Washington: US President Donald Trump said “You won’t change my mind; my mind will not change in six months”. In his first TV interview on Sunday, since his losing re-election bid Trump indicated that he will never concede to Joe Biden and abandon his conspiracy theory about mass ballot fraud.

“This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud,” he claimed, again without backing this up. “We won the election easily”. Despite Trump’s unprecedented attack on the validity of the US election system, his legal team has yet to provide any evidence that stands up in Court.

Case after case has been rejected by Judges around the country. The latest rebuff came from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which on Saturday turned down a lawsuit filed by Trump supporters seeking to contest Biden’s win in the state. “We’re trying to put the evidence in and the judges won’t allow us to do it,” Trump said. “We are trying. We have so much evidence”.

Ignoring the usual boundaries between his office and the judicial and law enforcement system, Trump complained that the Department of Justice and FBI were not helping him. They are “missing in action,” he said, also questioning the point of the Supreme Court if it doesn’t intervene.

“We should be heard by the Supreme Court. Something has to be able to get up there. Otherwise, what is the Supreme Court?” he asked. Even as the clock runs down on his single term, Trump declined whether he sees an expiry date for his unsuccessful legal campaign. “I’m not going to say a date,” he said. Asked if he saw a path to victory, he said: “I hope so”.