Donald Trump honest to god thinks he’s going to reverse the election. He is sure that they know that all these states – all of them that he lost (none that he won) have got it all wrong and he’ll tell you who won what. Trump talked to the famously partisan Washington Examiner yesterday and gave the exact type of interview you’d expect.

First, he flat says they’re going to win Wisconsin.

Not to get technical but he was down 20,000 votes in Wisconsin. How he intends to “win Wisconsin” is a question that I don’t think he even cares that much about right now.

“Arizona — it’ll be down to 8,000 votes, and if we can do an audit of the millions of votes, we’ll find 8,000 votes easy. If we can do an audit, we’ll be in good shape there.”

Arizona was just called for Biden last night by 11,000 votes. But don’t let that slow you down there, Ace.

“Georgia, we’re going to win,” he continued, “because now, we’re down to about 10,000, 11,000 votes, and we have hand-counting” — a reference to the coming recount. “Hand-counting is the best. To do a spin of the machine doesn’t mean anything. You pick up 10 votes. But when you hand-count — I think we’re going to win Georgia.”

He assumes that “hand-counted” thing means that they’ll all be for him because the machines that can’t read shit are all against him? This is a serious person?

The article then goes into Michigan and Pennsylvania and how observers weren’t allowed (they were, just not as close as they demanded), which Trump thinks should invalidate all those votes. Even the article admits that the odds of Trump winning are near zero, but seems to be humoring him – or just buying time for him to make his real putsch:

Indeed, the picture looks bleak for the president. As he spoke on Thursday, GOP strategist Karl Rove, Hugh Hewitt, and this newsletter noted that it is impossible, or all but impossible, for him to come back in enough states to win the election. At one point in the conversation, the president seemed to consider and then quickly reject the idea of losing. “I’m a guy who realizes — five days ago, I thought, ‘Maybe,'” he said, pausing for just a second. “But, now I see evidence, and we have hundreds of affidavits,” referring to the testimonials included in his lawsuits.

And yet, as we’ve noted before, every time that he’s been asked to send that evidence into a Pennsylvania they just don’t quite get their hands on it to submit it. They are always thinking that they might have it in just a day or two. If anything is going to happen in Pennsylvania and Michigan (and Wisconsin, because he’s not going to win the recount) it is going to be going straight to the legislatures. Trump’s effort won’t be made in courts. It will be made by legislators and courts approving it (if he succeeds).

York closed up with this, Trump saying the election will probably be overturned in two to three weeks:

When I asked him how quickly he might turn things around, he said, “I don’t know. It’s probably two weeks, three weeks.” He knows the situation. He has heard many people tell him it’s over and time to concede. But at the very least, it is important for his most devoted supporters to see him fighting to stay in office. And he closed with a good-natured warning for everyone who has told him there is no hope: “Never bet against me.”

Trump will speak later today so it will be interesting to hear what he has to say.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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