In the sense it was a clumsy obvious diversion immediately identified as such, yes. In the sense the current US president accused his predecessor of attacking US democracy ITSELF by violating the Constitution to prevent his election, NO! That is not just classic Trump, but reinforcing a decades-old US conservative view that their own government and "liberal media" are out to get them.

Many Trump voters have spent most of their LIVES planning for the fateful inevitable moment they can brand their representative government a brutal conspiratorial tyrant against home "rebellion is obedience to God. The saying in law is "You can't unring a bell," and this sets a precedent as chilling as those of the Kennedy and King assassinations, Watergate, Iran-Contra and the Iraq invasion. If We the People cannot trust ANYTHING our president says, what happens on the rare occasions he DOES tell the truth about some crises?

The biggest point though is that, after a generation of propaganda destroyed all public faith in US democracys institutions, the LAST thing we need is for the White House itself out cruising to pick off stragglers. "Democracy Dies in Darkness" indeed; Trump is once again making the argument democracy has failed and demagoguery is our sole hope.