Iran Press/ America: The brief is led by Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), who, in an email obtained by Forbes, told his colleagues US President Donald Trump personally asked him to recruit supporters for the lawsuit, which aims to invalidate electors in four states Joe Biden won: Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.
The lawsuit was brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and is supported by Republican attorney generals in 17 other states – 6 of whom are trying to directly intervene and 10 of whom met with Trump for a private lunch at the White House on Thursday, Atlantic reported.
Just a handful of Republican House members have gone on the record opposing the lawsuit, with retiring Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-Mich.) calling it a “loyalty test” and outgoing Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) telling Forbes, "I really respect some of these people but this stuff is preposterous … that list is being built on disinformation.”
Trump has falsely claimed that he won re-election, making unfounded claims about widespread voting fraud in states including Pennsylvania. Democrats and other critics have accused Trump of aiming to reduce public confidence in the integrity of US elections and undermine democracy by trying to subvert the will of the voters.
In the US presidential election, which took place on November 3 Democratic candidate Joe Biden won by 306 votes against Donald Trump with 232.
Donald Trump's team has refused to accept defeat and has filed lawsuits in several states against what they say are electoral fraud, but these lawsuits have not been accepted in several states.
Also, in a statement, the President of the United States strongly criticized the Secretary of Justice at his administration for not finding evidence of fraud in the presidential election.
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