Trump campaign lawyer in Philadelphia withdraws from federal election suit because of threats of violence

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Days after a law firm representing the Trump campaign withdrew from the case following a pressure campaign from the anti-Trump Lincoln Project to “cancel” them, another Trump attorney says she’s being harassed for her involvement in the case.

Trump campaign lawyer in Philadelphia withdraws from federal election suit

By: Ryan Briggs, PBS, November 19, 2020

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Shortly before Donald Trump’s legal surrogates took the stage at a press conference to promote the president’s still unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, a Philadelphia lawyer who briefly helmed the campaign’s main election lawsuit in Pennsylvania withdrew from the case.

Linda Kerns, a local GOP election lawyer and longtime voter ID proponent, managed a string of legal challenges on behalf of the campaign, and worked on the federal suit seeking to overturn the state’s election results. That suit, filed in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, broadly seeks to invalidate Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the Keystone State on procedural grounds.

Kerns sought to withdraw as counsel shortly after Pittsburgh-based firm Porter Wright Morris & Arthur abandoned the case last week. Harrisburg attorney Marc Scaringi and Rudolf Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and Trump’s personal lawyer, replaced the firm.

Judge Matthew Brann initially denied Kerns’ request on the grounds that it was critical to have a plaintiff’s attorney that had been present since the suit’s initial filing. This week, Scaringi and Giuliani repeatedly amended the suit, “inadvertently” removing and then re-inserting language alleging –– without hard evidence –– pervasive voter fraud.

The attorneys also called for a “statistical sampling” of some 1.5 million mail ballots cast in Democratic-leaning counties in order to detect irregularities, and rebutted a separate decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that rejected Trump claims alleging that its observers had been obstructed by county election officials.

Lawyer behind Trump’s legal campaign to win Pa. has a long history in Philly

President Donald Trump’s hopes for staying in the White House hinge on a battery of legal complaints filed by a Philadelphia lawyer with a revealing past

In a Thursday press conference in Washington D.C., Giuliani expanded those claims made in the amended suit, declaring without evidence that a substantial number of voters from New Jersey had voted in Philadelphia.

“It happens all the time. It’s about as common as people getting beaten up at a Philadelphia Eagles basketball, football game,” Giuliani said.

Not long after the duo made their mark on the case, Brann granted Kern’s request.

Kerns had notably also filed a motion earlier this week calling for sanctions after she received an “abusive” voicemail from a lawyer at the Washington D.C. office of a law firm that is representing Pa. Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, but is not involved in this case. In the campaign’s amended complaint, it also states that “Kerns herself has been the subject of threats of harm, to the point at which the involvement of police and U.S. Marshals has been necessary to provide for her safety.”

A spokesperson for the Philadelphia Police Department could not immediately provide more details. Kerns did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Trump campaign has indicated Kerns will stay on for other state-level court challenges.

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

They need to offer them 24/7 armed protection…

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

…threats of violence? From the FBI? the CIA? the DNC? the local ANTIFA mafia?

Be specific.

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Most likely Antifa and BLM, but i wouldn’t put it past the FBI, CIA and DOJ. Should the President get another 4 years, all 3 of them could be even worse than they were the first 4 years unless the President cleans them out.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

Soo far, 4 years wasted. Trump is dangerously naive on that point.

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Absolutely correct.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

But it seems like the Dem0rats were trying everything to undermine his presidency, possibly keeping him off balance responding to spurious allegations.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

They make it look easy with Trump’s unwitting help.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

You are hopelessly naive and I have given up all hope for you. You really don’t see the bigger picture and what has been going on prior to Trump and while Trump has been our President.

All you do is bellyache and look at the shiithole you have been putting up with – Seattle. What have YOU done about that prior to Trump other than blame HIM for your shitthole Seattle? You are beyond pathetic. You are in the same league as liberals. You are not reasonable and have worn out my patience.

You are blocked!

The Northwesterner
The Northwesterner
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Those who engage in pessimism, apathy and defeatism never accomplish anything and only play right into the Left’s hands, which is exactly what the Left wants.

