Having a fool for a client is a lawyer's nightmare, and the lawyers representing narcissistic sociopath and delusional liar Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump have a big one on their hands. Trying to find evidence of massive voter fraud -- or even trivial fraud -- and presenting it in court to sooth Trump's battered ego is a losing game. Court actions brought by his legal eagles has been swept aside by judges in the key states of Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The embarrassing attempts to gin up doubt about the election returns have seen at least one law firm withdraw from his team, as the New York Times reports:
"Mr. Trump’s bad day at the bar began at dawn when news emerged that lawyers from the Ohio-based law firm Porter Wright Morris & Arthur had abruptly withdrawn from a federal lawsuit they had filed only days earlier on his behalf in Pennsylvania. The firm’s withdrawal followed internal tensions at the firm about its work for Mr. Trump and concerns by some lawyers that Porter Wright was being used to undercut the integrity of the electoral process.
Then, shortly after noon, a lawyer for the Trump campaign effectively dropped its so-called Sharpiegate lawsuit in Arizona. That lawsuit had claimed that some ballots cast for Mr. Trump were invalidated after voters in Maricopa County had used Sharpie pens, causing 'ink bleeds.' The lawyer, Kory Langhofer, acknowledged that not enough presidential votes were at stake in the case to affect the outcome of the race." (our emphasis)
In Michigan, Trump's lawyers were attempting to stop the ballot counting in Democratic Wayne County, ostensibly to halt the certification process and throw the election to the Republican-controlled state legislature, a strategy they were pursuing in other key states that Trump lost that have Republican-controlled state legislatures. Remember that when you see his right-wing cultists ironically cry "Stop the Steal."
