U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the James Brady
Press Briefing Room at the White House on November 20, 2020 in
Washington, DC. U.S. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP
A federal appeals court on Friday flatly dismissed
President Donald Trump’s claim that the election was unfair and
refused to freeze Joe Biden’s win in the key state
of Pennsylvania.
In a scathing review of the Trump campaign’s arguments that the
president was cheated in his November 3 reelection bid, three
appeals court judges unanimously said that allegations of
unfairness were not supported by evidence.
“Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election
unfair does not make it so,” the court said.
In appealing a lower court ruling, the Trump campaign claimed
discrimination, the judges noted.
“But its alchemy cannot transmute lead into gold,” the court
said.
It was the latest in more than two dozen court defeats around
the country for the Trump campaign and Republicans who have alleged
fraud and other misconduct contributed to the president’s loss.
Trump persists in arguing that Biden’s clear victory is
invalid.
“Just so you understand, this election was a fraud,” he told
reporters on Thursday.
Last week a Pennsylvania state court rejected
arguments by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani that the
millions of votes in the state should be thrown out due to
fraud.
The judge in that case, however, embarrassed Giuliani by forcing
him to admit that none of his precise claims before the court
involved fraud or anything more than technical issues in overseeing
the vote count.
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On Tuesday the Pennsylvania government officially
certified Biden’s victory in the state, and the Trump campaign
appealed to federal court to have that certification frozen.
But the appeals court said Trump’s campaign had nothing
substantial to argue.
“Its allegations are vague and conclusory,” the judges said.
“It never alleges that anyone treated the Trump campaign or
Trump votes worse than it treated the Biden campaign or Biden
votes.”
With Biden’s national lead in the popular vote and the electoral
college now virtually unassailable, the court indicated that
another appeal, to the US Supreme Court, would go nowhere.
“The campaign has already litigated and lost most of these
issues,” the court said.
“The campaign cannot win this lawsuit. It conceded that it is
not alleging election fraud.”
Nevertheless, Jenna Ellis, a Trump campaign lawyer who worked
with Giuliani on the case, tweeted their intent to appeal.
“The activist judicial machinery
in Pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of
massive fraud … On to SCOTUS!” she said, referring to the Supreme
Court.
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