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‘Oh my goodness!’ Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani learns about Biden win from reporters

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4d393b"><strong>&&num;8216&semi;Don&&num;8217&semi;t be ridiculous&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong>said a b<strong>efuddled Rudy Giuliani learned about the Biden win on air <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4d393b">Rudy Giuliani was lost for words as he he was told that Trump&&num;8217&semi;s opponent Joe Biden &&num;8216&semi;is the winner&&num;8217&semi; during Philly press briefing on Saturday <&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4d393b">Trump&&num;8217&semi;s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani looked perplexed when asked about the TV networks calling the election for Biden on Saturday afternoon<&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4d393b">He was speaking about the Trump campaign&&num;8217&semi;s legal challenges to the vote count in Pennsylvania<&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4d393b">ALL major networks had just declared that Democrat Joseph Biden was winner on the 20 electoral votes in the state&comma; which effectively ended the contest<&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4d393b">&&num;8216&semi;Who was it called by&quest;&&num;8217&semi; the former NYC mayor asked<&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4d393b">The former federal prosecutor fumed&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Networks don&&num;8217&semi;t get to decide elections&comma; courts do&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Rudi-Gilluani&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358813"&sol;><figcaption>Surprise&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Don&&num;8217&semi;t be ridiculous&&num;8217&semi;&period; &&num;8216&semi;Who called it&quest;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">President Trump&&num;8217&semi;s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani&comma; was holding a press conference baselessly disputing the legitimacy of the US presidential election when news filtered through that Joe Biden had been declared the winner&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Giuliani appeared taken aback as he learned during a press conference in Philadelphia that TV networks had called the presidential election for Joe Biden on Saturday morning<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<iframe width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;Z0hEFa52Bdo" frameborder&equals;"0" allow&equals;"accelerometer&semi; autoplay&semi; clipboard-write&semi; encrypted-media&semi; gyroscope&semi; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen><&sol;iframe>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Taking a question from a reporter&comma; Giuliani a former federal prosecutor&comma; initially looked confused about &&num;8216&semi;the call&&num;8217&semi; before asking&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Who was it called by&quest;&comma;&&num;8217&semi; referring to the broadcast news networks&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;All of them&comma;&&num;8217&semi; replied a reporter&period; <br>The former New York City mayor insisted the result could not be called until the Trump campaign&&num;8217&semi;s legal challenges had gone to court&period;<br>When he heard &&num;8216&semi;all the networks&&num;8217&semi; had awarded Biden Pennsylvania to Biden&comma; meaning that the 20 electoral college votes had put over the 270 mark&comma; basically ending the contest&comma; he quickly regained his composure&period;<br>Turning to his team he asked in a sarcastic tone &&num;8216&semi;oh my goodness&excl;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Donld-Trump-off-to-play-golf-in-defeat-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"This image has an empty alt attribute&semi; its file name is Donld-Trump-off-to-play-golf-in-defeat-1&period;jpg"&sol;><figcaption>Donald Trump went golfing at his golf course in Virginia while defeat loomed<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He repeated that the Trump campaign would continue to fight the result as he said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Networks don&&num;8217&semi;t get to decide elections&comma; courts do&period;&&num;8217&semi;&nbsp&semi;<br>All the networks&comma; we have to forget about the law&comma; judges don&&num;8217&semi;t count&period; All the networks&period; All the networks&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he mocked&comma; looking to the sky and raising his arms upward&period;&nbsp&semi; &nbsp&semi; &nbsp&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;All the networks thought Biden was going to win by ten percent&period; Gee&comma; what happened&quest;&&num;8217&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Rudy-Giuliani-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358818"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Despondence as political loss which has far-reaching consequences sinks in for former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani&comma; personal attorney to Trump&comma; gestures after media announced that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has won the 2020 election<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp&semi;<br>The state appeared to have won the presidency for Biden on Saturday as he took a narrow 0&period;5 percent lead&comma; equating to 28&comma;800 votes out of more than 6&period;5 million cast&period;<br>Asked whether the team would be able to change the result as it stands now through the courts&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Of course&excl;&&num;8217&semi; he claimed&period; &&num;8216&semi;Courts set aside elections if they&&num;8217&semi;re illegal&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;In this particular case&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know if there&&num;8217&semi;s enough evidence to set aside the entire election &&num;8211&semi; certainly not across the entire country &&num;8211&semi; maybe in Pennsylvania&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Rudy-Giuliani-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358830"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Rudy Giuliani slammed the call and declared that &&num;8216&semi;networks don&&num;8217&semi;t get to decide elections&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8216&semi;However&comma; there certainly is enough evidence to disqualify a certain number of ballots&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he alleged&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;The ballots that were not properly inspected should be thrown out and that number of ballots should be taken out of the count&period; That could affect the election&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Americans-celebrate-Biden-victory-Trump-defeat-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"This image has an empty alt attribute&semi; its file name is Americans-celebrate-Biden-victory-Trump-defeat-1&period;jpg"&sol;><figcaption><strong>For victors impromptu victory partying bubbled coast to coast from the nation&&num;8217&semi;s capital of Washington DC to Los Angeles&comma; New York and Atlanta<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Giuliani and the rest of Trump&&num;8217&semi;s legal team were holding the press conference Saturday as they announced that they intended to press on with Trump&&num;8217&semi;s election challenge&comma; oblivious to Pennsylvania&comma; and the presidency&comma; already having been called for Biden&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;He&&num;8217&semi;s not going to concede when at least 600&comma;000 ballots are in question&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Giuliani said&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Donald-Trump-off-to-play-golf-in-defeat-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358846"&sol;><figcaption><strong>&&num;8216&semi;I won the election by a lot&&num;8217&semi; Trump emerged Saturday to announce that he would be fighting to the end&period; He then spent the day out on his golf course in Northern Virginia&comma; participating in a round of golf as his former vice president&comma; Joe Biden&comma; was announced as the new president<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Trump-supporters-in-defeat-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358831"&sol;><figcaption><strong>A Trump fan in Philadelphia screams at supporters of Biden across the road after news media named the former Vice President the winner of the election on Saturday morning<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Trump campaign has lodged multiple complaints about the vote count in the state with Giuliani on Saturday claiming that poll workers &&num;8216&semi;were uniformly deprived of their right to inspect any part of the mail-in ballots&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>He was joined by&nbsp&semi;former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski as they alleged that Philadelphia has a &&num;8216&semi;sad history of voter fraud&&num;8217&semi; and that multiple ballots with the names of people who were deceased had been cast&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Will Smith&&num;8217&semi;s father has voted here twice since he has died&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Giuliani said&period; &&num;8216&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t know who he voted for because the vote is secret&period; In Philadelphia they keep the votes of dead people secret&period;&&num;8217&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Trump-supporters-in-defeat-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358832"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Trump supporters stand outside as attorney for the President Rudy Giuliani speaks at a news conference in the parking lot of a landscaping company in Philadelphia<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8216&semi;The same thing was done in Georgia&comma; the same thing was done in Michigan&comma; the same thing was done in North Carolina&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the former mayor continued&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Seems to me somebody from the DNC sent out a note saying don&&num;8217&semi;t let the Republicans look at those mail in ballots&comma; at least not in the big democratic hack cities that we control&period;&&num;8217&semi;&nbsp&semi;<br>He yelled as he spoke about North Carolina also and how Trump&&num;8217&semi;s lead there was insurmountable&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;And they’re not calling it&excl; Tell me they’re not corrupt&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Rudy-Giuliani-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358839"&sol;><figcaption><strong>What next&quest;&colon; Giuliani initially appeared perplexed as he learned during a press conference about the call<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Rudy-Giuliani-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358840"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Putting a brave face&semi; Giuliani ended by claiming that it was not the end and the Trump campaign would fight the result<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8216&semi;This is not anecdotal&comma;&&num;8217&semi; added Lewandowski&period; &&num;8216&semi;This is hard evidence and if you do your jobs from the media and you will find additional examples&period;&&num;8217&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<br>They offered no proof of the allegations but said a lawsuit would be launched by the campaign on Monday&period;<br>Giuliani&&num;8217&semi;s claims on Saturday followed on from his insistence the night before that &&num;8216&semi;this election has been won by Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;&period;&nbsp&semi;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Media-watch-as-Rudy-Giuliani-speaks-for-the-Trump-legal-team-after-election-of-Joe-Biden-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358841"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Security personnel direct a member of the media as Rudy Giuliani speaks from the Trump legal team after news media named Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden the winner<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In a video posted on YouTube hours earlier on Friday night to &&num;8216&semi; Rudy Giuliani&&num;8217&semi;s Common Sense&&num;8217&semi; Giuliani fumed &&num;8216&semi;it is totally impossible&excl;&&num;8217&semi; that Biden had successfully managed to overtake Trump in Pennsylvania through mail-in ballots&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Illogical&excl; Irrational&excl; That the same thing would happen in all five or six places where there were close votes&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Criticizing the GOP&&num;8217&semi;s erstwhile favorite network&comma; Fox News&comma; Giuliani said called Arizona and Virginia too early and conversely cheated the president not calling Pennsylvania and Georgia when Trump had been ahead&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Pennsylvania is Trump’s&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Giuliani said&period; &&num;8216&semi;If for any reason that vote total changes it has to be a fraud&period;&&num;8217&semi;&nbsp&semi;<br>Giuliani maintained that it was not the end of the road and the Trump campaign would fight the result<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Rudy-Giuliani-6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358848"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani addresses the media with the Trump legal team on Saturday afternoon<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Trump spent Saturday morning tweeting and on the golf course as he lost Pennsylvania&comma; the state he desperately needed in order to secure a second term&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<br>Hearing that it had been called for Biden&comma; the President again fumed of cheating&period;&nbsp&semi;He argued in his statement Saturday&colon; &&num;8216&semi;In Pennsylvania&comma; for example&comma; our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process&period; Legal votes decide who is president&comma; not the news media&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>On Saturday evening claimed in a tweet that he had really won 71&comma;000&comma; votes &&num;8216&semi;the most ever for a sitting president&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br> &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Trump-supporters-watch-as-Rudy-Giuliani-speaks-for-the-Trump-legal-team-after-election-of-Joe-Biden-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"This image has an empty alt attribute&semi; its file name is Trump-supporters-watch-as-Rudy-Giuliani-speaks-for-the-Trump-legal-team-after-election-of-Joe-Biden-2&period;jpg"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Trump supporter stands outside looking through a fence at Giuliani&&num;8217&semi;s press conference as the Trump legal team soldiered along immediately after learning that news media named Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden the winner<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Trump campaign had sued the Philadelphia election board arguing arguing that their observers had been unfairly barred from parts of the city&&num;8217&semi;s ballot-counting area inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>After their lawyer conceded to a Philadelphia judge on Thursday that the president&&num;8217&semi;s team did have election observers in the room to watch mail-in ballots be counted in Pennsylvania&comma; the judge refused to grant an injunction to halt vote counting in Philadelphia <br>That lawsuit that was ultimately dismissed as moot&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>The heavily Democratic area was anticipated to add to Biden&&num;8217&semi;s vote total&period;<br> U&period;S&period; District Judge&comma; Paul Diamond&comma; urged the Trump campaign and the Philadelphia election board to come to a resolution&comma; which they did&period;<br><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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