Day 1,439: Trump fails facts, logic, math in latest baseless election fraud conspiracy theory

Donald Trump has proven, for years, that he is no genius. Mensa isn’t beating down his door. The unsolved Rubik’s Cube doesn’t even get a look.

He has little attention span, speaks at a 4th grade level, displays no intellectual curiosity, and has publicly struggled with even mundane concepts for years.

Trump getting his attack dog of a lawyer to threaten lawsuits for any school that would release his grades is a pretty good indication that intelligence is a sore spot for him. So too are his ridiculous claims that he is a “very stable genius,” despite all evidence to the contrary.

So it’s not a shock to see his bumbling and baseless election fraud conspiracies getting even harder to decipher. Monday he claimed, without evidence, and seemingly quoting an unknown person or entity, that Pennsylvania had 205,000 more votes than voters. And that because of that, he should automatically win the state’s electoral votes.

(Trump is ignoring that Pennsylvania, like all 50 states and Washington D.C. have certified their election results. It’s over. He lost.)

His comments are nonsensical and easily debunked.

First, there are 2.1 million more registered voters than there were election votes.

Additionally, it’s unclear how surplus votes would even swing the results in Trump’s favor, as Trump seems to be surmising that all of the invented-in-his-head 205,000 votes were for Joe Biden. And that if the exact number of registered voters actually voted, he would win.

None of this is logical, and it’s deeply embarrassing and dangerous for a country that its president would continue to spout deranged and made-up stories as fact. But it’s perfectly on brand, a mix of stupidity and ego.

Either Trump legitimately cannot tell reality from fiction, or he simply doesn’t care what the effects of his lie are. Both are dangerous for the U.S., and it’s telling that Trump is enabled in his delusions by his Republican counterparts as he continues to lay waste to democracy.

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