President Donald Trump is not letting up in his fight against the election outcome. Joe Biden decisively won the election, and the Department of Homeland Security, Attorney General Bill Barr, and local election officials around the country have all confirmed that there’s no evidence of election outcome-altering fraud — but Trump is still trying to convince just about everyone he can that the election was rigged against him. Laughably, Trump ranted on Twitter on Sunday about a so-called “Swing State hustle,” apparently implying that swing state election officials had “hustled” against him to steal the election. There’s no legitimate supporting evidence for this claim.
Trump tweeted the following message:
‘How do states and politicians confirm an election where corruption and irregularities are documented throughout? A Swing State hustle!’
How do states and politicians confirm an election where corruption and irregularities are documented throughout? A Swing State hustle!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2020
Corruption and irregularities are not “documented throughout” the process of the recent election — they’re just not. Would he suggest that officials in all of the swing states that he lost are secretly conspiring against him? The scope of the conspiracy that he’s alleging took place would likely require the cooperation of thousands and thousands of people from across pretty much all levels of government around the country. State and local canvassing boards, frontline election workers, observers from both major parties, Supervisor of Elections offices, Secretary of State offices, and more would likely have to cooperate in some respect in order to successfully accomplish Trump’s imaginary fraud. How does anyone expect people outside of his most fervent base of supporters to take him seriously?
On Sunday, Trump also yelled, in all caps, “MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY!” as if he can simply yell an alternate reality into existence. Surprise: he can’t. The conservative and liberal judges around the country who have rejected the Trump team’s claims of systematic fraud are not cowardly or conspiring against the outgoing president. Trump simply sounds profoundly ignorant. On Sunday morning, he also pledged to veto the defense spending bill for the upcoming year, claiming — in all caps, for some reason — that the “BIGGEST WINNER OF OUR NEW DEFENSE BILL IS CHINA” without explaining what on earth he’s talking about.
MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2020
THE BIGGEST WINNER OF OUR NEW DEFENSE BILL IS CHINA!. I WILL VETO!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response below:
