I keep hearing that Trump's only hope is the courts, which is nonsense. SCOTUS is not going to award him a re-count, let alone the election, unless there's a groundswell of normie public opinion demanding it. SCOTUS judges are as much politicians as legal jurors.
Trump needs a smoking gun, an irrefutable piece of evidence that will get the public on his side. It needs to be more than Dem election officials switching ballots or dead people voting, this is expected in American elections.
If he can prove one large scale instance of fraud he won't have to worry about the legal cases or re-counts, none of that will matter. Even better if he can link the Dems or Biden campaign to the fraud.
Trump has refrained from holding rallies or giving interviews, which is not like him AT ALL. If he had accepted defeat I'd expect him to be going all out to consolidate his base, if nothing else to protect his family from the expected investigations when he leaves office.
So who knows? Maybe he's already cut a deal and he'll play golf until Jan or maybe he's got something and he's just waiting for the right time to let it drop. It's either one or the other IMO. Carrying on refusing to accept the result with no hope of overturning is not a smart play, and Trump is a lot of things but dumb isn't one.
Trump is listening to his advisors from the Reps, likely the same people who stopped him from going full Guantanamo on the rioters when the Dems were all but taunting him to stop their useful chaotic idiots by force.
That or he's so concerned he's listening to his more reliable lawyers and doing his best not to stick his foot in his mouth until this is mostly settled so as to not ruin whatever he's got going for cases. The former bodes poorly but the latter shows good restraint. Remember, he was already mouthy in the beginning about how much he won by and that, to him, he's already won if not for the fraud, etc.
As for a smoking gun, that massive pile of Michigan papers from people swearing under oath to witnessing mass fraud is pretty great. Whether or not he's gonna tie that directly to Biden, let alone the DNC, really depends. Even with all they've done against him we should keep in mind Trump is still one of the elite, one of their kind in a broader sense, and I don't just mean he's wealthy. The guy's history is connected to Epstein types all around and the cannibals never cannibalize their own, at least not usually.
Then again, Reps also don't want to lose.
Also Trump's entire brand--his inheritence to his sons--would collapse if he just cut a deal. How would his international business opportunities look after having decided to play the perverbial bitch? It's not just ego, though that's a huge part of it. It's also the weight of his dollar that depends on his actions here. I guarantee he knows that.
It's why the groundswell of support from MAGA types and otherwise is so important, as is the perpetual autism from people like ITT who research, examine and collect constant streams of information to gather evidence (and for funposting). If not for the Internet's autists and if not for the constant outcry, if not for dozens of millions of people refusing to just roll over, this would already be over regardless of the Reps' or Trump's intentions.
