basic facts like that. it was completely absurd to read. another absurdity, the lawsuit cited a statistical analysis that claimed the probability of biden winning those four states, quote, given president trump s early lead in those states as of 3:00 a.m. november 4, 2020, is less than 1 in a quadrillion. for the vote to swing by as much as it did the probability of that in one state is 1 in 1 quadrillion, that s one, comma 15 zeros. to happen in all four it s 1 comma 15 zeros to the fourth power. it was nonsense, a lie. the analysis completely ignored what everyone including the trump campaign knew. because of vote by mail and when states counted early ballots, some states were going to show an early lead for trump that would not hold. despite the mendacity of the lawsuit 17 other republican state attorneys general signed a legal brief backing it. an overwhelming number of house republicans were drawn into that
the united states. on a december 27 call with the new attorney general, trump told him to, quote, just say the election was corrupt and leave the reps rest to meet and the republican congressman. he knows if the justice department goes out and raises questions about corruption or fraud, just saying that they are investigating or looking into it, that allows republican congressmen to go out there and do the rest of the work. and put the pressure on the states to start their own audit and again, it gives him room to operate between then and january 6th. the notio n behind it was,
trump and his supporters saying, don t worry about it, we are going to make it up. don t pay attention to the facts, to the law, we are going to make it up and forge ahead. trump continue to press rosen on the call saying, quote, this was an illegal, corrupt election and according to richard donahue s notes from the conversation, trump told rosen, the doj was failing to respond to reports of crime. rosen stood firm on this, saying there s not much the justice department could do. trump plotted with another justice department official, jeffrey clark, to oust the acting attorney general after rosen s repeated refusals to go along with trump s fraudulent allegations. but that s scheme imploded at a dramatic white house showdown on january 3. this was a scene out of apprentice. trump has rosen and clark via for the job of attorney general of the united states. and the president is told that if he replaces rosen with clark , they re going to be huge consequences. a number of top off
been telling for years. in 2012 he tweeted, quote, more reports of voting machines switching romney votes to obama. pay close attention to the machines. don t let your vote be stolen. not true. in 2016, ted cruz didn t win iowa. he stole it. not true. and this after he won the electoral college, hence the presidency, in 2016. i won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. also not true. president trump started a commission to look for that in 2017. they could find nothing. they disbanded before they could even file a report. in 2020, mail-in ballots which were going to be more prevalent because of the pandemic, became a perfect new foil for trump s old claim. voting by mail is wrought with fraud and abuse. when you do all mail-in voting
false political attacks, in philadelphia trump s lawyers falsely claimed republican observers had been barred from the counting rooms. one of the attorneys for trump asked a judge, judge diamond, for an emergency order to stop the counting. and they re claiming that they had no people in the room. that s what they had been claiming outside the courtroom. but inside the courtroom this trump lawyer concedes that there were, quote, nonzero number of their own observers in the room. and essentially the case was laughed out of court. short of that lawyer lying to the judge and committing perjury, he clearly went as far as he could. we had republican observers there every minute of every day that we were operating and counting votes right in front of us. despite this barrage from trump and his allies we will await more vote to