Former President Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court for refusing to hear a series of challenges to the 2020 presidential election results, saying the high court "should be ashamed of itself."
Trump blamed mail-in voting changes, that he contends were likely illegal, for his loss to President Joe Biden, during a Tuesday interview on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo.
"The Democrats used COVID to do things they can’t believe they got away with, that they didn’t get their legislatures to approve, and our courts and the Supreme Court didn’t have the courage to overturn elections that should have been overturned," said Trump, who nominated 3 of the court's 9 justices. "Because you’re talking about decisive amounts, hundreds of thousands and even millions of votes.
"The Supreme Court didn’t rule on the facts. It ruled on standing. The Supreme Court should be ashamed of itself."
Trump also furthered his feud with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who he said erred by refusing to support Trump’s push for another round of $2,000 stimulus checks. Trump had advocated for the additional funds both before the November presidential election and before the January special election in Georgia that flipped a pair of Senate seats to Democrats and awarded the party control of the Senate.
"That was a disaster," Trump said. "Mitch McConnell made a tremendous mistake. He lost those two seats."
Trump, who has spoken out only a few times since leaving office, also credited the Washington Post for issuing a correction this week to its months-old story alleging the then-president told Georgia elections investigator Frances Watson to "find the fraud" in the state.
"I will say this, I was very happy that the Washington Post had the courage, or whatever you want to call it, for at least admitting their mistake. I hope it was a mistake," Trump said. "They were told something that didn't exist and it made me sound bad and when I heard it, I said, 'That's ridiculous. I never said that.'"
He added: "The Washington Post did a correction. A lot of pressure was put on them but they did a correction because they realized what they did was wrong."
Trump also took aim at the illegal immigrant crisis along the southern border, noting that he had a "great relationship" with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who he called "a great gentleman."
"They had 28,000 soldiers on our border while we were building the wall ... and they were also stopping them at their northern border by Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala," Trump said. "Today, they are coming in — you take a look — they are coming in from foreign countries. I see they are coming in from Yemen. They are coming in from the Middle East. They are coming in from everywhere. They are dropping them off and they are pouring into our country. It is a disgrace."
He added: "They are going to destroy our country if we don't do something about it."
Trump blamed Biden for having "eroded" the vetting process at the border that his administration used.
"Frankly, our country can't handle [the spike in immigration]," Trump said. "It is a crisis like we have rarely had, and certainly we have never had on the border. But it is going to get much worse."
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Theodore Bunker, a Newsmax writer, has more than a decade covering news, media, and politics.
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