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A day after Pennsylvania’s highest court struck down a lower court order that prevented the state from certifying the results of the November 3 U.S. election, Donald Trump criticized the judges’ decision.
Saturday’s case, which had attempted to cast 2.5 million mail-in votes in the crucial state, was the latest of dozens of failed lawsuits by Trump’s attorneys, with judges punishing his attorneys for failing to present evidence of fraud.
With the states certifying the results, Trump has a narrowing route to contest the election as Joe Biden continues preparations for his inauguration as president on January 20 and recruits the team for his administration.
Yet on Sunday, in his first media appearance since losing the presidential race to his Democratic rival, the president telephoned Fox News to blame the courts for his campaign’s hitherto unsuccessful legal challenges, which are based on a series of discredited conspiracies alleged by widespread voters. fraud.
“We are not allowed to present our evidence. They say you don’t have standing, ”Trump told Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures.
“We have affidavits, we have hundreds and hundreds of affidavits,” Trump added, noting that he would “file a great, beautiful lawsuit” without providing any details about the alleged “tremendous evidence” that the lawyers have.
In the 20 days since the polls closed, Republicans and Trump campaign officials have relied on claims, without evidence, that some states allowed voters to turn in ballots after Election Day.
His interview comes after weeks of legal challenges to the Trump campaign in battlefield states like Pennsylvania, where the underlying lawsuit was filed months after the law allowed it to challenge Pennsylvania’s one-year vote-by-mail law.
Saturday’s loss followed Friday’s decision by a federal appeals court to dismiss a separate challenge to Pennsylvania’s outcome and back a district judge who compared the president’s lawsuit free of evidence and full of errors to the “monster of Frankenstein”.
The president’s legal team, led by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, had also demanded recounts in states such as Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan, alleging that vote counting machines were rigged in an elaborate scheme in which even the department of Justice, the FBI, and the federal judicial system were complicit.
But none of these statements is true. In fact, Trump’s own legal team has never formally challenged the election results in any state court through substantiated allegations of fraud.
According to the Washington Post, the latest effort has lawyers within the campaign who describe: Trump’s legal adviser as increasingly “deranged.” A close adviser told The Post that Trump was like “Mad King George” walking around the White House muttering, “I won. I win. I win.”
Meanwhile, Milwaukee County completed its count and certified its results on Friday, just 10 days after the Trump campaign submitted a recount request for Dane County and there, the state’s two Democratic strongholds with large black populations. .
After nearly 400 uncounted ballots were found, Biden actually increased his margin of victory, garnering an additional 257 votes to the president’s 125 additional votes. Once Dane County certifies your results, the state will move forward with its final certification process.
In response, Trump tweeted that the recount was not an effort to find errors in the count, but rather to “find people who voted illegally,” again invoking discredited conspiracies that his campaign “has found many illegal votes.”
The outgoing president has yet to grant the 2020 election, even as Biden, now president-elect, announces the cabinet appointments and his schedule for his first 100 days in office.
After Biden crossed the 80 million vote threshold, an advantage of more than 6 million votes, Trump required Biden to prove that the votes he received in the election were not “illegally obtained,” which does not exist. a legal requirement that no winning official must make before taking office. .
There have been a number of reports, based on anonymous official sources, that Trump is weighing a race in the 2024 presidential election, including a report from the Daily Beast that he is considering announcing his campaign during Biden’s inauguration. .