John from NY
John from NY
3 years ago

The Obama holdovers and other leftist insiders in these agencies are the enemy within.

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago
Reply to  John from NY

Absolutely. They need someone to go thru them top to bottom and clean out all the obozo scum.

Sewer Maintenance
Sewer Maintenance
3 years ago

Aren’t targeted threats of violence supposed to be against the law?
Why doesn’t she report them to the police?

arthur facteau
arthur facteau
3 years ago

Wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that some of them are coming FROM the police…

Jay
Jay
3 years ago

Coincidentally, A lot of people have been Arkancided,
just before they are to appear in court.
This has close ties to the Klintons.

The Northwesterner
The Northwesterner
3 years ago
Reply to  Jay

Otherwise known as “suicide” by Hillary-hired hitmen.

Don39
Don39
3 years ago

Police in a Damnocrat Cities like Philadelphia or Wash. DC? Are you kidding? These are corporate lawyers/Organized Crime/ white collar criminals in suits that are making these threats! These are the Lincoln Project with jack booted thugs like the BUSHes and other multi-millionaires! These are defenders of our to be first communist regime!

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

We need more lawyers who have election law expertise. It’s a specialty. Rudy’s expertise is different and it has been a few years since he practiced law.. I don’t know what kind of a background Sidney Powell has. I just know she means business and very angry at what she is seeing. Rudy, Sidney and his team are patriots. They may need more patriotic lawyers on their team.

What they are taking on is huge! We have to get this right and not let judges dismiss it.
The clock is ticking… IMO, they are trying to get us to be SUBMISSIVE and surrender to Biden madness. We can’t do that…COVID is a tool to keep us from talking to one another and control. COVID is part of a bigger agenda imo.

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

Maybe girls aren’t cut out for fighting and kicking your nasty opponents in the balls? What a sissy

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

They need proper protection and so do the males in this situation or they will intimidate them one by one and leave them without the election law specialty they need to have a fighting chance. Sidney Powell is right “trillions are at stake.”

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

They need proper protection and so do the males in this situation or they will intimidate them one by one and leave them without the election law specialty they need to have a fighting chance. Sidney Powell is right “trillions are at stake.”

Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

Sidney Powell seems pretty tough.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

I am waiting to see how tough but she sounds like she has a handle on it , but as usual proof is is the key word here and time is running out , got to fight fire with hotter fire .

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

I hope Rudy understands his frame of reference needs to change… it’s not like the old days…they are dealing with evil thugs and there are trillions of dollars involved for the magical U.N. Agenda 2030 “reset” They had all better be well protected. If they can’t intimidate them, they will try other things. Who’s going to investigate that? The FBI, CIA, DOJ? Good luck with that! The FBI sat on Hunter Biden’s laptop since December of 2019.

Look what happened to Seth Rich and Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter,” Paris Paradise” ran over people with her car in Las Vegas with witnesses saying she was shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ etc. We never did get a reasonable explanation for what happened there or a motive… I just know it is not normal for someone like Paddock to visit the middle east at lest 21 times over the course of a year or so…

Stephen Paddockcomment image

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

We all need to understand that our frame of reference needs to change. As the man said, “We’re in the endgame” now.

Nick T.
Nick T.
3 years ago

Idiot author says Rudy has no evidence, TWICE!

John from NY
John from NY
3 years ago
Reply to  Nick T.

I looked up the link to that article. The author is Ryan Briggs and the website says: “WHYY is partnered with PBS, NPR.” That explains it.

Bill
Bill
3 years ago

The b*stards.
The MSM keeps asking PDJT to denounce ‘white supremacists’, yet NO ONE on the left, the DNC, MSM, celebs, etc., never denounce the political terrorists that threaten, intimidate, and do violence against their political opponents.
B*STARDS.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

You know what is starting to really piss me off beyond this? People still pissing on Trump because they didn’t get their way on some issue.

