Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Facts Are Stupid Things

And I’m beginning to suspect a pattern. Except Mike Lindell didn’t make that his defense (that he was right), and he lost anyway. (Truth is an absolute defense to libel, but Lindell couldn’t prove his claims were true. He could yell it all he wanted; but wasn’t allowed to do that because he couldn’t present any evidence to prove it.)

So I think the pattern is Trump’s non-lawyer idea of fraud: that it undoes everything. That doesn’t work to undo elections or what Biden did as President (“AUTOPEN!!!”), or anything Trump wants to attack. But he wants desperately for everything he ever did to be “right,” which can only mean his opponents were WRONG! And the best way to prove that is to declare “FRAUD”, sweep the board if inconvenient history, and declare Trump Winner Forever No Take Backs!

"We're the first ones that went all the way to jury trial," he said of 2020 election fraud cases. "And we won. It was unanimous all the way, every single thing that they, when they brought up MyPillow, 100% victory. Now, the media is coming out and saying, well, you owe all this. Mike Lindell, you owe all this. Well, that's what appeals are for, Steve."

"But hang on a second," Bannon interrupted. "Appeals are only on points of law. What specifically in points of law are your attorneys involved — pointing to that because appeals almost, it almost never gets appealed, overturned at an appellate level."

"There was so many things they didn't let in that I wanted to bring in that my lawyers wanted to bring in," Lindell replied. "So I think that might be some of the things, because every time that happened, I'd go into kind of a panic, and they're going, Mike, this is all, if they do this, and it comes out, this is all part of the appeal process."

"It's the first victory involving his 2020 election," he insisted. "And I'm going to tell you, Steve, while it was there, you know, this all came out of Colorado media where it's going all over the country that, you know, Mike Lindell lost and all this rubbish."

"I feel very much that it was a great victory for us in our country."
Weirdest use of the term “victory” I’ve ever seen.

Gotta say, he’s expecting a lot more from the appeals process than he’s ever gonna get. His lawyers kept a lot of his wack-a-loon out, because they knew the judge would NEVER let it in, and that would hurt them with the jury (because it was NOT evidence). You can’t appeal for what you didn’t ask for at trial. And since he had no evidence, the appeals court would never order a new trial on those grounds, anyway.

Anyway, this recitation of an election now five years gone is not going to distract people from masked ICE agents kidnapping people off the streets and disappearing them.
Context note: DOJ doesn’t turn over evidence to Congress if they have a viable investigation in the works.
N.B. “Alarming allegations” are not evidence, either. They don’t want to take any if this to court. They just want to scream and shout and flap their arms.

I know we’re supposed to be “very afraid” of this stuff. 🙀 But it’s not really flying clear of the internet or FoxNews, whereas the DOJ demanding Colorado turn over 5 years of election data (the statutory requirement is to maintain 22 months of federal election data)* for what is clearly a fishing expedition, not even an investigation into a particular claim. (If Colorado says “I don’t think so,” the DOJ is gonna have fun in court. Well, until they tell Alito and Thomas it’s all about Trump’s double secret unitary executive powers…), really deserves more of our attention. I doubt it will ever get there, though. None of this is meant for court. But some of it is a more serious abuse of power, than the rest of it.

Watch the donut, 🍩 not the hole.🕳️ 


*Can you say “Tina Peters”? I thought you could.

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