US Election: Trump falsely claims victory even as ballots are being counted

United States President, Donald Trump falsely claimed early Wednesday that he had won the presidential election, even though millions of legitimate votes had yet to be counted and a half-dozen battleground states were still not called.

He disclosed this to his supporters in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday morning.

Trump who is currently trailing his challenger, Joe Biden, on Electoral College votes after 120 million votes, said he would be going to Supreme Court to stop all vote counting.

He said, “A very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise [people who voted for me], and we won’t stand for this. We were getting ready for a big celebration. We were winning everything, and all of a sudden, it was just called off.

“We’ll be going to the US Supreme Court; we want all voting to stop. We don’t want them to find any ballots at 4 a.m. and add them to the list.”

“This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country. It’s a very sad moment to me, a very sad moment, and we are going to win this.

“As far as I’m concerned we already have won this, so I want to thank all of our supporters, and I want to thank everybody that worked with us.”

Trump currently has 213 Electoral College votes to his name and needs only 57 more to clinch the presidency. Biden, Trump opponent has 238 Electoral College votes and needs only 42 of such votes.

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