Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse blasted President Trump’s legal team for threatening to sue officials who certify election results for President-elect Joe Biden.
Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and other members of Trump’s election legal team appeared at a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to allege a plot by his opponents to “rig” voting machines in the presidential election, which delivered the race to Biden. In a statement later Thursday night, Sasse rebuked the claim and the Trump team’s later threats to sue election officials.
“Here is what I am telling Nebraskans who ask me how to make sense of all the different election fraud claims: What matters most at this stage is not the latest press conference or tweet, but what the President’s lawyers are actually saying in court. And based on what I’ve read in their filings, when Trump campaign lawyers have stood before courts under oath, they have repeatedly refused to actually allege grand fraud — because there are legal consequences for lying to judges,” Sasse told CNN.
“President Trump lost Michigan by more than 100,000 votes, and the campaign and its allies have lost in or withdrawn from all five lawsuits in Michigan for being unable to produce any evidence. Wild press conferences erode public trust. So no, obviously Rudy and his buddies should not pressure electors to ignore their certification obligations under the statute. We are a nation of laws, not tweets,” the statement continued.
GOP Sen. Ben Sasse: “President Trump lost Michigan by more than 100,000 votes, and the campaign and its allies have lost in or withdrawn from all five lawsuits in Michigan for being unable to produce any evidence. Wild press conferences erode public trust.” pic.twitter.com/MySI6ItFcf
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Following her appearance at the Washington press conference, Powell, who is also the lead attorney for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in a case about lying to the FBI, told Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that the Trump camp is pressing forward with new legal action targeting election officials as they certify the 2020 results in several key battleground states that have been called for Biden.
“Are you pressing forward with legal action against them for those violations?” Dobbs asked, referring to two specific voting machine companies, Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic.
“Not against the company and the software,” Powell responded. “But the suits will be against the election officials to invalidate the results of the election and force it to the legislatures and the Electoral College and then the Congress if necessary.”
