"Read the history of Dominion, and you’ll get an idea of what a crooked company it is. Which maybe is the reason they don’t want to show up here. They really don’t want to tell you that the two of them that own it are Venezuelans and they brought the two Smartmatic owners, they brought the two guys who are Canadians down to meet Chavez just two years ago."

Trump’s Legal Team Sets a Precedent for Lowering the Bar

President Trump and his lawyers are engaged in a spectacle that would be funny if it weren’t so dangerous, and if the stakes weren’t so high.

Beyond the hard numbers is the scope of the president’s legal debacle and the daily indignities that have been heaped upon his lawyers — or, more accurately, that they have visited upon themselves. On Friday, the conservative website Power Line reported that the president’s lawyers filed documents claiming fraud in Michigan — and then cited townships in Minnesota.

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Mr. Trump’s campaign keeps getting routed in case after case. Challenges keep getting tossed out by exasperated judges. Entire legal teams have quit en masse. Claims better suited to random Twitter feeds (or the president’s) have been laughed out of court after court.

One Michigan judge, Cynthia Stephens of the Court of Claims, mocked the Trump campaign’s entire argument this way: “I heard someone else say something,” adding, “Tell me how that is not hearsay.”

Similar episodes have played out across several states and jurisdictions. In a Pennsylvania courtroom on Tuesday, the president’s lead lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, made his first appearance as a lawyer before a federal judge in nearly three decades. The time off showed.

Mr. Giuliani demanded that the judge invalidate nearly seven million votes cast in the state because of what he called “widespread, nationwide voter fraud.” Later, after being pressed for evidence, Mr. Giuliani pivoted rather dramatically: “This is not a fraud case,” he said.

The former New York City mayor took over Mr. Trump’s legal team in part because nearly every other lawyer on the case had either quit or been ignored by the client. It was the latest proof that Mr. Giuliani is willing to do and say pretty much anything on behalf of his client, although not cheaply. He is seeking $20,000 a day from the president’s campaign for his services, multiple people briefed on the matter said. (Mr. Giuliani denied that he had sought the money and added that whoever said he had made the $20,000-a-day request was “a liar, a complete liar.”)

 KK, you should be on the Trump Legal Team! That elite strike force! Why, they're practically calling for you!