President Donald Trump continued his assault on American democracy by relentlessly seeking to overturn the results of the November 3rd election. Trump’s current focus on Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania comes after dozens of his legal challenges have failed at the courts after claims of voter fraud were found to be baseless. The New York Times called his on-going coup attempt, “unprecedented in American history and an even more audacious use of brute political force to gain the White House than when Congress gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency during Reconstruction.” In Michigan Trump is appealing to the Republican-dominated state legislature to overturn president elect Joe Biden’s lead of more than 150,000 votes and has even invited Michigan’s GOP officials to the White House in a brazen attempt to talk them into doing his bidding. Upon landing at Reagan airport for his meeting with Trump, State Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey was met by a throng of reporters and protesters asking him why he has refused to certify his state’s election results. Michigan Democrats held a news conference on the same day with House Representative Debbie Dingell saying, “This goes beyond partisan politics, and it’s an attempt to subvert our democracy and undermine the will of Michigan voters.” 

Republican Senator Mitt Romney who has been a vocal critic of Trump while continuing to support Trump’s agenda, admitted that, “It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American president.” On Thursday Trump’s legal team held a bizarre indoor press conference where the President’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani sweated profusely through his hair dye and laid out a far-fetched litany of conspiracy theories involving foreign countries. The Washington Post summarized it like this: “China is in on it. Cuba is in on it. Antifa and George Soros are in on it. At least two presidents of Venezuela, one dead and one living, are in on it. Big Tech is in on it; a Web server from Germany is involved (there’s always a server involved). Multiple major U.S. cities are in on it, as are decent American citizens who volunteer at polling precincts. Argentina is in on it, too, sort of.” 

Even Fox News deemed the content of the presser to be “light on facts.” Speaking alongside Giuliani was Sidney Powell, a woman who media outlets have identified as part of the QAnon conspiracy cult. Fox host Tucker Carlsen also denounced her saying he had repeatedly requested information from her about Trump’s voter fraud claims but she would not do so. But Trump continues to enjoy the support of some mainstream Republicans including Senator Lindsey Graham who was revealed to have been pressuring Georgia’s Secretary of State to invalidate Democratic votes. Graham is now facing an