit… let it hang out there and see what happens…

  • @automater
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    2611 months ago

    To the surprise of no one.

  • @ScrollinMyDayAway@lemm.ee
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    2011 months ago

    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.

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      1011 months 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.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    1711 months 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.


    I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • GreenBottles
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    1511 months ago

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

  • @Wirrvogel@feddit.de
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    511 months 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

  • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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    411 months ago

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