'missing in action' against 'total fraud'

President Trump on Sunday, November 29, 2020, gave his first interview since losing the Nov. 3 election. As he has done for almost four weeks, Trump continued to angrily deny that reality, this time adding a new claim: His own Department of Justice and the FBI are falling down on the job of investigating his allegations of fraud.  “We won the election easily,” the president falsely said on Fox News's “Sunday Morning Futures.”  President-elect Joe Biden comfortably won the election, but Trump has seized on mail-in voting, which increased sharply due to the coronavirus pandemic, to sow confusion. He has used Twitter and lawsuits — most of which have been tossed out of the courts — as the vehicle for that confusion. On Sunday, he took to Maria Bartiromo's Fox News show.  “This is total fraud. And how the FBI, and Department of Justice — I don't know, maybe they're involved — but how people are allowed to get away with this is stuff is unbelievable. This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud,” Trump said.  He later said, “All I can say, is: With all of the fraud that's taken place, nobody has come to me and said, ‘Oh, the FBI has nabbed the people that are doing this scheme.’”  The Department of Justice, he said, in response to a leading question by Bartiromo, is “missing in action.”  He also charged news media and social media companies with ignoring what he said was the worst political scandal in American history, and alleged, again with no evidence, that ballots were requested in the names of dead people, and that “many mailmen are in trouble for selling ballots.” He accused two leading Republicans in Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, of failing to properly administer the election. “I’m sorry I endorsed him,” Trump said of Kemp.