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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court Saturday for refusing to take a case he hoped would overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory and called Attorney General William Barr a “disappointment.”
On Friday night, the nation’s highest court rejected a remote Texas lawsuit that sought to throw out the voting results of four states.
The decision comes before a meeting of the US Electoral College on Monday to formalize the victory of Democrat Biden.
Trump, a Republican, has refused to budge despite losing to Biden, who garnered 306 votes to Trump’s 232 in the state-by-state Electoral College, which allocates votes to all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on population. .
“This is a great and shameful judicial error. The people of the United States were deceived and our country was disgraced. We haven’t even given our day in court! “Trump wrote on Twitter Saturday morning.
“The Supreme Court had ZERO interest in the merits of the largest electoral fraud ever perpetrated in the United States of America.”
The court said Texas had no legal capacity to bring the case, abruptly ending what Trump had touted in recent days as his best hope for reversing the election.
The three magistrates nominated by Trump – Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh – signed the court order without comment.
In a series of seemingly frustrated tweets, the president also lashed out at his attorney general after the Wall Street Journal reported that Barr learned earlier this year about a tax investigation of Biden’s son Hunter.
In a statement released by the president-elect’s transition team, Hunter Biden said Wednesday that the US Attorney’s Office in Delaware was investigating his tax matters, which he said he had handled “legally and properly.”
Trump retweeted a comment from radio host Todd Starnes saying Barr should be fired. “A big disappointment!” Trump said in his tweet.
Barr’s fate in the last days of the Trump administration has been in question since he said last week that a Justice Department investigation had found no signs of major fraud in the November election, contradicting Trump’s false claims. .
The president has continued to press his accusations of widespread fraud without proof despite dozens of court rulings.
Although he has said that he will leave the White House on January 20 if the Electoral College affirms Biden’s victory, it is likely that he will continue to denounce the election as rigged and seek to undermine the legitimacy of Biden’s presidency.
Conservative groups that support Trump demonstrated in Washington and other parts of the country on Saturday to press the issue.
