Trump calls for special prosecutor to probe his 2020 loss to ‘crooked' Joe Biden: ‘LANDSLIDE!'
Donald Trump is calling for a special prosecutor to investigate his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, reviving an ongoing and baseless conspiracy theory that the results of the election were rigged and stolen from him.
More than five years after losing in that year's election, and after returning to the presidency a second time with his victory in 2024, the president has routinely pressed attempts to undermine the legitimacy of Biden's presidency.
'Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD!' Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Friday.
He claimed 'the evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING,' despite White House officials and campaign lawyers failing to produce any within the last five years.
'A Special Prosecutor must be appointed,' Trump wrote. 'This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin!'
The persistent lie that the election was stolen from the president fueled violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, sustained partisan investigations intended to reverse the outcomes in states Trump lost, inspired Republican-led legislation in nearly every state to change how elections are run, and formed the basis of his 2024 campaign of 'retribution.'
His post — in the middle of his administration's tense negotiations and foreign policy decision making over whether to intervene in a war with Iran — continues efforts within his administration to target his predecessor and revives long-standing grievances that have played a central role in his speeches and remarks for years, well into his second presidency.
Earlier this month, Trump directed his administration to investigate Biden's actions as president, alleging aides masked his predecessor's 'cognitive decline.'
Trump's false and inflated claims about election results, spanning more than a decade, have also sowed doubt among his supporters to construct the lie of 'stolen' and 'rigged' elections, animating Republican attempts to challenge results and craft legislation to do what the president and his allies failed to do in courtrooms in 2020.
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