Rome is on fire and Trump is trying to put it out with few people on his side, as usual. That is precisely why he didn’t get all their pet peeves accomplished! Few including the GOPe were not on his side and they are the majority and were there long before Trump came along but for some odd reason, that too is Trump’s fault!. Head smack.

Trump has always had a narrow path to follow since day one. W e don’t rule by fiat here or EO for a wish list as the the bed wetters would like to see happen. Only people like Obama could get away with that with no push back from either party. I guess that was Trump’s fault to before he was President.

If Trump burped that would be a nasty headline. Instead they just keep dumping on Trump. It’s like a repeat of the Battle of the Alamo going on but that totally escapes them. What they have put Trump through doesn’t register with them about how sinister and evil the D.C. swamp has been for a long time. The GOP knew the Russia crap was a hoax too!

What will the chronic complainers do if Trump is not successful in stopping the ultimate madness – letting imbecile Biden, soon to be replaced by Kammmal do then? Continue endless bellyaching about Trump? Will that change the horror show awaiting us with a Biden/Harris Presidency? Biden/ Harris is a BLM wish list, with no police on top of that etc…It will be like nothing we have ever seen before in this country!

The truth is America is the last beacon of freedom. You can runaway but you won’t be able to hide from it in some obscure third world shiitttthole. This is a global agenda!

I could hardly take it in when P.M. Justin Trudeau was trying to sugar coat this utopian global nightmare, U.N. Agenda 2030, and dimwits are buying into it. Youth in the west, beyond the U.S., has been taught Marxism in their schools too as well as to embrace this dysfunctional divisive multi cultural nonsense. No diversity doesn’t make us strong, it divides us, weakens us. and pits one group against the other. The west is being saturated with nonsensical gobbledygook. It is a global phenomenon for a real one world government.

This has been in the works for decades, long before Trump came along. COVID is just a vehicle to take away freedom, push the agenda forward and have us submit to it. I guess I’ll just have to block more people to avoid being annoyed. Just had to vent in disgust.

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

McCarthy was right –

Kathy Finklea
Kathy Finklea
3 years ago
Reply to  volksnut

And as my son says he was SO RIGHT BUT JUST WASN’T ABLE TO GO FAR ENOUGH…

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
3 years ago
Reply to  volksnut

Damn right he was. Read “American Betrayal” by Diana West.

Kathy Finklea
Kathy Finklea
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

TERRIFIC! Agree with every single point you make. When these panty wetting Marxist are awakened with the reality of what they have done it will be too late and WOW what whaling and screaming we will hear then! All of the last 75 yrs of unjust leftist rule and non conservative rule is President Trump’s fault according to everyone in the camp of NW GOVERNMENT. I just keep praying and hopefully when the truth comes barreling into the universe all of these evil rats will get the just dues they so richly deserve. I just pray for President Trump and family that we all make it out without too much horrible violence inflicted upon the TRUE PATRIOTS.

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
3 years ago
Reply to  Kathy Finklea

It’s “wailing” and screaming, but I actually like your version better! We need to break out the harpoons here.

Kathy Finklea
Kathy Finklea
3 years ago
Reply to  oceanfloor1

I love it when I hit the post it sign before I read through my comment!!! LOL yeah I hate it when I call anyone on the left a “whale”!!! Have a great and wonderful week!

ed
ed
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Vent away, felix !! You are still, and always, right on target !! EXCELLENT post !!!!

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

And thanks to Trudeau’s big mouth and others in Canada and elsewhere, the “RESET” plan — a.k.a. Agenda 2030 and whatever other numbers they stick on it — is now becoming common knowledge. Not a “conspiracy theory”, but a plan to make the WuFluManchu lockdown environment a permanent condition, namely socialism. This is the true “life-threatening danger” that the COVID hysteria is being used to smuggle in, and people need to take the damn masks off and pay attention to what they are really being used to cover.

