This weekend, President Donald Trump has continued his self-obsessed fight against the election results. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit in which Texas and its allies sought to invalidate the election outcome in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, all of which Biden won — and Trump isn’t taking the rejection very well, to say the least. His own three appointees were among the justices who concluded that Texas and its allies (including Trump’s own team) didn’t even have the legal standing to bring their case, but on Twitter this Saturday, Trump angrily alleged that the “Supreme Court had ZERO interest in the merits of the greatest voter fraud ever perpetrated on the United States of America,” which is simply a grossly inaccurate characterization of the situation.
Trump tweeted as follows:
‘The Supreme Court had ZERO interest in the merits of the greatest voter fraud ever perpetrated on the United States of America. All they were interested in is “standing”, which makes it very difficult for the President to present a case on the merits. 75,000,000 votes!’
The Supreme Court had ZERO interest in the merits of the greatest voter fraud ever perpetrated on the United States of America. All they were interested in is “standing”, which makes it very difficult for the President to present a case on the merits. 75,000,000 votes!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020
In reality, there is no legitimate evidence for Trump’s claim that systematic fraud plagued the presidential election — the Department of Homeland Security, Attorney General Bill Barr, and local election officials around the country have all confirmed as much. Trump’s insistence that the Supreme Court didn’t even consider the core of the Texas case is not correct — they looked at the issues, and seven out of nine justices concluded, as mentioned, that Texas’s side didn’t have the legal standing to bring their case. Texas’s claim that it did have a judicially meaningful stake in how other states handled their own elections sat at the core of its original filing. The two justices who concluded that Texas’s side did have the standing to bring their case said that they still wouldn’t have given the plaintiffs the relief that they wanted, meaning the invalidation of Biden’s win in those states.
On Twitter this Saturday, Trump also complained about signature verification in Georgia. Referring to GOP Senate candidates David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Trump ranted that if “failing Governor [Brian Kemp] would allow signature verification, David & Kelly would WIN!” which grossly misrepresents the situation. Signature verification for mail-in ballots in Georgia is already enforced. Trump has sought re-verifications of mail-in ballots, but meaningful re-checks of actual ballots are physically impossible because election workers separate ballots and envelopes (with the signatures) after initial verification. Nevertheless, Kemp has supported re-checking the envelopes on their own anyway — but Trump won’t even give him credit for that, apparently. Instead, he’s just pretending like Kemp is blocking signature verification in general.
Check out Trump’s posts below:
If failing Governor @BrianKempGA would allow signature verification, David & Kelly would WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response below:
