Trump Campaign Loses Sixty-Plus Post-Election Lawsuits, Including Several Argued Before Judges Trump Personally Nominated

WASHINGTON. The Trump 2020 reelection campaign and affiliated litigants concluded a six-week legal blitz Friday having lost more than sixty post-election lawsuits across at least nine jurisdictions, a defeat rate the President's team interpreted as further evidence of widespread judicial corruption rather than as a verdict on the merits of the cases.

Filed in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and ultimately before the United States Supreme Court, the suits asked courts to discard millions of legally cast ballots on grounds the campaign repeatedly declined to specify with admissible evidence. The cases were dismissed by Democratic-appointed judges, Republican-appointed judges, state judges, federal judges, judges newly confirmed, judges weeks from retirement, and a notable number of judges nominated by President Trump himself, several of whom went to unusual lengths in their written opinions to clarify that they had heard the arguments, considered the evidence presented, and could find no facts in either category.

The operation's culmination, Texas v. Pennsylvania, in which the Texas Attorney General sued four other states for the offense of holding elections those states had won, was rejected by the Supreme Court on Friday in a one-sentence order. A source within the administration described the outcome as "a temporary setback in what is increasingly likely to be an entirely temporary effort to set aside the votes of 81 million Americans."

The President, who has repeatedly described the contest as "the most corrupt election in the history of our country," cited as evidence for that claim the fact that he had not won it. He has variously blamed the judiciary, the postal service, voting machines, dead voters, foreign voters, urban voters, and Republican election officials in states he lost, while continuing to recognize the validity of down-ballot results in those same states involving candidates he had personally endorsed.

State and county election administrators, many of them Republicans, certified results as the litigation collapsed. In Georgia, the Secretary of State conducted three separate counts of the ballots, each arriving at substantially the same outcome, a finding the President interpreted as evidence that the recounts themselves were suspect.

At press time, the campaign was preparing to file additional litigation in jurisdictions where it had not yet lost, while supporters trained for six weeks to expect a courtroom reversal were being directed to gather in Washington on January 6 for an event the President promised would be "wild."