Trump accuses SCOTUS of not having 'guts' to overturn 2020 election results, says top court should be 'ashamed'
Former President Donald Trump made his first speech post-presidency in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, February 28, where he reiterated his claim that the 2020 presidential election was compromised and slammed the Supreme Court for refusing to overturn the results that went to Joe Biden, the incumbent president.
Though Biden beat Trump by a big margin, both the winning and losing candidates received a record number of votes and the Republican and his allies kept on claiming that the election was stolen from them. They took the legal path to challenge the results but did not succeed in reversing the results. Trump’s supporters protested the Congress affirming Biden’s victory on January 6 by storming the Capitol and five people died in the clashes that followed. Trump was impeached by the House and banned from major social media platforms subsequently on charges of inciting the violence.
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Trump, who spoke for 90 minutes at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), asked his roaring supporters on the occasion whether they missed him after taking on the stage much later than scheduled. He then repeated his claims of voter fraud and said the SCOTUS should be “ashamed” for not caring to alter the election results in his favor.
'Supreme Court didn't have courage'
“This election was rigged. And the Supreme Court and other courts didn’t want to do anything about it,” Trump said, adding: “They didn't have the courage, the Supreme Court.”
“We had almost 20 states go into the Supreme Court so that we didn’t have a standing problem. They rejected it, they rejected it,” the businessman-politician said about the dozens of lawsuits that were filed to weed out ballots they believed to be invalid.
“They should be ashamed of themselves for what they've done to our country. They didn’t have the guts or the courage to make the right decision,” Trump said. “They didn’t want to talk about it.”
It may be mentioned here that the SCOTUS has a 6-3 conservative majority with three judges on its bench who were appointed by the former president. He rushed to pick Amy Coney Barrett soon after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last September amid controversy and according to observers, he did it considering the move would help him if disputes over elections landed at the top court post the November 3 election.
Trump, who called for comprehensive election reforms in the CPAC speech, sought unity in the Republican Party and ruled out forming a new party which many had speculated. But despite calling for a unified GOP, he called out the party’s lawmakers who have opposed him, including those who voted for his recent impeachment -- both in the House and Senate. Trump was acquitted by the Senate last month, for the second time in a year, after the House impeached him.
“We need strong leadership, we cannot have leaders who show more passion for condemning their fellow Americans than they have ever shown for standing up to Democrats, the media and the radicals, who want to turn America into a socialist country,” the veteran leader said.
'Want Republican leaders loyal to voters'
“We want Republican leaders who are loyal to the voters who will work proudly for the vision that I laid out today,” he added. Trump was particularly critical of Liz Cheney, one of the prominent Republicans in the House and daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, who voted in favor of impeaching him in the House.
Supporting the move that Cheney’s state Wyoming has taken to censure her following her amti-Trump gesturing: Trump said: “The good news is in her state she’s been censured and in her state her poll numbers have dropped faster than any human being I’ve ever seen. So hopefully they’ll get rid of her with the next election.”
“The RINOs we’re surrounded with will destroy the Republican Party and the American worker and will destroy our country itself,” Trump said, using the term ‘Republican in Name Only’ which is used to describe the more moderate GOP lawmakers.
Trump, who will turn 75 this year, said he will be actively working to elect strong, tough and smart GOP leaders and during his keynote address, he took on the ‘cancel culture’ saying he is the future of the GOP and wouldn’t let the radical left cancel him.
“For the next four years the brave Republicans in this room will be at the heart of the effort to oppose the radical Democrats, the fake news media and their toxic cancel culture. Something new to our ears, cancel culture,” Trump added.