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Now President Trump has moved to intervene in Texas' Supreme Court lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the presidential election in four states to keep Trump in power.
Trump's motion is to intervene so he can file his own complaint against the various states. This would basically undermine the entire premise of filing at SCOTUS, since he can -- and has -- litigated these issues in the various states. And lost.
Trump's brief argues that many Americans now mistrust the outcome of the presidential election. He has indeed worked hard to undermine that confidence, repeating a boatload of misinformation to persuade Americans he didn't lose the election he actually lost.
Trump argues - to the Supreme Court! - that he won the bellwether counties and that "no candidate in history" has lost the presidency after winning Florida and Ohio, which, again, would be news to Richard Nixon.
Despite all the rhetoric about election fraud, though, President Trump's brief to the Supreme Court makes clear that he's not alleging fraud.
You can read it here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163234/20201209155327055_No.%2022O155%20Original%20Motion%20to%20Intervene.pdf
To recap: Today, seventeen state attorneys general and the President of the United States asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the outcome of presidential election in four states that failed to vote for Trump.
It's very on-brand that President Trump's Supreme Court brief pushing his election-fraud fiction also suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic was maybe just a pretext for some kind of electoral plot against him.
