Mitt Romney: Trump’s Tales Of Election Fraud Are Like ‘WWF… It’s Entertaining, But It’s Not Real’

In an appearance Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, Sen. Mitt Romney compared the continuing spread of false stories of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election to the WWF—the World Wrestling Federation—saying “it’s entertaining, but it’s not real. The election is over. It was fair.”

As CNN’s Jake Tapper noted, former President Donald Trump—who appeared at a large rally in Ohio Saturday—“kept pushing last night again the big lie that the 2020 election was rigged.”

“The biggest tragedy of all is millions of Americans have lost confidence in their vote,” Trump told the crowd in Wellington, about 45 minutes from Cleveland. “We can’t let that happen.” Trump said “you have to know what happened in 2020 before you can vote in 2024,” suggesting that the results of an audit of the Arizona election results would prove his case—though the Arizona effort was described by CNN’s Tapper as “a ridiculous partisan audit.”

The Trump rally was not carried by the major cable news networks, but did air on C-SPAN and the far-right networks Newsmax and One America News.

Some of those who served in the former president’s administration have distanced themselves from his election fraud complaints, most recently former Attorney General Bill Barr, who—in a story published in The Atlantic—said he examined allegations of voter fraud and “we realized from the beginning it was just bullsh*t.”

Of the efforts to litigate his election loss, Barr described Trump’s legal effort as “a clown show.”

Elsewhere, former Vice President Al Gore—in an interview Saturday with CNN—urged Donald Trump to “please do the right thing. Acknowledge reality.” Gore added “stop hurting this country. Stop undermining democracy.”

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