Donald Trump on Friday revealed he’s nonetheless dwelling 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 person who misplaced the 2020 Presidential Election by a ‘LANDSLIDE!'” Trump wrote in one in every of his quintessentially batshit loopy Reality Social posts. “Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a complete FRAUD! The proof is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Particular Prosecutor should be appointed. This can’t be allowed to occur once more in america of America! Let the work start! What this Crooked man, and his CORRUPT CRONIES, have completed to our Nation 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 finally unsuccessful rebel to attempt to stay in energy, can’t settle for that.
Practically 5 years later, he’s again in workplace and attempting to make use of the facility 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 Normal 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 had 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 signify him earlier than the Nationwide Archives and Information 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 had been arriving largely from China and Hong Kong across the time the FBI obtained the tip concerning the election plot. In response to a 2020 information launch from CBP, a lot of the seized licenses “had been for college-age college 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 “proof” 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 deliver prices somewhat than give a report back to Congress.
“DOJ doesn’t flip over proof to Congress if they’ve a viable investigation within the works,” former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance wrote in a put up on Bluesky.
Trump then parroted the conspiracy idea on Wednesday, however botched the story of what he claims occurred.
“Not solely did they cheat, I assume you noticed yesterday it got here out with China and the license plates—tens of 1000’s of playing cards. They use these playing cards to vote within the second election—my second—the one in 2020. As a result of as everyone right here is aware of, I received that election by loads,” 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 really 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 so as to hearth 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 aim of weaponizing the Justice Division in opposition to his enemies, a rigorously chosen particular prosecutor would possibly simply assist Trump get what he desires this time.
Lord assist us.
