Donald Trump Is Still Holding On To This 1 Blatant Lie
In his first week back at the White House, President Donald Trump repeated his baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” against him.
During a news conference following his announcement of a $500 billion investment in infrastructure connected to AI, Trump weighed in on whether he plans to place additional sanctions on Russia if President Vladimir Putin refuses to enter into a negotiation over the future of the war in Ukraine.
“Sounds likely,” Trump said without elaborating.
While Trump had campaigned on ending the Ukraine war “within 24 hours of taking office,” he has since walked back that pledge.
Trump told reporters that the war “should have never started,” putting the blame on former President Joe Biden.
“If you had a competent president, which you didn’t, the war wouldn’t’ve happened,” he said.
“The war in Ukraine would’ve never happened if I were president. But that couldn’t happen because the election was rigged,” he added.
Over four years later, Trump has yet to accept his defeat in the 2020 race. He has continued to push baseless claims of widespread fraud in that vote despite no proof to support his assertions.
Trump was prosecuted over his efforts to undo Biden’s 2020 win in a case led by special counsel Jack Smith. Smith moved to dismiss that case, citing a Justice Department policy that prohibits investigating sitting presidents. Smith, who also winded down his other case against the president involving his alleged mishandling of classified documents, resigned from his role ahead of Trump’s inauguration.
In his final report in the Jan. 6 case, Smith said he and his team believed that they would have prevailed at trial.
“Indeed, but for Mr. Trump’s election and imminent return to the Presidency, the Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” the report states.
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Trump was also indicted over his efforts to undo the 2020 election result in Georgia, but the future of that case is in doubt after the state’s Court of Appeals removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the case. Willis has appealed the ruling.
As one of his first actions as president, Trump chose to pardon about 1,500 of his supporters who were charged over their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot and commute the sentences of several others.
