Lawyers back away from Trump’s fight

DONALD Trump remains determined to pursue every legal avenue before conceding defeat to President-elect Joe Biden, senior sources close to his election campaign said last night.

But other insiders have admitted it is becoming difficult to find top-tier legal firms to take his constitutional challenges to court.

“They are playing this seriously and because they thought this would happen, had placed a few people on this months ago,” said one source last night.

“It’s going to be quite a fight – December 8 is the key date, so he

has a month to get all evidence properly presented. He’s got some pretty brilliant people on this so who knows where this ends up.”

Campaigners continued to point

to ballot-box fraud and voting irregularities. None of the claims has been proven.

Legal challenges are ongoing in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and

Arizona. A recount has been requested in Wisconsin by the Trump campaign and, in Georgia, one is to take place. But other insiders were less positive, with one admitting: “Campaign and White House lawyers are ineffective and half want Trump to lose.”

And law firms are staying away. While Jones Day justified representing the administration in pursuing fraudulent ballots claims in Pennsylvania as an “important and recurring rule-of-law question”, other firms have quit.

President Trump hinted he was mentally preparing to concede when, after announcing that his administration would not put the US into lockdown over coronavirus, he added: “Whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be.”