Jay
Jay
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Everyone who goes up against President Trump loses. It’s like a curse. It’s uncanny how some celebrity or athlete focuses on Trump and goes off on an anti-Trump rant and then fails professionally in some fashion. Sometimes it is in unrelated ways like Jussie Smollett, Casey Affleck, Jerry Brown, Candice Bergen, Vincente’ Fox, Tom Brokaw, Michael Avenatti, Cher, George Clooney, John Conyers, Teresa May, Justin Trudeau, Bill Cosby, Johnny Depp,Eminem, Will Ferrell, Alex Cora, Al Franken, Morgan Freeman, Jemele Hill, Megyn Kelly, Garrison Keillor, George Lopez, Louis C.K., Emmanuel Macron, Rob Reiner, Brad Pitt, Jorge Ramos, Amy Schumer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Griffin, Kevin Spacey, George Takei, and many more. All raged against Trump,all were broken.

Don39
Don39
3 years ago
Reply to  Jay

It has not gone nearly far enough yet! When the leftist extremist like Obama, Clinton and Harris start committing suicide rather than go to prison we are getting their.

Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The old GOP is what’s most galling. The GOPe should have seen what was coming when Eric Cantor lost his House seat. Then we had jerks like Paul Ryan, and now Mitt Romney. These guys we don’t need. How can the nation be saved when these traitors interfere? They think THEY are the ones trying to save (more like destroy – turn us into a totalitarian state) the nation. No way.

John from NY
John from NY
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

The left is evil.

Kathy Finklea
Kathy Finklea
3 years ago
Reply to  John from NY

PURE AND SIMPLE

Fount
Fount
3 years ago

Some people are just weak. Better she leave if she gives in to threats. You won’t see Sidney Powell quit; her love of country trumps all.

Giving your life in defense of our Republic is the greatest act of all.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Fount

She is a wonderful lady. She is sincerely livid at what is going on. She loves our country just as Trump does. Rudy is another wonderful patriot. All of them will do their best to save our Republic.

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I’m really glad to see Rudy standing up like this. He has been in the position of having death rained on his head through the actions of vicious fanatics on 9/11/01. When you’ve been through that you must come out a bit harder to scare.

Don39
Don39
3 years ago
Reply to  oceanfloor1

When all else fails we the armed citizenry must respond!

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
3 years ago
Reply to  Fount

When Sidney releases the Kraken it will do exactly what she tells it to, because I suspect even the Kraken knows better than to try to scare that woman!

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago

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Gary Callihan
Gary Callihan
3 years ago

Package up these threatening thugs and ship them to my backyard here in CA. I have a lot of cacti waiting to become acquainted with such pieces of dung. I will complete the mission and aid in the reduction of the number of such miscreants. I approve of my message.

chaim silver.
chaim silver.
3 years ago

this is absolute proof of their guilt. they are making threats to instill fear and stop the investigation. they well know that they are afraid of the consequences of their actions. orange jump suits are their greatest nightmare.

Lyle Hartman
Lyle Hartman
3 years ago

They’re just creating an “Always Trumper” movement that will never except this fraudulent election. Looks like they’re trying to start a civil war. Please get down on your knees and pray for justice for this country. Lord strengthen the good, weaken the evil both within and without. Amen

Don39
Don39
3 years ago
Reply to  Lyle Hartman

Thjey are not trying to start a war they know they can not win! They are miscalculating the will of the people and think we are wimps that will go quietly into the night. God help us I hope they are wrong!

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago

How much more proof do you need these clowns/criminals are trying to steal this election – you don’t threaten people like that if you’re ‘ above board ‘ you do when you have a nefarious agenda –

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

Seems the Far-Left has damaging info on more then just Chief Justice John Roberts.

The DeepState has recordings of every phone conversation, every visited online site, every text, every Email, all your photo’s and likely live video w/audio OF YOU via your own phone + smart devices as well as everywhere you ever visited = all stored in the Gubmint Cloud.

This all can be retrieved now a decade back in each Americans life….and once an individual is targeted an entire crew of dozens or 100’s of searchers can be called on to look for anything incriminating.

