A "Luthmann Special" From Sun Bay Paper
Trump Needs the Best Election Lawyer – Right Now!
NOTE: Many may not know that, besides my other writing, I have taken the position of Editor-In-Chief of the Sun Bay Paper, a weekly publication in Southwest Florida. The paper is right of center. I identify as a libertarian, anti-establishmentarian, radical centrist, so I am a “decent” fit. But I try to keep an open mind. 🤣🤣🤣
The following is an article published this past week. I believe that Trump lost in 2020 because Rudy Giuliani was a shitty election lawyer. He was a great prosecutor, but he didn’t know what the hell he was doing when faced with state legislatures and state boards of elections that were basically sanctioning unverifiable cheating and using COVID-19 as the pretext.
If things remain the same, Trump will lose again in 2024. Please make no mistake about it. Not only will unverifiable methods of vote collection like mail-in ballots and drop-boxes become more prevalent, but Trump’s indictments and potential pre-Election Day convictions will serve as a pretext for officials at state boards of elections to remove him from the ballot administratively.
This article provides my opinion on the most critical thing Team Trump can do right now to have the best chance at a 2024 Election Night victory: hire the best election lawyers immediately and aggressively fight for ballot access and fair election rules in all 50 states.
I like Ken Paxton, the Texas AG, to be the man to lead the team.
This article was originally published in the October 13 edition of Sun Bay Paper and is also available on Newsbreak.
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By Richard Luthmann
Following his acquittal on a politically-motivated impeachment trial he claims was engineered by Karl Rove and the Biden Administration, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sat for an interview with Tucker Carlson on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Just over forty-five minutes long, the September 20 interview is well worth watching because it may be the most important exposition of the greatest threat to our republic: stolen elections.
Fighting Election Fraud
The Paxton-Carlson interview crystallizes the severity of America’s “elections crisis” and a political campaign helmed by Karl Rove, the Austin, Texas-based strategist and former adviser to George W. Bush. Things get very interesting at about the thirty-minute mark.
Paxton, whose A.G.’s Office has a 78% victory rate against the Biden Administration, said it point blank: “Mail-in ballots are completely unreliable. If you just send them out, you have no idea who’s sending them back. There’s no verification.”
According to Paxton, it’s engineered that way because it’s legally impossible to prove mass voter fraud after the fact. “That’s the system that they like…You can’t prove voter fraud because the system is completely open,” he said.
Texas went red in 2020, largely because, as attorney general, Paxton fought mail-in ballots tooth and nail. He told President Trump he would lose Texas that year if mail-in voting were allowed.
“I told the President in May [2020], I have twelve lawsuits in the most liberal counties…they sued in liberal counties where all the judges are liberal. The [Texas] Supreme Court is liberal. I have to find a way to get to the Supreme Court or the Fifth Circuit [Federal Appeals Court] before it’s too late - before they mail those ballots out - or you won’t win Texas. I guarantee it.”
The math is simple. “If Harris County sends out 2.7 million mail-in ballots and you won Texas by 600,000 [votes], you will not win…They will just figure out how many votes they need,” Paxton said. “I told the President, lose one, and you’re done. He didn’t believe me.”
Paxton was 12 for 12 in those cases, winning every single lawsuit.
A National Program
In May, six months before Election Day, Paxton raised the alarms about what he saw as a “national program.” On Election Night, Paxton’s fears were proved correct.
“Sure enough, Georgia, which had the same margin of victory for Trump four years prior, they don’t stop it. The Governor, the AG, they sign a consent decree, and they have mail-in ballots with no signature verification, they have drop-off boxes…[In Texas] we have an 8 or 9 percent win for Trump, and in Georgia, he loses by 14,000 votes, a small amount,” Paxton told Carlson.
Georgia election workers stopped the count of votes on election night in 2020 because of a water leak at a voting site.
“What was that about?” Carlson said.
Paxton said the workers stopped the count “because what they needed to figure out was how many real votes there were, so they could figure out how many mail-in ballots to apply to the election.”
