President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that widespread fraud cost him the election, and he and his allies have repeatedly failed to produce any meaningful evidence for their claims whatsoever. On Twitter this Tuesday, Trump posted a reference to an allegation of a “Large truck carrying hundreds of thousands of fraudulent (FAKE) ballots to a voting center,” which is just a stunningly unhinged allegation. Where did this “large truck” come from? How did this supposedly fraudulent ballot-carrying “large truck” evade detection by anyone but apparent Trump loyalists? How did those who discovered this supposed conspiracy figure out that ballots were inside? Trump is pushing mind-numbing nonsense.
Amidst a few other posts, Trump posted as follows:
‘Hope everybody is watching @OANN right now. Other media afraid to show. People are coming forward like never before. Large truck carrying hundreds of thousands of fraudulent (FAKE) ballots to a voting center? TERRIBLE – SAVE AMERICA!’
Hope everybody is watching @OANN right now. Other media afraid to show. People are coming forward like never before. Large truck carrying hundreds of thousands of fraudulent (FAKE) ballots to a voting center? TERRIBLE – SAVE AMERICA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2020
Michigan voter fraud hearing going on now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2020
LIVE NOW! Press Conference by Amistad Project: “Election Whistleblowers Come Forward”https://t.co/Yjh1GsxGvS
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2020
Why does Trump like using the phrase “like never before” or one of its equivalents so much? He seems pathologically obsessed with trying to be the “greatest,” whatever precisely that’s even supposed to mean. He’s repeatedly characterized himself as one of, if not the greatest president in American history, and on the flip side, he’s repeatedly alleged that opponents of his administration who’ve tried to hold him to a basic level of accountability have perpetrated the greatest political scandal in American history — or something. Remember: the United States has suffered through slavery, wars, presidential assassinations and more. These issues haven’t stopped President Victim Complex from proclaiming that his opponents have perpetrated the “greatest political scandal in the history of the United States.”
Trump’s Tuesday tweets came shortly after Attorney General (and Trump loyalist!) Bill Barr told the Associated Press that no evidence had emerged of any fraud that swung the outcome of the election. Trump’s ramshackle legal team promptly rushed to the defense of the president’s ludicrous fraud claims. In a statement that Jenna Ellis posted on Twitter, she and Rudy Giuliani insist that “there hasn’t been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation,” which is just demonstrably false. Barr “said U.S. attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints and information they’ve received,” according to the Associated Press.
Statement of Trump Legal Team on Bill Barr’s Comments on Voter Fraud. pic.twitter.com/SlZRKStbri
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) December 1, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response below:
