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President Donald J. Trump:

“Huge findings in Arizona! However, the Fake News Media is already trying to “call it” again for Biden before actually looking at the facts—just like they did in November! The audit has uncovered significant and undeniable evidence of FRAUD! pic.twitter.com/YcVpcIuEsE

— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) September 24, 2021

The "undeniable evidence" of fraud is the claim that fraud was found in the Arizona elections. The fraud is Trump insisting, against all evidence, that evidence of fraud is there, you just can’t see it yet. The fraud is that the election was ever going to be “undone.”

Trump told people in the spring that Arizona's sham audit could help "undo" the 2020 presidential election.

That was utterly bonkers at the time; it's much worse now that the review found Biden winning by even more votes. https://t.co/QGbLq26Bqi

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen) September 24, 2021

This is the point in the movie where the audience realizes the guy they thought they could trust is the liar, and that he’s got nothin’.  Except, of course, this isn’t a movie.

Still, it’s pretty obvious, even to the media, that the emperor has no clothes.  Maybe we can stop treating his every utterance as important and valuable. Trump isn’t influencing the Senate to default on the national debt.  He’s not going to kill Biden’s agenda. He’s not likely to even get his audit in Texas.  (Abbott needs the Lege to fund that. I’m not sure they will.). What he’s got is a lot of threats, a handful of “gimme,” a mouthful of “much obliged”…and not much else.  Even the stories about him ‘taking over” elected offices of election officials in the states is premature.  He’s got to win those elections; and then he’s got to change state laws, and change the judges, and change the DOJ.  None of this is as simple as the media and Twitter want it to be.

You’d think they’d see that after the Arizona fiasco.  Why is Cyber Ninjas finding Biden won by more votes?  Why did that news ever escape captivity?  Because of the courts and the DOJ. The courts kept Trump from overturning the last election 60 times. It really isn’t all up to politicians or who can claim the headlines.

Then again, this was retweeted by Maggie Haberman:

Everybody knows you wait to release your best news that totally confirms what you've been saying all along until late afternoon on a Friday. pic.twitter.com/xd6Oy3PmrJ

— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) September 24, 2021

And let's not ignore this:

"Alexa, deliver all the fucking popcorn in the universe." https://t.co/yPd96snLrM

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 24, 2021

DOJ and the courts aren't the only ones who have a say.

Whoah brah so you hired the two crooks from Home Alone to do a complex audit and they subcontracted it out to the Unabomber and the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit and it didn’t come out the way you hoped? No way you could have known

— ThousandIslandVaccineHat (@Popehat) September 24, 2021

Turn out the lights, the party's over.