Election rhetoric from some big-name Trumpers starting to turn sinister; Update: WH slams diGenova

Maybe nothing. Maybe Trump just keeps filing lawsuits all the way up to Inauguration Day (or beyond?) knowing he has no leg to stand on. He has an incentive to do so: This legal battle has turned into a very lucrative grift for him, raising more than $150 million online since Election Day ostensibly for his Official Election Defense Fund but in reality for the RNC, the Trump campaign, and for his new Super PAC. If he keeps this up for another month or two he might crack half a billion dollars.

Which would be fine if that s all this was, a scam. If you believe CNN s White House sources (which I don t), the president himself knows that he s lost but is keeping up appearances partly because he doesn t want to face the hard truth but partly too because of the money pouring in. The flaw in wanting to keep this election fraud kabuki going because it s a sweet payday, though, is that lots of people don t realize it s kabuki. They believe it sincerely and some have concluded as a result that it would be intolerable for the country to allow such an audacious crime to go unpunished by swearing in Biden on the 20th.

And so, as the legal options fade, true believers will start getting noisier about extra-legal solutions. That seems to have picked up in the last 24 hours, starting with this pungent comment from Trump lawyer Joe diGenova yesterday:

via hotair.com

And on the Epic Times podcast this morning there was some mostly hypothetical talk about Trump invoking the 2018 Executive Order that would supposedly allow him to suspend habeus corpus, and imprison thousands of “conspirators”, which would be just insane.