Many of his remarks were so completely unbound to reality – so ridiculously absurd and so thoroughly unmasked – that at this stage we are not worth spending time on the details.
However, to give you a taste of the inaccuracy, here’s a fact check of seven of the things Trump said.
Trump said, “Over the past few weeks, we have shown that we have won the election by a landslide.” He also said: “And we did not win a little. We won in numbers like no one had seen before.”
Missing votes?
Trump said, “Hundreds of thousands of votes are missing.”
Facts first: This is again not true at all. Two months after Election Day, Trump and his allies did not provide good evidence that there were a significant number of “missing” votes.
Pennsylvania
Trump said, “In Pennsylvania, 205,000 more votes were cast than there were voters. How do you get around that one – which remains completely inexplicable. You have big senators and representatives there and no one can explain it.”
Ballot papers and a river
Trump said, ‘I hated it, Kelly, when our voices entered the military, with Trump everywhere, and they were thrown into a river. You saw it: they threw the voices of the army into a river, with my name … ”
Facts first: Nope. There is no indication that ballots were thrown into any river.
Georgia and the voting age
Trump said: “Sixty-six thousand votes in Georgia were cast by people under the legal voting age.”
Facts first: Gelection officials in eorgia say the actual number is zero.
Election History
Trump said, “We beat Florida and Ohio in record numbers. We beat Iowa by 8.2%. No one has ever won and lost those three states. Never happened. It’s almost impossible.”
The score
Trump said, “Seven states – you know, I won a lot, and then I suddenly lost a little bit, just a little bit. They can only go so far. They had no idea we were going to do that kind of numbers. “So that the printing press was really moving.”
He noted that it was initially led by “700,000 votes in Pennsylvania.” He continued: ‘It was over. I should have run to the podium and said, ‘Thank you so much for this amazing victory. ‘Then they might not have had time to lock those boxes, right, the counters and do what they did. But then everything started to disappear. ‘
Facts first: There is no basis for the proposal that Trump opponents printed fake ballots to add the votes or otherwise committed a massive fraud during the counting process. There’s a simple explanation for Trump’s big early clues in some states he eventually lost, including Pennsylvania: he led because many ballots have not been counted yet.