Donald Trump Feels His Legal Team Is Unable To Make A Major Impact On Election Count
President Donald Trump's legal approach to challenge the election results is in progress at top levels, with a familiar, experienced team handling the matter, but his legal team hasn't been able to involve a top-tier team of the level George W. Bush had at the time of the 2000 Florida recount. The president is understandably unhappy with the legal team's inability to make a major impact on election count.
With Democratic nominee Joe Biden's lead coming into focus recently, the president has been asking why his legal team isn't more organized, suggesting he isn't convinced that they are capable of defending him in the courts. According to one person who spoke with him, Trump has asked his team to find more competent lawyers, CNN reported.
This effort is being spearheaded by Trump loyalists, including former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Rudy Giuliani, whose reputation has been made to seem less impressive, among the kind of top legal talent that a presidential campaign may turn to in the wake of an election challenge. The president's effort to challenge election results in multiple states, including Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, have been led by lawyers who have been by Trump's side for several years, including Jay Sekulow.
Sekulow is the conservative lawyer who led the president's defense in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russia's interference in U.S. elections back in 2016. He is currently helping Trump to face some of the legal challenges that have been filed in Pennsylvania.
Aside from Sekulow, William Consovoy is involved too. Consovoy has successfully spearheaded an effort to restrict access to his financial records as part of a criminal investigation by Manhattan's district attorney, The Economics Times reported. According to top Republican election lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg noted that finding the right employee for even one statewide recount is overwhelming, noting that staffing multiple recounts is even more arduous.
Ginsberg was national counsel to Bush's campaigns. Referencing to Supreme Court's Dec. 2000 decision that concluded recount dispute in Florida's presidential election between Al Gore and George W. Bush, Ginsberg said Bush vs. Gore was one state, adding that several lawyers and political operatives responded as soon as they put out a call.
Despite this, Ginsberg said, the party struggled to do just one state. He went on to suggest that the Trump campaign might not find it easy to command the kind of infrastructure they would actually need to pull this off. On Friday, Republican Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp's political operation reminded Republican lawyers that there were still ballots to be counted and the state party is forming a team of well-qualified lawyers to make sure the process isn't flawed, Fox 40 reported.