President Donald Trump has requested to join a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in four states.
The motion to join the lawsuit was filed on behalf of the president by attorney John Eastman “to intervene in his personal capacity as candidate for re-election,” the motion said.
“The fact that nearly half of the country believes the election was stolen should come as no surprise,’ the filing said. “President Trump prevailed on nearly every historical indicia of success in presidential elections. For example, he won both Florida and Ohio; no candidate in history—Republican or Democrat—has ever lost the election after winning both States.”
“This, despite the fact that the nearly 75 million votes he received—a record for any incumbent President—was nearly 12 million more than he received in the 2016 election, also a record (in contrast to the 2012 election, in which the incumbent received 3 million fewer votes than he had four years earlier but nevertheless prevailed),” it said.
