Donald Trump on Friday revealed he’s nonetheless residing in 2020, calling for the appointment of a particular counsel to probe the election he overwhelmingly misplaced to now-former President Joe Biden.
“Zero Border crossings for the month for TRUMP, verses 60,000 for Sleepy, Crooked Joe Biden, a man who lost the 2020 Presidential Election by a ‘LANDSLIDE!'” Trump wrote in one in all his quintessentially batshit loopy Fact Social posts. “Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin! What this Crooked man, and his CORRUPT CRONIES, have done to our Country in 4 years, is grossly indescribable! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
We do not know what number of instances we are able to say unequivocally that the 2020 election was not stolen. Biden received, and received convincingly.
However Trump, who incited a violent and lethal however in the end unsuccessful rebellion to attempt to stay in energy, can not settle for that.
Practically 5 years later, he’s again in workplace and making an attempt to make use of the ability of the presidency to show one thing that didn’t occur.
And now that he is surrounded by election-denying conspiracy theorists and sure males in positions of energy—together with Legal professional Common Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel—he’s working to make use of the levers of presidency to show his lies.
Earlier this week, Patel tried to push an insane conspiracy that China interfered within the 2020 election by in some way importing pretend IDs he claims have been going for use for mail-in ballots.
From an NBC Information report:
The unsubstantiated declare promoted by Patel, which an unidentified confidential human supply gave to the FBI in 2020, throughout President Donald Trump’s first time period, asserts that the Chinese language mass-produced driver’s licenses for use in a mail-in poll scheme. Patel linked to an article written by John Solomon, whom Trump appointed alongside Patel in 2022 to characterize him earlier than the Nationwide Archives and Data Administration on issues associated to his presidential data.
The article Patel promoted talked about that U.S. Customs and Border Safety has seized pretend licenses that have been arriving principally from China and Hong Kong across the time the FBI acquired the tip concerning the election plot. In response to a 2020 information launch from CBP, a lot of the seized licenses “were for college-age students,” a inhabitants that has traditionally sought licenses with pretend birthdays so underage college students can get into bars and buy alcohol.
Patel stated he referred the “evidence” of the alleged conspiracy to GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who leads the Senate Judiciary Committee. After all, if no matter bullshit proof Patel had was actual, the DOJ would convey expenses reasonably than give a report back to Congress.
“DOJ doesn’t turn over evidence to Congress if they have a viable investigation in the works,” former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance wrote in a publish on Bluesky.
Trump then parroted the conspiracy concept on Wednesday, however botched the story of what he claims occurred.
“Not only did they cheat, I guess you saw yesterday it came out with China and the license plates—tens of thousands of cards. They use those cards to vote in the second election—my second—the one in 2020. Because as everybody here knows, I won that election by a lot,” Trump stated on the White Home garden.
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However now, Trump desires a particular prosecutor to attempt to discover nonexistent proof that he received an election he truly misplaced. It’s a tried-and-true tactic utilized by Republicans to attempt to launder conspiracy theories that they blast out on right-wing propaganda retailers like Fox Information in an effort to fireplace up the MAGA base.
For instance, Republicans utilized particular counsel John Durham to attempt to delegitimize the investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia’s 2016 election interference, culminating in a weak report that Republicans nonetheless used to falsely declare Trump was unfairly focused.
However on condition that Bondi spends her time happening Fox Information to heap reward on Trump and finishing up his purpose of weaponizing the Justice Division in opposition to his enemies, a rigorously chosen particular prosecutor may simply assist Trump get what he desires this time.
Lord assist us.
