Trump uses blatant falsehood in latest bid to escape accountability

Former President Donald Trump has now taken to claiming that he was no longer a candidate for president when he tried pressuring multiple officials to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The reason Trump is saying this is because he wants to argue that all actions taken to overturn the election were done as official presidential acts, and thus deserve to be granted immunity by the courts.

However, Politico reports that this new claim by Trump is blatantly false, as it was contradicted by statements Trump himself made three years ago about the election.

"Even after the votes had been counted and certified, Trump filed lawsuits contesting the results — and he claimed he was doing so not as the outgoing president, but as a candidate," the publication writes. "It’s even what he told the Supreme Court in a Dec. 9, 2020 brief filed by his lawyer at the time, John Eastman. 'He seeks to intervene in this matter in his personal capacity as a candidate for reelection,' Eastman wrote."

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In addition to the court filings, Trump also posted on his Twitter account that the 2020 election "was a long way from over" weeks after the election had ended.

Politico goes on to document how judges overseeing Trump cases have already picked up on this contradiction and have determined that he was acting "not in his official capacity as sitting President."

What's more, the publication notes that Trump only started claiming that the election was over and he was no longer a candidate late last month, suggesting that the entire ploy is simply a bid to evade legal accountability rather than a sincere defense.