The Daily Fuckup: December 31, 2020

Edition · December 31, 2020

The Daily Fuckup: December 31, 2020

Trump’s post-election Hail Mary turned into a fresh Georgia lawsuit, while his legal orbit kept trying to bulldoze the certified result and pretend the calendar was optional.

On the last day of 2020, Donald Trump’s post-election pressure campaign produced another Georgia courtroom filing aimed at blowing up Biden’s certified win. It was a big, ugly reminder that Trump-world was still in full denial mode, and it was already running headfirst into the law, the calendar, and the basic fact that elections have results.

Closing take

The year ended the way it had gone on: with Trump refusing to accept reality and allies still trying to turn a loss into a constitutional crisis. The paperwork was piling up, the arguments were thinning out, and the country was left with one more day of expensive, desperate nonsense.

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Trump files a Georgia election lawsuit on New Year’s Eve and asks a court to unwind the vote

Georgia Hail Mary Confidence 4/5

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

Trump and his lawyers spent December 31 trying to pry loose Georgia’s certified presidential result with yet another lawsuit. The filing asked a federal judge to set aside the certification of the state’s electors and effectively give Trump another crack at overturning Biden’s win. It was a legally aggressive move, but it also underscored how little Trump-world had left besides courtroom fantasy and pressure tactics.

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