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November 29: The Danger of Doubting Donald Trump’s Legitimacy
Trump didn't steal the election. If a recount can affirm that fact, then so much the better.
https://newrepublic.com/article/139039/danger-doubting-donald-trumps-legitimacy
-- 2017 --
January 17: While many Americans were celebrating and honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. over the past weekend, President-elect Donald Trump went on a Twitter rampage blasting civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis, calling him a lawmaker who is “all talk” and “no action.” Trump’s ill-timed remarks came after Lewis said in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press that Trump “is not a legitimate president” and that he plans to boycott his inauguration.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/6-reasons-trump-not-legitimate-president/
March 11: How Donald Trump could delegitimize his own government ... When Donald Trump was trailing in public opinion polls leading up to Election Day 2016, he had a ready answer for why he was losing -- the system was rigged against him.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/11/politics/trump-deep-state/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
March 11: When it became clear that [Trump] won the election, but lost the popular vote, Trump had a new reason -- fraud. Millions of people had fraudulently voted and stolen the popular vote victory from him and given it to Hillary Clinton, he suggested. [No evidence was given, and the claim has been disproven many times].
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/11/politics/trump-deep-state/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
April 28: President Donald Trump, reflecting on a first 100 days in office that has featured no major legislative wins and low approval ratings, said Thursday he thought the job would be easier.
"I loved my previous life, I loved my previous life. I had so many things going," Trump said in an interview with Reuters. "I actually, this is more work than my previous life. I thought it would be easier."
He later added, "I do miss my old life. This -- I like to work. But this is actually more work."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/politics/donald-trump-president-easier/index.html
-- 2018 --
April 17: The challenge of Trump’s presidency is legitimacy, not power
https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2018/4/17/17248488/trumps-presidency-challenge-legitimacy
May 15: Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said she had something to get off her chest about President Trump at the 2018 Ideas Conference hosted by the Center for American Progress on Tuesday: Don’t ignore his attacks on the rule of law.
“What I worry about is the normalization of so much that is not normal,” said Yates, who was fired by Trump in January 2017 after refusing to comply with his controversial executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries.
“There is a time-honored tradition at the Department of Justice, at least since Watergate, that is nonpartisan,” Yates said. “There is a wall between the Department of Justice and the White House when it comes to criminal investigations and prosecutions.”
Trump has been hammering away at that wall so often and with such ferocity, she said, “nobody’s rolling their eyes anymore.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sally-yates-warns-trump-tearing-legitimacy-justice-department-154148205.html
June 27: The Looming Crisis in Trump’s America Is Over Political Legitimacy, Not Dictatorship
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/24939/the-looming-crisis-in-trump-s-america-is-over-political-legitimacy-not-dictatorship
July 9: Stacking Supreme Court Undermines Court’s Democratic Legitimacy
https://news.syr.edu/blog/2018/07/09/stacking-supreme-court-undermines-courts-democratic-legitimacy/
August 5: Member of Trump's voter fraud commission says lack of evidence 'reveals a troubling bias'
"That the Commission predicted it would find widespread evidence of fraud actually reveals a troubling bias," said Maine's Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap.
“Unfortunately, my experience on the Commission quickly caused me concern that its purpose was not to pursue the truth but rather to provide an official imprimatur of legitimacy on the President Trump’s assertions that millions of illegal votes were cast during the 2016 election and to pave the way for policy changes designed to undermine the right to vote,” Dunlap said in the letter.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/member-trump-s-voter-fraud-commission-says-lack-evidence-reveals-n897796
August 13: Trump-appointed judge upholds Mueller's legitimacy
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump ruled Monday that special counsel Robert Mueller's probe is constitutional and legitimate, rejecting an effort by a Russian company -- accused of financing a massive political influence operation in the United States -- to stamp out the ongoing investigation.
Judge Dabney Friedrich, who Trump appointed to the U.S. District Court of Washington D.C. last year, is the fourth judge to quash efforts to upend Mueller's legitimacy and cancel his investigation. Judges overseeing the two trials of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort -- D.C. judge Amy Berman Jackson and Eastern District of Virginia Judge T.S. Ellis -- rejected Manafort's bid to invalidate Mueller.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/13/mueller-legitimate-court-ruling-774888
August 27: Is Trump’s Legitimacy At Risk?
Last Tuesday was not a good day for President Trump. Within minutes his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to charges including a campaign finance violation, and his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was found guilty on eight counts, including fraud charges. So, not a banner day for his presidency. But was it a day that fundamentally changed it?
