Trump’s legal team has yet to provide evidence that stands up in court. (ARCHIVE)
Washington:
In the first television interview since losing his re-election bid, President Donald Trump indicated on Sunday that he will never give in to Joe Biden and abandon his conspiracy theory of massive voter fraud.
“It’s not that you’re going to change your mind. My opinion won’t change for six months,” Trump told Fox News interviewer Maria Bartiromo.
“This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud,” he claimed, again without endorsing this. “We won the elections easily.”
The 45-minute interview, Trump’s first on television since the Nov. 3 election, was primarily a monologue of no-evidence claims about voter fraud, with virtually no question by Bartiromo.
Despite Trump’s unprecedented attack on the validity of the US electoral system, his legal team has yet to provide any evidence that stands up in court.
Case after case has been rejected by judges across the country. The latest rejection came from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which on Saturday rejected a lawsuit filed by Trump supporters seeking to challenge Biden’s victory in the state.
“We are trying to present the evidence and the judges are not allowing us to do so,” Trump said. “We are trying. We have a lot of evidence.”
Ignoring the usual boundaries between his office and the law enforcement system, Trump complained that the Justice Department and the FBI were not helping him.
They are “missing in action,” he said, also questioning the Supreme Court’s point if it does not intervene.
“We should be heard by the Supreme Court. Something has to be able to get there. Otherwise, what is the Supreme Court?” I ask.
The 2020 elections weren’t especially close.
Biden won the electoral college vote – the state-by-state competition that decides the winner – by 306 to 232. In the popular national vote, which does not decide the outcome but still carries political and symbolic weight, Biden won by 51 to 47 percent. .
The losers of the US presidential election traditionally give in almost immediately.
But whether or not Trump acknowledges defeat, the Electoral College will almost certainly go through formal motions to confirm Biden when it meets on Dec. 14 and the Democrat will be sworn in on the day of inauguration on Jan. 20. .
Even as his only term is running out, Trump declined to say on Fox News if he sees an expiration date for his failed legal campaign.
“I’m not going to say a date,” he said.
When asked if he saw a path to victory, he said: “I hope so.”
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