Fraud accusations continue to lack evidence

President Donald Trump must have been thinking of voters like letter-writer Anna Mae Maly when he said, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone, and I wouldn’t lose voters.”

Only a cult-like devotion to Trump could allow someone to believe, as she does, that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

Trump has a sordid history of lying about elections. When he lost the 2016 Iowa caucuses to Ted Cruz, Trump said it was stolen.

When he lost the popular vote in 2016 by nearly 3 million votes, he claimed he won because millions of undocumented Americans voted for Hillary Clinton. No fraud was discovered.

After Trump lost this year’s election by more than 7 million votes, he launched a litigation barrage of more than 60 lawsuits across the country. The result: a complete failure to prove any fraud. Many of those cases were heard by Republican-appointed judges who eviscerated Trump’s completely unsupported arguments to overturn an election and disenfranchise millions of people.

Maly cites Peter Navarro’s report as evidence the Democrats stole the election. I consider Navarro to be a Trump sycophant with no election expertise.

Instead of offering evidence of voter fraud, Navarro suggests that it exists because Trump was ahead earlier on election night.

As more ballots were counted, Trump fell behind. That’s known as counting ballots, not voter fraud.

Meanwhile, nearly one of every 1,000 Americans has died of COVID-19.

Trump continues to ignore the pandemic and rage about his loss. Meanwhile, citizens like Maly still think Trump “made America great again,” when his lack of focus on COVID-19 caused needless death and suffering.

— Ruth Dell, Tiburon