During his rally in Selma on Saturday, former President Donald Trump made a number of false or misleading claims.
The News & Observer is fact-checking some of Trump’s claims here.
Claim: “The presidential election was rigged and stolen.”
Within minutes of taking to the podium, Trump said that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and stolen, a longstanding claim that originated in the months before the election, when Trump began warning his supporters that he believed there would be widespread fraud, and continued in the months after he lost the election to Joe Biden. The notion that the 2020 election was stolen has become a fundamental argument for Trump and his most prominent supporters, but there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
In December 2020, while attorneys for Trump’s campaign were still challenging election results in states around the country, former Attorney General William Barr said officials had not found evidence of “fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” according to Reuters.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which leads the U.S. government’s efforts to protect its cyber-security infrastructure and guard against threats, also said in a statement in the days after the 2020 election that there was no evidence that any voting system “deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” and that the 2020 election was...
A front-page article with the byline of veteran New York Times opinion writer Nicholas Kristof is the latest poisonous example of what I call the NGO “halo effect.” Headlined “The Silence That Mee...