Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie today denounced a lack of evidence in President Trump’s legal challenges against election results as “a national embarrassment.”
“What’s happened here is, quite frankly, the content of the president’s legal team has been a national embarrassment,” said Christie. “Sidney Powell accusing Gov. Brian Kemp of a crime on television, yet being unwilling to go on TV and defend and lay out the evidence that she supposedly has. This is outrageous conduct by any lawyer, and notice, George, they won’t do it inside the courtroom. They allege fraud outside the courtroom, but when they go inside the courtroom, they don’t plead fraud and they don’t argue fraud.”
Sidney Powell, Trump’s lawyer, said an upcoming Georgia election lawsuit “will be biblical,” as Trump’s campaign continued its efforts to prove allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
“Georgia’s probably going to be the first state I’m gonna blow up,” Powell said. “We’ve got tons of evidence. It’s so much, it’s hard to pull it all together. Hopefully, this week we will get it ready to file, and it will be biblical.”
Christie isn’t buying it, and emphasized that Trump has had his chance to prove allegations of widespread voter fraud in court.
“I have been a supporter of the president’s. I voted for him twice, but elections have consequences, and we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn’t happen. You have an obligation to present the evidence.”
Powell also claimed that Republican Georgia Governer Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger were being paid to be part of a conspiracy with Dominion Voting Systems.
“And Mr. Kemp and the secretary of state need to go with it because they’re in on the Dominion scam with their last-minute purchase or reward of a contract to Dominion of $100 million,” said Powell, alleging that Georgia law enforcement should investigate the claim.
The Dominion Voting Systems conspiracy arose following a tweet from Trump claiming that “Dominion deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide,” and that the voting system switched Trump votes to favor President-elect Joe Biden.
However, these claims have since been proven false.
Edward Perez, an election-technology expert at the OSET Institute, said that “many of the claims being asserted about Dominion and questionable voting technology is misinformation at best and, in many cases, they’re outright disinformation.”
“I’m not aware of any evidence of specific things or defects in Dominion software that would lead one to believe that votes had been recorded or counted incorrectly,” Perez told The New York Times.
Dominion Voting Systems also has published its own fact check on claims about its systems, writing that there is “no credible reports or evidence of any software issues exist.”
Despite Trump’s legal challenges in various states gaining little to no ground, only a handful of congressional Republicans have acknowledged Biden as president-elect.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) congratulated Biden on Saturday hours after a Republican judge in his state dismissed a Trump campaign lawsuit — with prejudice — that sought to block the certification of Pennsylvania’s election results.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann wrote in his opinion on the suit that the Trump team had cobbled together a legal argument “like Frankenstein’s Monster.”