Rush Limbaugh said Friday that Donald Trump supporters seeking to overturn the election result look like ‘kooks.’
The conservative radio host, one of Trump’s most fervent fans, has been growing increasingly frustrated by the widely-mocked, scattershot approach to the fraud allegations.
On Friday – the same day the legal team, led by Rudy Giuliani, suffered defeats in six states – Limbaugh beseeched the president and his team to get their act together.
“Can I have the attention of mainstream media, this is a pull quote,” Limbaugh said, “you’re going to love this quote from me. As a conservative, it’s getting harder and harder to not look like a kook.”
Limbaugh said that the outlandish claims made by some of Trump’s supporters were making it easier for Trump’s critics to dismiss them all as being unhinged.
‘All of this stuff that’s floating around out there – it’s impossible to keep up,’ Limbaugh said.’ And the left is doing everything it can to make every one of them appear to be right out of Kookville.’
Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani has been widely ridiculed for giving a press conference with hair dye dripping down his face, and returning to court for the first time in almost 30 years only to forget the judge’s name and need the word ‘opacity’ explaining to him.
Rudy Giuliani is making wild accusations about vote fraud, without convincing any judge.
Sidney Powell, another member of his team, claimed that Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, oversaw the rigging of election machines used to flip votes from Trump to Joe Biden.
In court documents littered with glaring spelling mistakes, she alleged that Iran, China and Venezuela had united to steal the vote from Trump.
Powell was forced out when her wild accusations became too much even for the president, and was given short shrift by Tucker Carlson on Fox News when she refused his invitation to come on his show and discuss her evidence.
One of their key witnesses, Melissa Carone, appeared at a hearing in Michigan and became so animated she had to be quietened by Giuliani.
She later denied on Twitter that she was drunk.
Giuliani is also unable so far to prove his allegations of thousands of dead people voting, and Republican poll watchers being evicted from polling stations.
‘They need daily press conferences,’ said Limbaugh, 69. ‘All next week, they need clear graphs, they need charts and graphs up there to show how they cheated.’
Limbaugh, who announced at the beginning of the year that he had cancer, which has now become terminal, told Trump he needed to hurry.
‘Time is of the essence here for Trump to do whatever it is he’s going to do. We’re running out of time, folks,’ said Limbaugh. ‘We’ve got 10 days until the Electoral College assembles and votes.’
Limbaugh is not the only conservative growing impatient with the president.
Laura Ingraham has accepted the election result, unlike Trump, and acknowledged: ‘Unless the legal situation changes in a dramatic and unlikely manner, Joe Biden will be inaugurated on 20 January.’
Tucker Carlson, her fellow Fox News anchor, claimed ‘the 2020 election was not fair’, but admitted Trump had lost it.