Trump Blames Everyone but Himself for His Defeat
Maybe voters were repelled by the very traits he has been vividly displaying since the election.
Maybe voters were repelled by the very traits he has been vividly displaying since the election.
Louis Gohmert asserts a previously overlooked power to decide which electoral votes will be counted.
The Trump-friendly paper says the president should stop "cheering for an undemocratic coup" and focus on the GOP's political interests.
Trump thinks the judiciary cannot be trusted to reveal the massive fraud that he says denied him a second term.
Federal judges have been underwhelmed by the former Trump campaign lawyer's evidence of massive election fraud.
Eric Coomer says the claim that he bragged about fixing the election during an "antifa conference call" provoked a torrent of abuse and death threats.
The president's advisers reportedly pushed back vigorously against his ideas.
Aaron Sorkin takes on the famous trial of activists who organized an anti-war protest during the 1968 Democratic convention.
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Trump ally, now concedes there is no credible evidence to support the president's fanciful conspiracy theory.
The strategy of lodging objections under the Electoral Count Act has been tried before, but it has never succeeded.
Given the conspicuous lack of credible evidence, the president's charges can be accepted only as a matter of faith.
The president and his diehard allies in Congress continue to insist the election was stolen.
Although the president says the justices "chickened out," other courts have considered and rejected the merits of his legal arguments.
By his own account, the Texas senator is committed to defending a dishonest, amoral, narcissistic bully.
Seeking to join a last-ditch effort to overturn Joe Biden's victory, the president's attorney says "it is not necessary...to prove that fraud occurred."
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The justices declined to intervene on behalf of Republicans who challenged absentee voting in Pennsylvania.
According to the ruling, the former Trump attorney also filed the wrong claims in the wrong court at the wrong time on behalf of the wrong plaintiffs.
"Don't listen to my friends," the president says, referring to supporters who took his fraud allegations seriously.
Some of the changes are reasonable. But many of the new questions are badly designed and incorporate serious errors. Moreover, such tests raise the deeper issue of why immigrants are required to pass a test to get the right to vote, but natives are not.
"This is about restoring faith and confidence in American elections," the president says.
The former Trump attorney's election fraud lawsuits feature the same sort of dubious evidence that has failed to impress courts across the country.
Either the AG is acknowledging reality, or he's joined the anti-Trump deep state conspiracy.
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Fox News interviewer Maria Bartiromo uncritically accepts Trump's outlandish conspiracy theory.
"The Campaign cannot win this lawsuit," the 3rd Circuit says. "The Campaign's claims have no merit."
At least nine GOP senators are publicly urging the president to concede or questioning his claim that he actually won.
Both the president and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have publicly embraced Powell's wild claims about voting machine manipulation.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann rejected an attempt to block certification of Pennsylvania's election results.
Without a shred of evidence, Sidney Powell is alleging a conspiracy more vast than Russiagate. Shouldn't that raise red flags?
Although the president's lawyer says the anti-Trump conspiracy is "easily provable," the affidavits he cites fall notably short.
St. Louis residents agree to shift to approval voting for local primaries.
The president's rhetoric and his campaign's actions are corrosive, but even the most powerful man on the planet can't control America's diffuse election system.
The fabulism that is inseparable from Trumpism can conjure up "millions" of stolen votes as easily as "more than a MILLION" protesters.
Trump's campaign officials and attorneys are peddling this nonsense with help from credulous Fox News hosts, but their theories don't stand up to scrutiny.
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The president still insists the election was stolen by a vast criminal conspiracy.
Even if the GOP's complaints are valid, they do not prove a vast anti-Trump conspiracy.
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The newest lawsuit in Pennsylvania is a longshot attempt to argue that all mail-in voting is unconstitutional because it differs from traditional, in-person voting. It's likely to fail.
The nefarious scheme evidently includes Republican officials and Trump-friendly news outlets.
The only person he needs to convince is himself.
It's the world of the present, not the controversies of the past, that motivated voters.
Biden appears to be winning, but the election is far from settled.
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This isn't fraud. This isn't a scheme to steal the election. It is the very predictable outcome of the president's own words and actions.
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