A Republican congressman has finally had enough of Donald Trump’s ongoing lunacy that somehow the presidential election was rigged against him.
In a late Sunday tweet, Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-MI) took a shot at Trump writing: ‘Oh my God. Please for the sake of our nation please drop these arguments without evidence or factual basis.’
He then used the hashtag #stopthestupid.
Oh my God. .@realDonaldTrump Please for the sake of our Nation please drop these arguments without evidence or factual basis. #stopthestupid https://t.co/IMMImXrckV
— Rep. Paul Mitchell (@RepPaulMitchell) November 30, 2020
Mitchell was responding to a late Sunday tweet by Trump where he again claimed he had won the election, despite losing big in both the electoral and popular vote.
‘We have some big things happening in our various litigations on the Election Hoax. Everybody knows it was Rigged. They know Biden didn’t get more votes from the Black community than Obama, & certainly didn’t get 80,000,000 votes. Look what happened in Detroit, Philadelphia, plus!’
Twitter flagged the Trump tweet ‘disputed’ as it has other outlandish allegations the president has made since the election.
Two weeks ago, Mitchell implored Trump to accept President-elect Joe Biden’s win, urging him to begin the presidential transition process as the nation grapples with a number of urgent challenges.
“Given the complexity, we need to start the process of transition to a new administration,” said Mitchell. “I just think the transition is needed because we have some real challenges facing the nation and we need to not let time go by and have a haphazard transition because that’s not in the best interest of the people of this country.”
Mitchell weighed in on Twitter a day after Pennsylvania’s highest court had thrown out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying results from election.
Saturday’s case – which had attempted to throw out 2.5 million mail in votes in the crucial state – was the latest of dozens of failed lawsuits by Trump’s lawyers, with judges castigating his lawyers for failing to present evidence of fraud.
With states certifying results, Trump has an ever dwindling route to contest the election.
The president’s legal team, led by former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, had also demanded recounts in states like Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan, alleging that vote-counting machines were rigged in an elaborate scheme in which even the justice department, FBI and the federal court system were complicit.
But none of these claims are true.
In fact, Trump’s own legal team has never formally challenged elections results in any state court through substantiated claims of fraud.