President Trump says California's elections are "extremely corrupt" after a federal judge denied lawsuits seeking to remove what he called 20,000 illegal votes.
"California is very corrupt. The elections are extremely corrupt. The judge should not have done that, but we'll appeal that, of course," Trump said in a video posted Thursday by the White House Rapid Response account.
Thousands of Illegal Votes, Millions of Bad Ballots
Trump said the legal fight is not over and warned of broader fraud in the state's vote count.
"We found 20,000, but there are hundreds of thousands of bad, balanced, bad votes in California. Millions, in my opinion, millions. It's a corrupt state and very, very corrupt election," he said.
He Says He Would Have Won With Honest Counting
The president also claimed the outcome would have been different if the counting had been fair.
"If California were honest, if they had honest vote count, I would have won it by a lot," Trump said.
The remarks came in response to a judge's decision denying lawsuits that sought to throw out the reported illegal votes.
