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November 26, 2020 8:34:34 am
This combined photo shows Donald Trump, left, and Joe Biden during the first presidential debate. (AP, File)
President Donald Trump has again baselessly asserted that he had won the election and has repeatedly uttered falsehoods when he called an event held by Pennsylvania Republicans to investigate unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud.
“This was an election that we won easily. We won it by a lot, ”Trump told the group meeting at a Gettysburg hotel on Wednesday.
Trump, in fact, lost to President-elect Joe Biden by about 150,000 votes in the state, and Pennsylvania certified Biden as the winner on Tuesday.
The Pennsylvania event was the latest attempt by Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City, to try to question the results of democratic elections, even as the formal transition process has begun and a growing numbers of Republicans are doing it. recognizing Biden as president-elect.
Similar events are scheduled in Arizona and Michigan.
State election officials across the country and international observers have said there is no evidence of widespread election fraud, and Trump’s legal team has repeatedly lost in court, in addition to making numerous elementary mistakes.
Wednesday’s event, hosted by local Republicans including Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano, an outspoken Trump supporter, came with the trappings of an official hearing. flags, gavel and “witnesses” who “testified” in person and by telephone.
Was there a special guest among them? President ? who was at one point expected to attend in person, but did not after another member of his legal team announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday morning.
Trump spoke for about 11 minutes on a phone that his attorney Jenna Ellis held in front of a microphone and insisted again that the election had been “rigged” for Biden.
“This choice must be turned around,” he said.
It was another startling statement from an American president who advocated overriding a democratic election and the will of the voters because he wants to stay in power.
The hotel where the Senate Majority Policy Committee met is a mile from the scene of Pickett’s charge, where Union troops repelled a desperate Confederate attack in July 1863. It helped turn the tide of the American Civil War Against the Slave South.
The Trump campaign asked the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday for an opportunity for Giuliani to present oral arguments in his appeal over the counting of votes in Pennsylvania. The court has not yet said whether it will hear the arguments.
