Trump pummeled for claiming 'I'm not fighting for me' after losing 39 election cases
President Donald Trump kicked off Monday morning by insisting his spewing daily lies about a "rigged" election and refusing to concede is in service to the voters, not to himself.
Trump lost the election by more than six million votes and 74 Electoral College votes. And he has provided zero evidence of fraud.
"I'm not fighting for me, I'm fighting for the 74,000,000 million [sic] people (not including the many Trump ballots that were "tossed"), a record for a sitting President, who voted for me!"
Trump also managed to write "74 million" wrong.
Currently, President-elect Joe Biden is beating President Trump 80.1 million votes to 73.9 million votes, or 51.1% to 471%.
But as elections expert and Democratic attorney Marc Elias writes, Trump has lost 39 out of 40 cases:
Trump was quickly pummeled on social media.
@realDonaldTrump that's a cute story but I like the one where you're fighting to avoid prison and financial ruin be… https://t.co/5rJBOENY1K— Jeff Tiedrich (@Jeff Tiedrich) 1606743821
@realDonaldTrump That's the problem, Don. You never cared about the 80 million people who voted against you.— Nick Jack Pappas (@Nick Jack Pappas) 1606743785
Narrator: He is fighting entirely for himself. https://t.co/HnsCQxUUzw— Jonah Goldberg (@Jonah Goldberg) 1606743815
@realDonaldTrump No, you are not! You're attempting to destroy U.S. Democracy!! Your latest plan is for GOP Stat… https://t.co/XxWiQCGiec— Michael Russell (@Michael Russell) 1606744051
You're fighting against the 80 million Americans who voted for Joe Biden. https://t.co/67BDu7iE1k— Brian Klaas (@Brian Klaas) 1606744444
My timeline is full of super-smart dudes sneering at anyone who said Trump was attempting a coup (however dumbly ex… https://t.co/CJhFM8hBgX— Susan J. Demas 🏔 (@Susan J. Demas 🏔) 1606744356
74,000,000 million people is 74 trillion people. That is more than 8,000 times the number of people on the planet. https://t.co/BTkuZRACRv— Robert Rutledge (@Robert Rutledge) 1606744462
There needs to be an investigation into the 74mil. who allegedly voted for you. It is impossible to imagine that th… https://t.co/ppCZB31Xny— michael sadler (@michael sadler) 1606744570
It was rigged. Those votes are lies, fake, a hoax. There’s no way you got that many votes without fraud. https://t.co/hN0lxlYquz— J52D (@J52D) 1606744519
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