- Vagitarian Dec 03, 2020 at 09:24: AM
Vagitarian
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President Trump released a videotaped 46-minute address from the White House Wednesday that he said “may be the most important speech I’ve ever made.” What followed, however, was a litany of unsubstantiated claims about the November election he lost to Joe Biden that the president had already been making for weeks.
Trump said he was providing “an update” on his campaign’s efforts to “expose the tremendous voter fraud” that he claims cost him the election. Trump and his lawyers have unsuccessfully tried to persuade judges in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan to stop the process of certifying the ballot counts.
Biden won in all those states, and is on track to win the Electoral College by a margin of 306 to 232.
Contradicting the head of the U.S. cybersecurity agency, Christopher Krebs, who was appointed, and subsequently fired, by Trump, the president said the electoral system was under “coordinated assault and siege.”
Trump then claimed, with no evidence, that Biden had been tipped off by election officials not to bother campaigning because Democrats would corruptly deliver the election to him.
“In fact, they were already acting like they knew what the outcome was going to be,” Trump said.
President Trump at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., on Nov. 27. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Biden held a comfortable lead in the polls throughout the campaign, and made almost no campaign appearances to avoid events that could spread the coronavirus.
Although all the key swing states where Trump claims victory have certified their results in favor of Biden, the president continued to insist that he would somehow come up with enough votes to overturn those results. Of Wisconsin, for instance, he said: “We will have far more, many times more, than the 20,000 votes needed to overturn the state.”
Trump’s campaign has already paid $3 million for a partial recount in Wisconsin. The results increased Biden’s lead there. Throughout his presentation, Trump made claims that his lawyers haven’t dared to bring up before a judge. The president even went so far as to take aim at the judges who have ruled against him in 40 of the 41 cases his legal team and his allies have brought forward so far.
“We already have the proof. We already have the evidence, and it’s very clear,” he said. “Many people in the media and even judges so far have refused to accept it. They know it’s true. They know it’s there. They know who won the election, but they refuse to say, ‘You’re right.’”
Some of the most definitive decisions against Trump were handed down by Republican judges, including some he himself had appointed.
At the end, Trump’s own words seemed to sum up the presentation best: “It was all very, very strange.”
Trump said he was providing “an update” on his campaign’s efforts to “expose the tremendous voter fraud” that he claims cost him the election. Trump and his lawyers have unsuccessfully tried to persuade judges in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan to stop the process of certifying the ballot counts.
Biden won in all those states, and is on track to win the Electoral College by a margin of 306 to 232.
Contradicting the head of the U.S. cybersecurity agency, Christopher Krebs, who was appointed, and subsequently fired, by Trump, the president said the electoral system was under “coordinated assault and siege.”
Trump then claimed, with no evidence, that Biden had been tipped off by election officials not to bother campaigning because Democrats would corruptly deliver the election to him.
“In fact, they were already acting like they knew what the outcome was going to be,” Trump said.
President Trump at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., on Nov. 27. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Biden held a comfortable lead in the polls throughout the campaign, and made almost no campaign appearances to avoid events that could spread the coronavirus.
Although all the key swing states where Trump claims victory have certified their results in favor of Biden, the president continued to insist that he would somehow come up with enough votes to overturn those results. Of Wisconsin, for instance, he said: “We will have far more, many times more, than the 20,000 votes needed to overturn the state.”
Trump’s campaign has already paid $3 million for a partial recount in Wisconsin. The results increased Biden’s lead there. Throughout his presentation, Trump made claims that his lawyers haven’t dared to bring up before a judge. The president even went so far as to take aim at the judges who have ruled against him in 40 of the 41 cases his legal team and his allies have brought forward so far.
“We already have the proof. We already have the evidence, and it’s very clear,” he said. “Many people in the media and even judges so far have refused to accept it. They know it’s true. They know it’s there. They know who won the election, but they refuse to say, ‘You’re right.’”
Some of the most definitive decisions against Trump were handed down by Republican judges, including some he himself had appointed.
At the end, Trump’s own words seemed to sum up the presentation best: “It was all very, very strange.”