Up til this unConstitutional capability of mankind only God was able to replay your entire life for review….and He will to our great dismay and embarrassment “reveal every word and every thought”.

* Meanwhile anyone that’s a threat to the DeepStateDemc-rat, bureauc-rat agency at any level can be threatened with any error, sin, crime, moral failure, bad judgement, payoff, dirt and worse “the power system’s structure” – could fake details to lead a review to indict innocent people by a carecully constructed twisted lies using a limitless
How many people could stand up under such a crushing tsunami of information and disinformation used to reverse or prevent justice from being brought forth into the light.
As well as take most anyone down while bankrupting them oneway or another…!

THX 1138
THX 1138
3 years ago
Reply to  mtman2

This is an open forum for the discussion of philosophical, religious, and political ideas. If you can’t handle that don’t come here and read the posts, stay in your basement reading your Bible.

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  mtman2

lol…well its evident in your imaginations you’re clueless intentionally from knowing Him = your loss.
Why tell me I have no such imaginary doubts that bother me which makes it your problem…!

very old white guy
very old white guy
3 years ago

When are the people going to stand up and stop this insanity? Threats deserve to be addressed. I would address them by removing the threat by any means possible.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
3 years ago

Where is the likes of a General Patton when ya need him the mob has set the rules for this game and they are getting away with it and that needs to be cancelled by what ever means necessary .

jerome snaper
jerome snaper
3 years ago

And so the march to put America under sharia slavery marches on just as it has happened in so many other countries. The election frauds, the intimidations the bribery and corruption till we go socialist, then communist then marxist and finally islamic and the world will be under the black fungus of sharia..

UR.carrion
UR.carrion
3 years ago

Damn it don’t back down because a bully mouths off, this is how they rule. Stand up, press charges, get restraining orders, get protection, learn to be violent if necessary. Stand up damn it or we loose this great republic.

Don39
Don39
3 years ago
Reply to  UR.carrion

Some people lack the backbone to be called American!

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
3 years ago

We need a little “Chicago rules” here. Self-defense is still legal in this country, and not just for the Left’s pet thugs. Who are these people who are threatening us? They take pictures, they dox, beat us up — and we don’t know who THEY are or what holes they crawl into at night? They need to be identified and made clear to that we are not their personal punching bags.

blackfeather
blackfeather
3 years ago

no balls….GTFO then.

Je Suis Prest
Je Suis Prest
3 years ago

” the president’s still unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud ”

“unsubstantiated”???
Just how stupid are you?
Do you need the evidence stamp across your forehead?

toedeladokie says hello
toedeladokie says hello
3 years ago

PUT a FIGHTER in her place !

danE
danE
3 years ago

DON’T SKIP THIS URGENT MESSAGE!!!
THIS COULD BE YOUR LAST LAST INVITE TO RECEIVE AND BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!!! AFTER THE RAPTURE, JESUS WILL BE COMING BACK AS THE LION OF JUDAH and ALL UNBELIEVERS WILL BE TORMENTED IN HELL, THE LAKE OF FIRE, FOREVER!

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  danE

danE, screaming at people will NOT win hearts to the Messiah, it will only make people roll their eyes and ignore you. There are much better ways, check them out, then try again. And giving YOURSELF an up vote doesn’t help you either. 😉

Jay
Jay
3 years ago

Sidney Powell, Rudi, Jenna Ellis, and others, Defending President Trump and the American people . . .
YOU decide Who to trust!

Don39
Don39
3 years ago

First this so-called lawyer has no guts! Second we have lets parts of our nation devolve into NAZI Germany or the USSR with the jackbooted thugs just absent of the uniforms and it has to be put down! That is why we have the Second Amendment and it is time that Philadelphia and WASH. DC found this out ,again the hard way!

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
3 years ago

You’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel in Philadelphia.

John Blow
John Blow
3 years ago

Who said that Lawyers were NOT gutless cowards when it comes to a fight?

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