Donald Trump says he will not change his mind about the election fraud allegations in the United States

Trump’s legal team has yet to provide any evidence that he stands up in court. (FILE)

Washington:

In the first televised interview since losing his candidacy for re-election, President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will never concede to Joe Biden and abandon his conspiracy theory of mass election fraud.

“It’s not like you’ll change your mind. My mind won’t change in six months,” Trump told Fox News interviewer Maria Bartiromo.

“This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud,” he said, once again without supporting him. “We easily won the elections.”

The 45-minute interview, Trump’s first on television since the November 3 election, was mostly a monologue of unproven claims regarding election fraud, virtually unchallenged by Bartiromo.

Despite Trump’s unprecedented attack on the validity of the US electoral system, his legal team has yet to provide any evidence that stands up in court.

Case after case it was dismissed by judges across the country. The latest refusal came from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Trump supporters seeking to challenge Biden’s victory in the state.

“We are trying to put the evidence and the judges will not allow us to do that,” Trump said. “We’re trying. We have so much evidence.”

Ignoring the usual boundaries between his office and the judicial and police system, Trump complained that the Justice Department and the FBI weren’t helping him.

They are “missing in action,” he said, even questioning the Supreme Court’s point of not intervening.

“We should be heard by the Supreme Court. Something must be able to go up there. Otherwise, what is the Supreme Court?” churches.

The 2020 elections were not particularly close.

Biden won the constituency vote – the state-by-state contest that decides the winner – from 306 to 232. In the national popular vote, which does not decide the outcome but still has political and symbolic weight, Biden won by 51 to 47 for one hundred.

Losers in the US presidential election traditionally concede almost immediately.

But regardless of whether Trump acknowledges defeat or not, the Electoral College is almost certain to go through Biden’s formal confirmation motions when he meets on December 14 and the Democrat is sworn in on inauguration day January 20.

Even though his term of office has run out, Trump has declined to tell Fox News if he sees an expiration date for his fruitless legal campaign.

“I’m not going to say a date,” he said.

Asked if he saw a way to victory, he said, “I hope so.”

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