By Hope Yen and David Klepper | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday clung to his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen as the nation marked the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
Reacting to President Joe Biden, who blamed him for the deadly event, Trump issued a statement repeating his assertions that the voting was rigged. Those claims have been thoroughly debunked.
In a speech marking the anniversary, Biden said Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election fueled the riot. Biden said the election was the most scrutinized in U.S. history, and that the riot was an un-American attempt to derail democracy incited by a politician who couldn’t accept the people’s will.
A look at the claims:
TRUMP, on the Biden administration: “”That’s what you get when you have a rigged Election.”
TRUMP: “In actuality, the Big Lie was the Election itself.”
THE FACTS: To be clear, no widespread corruption was found and no election was stolen from Trump.
Biden earned 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, the same margin that Trump had when he beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, which he repeatedly described as a “landslide.” (Trump ended up with 304 electoral votes because two electors defected.) Biden achieved victory by prevailing in key battleground states.
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