My guess is that there will be a certain amount of skullduggery within the Electoral College. In 2016 Trump had two faithless electors from Texas, Hillary had five, one from Hawaii and 4 from Washington. Still, with 43 EC votes in the lead it's highly unlikely that could be used for a successful steal.
Possibly an assassination attempt or six. My guess is that the most dangerous potential assassins would be lone wolves because Murphy's law says that professionals can be predicted but amateurs are unpredictable.
The one thing that I do see happening is that the New York court that has not sentenced him yet does sentence him and tries to take him into custody and keep him from a judge so he can't be sworn in.
In that case all Trump has to do is hang out in Florida and have the oath administered there.
The smartest thing Kathy Hochul could do right about now is pardon Trump on that politically motivated trial in New York because I seriously doubt that it would keep Trump from becoming POTUS on 20 January. Besides that kangaroo court trial can and will be thrown out by a judicial review or on appeal.
Hochul was an imbecile for even permitting that trial to even occur.
I suppose that if she pardons Trump she'll look like an idiot and if she doesn't she'll still look like a bigger idiot for even permitting the trial to even begin. In short, she's ruined whatever little political career she has left, if any.
Many people think the Chief Justice of SCOTUS is supposed to give the oath but that's not so even though it's the usual procedure.
Not so. When Kennedy was shot, LBJ was sworn in by a US District judge in Texas.
Calvin Coolidge was sworn in while on vacation upon hearing the news that Warren Harding had died he was sworn into office by his father who was a notary.
I get accused of being negative and maybe I am, maybe I'm not. One thing that I am is a believer in the sayings of the late Great Yogi Berra who stated 'The game ain't over 'til it's over'.
There as I write this are 15 days left before the inauguration and like a lot of people I am counting them down because I would not put it past the opposition to pull a last minute pimplebrained stunt to block the bona fide results of a legitimate presidential election.
UPDATE. I wrote this a few hours ago and just found out that NY is going to sentence Trump 10 days before he takes office.
Shenanigans are afoot. We shall see what we shall see.
This game will not be over until 21 January, if then.
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My answer to people that are terrified of Trump taking office.
"Donald Trumps going to put my gay son into a concentration camp!"
My answer to crap like that is a wide-eyed, "Yeah! Just like he did the last time he was president! Remember that?"
It is not so much that you are negative, Mr Piccolo, it is that you worry so much about things that have zero statistical likelihood of occuring.
ReplyDeleteCould president Trump be cheated out of the electoral votes tomorrow? Technically, yes. It is only slightly less probable, than a gold plated learjet landing in my yard tomorrow.
I simply don't count my chickens before they hatch. Yes, it is unlikely anything will happen, but I won't underestimate Democrat treachery.
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