WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, representing a client inside a courtroom for the first time in nearly three decades, showed some rust as he tried to make the case that President Donald Trump has been robbed of reelection.
The former federal prosecutor and New York City mayor, who has taken over Trump’s efforts to cast doubt on the election results, entered a courthouse Tuesday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, with a few dozen Trump supporters cheering him from across the street.
Over the next several hours, he fiddled with his Twitter account, forgot which judge he was talking
to and threw around unsupported accusations about a nationwide conspiracy by Democrats to steal the election.
As Trump continues to push falsehoods about the election he lost, his legal team has failed to gain any traction in court, without evidence of widespread fraud, which experts widely agree doesn’t exist. Despite that, Trump and his Republican allies are pressing forward with several cases aimed at blocking or delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states won by the projected President-elect Joe Biden. Experts say Trump has almost no chance of reversing the election.
Meantime, Biden is denouncing Trump as the “most irresponsible president in American history” over his efforts to overturn the result of the election. Biden was asked by a reporter Thursday about Trump extending a White House invitation to Michigan state lawmakers in an apparent bid to overturn the results of the election in the state, which Biden won. Biden shook his head, noted that “there’s questions whether it’s even legal” and said the move was “outrageous.”
In a virtual meeting with governors, Joe Biden has expressed concern that President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to block the peaceful transition of power at the White House has hindered the flow of information about programs to fast-track a coronavirus vaccine.
