President Trump unleashed an angry tweet storm Saturday at the Supreme Court for dismissing his effort to overturn his election loss — and took a new shot at Attorney General Bill Barr.
He repeated his claims about election fraud and blasted the top court for rejecting the long-shot Texas lawsuit that effectively sought to hand the election to him.
“The Supreme Court had ZERO interest in the merits of the greatest voter fraud ever perpetrated on the United States of America,” Trump tweeted.
Trump issued the broadside before jetting to West Point to watch the annual Army-Navy college football game.
The top court ruled Texas had no standing to object to the voting procedures in four other states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden.
Almost all states with Republican attorneys general lined up behind the Trump-backed suit.
Trump now faces certain defeat when the Electoral College meets Monday to certify Biden’s 306 electoral votes. The president-elect beat Trump by nearly 7 million votes, although the margin was tight in several decisive swing states.
The president also ramped up his feud with his own Attorney General Bill Barr, once considered one of his most loyal lieutenants.
Barr has said investigators have seen no evidence of widespread fraud, directly contradicting Trump’s drumbeat of wild claims that his own lawyers have failed to present in courts.
Trump is now raging over reports that Barr knew months ago about the federal tax investigation into Biden’s son, Hunter. Trump claims he could’ve won the presidential race if the probe had been publicly disclosed.
“Why didn’t Bill Barr reveal the truth before the election?” Trump wrote on Twitter, retweeting a call for Barr’s ouster.
Department of Justice rules generally prohibit the disclosure of information about investigations that could impact the election.
Trump also unleashed anger at some Republicans who have been less than enthusiastic backers of his effort to overturn the election results.
He branded Gov. Brian Kemp, R-Ga., and Gov. Doug Ducey, R-Ariz., as “Republicans in name only” because they failed to deliver their states to him in the November vote. Biden narrowly won both traditionally GOP states.
“Vote them out of office!” Trump railed.
Some Republicans are especially concerned about Trump’s attacks on Kemp because the party faces a pair of tricky run-off elections in Georgia with control of the U.S. Senate at stake.
