{"id":2010142,"date":"2023-08-23T23:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T03:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-2020-was-a-rigged-election\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T23:18:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T03:18:18","slug":"trump-2020-was-a-rigged-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-2020-was-a-rigged-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims the 2020 election was rigged."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-2020-was-a-rigged-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2010142&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>&#8220;The Election Was Rigged&#8221;: Trump&#8217;s \u200cBold Claim<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c[T]he\u200b election was \u2063rigged,\u201d said former President Donald\u2064 Trump during his interview with Tucker Carlson posted Wednesday,\u200c five minutes before the start of the first Republican primary\u200c debate \u200con Fox News. \u201cAnd with Covid, they use Covid \u200bto \u200bcheat and a lot of \u2062different things,\u201d \u200bTrump\u2062 added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed,\u200d as Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie \u200bHemingway <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/10\/biden-won-in-2020-the-same-way-soviet-basketball-won-gold-in-1972\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explains<\/a> \u2062 in her \u2063bestselling book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections\/dp\/168451259X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rigged: How the \u200dMedia, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections<\/a>,\u201d leftist groups \u2063funded by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg meddled in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-zuckerberg-broke-law-with-dropboxes\/\" title=\"Trump: Zuckerberg 'Broke Law' with Dropboxes\">local election offices<\/a> in swing states \u2063in \u200bthe name of \u201cCovid\u201d by \u2062\u201cchang[ing] hundreds of \u200delection laws and processes in \u200dthe \u200dmonths leading up to \u2062the 2020 election in order to flood elections with tens\u200b of millions of mail-in ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notably, \u2064mail-in voting is proven to be more susceptible to\u2064 voter\u2064 fraud and errors compared to in-person voting, and it\u200b is \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections\/dp\/168451259X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">known<\/a> to favor Democrats over Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 election was also \u201crigged\u201d by corporate media outlets \u2062and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-say-trump-raid-inflation-reduction-act-will-only-fuel-gop-midterm-wins\/\" title=\"Conservatives Say Trump Raid, Inflation Reduction Act Will Only Fuel GOP Midterm Wins\">corrupt federal agencies<\/a> that promoted the Russia-collusion hoax\u200b throughout Trump\u2019s presidency, and then colluded again to bury unflattering reporting about \u200dthe Biden family \u2064business. \u201cThese people\u200b are sick people,\u201d\u200c Trump said\u200d of Russia\u2062 hoaxers \u200blike \u200bformer FBI Director James Comey and FBI\u2063 Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Wednesday. \u201cThese are people that\u200b I\u2063 think they \u200chate our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without\u2064 question, the Russia-collusion hoax undermined Trump\u2019s\u200d entire presidency and sabotaged his\u200c chances\u2064 of reelection in 2020. The media \u200calso aided in \u200dspreading Hillary Clinton\u2019s delusional insistence that the 2016 election \u2064was \u200cstolen, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2020-election-investigated-discussed-mollie-hemingway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">years \u2064after\u200c she lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to IRS whistleblowers, before \u2063the 2020\u2062 election, bureaucrats at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and IRS\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/22\/irs-whistleblower-docs-show-doj-obstructed-investigation-into-his-son-to-protect-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stonewalled<\/a> and slow-walked\u200c the tax agency\u2019s \u200cinvestigation into Hunter\u2063 Biden\u2019s potential financial\u200b crimes. A thorough\u200d and timely investigation \u2014 and \u2062specifically, revelations about Joe Biden\u2019s \u2062involvement in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-attorneys-press-doj-to-prosecute-irs-whistleblowers-report\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's lawyers urge DOJ to charge IRS whistleblowers - Report\">family influence-peddling business<\/a> \u200bthat IRS agents were told not to ask questions about\u2063 \u2014 might have upended Biden\u2019s election chances.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, intelligence officials and \u2064Big Tech platforms, with the help of corporate media, \u2062spread the narrative \u200dthat\u200b a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that \u200dwas full of incriminating evidence was \u2064\u201cRussian disinformation,\u201d using this false claim to justify censoring the story ahead \u200cof the 2020\u200c election. The censorship\u200d effort was all the more atrocious considering the\u2064 FBI had already <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/22\/fbi-knew-hunter-bidens-laptop-was-authentic-a-year-before-pressuring-big-tech-to-censor-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">verified<\/a> \u200bthe authenticity of the laptop, which contained \u200cevidence implicating\u200d Joe Biden as well as his son in \u2062shady international business\u2064 dealings.<\/p>\n<p>The integrity of the 2020 election is highly relevant\u2064 to the\u2064 2024 election, given \u2062that Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-2020-was-a-rigged-election\/\" title=\"Trump claims the 2020 election was rigged.\">facing numerous indictments related<\/a> to questioning the\u200d 2020 results \u2014 and given that there\u2019s no\u2063 reason to expect the same\u2062 stunts won\u2019t be pulled \u200bagain. Essentially,\u200b Trump is being\u200b prosecuted by the Biden \u201cJustice\u201d Department for First Amendment-protected speech. \u201cI\u2062 got indicted four times,\u201d Trump \u200dtold\u2062 Carlson Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s all bullsh-t. It\u2019s horrible,\u201d he said of his political opponent using the power of the\u2064 state against him.<\/p>\n<p>To Trump\u2019s point, numerous high-profile \u2064Democrats, such as Hillary Clinton, Stacey \u2064Abrams, and Al\u2064 Gore, have all \u200dquestioned the\u2064 integrity of elections they lost and \u200cwere never \u2063punished. \u201cDemocrats don\u2019t get\u2063 indicted for things like that,\u201d Trump told Tucker.<\/p>\n<p>The rigging of\u2062 the \u20622020\u2063 election also calls into question the wisdom of devoting so much attention to the primary at all. As The Federalist\u2019s John Daniel Davidson <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/11\/desantis-problem-isnt-trump-its-that-dems-rigged-the-last-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cHow can GOP \u200dcandidates admit that 2020 was rigged against Trump voters, and then ask\u200d those voters to abandon \u2062Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This problem is highlighted in Trump\u2019s decision to recuse\u2062 himself from the Republican primary debate and instead participate in a one-on-one discussion with Carlson.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>About the \u200cAuthor<\/h3>\n<p>Evita Duffy-Alfonso is a staff\u2062 writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker.\u200b She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, and her family. Follow her on Twitter at \u200d <strong>@evitaduffy_1<\/strong> or\u2064 contact her\u200d at <strong>evita@thefederalist.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Tucker Carlson, former President Donald Trump claimed that the election was rigged. He also accused the use of Covid as a means to cheat. Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway further elaborates on these allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":2010143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}