“No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost. I won them both, by a lot! #SupremeCourt”
— President Trump, in a tweet, Dec. 9, 2020
“President Trump prevailed on nearly every historical indicia of success in presidential elections. For example, he won both Florida and Ohio; no candidate in history—Republican or Democrat—has ever lost the election after winning both States.”
— Trump attorney John C. Eastman, in a filing to the Supreme Court, Dec. 9, 2020
This is false. Is anyone surprised?
The president has never shown a command of U.S. history and has been lying, misleading and peddling baseless conspiracy theories like a sludge pipe since losing the Nov. 3 presidential election to Joe Biden, who earned 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232.
This falsehood appears both on Twitter and in a Trump filing to the Supreme Court. It’s a good example of how hollow and easily disprovable Trump’s claims are as he seeks to delegitimize and overturn the election results. It takes seconds to fact-check this false claim — for those who bother with the truth, anyway. Continue reading.