The president’s team of attorneys pledged they would reverse the outcome of the 2020 White House race.
They called themselves an “elite strike force team.” But the madcap news conference by President Donald Trump’s attorneys on Thursday afternoon was more campaign farce than cogent legal argument, as Rudy Giuliani offered several conspiracy theories and a litany of false claims that he pledged would reverse the outcome of the 2020 White House race.
“I guess we’re the senior lawyers,” Giuliani told a packed room of reporters inside the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., flanked by fellow Trump campaign attorneys Jenna Ellis, Joseph diGenova and Sidney Powell.
In the 90 minutes that followed, the former New York mayor and his colleagues spun a web of mistruths that made mention of the Clinton Foundation, liberal megadonor George Soros and the late Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez.
And although Ellis described their remarks as merely an “opening statement” on behalf of the campaign, the discursive briefing — during which streams of what appeared to be hair dye dripped down both sides of Giuliani’s face — betrayed almost immediately the desperation of Trump’s flailing effort to undermine President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
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At a news conference this afternoon, Rudy Giuliani offered various conspiracy theories and a litany of false claims that he pledged would reverse the outcome of the 2020 White House race. https://t.co/efdLWU5kZJ
— POLITICO (@politico) November 19, 2020
Step 1 announce press conference
Step 2 ??????
Step 3 President for Life Trump https://t.co/2q3ZcfQKt3— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) November 19, 2020
Side effect of Relief Factor? https://t.co/qX7U9NY3Yg
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) November 19, 2020
This is a holy crap moment: “In terms of the level of corruption we are looking at here, we have no idea how many Republican or Democratic candidates… paid to have the system rigged to work for them.” – Sydney Powell
Listen up, GOP. They're calling out your elections next.
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) November 19, 2020
What I don't get about the Never-Say-Die Trumpers is, if you somehow succeed in getting courts to return him to the White House, what kind of country do you expect him to govern? We will be at war with each other. And it's not like he actually had a second term agenda!
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) November 19, 2020
I love the idea that Hugo Chavez's technique for stealing an election would be a sophisticated computer scheme. Because high-tech brilliance is what we expect from a thug who managed to bankrupt an oil rich country. https://t.co/L4yGL4nYov
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) November 19, 2020
A serious political party that took its role in American life and its own reputation seriously would abandon Trump before disseminating this garbage. Why wouldn't you resign rather than be part of this? https://t.co/n9ftOuies4
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) November 19, 2020
BTW, just a reminder that the Trump we're seeing right now is perfectly consistent with the Trump some of us saw all along. Let's not pretend otherwise.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) November 19, 2020
Here's why you should hire union hair and makeup professionals: pic.twitter.com/84urAAuh9E
— IATSE (@IATSE) November 19, 2020
With @JennaEllisEsq smiling and chuckling as if she thinks all of this is perfectly normal. Maybe Jason Miller had a point about her. https://t.co/nM3giqNgyU
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 19, 2020
going great, folks pic.twitter.com/V8fChnL6Mh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 19, 2020
A systematic attack on the legitimacy of the democratic process https://t.co/MB8ZDhJE26
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) November 19, 2020
This is absolutely nuts. Just nuts. And yet millions believe it and believe Trump will prevail. And they believe it with religious fervor. https://t.co/NiNOUGxOpX
— David French (@DavidAFrench) November 19, 2020
That press conference was the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in American history. And possibly the craziest. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’re lucky.
— Chris Krebs (@C_C_Krebs) November 19, 2020
Buckle up, folks: https://t.co/0aKoqldlo7
— Rachael Larimore (@RachaelBL) November 20, 2020
Really enjoying how the gang which insists that Russia had nothing to do with 2016 — despite, for instance, the detailed findings of the GOP-controlled SSCI which prove that — maintains that this bullshit "affidavit" proves that Hugo C, dead since 2013, swung 2020 to Biden.
— John Schindler (@20committee) November 21, 2020
Sydney Powell is currently alleging on Newsmax that Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, was paid by Dominion as part of the conspiracy to defeat Donald Trump.
The Newsmax anchor just said everything she is alleging sounds nuts but who knows it could be true.
— Jamie Weinstein (@Jamie_Weinstein) November 22, 2020
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