During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump acknowledged that litigation was a “tactic” that had proven “successful” for him and his businesses over the years. A contemporary review of Trump’s legal filings concluded that before entering the White House, the president often turned to the courts “to distance himself from failures and to place responsibility on others.”
Now, after most media outlets have called the 2020 race for former Vice President Joe Biden, the president is using the same litigation playbook that has served him well in the past.
His legal team has filed a slew of lawsuits across the country, alleging a number of dubious allegations under the guise that the president did not lose re-election—fairly, at least.