Has the guilt of Trump’s aides affected his ability to govern?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-trumps-legitimacy-at-risk/
August 30: Rudy Giuliani Is Putting Together a ‘Counter-Report’ to Question Robert Mueller’s ‘Legitimacy’
It’s being done with the explicit blessing of Trump who is ‘happy’ that this is part of his legal team’s ‘strategy,’ the president’s lawyer says.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-is-putting-together-a-counter-report-to-question-robert-muellers-legitimacy
September 25: Trump says International Criminal Court has 'no legitimacy'
https://www.news24.com/World/News/trump-says-international-criminal-court-has-no-legitimacy-20180925
November 6: Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he would be "dumbfounded" if Democrats failed to retake the majority in the House, and expressed certainty that President Trump would question the legitimacy of the results if Republicans falter in Tuesday's midterm elections.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/415292-biden-i-guarantee-trump-will-challenge-legitimacy-of-election-if-gop-loses
November 9: Trump's crying fraud, but elections aren't over in a day anymore
President Donald Trump and Republicans in key states are pushing the idea that Democrats are trying to steal the election from Republicans in Florida, Georgia and Arizona.
"You mean they are just now finding votes in Florida and Georgia -- but the Election was on Tuesday? Let's blame the Russians and demand an immediate apology from President Putin!" Trump told his followers on Twitter at the beginning of a seven-message tear that repeatedly alleged election fraud.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/politics/trump-florida-arizona-conspiracy-theory/index.html
November 13: Trump's Continued Claims Of Fraud Without Evidence Undermine Legitimacy Of Elections
President Trump and GOP leaders in Florida have been raising doubts about the process of counting votes, claiming fraud without evidence. That can have a corrosive effect on democratic institutions.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/667544770/trumps-continued-claims-of-fraud-without-evidence-undermines-legitimacy-of-elect
November 14: Trump attacked the legitimacy of the midterms the same way his own officials warned Russia would
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-undermine-midterms-russias-playbook-2018-11
November 16: Questions Linger Over Legitimacy of Trump's Acting AG Pick
Since his contentious appointment last week, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has gone about business as usual, signing Justice Department documents, issuing statements in support of White House policies, and crisscrossing the country to deliver speeches before law enforcement groups.
Yet controversy lingers over his abrupt rise to the top Justice Department post, with questions swirling about the constitutionality of his appointment and its implications for the independence of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling.
https://www.voanews.com/a/questions-linger-over-legitimacy-of-trump-s-pick-for-acting-attorney-general-/4662222.html
December 6: Kobach ‘very concerned’ voter fraud may have happened in North Carolina
The Republican candidate in the race, Mark Harris, has a 905-vote lead over Democrat Dan McCready, but that result has not been certified. The state board of elections cited "irregularities," and is set to meet on Dec. 21 on how to proceed.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/420192-kobach-very-concerned-voter-fraud-may-have-happened-in-north-carolina
December 6: Dan McCready, the Democratic candidate in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, withdrew his concession on Thursday as new details emerged about allegations of election fraud that may have favored his Republican challenger.
McCready’s decision, first announced in an interview with Charlotte television station WSOC, comes as North Carolina is dealing with an unfolding scandal over absentee ballots. Election officials are trying to determine why many were never mailed in in certain counties that likely would have favored the Democrats in the election, and three people have told BuzzFeed News and WSOC that they were hired to collect such absentee votes, which would be a violation of state law.
Republican Mark Harris is currently leading in the election by 905 votes. McCready conceded last month about 24 hours after polls closed in the midterm elections.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-dan-mccready-withdraws-concession_us_5c09a755e4b0b6cdaf5d7267
December 12: North Carolina GOP admits a new House election is probably needed after election fraud scandal
State officials have discretion under state law to call for a new election if the basic fairness of the election is in question.
The strange tales of vote counts being leaked aren’t isolated. Voters have also said an unidentified woman picked up their ballots, in another apparent violation of state law, and an unusually high number of absentee ballots were requested in the Ninth but never returned. A local Republican operative working in support of the Harris campaign has been implicated as the ringleader of the ballot tampering scheme.
North Carolina Republicans originally threatened to sue the elections board if it refused to certify the Ninth results. But they have since backed all the way down from that threat and are now effectively calling for a new election. It has since been revealed that the state party may have been privy to allegations of unusual activity in the district during the GOP primary in May when Harris upset incumbent Rep. Robert Pittenger, as the Washington Post reported.
The state board has said it would hold a hearing of the evidence of fraud on or before December 21.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/12/18137552/north-carolina-election-fraud-9th-district-dallas-woodhouse
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