President Donald Trump’s 76-year-old Atty. Rudy Giuliani, fresh of his treatment for Covid-19, said the president was exploring his legal options, showing that Covid-19 has gone to his brain. What more do Trump and Giuliani have to see, after the Supreme Court Dec. 11 rejected 55-year-old Texas Atty. Gen. Ken Paxon’s suit trying to nullify the Electoral votes from Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Yesterday’s refusal by the Supreme Court to take up Paxton’s suit slams the door on Trump’s legal options. Suing for injunctive relief in the Supreme Court was always a long-shot, knowing the the High Court would not interfere in the inner workings ot state election laws. Giuliani said he was “looking at other options,” when he knows there are none to stop the Electoral College Dec. 1e from certifying 78-year-old President-elect Joe Biden’s 306 Electoral votes.
Trump lost the election ultimately because voters saw him, for better or worse, as a threat to American democracy, but, more specifically, for his mishandling of the Covid-19 crisis that seemed to get worse by the month. While it’s good news that Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine got emergency use authorization Dec. 11, perhaps starting vaccinations next week, it’s also true that there’s no quick fix. Showing that the public remains skeptical of vaccines, Biden and his 56-year-old running mate Kamala Harris, disparaged the vaccines developed under Trump’s watch as not trustworthy. Biden and Harris have done nothing to reverse the public relations damage they created for the purpose of defeating Trump Nov. 3. New polls show that at least 50% of the population has decided not to take the vaccine when it’s available.
Biden and Harris ran their campaign on criticizing Trump’s response to the coronavirus global pandemic. Countless numbers of books and public testimony blamed Trump for not responding the Covid-19 crisis early enough, way back in January, before the U.S. had any known cases or deaths. Former Washington Post journalist 78-year-old Bob Woodward said in his book, “Rage,” that Trump knew the severity of the Covid-19 crisis in early January but didn’t take the right steps. Woodward doesn’t mention that 55-year-old World Health Organiztion [WHO] Director General Tedros Adhamon didn’t declare a global pandemic until March 11, something Woodward dosen’t like talk about. Woodward gave Biden and Harris the talking points used to discredit Trump, that he ignored the early warning signs making the crisis worse.
Whatever was said by Democrats and their friends in the press, Trump’s communication team led by 32-year-old Hope Hicks was overmatched, completely blindsided by the avalanche of bad news coming from Democrats and the press. No, it was all Trump’s fault that the country was swamped with Covid-19 cases, prompting Trump to listen to his 80-year-old science adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci. Democrats and the press used Fauci at every opportunity to discredit Trump, often pitting the Trump White House against the octogenarian veteran of HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Swine Flu and other infectious disease.. Fauci became a convenient Democrat political hack, using a devious strategy to denigrate Trump, giving as many interviews to the anti-Trump press as possible to make Trump look bad.
Talking now about legal options sound preposterous after there’s two days left before the Electoral College certifies Biden’s convincing victory. While it’s true that 150 million registered voters completed ballots in 2020, it’s also true that Biden won 7 million more popular votes than Trump. Whatever one thinks of voter fraud, Biden won a decisive victory, leaving Trump no other option but to call in the movers. Trump gave it his best shot but in the end voters wanted change in 2020; Trump last ditch arguments about how things would get better in 2021 didn’t persuade voters. What have you done lately still offers the best estimate of where elections go. Confronted with national lockdowns and an protracted recession, voters opted for change in 2020. No Supreme Court, no matter how conservative, can change a national election.
Making entertaining theater in 247 cable news, Trump has run out of legal options and now faces the certainty of the Electoral College vote. While Trump and his legal team have focused on voter fraud, there’s just no convincing evidence to support their claim. Biden won the election because enough Democrats and independents decided that they had enough of Trump’s leadership. While there’s no question that Trump made historic strides in Mideast diplomacy, most likely earning him a Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, it wasn’t enough to turn things around with Covid-19 raging around the country. Too many people find themselves unemployed and financially strapped under Trump’s watch to justify sending his back for another four years. Whatever you get with Biden, you get an end to the Trump presidency.
