A CNN anchor fact-checked President Donald Trump’s election claims in a segment that prefaced the president’s primetime speech about election meddling.
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John King looked at Trump’s insistence that the election was “rigged” and “stolen,” as well as the dozens of lawsuits he’s filed in battleground states. The only thing the Trump administration had said about his Thursday night speech was that it would focus on election meddling.
King noted that if Trump had won a lawsuit to overturn the results in Georgia, “That would have changed the math, but not enough. Joe Biden is still the president.”
He then took a look at Trump’s case in Arizona and repeated, “That would have changed the math, but not enough. Joe Biden still would have won the election.”
Moving on to another state where Trump has challenged the election results, King examined Pennsylvania, and “That would have been it. It would have taken at least three lawsuits in at least three states to go Trump’s way to change the election results,” King said.
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“Which is why those lawsuits were filed in so many of the battleground states,” King added.
King then zoomed in on the lawsuits that Trump filed in those states and looked at what judges said.
In Arizona, the judge who ruled against Trump said, “Allegations that find favor in the public sphere of gossip and innuendo cannot be a substitute for earnest pleadings and procedure.”
In Pennsylvania, a judge said, “Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither.”
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“In other words, you did not make your case,” King said.
