“They didn’t even allow Republican Observers into the building to watch. A terrible insult to our Constitution!”
— President Trump, in a tweet, Nov. 18, 2020
Trump is in overdrive, tweeting one absurd falsehood after another to delegitimize the election he lost.
One repeated theme is that Republican observers were not allowed inside the room as election workers counted mail ballots in Philadelphia. Fraud thrives under cover of darkness, Trump warns.
But, in fact, Trump’s own lawyers have attested in court that his campaign was granted access and observed the process, both in Philadelphia and in other cities, and has found no evidence of fraud. Continue reading.