Trump in first interview since vote pushes voter fraud claims

US President Donald Trump is continuing to insist that votes cast for Joe Biden were fraudulent, and is accusing the courts of refusing to hear his case, in a first interview since his failed reelection bid over three weeks ago.

“We’re not allowed to put in our proof. They say you don’t have standing,” Trump tells Fox News. “I would like to file one nice big beautiful lawsuit, talking about this and many other things, with tremendous proof. We have affidavits, we have hundreds and hundreds of affidavits.”

Trump claims that, as president, he should have standing in all cases regarding allegations of voter fraud.

“We’re trying to put the evidence in, and the judges won’t allow us to do it,” he says. “We have so much evidence.”

Trump’s legal team has made wide-ranging claims of voter fraud effecting hundreds of thousands or millions of votes, but has offered no evidence and has only filed lawsuits dealing with matters unlikely to overturn enough votes to significantly change the outcome of the election.

The interview comes a day after Trump said that Fox News was “virtually unwatchable,” and urged followers to change the dial to outlets that have given him and his allegations full-throated backing.

He also claimed that Joe Biden needed to prove all of his votes were legal before he could become president. There is no such onus in US law.