“So you think that was fraud, right?” Carlson asked.
“I have no doubt,” Paxton said, to which Carlson replied: “It wasn’t just a water leak?”
“It was definitely planned,” Paxton said.
Media and Liberal Attacks
Several mainstream political and media outlets characterized the entire Paxton-Carlson interview as a rehash of “long-debunked conspiracy theories” about the 2020 election. Consideration of a designed “national program” threatening our democracy was muffled out.
Karl Rove, now carrying the water for Liberal Democrats and the Biden Administration, took to knee-capping Paxton, opponent-in-chief to the mass voter fraud program.
In posting the interview, Carlson wrote that “liberals like Karl Rove just tried to annihilate” Paxton.
“I wish I could claim credit for it, but whoever that guy who called me a liberal, obviously, is not very conversant with what the hell is going on in Texas,” Rove said in response.
Rove didn’t stop there, saying the responsibility for the impeachment “rests with Ken Paxton, who by his own arrogance, thought he could get the taxpayers of Texas stuck with” a $3.3 million settlement with whistleblowers who reported him to the FBI in 2020.
“They made their decision. But the court of opinion is going to hold this guy responsible.” Rove added that Democrats “are not gonna be so stupid as to nominate somebody” who cannot give Paxton a serious challenge in his next election.
Paxton is up for reelection in 2026, though he has floated challenging U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) instead. He won a third term as Texas AG last year, defeating Democrat Rochella Garza by ten percentage points in his first election since the whistleblowers’ claims, which Texas voters saw as a relatively minor issue compared to border security.
Team Trump Legal
Paxton has proven his bona fides as the top state attorney general’s office in combatting systematic voter fraud. He protected Texas for Trump, going 12 for 12 when it mattered.
But voter fraud and ballot access are the most significant national issues in 2024. The MAGA movement cannot allow Ken Paxton’s protection of voter rights to stop at the Red River.
It is incumbent upon Donald Trump to form a legal team that will aggressively secure ballot access and overturn election policies that invite voter fraud. Trump’s legal tab is already high, part of the “national program,” which aims to fundamentally reshape American democracy.
Unless America has same-day, paper balloting, any election can be manipulated and stolen. And paper ballots are not hard to do. Even the French can accomplish this feat.
Blue state elections departments and secretaries of state will seek to use the Trump indictments to exclude him from the ballot while at the same time expanding mail-in voting, drop-boxes, and other unverifiable vehicles of voter fraud. This plan is designed to weaken Trump and cheat his voters out of their constitutional exercise on Election Day 2024.
In 2020, Team Trump waited too long to get the lawyers fully mobilized. Lawsuits and petitions at boards of elections and against brazen blue state legislatures would have stemmed the rampant cheating.
In 2024, Team Trump must aggressively pursue all avenues to protect ballot access and the right to vote, not just for the MAGA movement, but so that we can maintain the republic. And there is no one more qualified to do so than Ken Paxton. He should be the Chief Executive of Team Trump legal, with a singular mission: make sure they play by the rules in all 50 states.
Paxton has the organizational skills to assemble the greatest legal team the world has ever known, countering the “national program” of those who would fundamentally change America.
He has the qualifications to be heard in the courts and the chambers of power. And he has the communicative skills to convey the importance of the mission to rank-and-file voters.
Trump should ask Paxton how much he wants to form this new crew of modern-day “Untouchables.” And when Paxton says a number, Trump should double it and say, “You’re hired!”
If Paxton’s political designs are for the U.S. Senate in 2026, they will be for naught if democracy is stolen on Election Night 2024. By 2026, Texas election policies may transform the state deep-blue, and the Administration’s weakness may have plunged us full-scale into economic stagnation and armed global conflict.
The time to act is now to Save America…again.
Richard Luthmann is a writer, commentator, and investigative journalist with degrees from Columbia University and the University of Miami. A transplanted New Yorker, Luthmann is a member of the National Writers Union now living in Southwest Florida.
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