Murdock's New York Post Blasts Trump For “Baseless Election Fraud Claims”

Things are getting bad for the self-absorbed malignant narcissist in the White House when right wing media outlets are calling states for his opponent - think Fox News - or more or less calling his claims of election fraud out for what they are: lies.  The latter comes from Rupert Murdock's New York Post that lays out the falsity of Trump's baseless claims and demands EVIDENCE not just Der Trumpenfuhrer's whining and lies.  Of course, endless lies have been the hallmark of the Trump regime and they will likely intensify as Trump fragile ego refuses to process the reality that a majority of Americans either intensely dislike him or openly hate him and everything he stands for (I'm in the latter camp).  Here are highlights from the Post's slap down of Trump:

President Trump repeated his unfounded claim that political foes were trying to steal the election from him during a briefing on Thursday evening as he trailed his opponent and remaining swing states were leaning toward a Joe Biden presidency.

[Trump] The president railed against what he called “illegal votes,” not acknowledging that the US election is still in progress as legal mail-in votes are being counted and that the 2020 presidential race was simply not able to be declared on Election Night due to the coronavirus.

More than 100 million Americans cast their vote early or by mail — out of roughly 160 million total — but [Trump] the president claimed that those mail-in ballots, which are still being tabulated, were either illegal or invalid as they surged Biden’s standing in the suburbs and cities of must-win states like Pennsylvania and Arizona.

It was Trump’s first appearance in almost two days after his early Wednesday speech where he also claimed Democrats were using “fraud” to help Biden win.

With the former veep leading the Electoral College and swing states coming down to the wire, [Trump] the president has deployed surrogates to key states to claim the election is being stolen from him.

The votes currently being tabulated are legal mail-in ballots but the president claimed without evidence that the system was “corrupt” and again suggested Democrats were producing fake ballots to oust him.

At various points throughout the campaign, Trump himself encouraged supporters in states like Florida to use mail voting, calling it “safe and secure.”

The president’s reelection campaign has filed a flurry of lawsuits in must-win states including Georgia and Pennsylvania in a bid to halt vote counting there.

Illinois GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger called Trump’s claims “insane.”

“We want every vote counted, yes every legal vote (of course). But, if you have legit concerns about fraud present EVIDENCE and take it to court. STOP Spreading debunked misinformation… This is getting insane,” he tweeted during the briefing.

And even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday said that while “it’s not unusual for people to claim they’ve won the election … claiming you win the election is different from finishing the counting. And what we’re going to see here in the next few days, both in the Senate races and in the presidential race, is each state will ultimately get to a final outcome.”

When the Louisville Courier Journal asked if McConnell thinks it’s appropriate for the courts to halt counting of votes, McConnell noted it depends on state law.

“And my personal view is it’s none of the federal government’s business how states decide to conduct their election,” he said. “I mean, I think that has been, for 230 years, a state decision, and we have to adapt to how states choose to do it.

[Trump's] the president’s re-election campaign has been particularly aggrieved by Fox News’ decision to call the swing state of Arizona late on Wednesday evening, followed by Associated Press, when hundreds of thousands of votes were still uncounted.

On a call with reporters earlier Thursday, senior advisor Jason Miller said the campaign would “very aggressively” continue to push the publications to reverse their calls.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden has essentially declared himself the victor even as counting continues in six states.

With luck, losing will push Der Trumpenfuhrer to a nervous breakdown and the 25th Amendment can be utilized to remove him for the balance of the lame duck period which would produce a further irony: Mike Pence could be president for a few weeks and achieve what he has prostituted himself for for the past 5 years, just not in the way he envisioned.