Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Paul May]

Biden Maintains Strong Lead Over Trump

Wesley Dockery

Three polls released Wednesday show presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with a solid lead on incumbent Donald Trump.

Polls from Economist/YouGov and CNBC/Change Research both show Biden leading by 9 percentage points. Rasmussen Reports, a right-leaning polling company, shows Biden leading Trump, 48%-42%.

CNBC/Change Research surveys of battleground states painted a grim picture for Trump's reelection bid. Polling shows Biden owns slim leads in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Of the six states, Biden fares the best in Wisconsin, with a 5-point lead, and fares the worst in Arizona and Pennsylvania, where he has a 2-point lead. The six states have a total of 101 electoral votes.

Since establishing a clear path to the Democratic nomination, Biden has consistently looked strong in most polls in head-to-head matchups with Trump.

On Monday, a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey showed Biden leading Trump by 10 points. The national poll noted that Biden is viewed by a strong majority of voters as better equipped to lead during the coronavirus and racial turbulence.

An NBC News/Marist Poll released Monday showed Biden leading by 7 points in North Carolina, and also showed Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham leading Sen. Thom Tillis by 9 points and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper leading Republican challenger Dan Forest by 20 points.

Biden is expected to name his running mate in the coming days. Among his top choices are California Sen. Kamala Harris, former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice and Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth. The pick could result in a shift in polling numbers, depending on the public response to the running mate choice.

Trump and Biden will have their first of three debates on Sept. 29 in Cleveland. The election, which will take place on Nov. 3, is 96 days away.

[John Tonkovich]

That's good news, Mr. Scully.
This Flynn case just won't go away. Even despite Barr's best efforts.

[Tom Scully]

That's good news, Mr. Scully.
This Flynn case just won't go away. Even despite Barr's best efforts.

I heard yesterday that William Barr is worth $20 million +. If he has any sense, he'll resign before the Aug. 11 hearing and leave the U.S. The majority of this appeals court are not Trumpkins like Judge Rao. Nothing that Judge Sullivan had already ruled on was submitted in the Barr engineered, 108 page pleading Barr's stooge submitted to Judge Sullivan's court arguing Flynn should no longer even face charges due to imaginary prosecutorial "misconduct" no one is actually being held accountable for, because it did not happen.

Barr acted at the direction of a letter sent to him by Flynn's "attorney" Sidney Powell, and not on the evidence or on any legal basis.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/07/27/hjc-should-ask-bill-barr-why-it-would-do-irreparable-harm-if-he-had-to-explain-his-actions-in-the-flynn-case/
HJC SHOULD ASK BILL BARR WHY IT WOULD DO IRREPARABLE HARM IF HE HAD TO EXPLAIN HIS ACTIONS IN THE FLYNN CASE
51 Comments/July 27, 2020/emptywheel
DOJ has argued that DOJ would face irreparable harm if they had to explain their actions in the Mike Flynn case under oath. Which is reason enough that HJC should focus on that question when Bill Barr comes to testify tomorrow.
.....One thing that should be included, however, is the letter that Sidney Powell sent Barr and Jeffrey Rosen in June 2019 and Bill Barr’s actions to deliver on her demands in the subsequent year, actions that DOJ itself admits would do irreparable harm if DOJ had to explain.

The letter was effectively a road map of demands, many of them based off hoaxes, almost all of them unrelated to Flynn’s prosecution or false. It later became the Brady demand that Judge Emmet Sullivan rejected in a meticulous opinion last December. In it, Powell demanded that DOJ conduct a review of the prosecution and then dismiss the prosecution......

https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/07/30/full-dc-circuit-shifts-mike-flynn-analysis-back-to-what-it-should-be-unusual-remedy/
FULL DC CIRCUIT SHIFTS MIKE FLYNN ANALYSIS BACK TO WHAT IT SHOULD BE: UNUSUAL REMEDY
5 Comments/July 30, 2020/emptywheel
The full DC Circuit is going to re-hear Mike Flynn's petition for a writ of mandamus, this time reviewing what they should have reviewed the first time, whether Flynn has any remedy other than a writ. (He does.)

[Paul May]

Fox News host speculates Trump ‘won’t leave the White House’ if he loses: ‘Is he setting up something?’

David Edwards

Fox Business host Neil Cavuto speculated on Thursday that President Donald Trump might refuse to peacefully leave the White House if he loses in November.

After Trump tweeted a suggestion about “delaying” the election, Cavuto asked Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) if the president is “setting up something.”

“So you don’t think he’s setting up something if he were to lose,” Cavuto asked, “that he’s going to claim that it was rigged and he just won’t leave the White House — crazy glue his hands to the Oval Office doors?”

Blackburn answered by accusing Hillary Clinton of refusing to accept the results of the 2016 election.

“So, if the president were to lose,” Cavuto pressed, “let’s say, by a fairly comfortable margin — he might not like that — do you think he would say, ‘Alright, that’s it, I’m outta here?'”

“I think Donald Trump is going to win,” Blackburn insisted.

“I understand that,” Cavuto interrupted. “In your heart of hearts, do you think if he were — if he were to lose that he would try to come up with a reason not to leave?”

“He has always honored the will of the American people,” Blackburn replied.

“Because if they tried to push me out of here, Senator,” Cavuto noted, “I would just continue doing shows. Because I would not leave.”

[Rick Plant]

Like a dictator does....attacks the election process.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-again-s-the-legitimacy-of-the-election-while-guaranteeing-he-will-win-big/

[Paul May]

The man is utter trash.

Trump calls reporters to the White House for surprise event as Obama delivers eulogy for John Lewis

Eric W. Dolan

President Donald Trump on Thursday called reporters into the White House for an event with the family of slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen.

The press availability, which was not previously on the president’s schedule, coincided with former President Barack Obama delivering an eulogy at the funeral service of John Lewis.


“We didn’t want to have this swept under the rug, which could happen,” Trump told Guillén’s family during the Oval Office meeting.

Some political observers viewed Trump’s actions as as an attempt to “one-up” Obama or distract from his speech.

[Paul May]

Donald Trump kill and destroys anything he comes into contact with. Latest example, Herman Cain at his Tulsa rally.

[Rick Plant]

Donald Trump kill and destroys anything he comes into contact with. Latest example, Herman Cain at his Tulsa rally.

Last month Herman Cain was laughing at Donald Trump's Tulsa Death Rally mocking masks and attacking "liberals" for wearing them. I posted a picture of him sitting jammed together with a group of people. I said he was going to get sick. Sure enough he did. If he wore a mask and stayed home, he would be alive right now. Instead he got to see Donald Trump rant like a loon, slurring his words, pretending to walk down a ramp, and drink a glass of water. What a way to go.