Trump DOJ's 'striking' error leaves election officials smirking: 'He's failed'

President Donald Trump's Thursday night address to the nation represents a last-ditch effort to convince the public that elections cannot be trusted—not because evidence supports that claim, but because he has repeatedly lost in court trying to prove it, according to a new analysis.

State election officials no longer fear being sued by the DOJ for voter information, according to NOTUS. Observers reportedly anticipate Trump will resurrect familiar claims about electoral tampering and a rigged system, recycling accusations that courts have systematically dismantled over the past six years.

Despite a relentless campaign to undermine confidence in elections, Trump has accomplished virtually nothing substantive after a series of 'striking' failures, NOTUS reported.

Multiple executive orders, Justice Department maneuvers, strategic personnel removals, and pressure on Congress to pass restrictive voting legislation have all failed to expand federal authority over how elections are administered, the report noted.

"If his goals were to undermine election security in the states, he's failed," Center for Election Innovation & Research founder David Becker told NOTUS. "If his goals were to seize power over elections through executive order, he's failed. If his goals were to seize sensitive voter data from the states, he's failed. If his goal was to pass the SAVE America Act, he's failed."

According to the report, "The DOJ has been the epicenter of Trump’s efforts to scrutinize the results of the 2020 election and remake the administration of future ones. Ahead of the midterms in November, the Justice Department canceled election-integrity training sessions for prosecutors and FBI agents, deleted a 281-page guide to prosecuting election offenses and fired most of the lawyers in its Public Integrity Section."

But the most damning metric reveals the magnitude of the failure: as of Tuesday, the DOJ has lost 15 consecutive lawsuits attempting to access unredacted voter rolls from individual states.

"0-15 should never happen," Becker, a former DOJ lawyer himself, told NOTUS. "What that means is you brought frivolous cases, and then when you were getting handed defeat after defeat after defeat, there's no grown-up there to review this and say, 'Hey, wait a second, should we reel this in?' The president has actually undermined his own efforts because there's not an election official in the country that's scared of the DOJ right now."