Donald Trump Hits Feces-Flinging Stage of Election “Fraud” Fight

Hello, and welcome to day 46 of the Donald Trump Attempts to Overthrow Democracy Show. Now more than a month and a half since Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election, the current (and outgoing) president of the United States still refuses to accept the results of both the popular vote and the Electoral College, insisting daily that a second term was stolen from him through rampant fraud, which not even Bill Barr and Vladimir Putin, among others, will back him up on.

Despite being completely and fully in denial about the fact that he’s not going to be president anymore, it appears that some tiny part of Trump knows things are not looking great for him, hence his increasingly desperate efforts to invalidate the will of tens of millions of Americans. One thing that’s included is his meeting with Sidney Powell—the lawyer deemed too crazy by Rudy Giuliani—multiple times at the White House and allegedly proposing her appointment as a special counsel to investigate nonexistent voter fraud. Then, of course, there’s the news that he’s been discussing invoking martial law with disgraced former national security adviser Mike Flynn. And naturally, like a madman who‘s gone too far even for his most loyal foot soldiers, Trump has reportedly lashed out and turned on everyone who won’t go along with his attempted coup.

According to Axios’s Jonathan Swan, the latest targets of Trump’s ire, i.e. “anyone who refuses to indulge conspiracy theories or hopeless bids to overturn the election,” include V.P. Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, White House counsel Pat Cipollone, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Per Swan:

Trump thinks everyone around him is weak, stupid, or disloyal—and increasingly seeks comfort only in people who egg him on to overturn the election results. We cannot stress enough how unnerved Trump officials are by the conversations unfolding inside the White House. Top officials are trying to stay away from the West Wing right now. Trump is lashing out, and everyone is in the blast zone: At this point, if you’re not in the “use the Department of Homeland Security or the military to impound voting machines” camp, the president considers you weak and beneath contempt.

Trump is reportedly outraged that Pence has, in his mind, not fought hard enough for him and is preemptively enraged at the prospect of the V.P. presiding over the January 6 session of Congress that will officially certify Biden as the Electoral College winner, something Pence is constitutionally required to do. (Perhaps having heard this, Pence pretended at an event on Tuesday that Trump could totally get another four years.) Supporters of Cipollone are worried he’s on the firing block. And when it comes to McConnell, who traitorously acknowledged Biden would be the next president last week, Trump has unleashed his inner Regina George, dispatching his personal assistant on Monday night to email Republican lawmakers a slapped-together PowerPoint slide attacking the majority leader for being “the first one off the ship,” and claiming credit for his reelection in Kentucky.

Meanwhile, he’s apparently hatched another harebrained scheme to overturn the election, meeting with House Republicans on Monday about overturning the result on January 6. While some reliable toadies like Matt Gaetz are proudly on board, there’s obviously zero chance of the stunt resulting in Trump serving a second term. And as the crazy no doubt escalates over the next four weeks, there’s one person in particular who should probably consider calling in sick every day until the inauguration:

The person who has the worst job in Washington, according to multiple administration officials: the incoming head of the Justice Department, Jeffrey Rosen. The consensus is he has no earthly idea the insanity he is in for. The next month will be the longest of his life.

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