rump Is Lying About Another Election Being ‘Stolen’ From Him — The One Still A Year Away Trump’s last effort to undermine an election led to 140 injured police officers and five police deaths on the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by his followers.
Trump Is Lying About Another Election Being ‘Stolen’ From Him — The One Still A Year Away
Trump’s last effort to undermine an election led to 140 injured police officers and five police deaths on the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by his followers.
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WASHINGTON — Despite facing decades in prison for the fallout from his last round of lies about the 2020 election, Donald Trump is already claiming — again without any evidence — that the 2024 election will be stolen from him, too.
At one campaign event after another, the former president claims that Democrats are already scheming to steal the election from him, and that the only way to stop them is to win so overwhelmingly to make it impossible for them to get away with it.
“We have to stop them from cheating in elections, because if we don’t win this next election, 2024, I truly believe our country is doomed,” Trump said during a particularly dark campaign speech in Waco, Texas, in March.
“They rigged the 2020 election, and now they’re trying to do the same thing all over again by rigging the most important election in the history of our country, the 2024 election,” he said in a video released Aug. 30 from his country club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
And, in a new milestone, two of his well-regarded campaign advisers put out a statement under their own names repeating Trump’s baseless claim as the reason the party should essentially end the 2024 primary and declare the coup-attempting former president the winner.
“The Republican National Committee should immediately cancel the upcoming debate in Miami and end all future debates in order to refocus its manpower and money on preventing Democrats' efforts to steal the 2024 election,” wrote Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, both Republican consultants with decades. of experience working for a variety of mainstream candidates.
Former colleagues from the GOP political world said it was yet another example of Trump dragging people down to his level.
“Prolonged exposure to Trump is injurious to intelligence and fatal to principles,” said Mac Stipanovich, a longtime Republican consultant in Florida. “It is like a disease. You are exposed to it, become infected and succumb to it. The people I know whom I once thought well of who have now lost their minds are legion. It's depressing.
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Waco Regional Airport on March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas.
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Waco Regional Airport on March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas.
To those who worried that Trump's Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt has already been normalized by the Republican Party and perhaps by the public at large, the fact that long-respected political operatives are pitching Trump’s election lies is another warning sign for American democracy.
“This is the next iteration of the big election lie,” said Amanda Carpenter, who once worked for Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and is now with the Protect Democracy research group.
Added Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor and authoritarian expertism at New York University: “We have just been introduced to the talking point designed to create the circumstances for another ‘Stop the Steal’ when the time is right.”
A Long History Of Crying ‘Fraud’
Lying about elections, of course, is not at all new to Trump.
“I will remind you that he accused the Iowa caucus of being stolen,” said Oscar Brock, an RNC committee member from Tennessee, referring to the 2016 GOP primary. “If he doesn’t win, he just says it was stolen, it’s someone else’s fault.”
In that very first electoral contest of his life, the former real estate developer and television game show host lost to Cruz — and the very next morning began claiming that the election had somehow been taken from him.
“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he illegally stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong any [sic] why he got more votes than anticipated. Bad!” Trump posted to Twitter, followed shortly by a demand for a do-over. “Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified.”
Then, after he secured the Republican nomination in 2016, he told supporters at his rallies that Democrats were working to rig the election against him. “I'm afraid the election is going to be rigged,” he said at a rally in Ohio. “The only way we can lose, in my opinion…is if cheating goes on,” he said days later in Pennsylvania.
BY:THE WORLD NEWS NEWYORK POST.
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