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COURTSIDE with Neal Katyal

Episode 35 (original 2020 series)

COURTSIDE with Neal Katyal

Neal Katyal

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.9614 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

December 16, 2020


Trump loses “the big one” (Vladimir Putin); Mitch McConnell therefore free to congratulate President-elect Biden and does.


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0:00.0

Welcome to Courtside, everyone, a discussion of the post-election litigation brought by Donald Trump.

0:05.9

It is day 42 after the election, six weeks. My God, what a damn wasted time.

0:14.3

Before we get going, I want to say something preliminarily. So many of you are so kind in your Instagram comments and your cheer for this. And if you like what I'm trying to do with Courtside, please tell other people. Please get it out on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. I'm not on Facebook. Whatever. I need this to grow in order to keep doing it, particularly since we don't have that many episodes left.

0:38.2

I mean, this thing should have been over in episode three, but instead we're like past episode

0:42.8

35 and we could have 35 more. But the comments to me mean more to me than I can say to you.

0:50.4

And second, some of you are so kind sending food, pictures, all sorts of things. And I'm truly

0:56.4

grateful for all of that. It means a lot. But I'd be even more grateful if you would take that

1:02.1

stuff and give them to health care workers. I mean, these folks have been busting their

1:06.6

behinds to keep the country safe at a time when the government has failed us. And they are our true

1:13.6

heroes. And if you do that, it mean the world to me and to so many other people. Okay, lots is

1:21.3

happening today. Ladies and gentlemen, you knew that Trump was a loser. You knew he was a crybaby. But today we also learned that he's a

1:31.3

masochist. Now, I really don't want to dwell on that image for a long. So I'll just say this.

1:36.7

He filed last night a new lawsuit in New Mexico challenging gasp drop boxes for voters to return absentee ballots. Now, Trump lost New Mexico

1:49.0

by over 100,000 votes and 11% of the population. And what kind of joke legal strategy involves

1:56.3

filing a lawsuit 42 days after the election, after the electoral colleges met, and months after these ballot boxes have been around.

2:06.0

Today, Donald Trump's litigation count stands at one out of 60 that he is won, and that one didn't get him any votes.

2:13.7

He's had 59 losses, and with this New Mexico lawsuit, it's very clear that Trump is going for an even 60.

2:22.0

But there was bigger news outside of the court. And it came from the big one, the true big one,

2:27.4

Vladimir Putin. Putin called Biden to congratulate him on winning the election.

2:33.5

Now, this one's got to hurt. Like, if you're Donald Trump,

2:36.5

this is like the Matrix where Seifer betrays Morpheus. You didn't see that coming, but well,

2:42.5

you kind of did. Now, once Vladimir decided to call it for Biden, that allowed Putin's lackeys,

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