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Friday, May 8, 2026

Trump calls for scrapping US Constitution, peddling false election fraud claims - The Times of Israel

Former US president Donald Trump called for the termination of the Constitution in a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, citing false claims that the 2020 presidential election results were fraudulent.

Trump’s post appeared to be a response to “The Twitter Files,” released by journalist Matt Taibi in a series of tweets, which publicized email correspondence among Twitter staff deliberating whether to suppress a 2020 New York Post story on information regarding overseas business dealings and controversial material found on a laptop belonging to US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

“So, with the revelation of massive and widespread fraud and deception in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, and the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner, or do you have a new election?” the former president wrote.

“A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” he added. “Our great ‘Founder’ did not want, and would not condone, false and fraudulent elections!”

The article in the New York Post, published three weeks before the 2020 election, reported on emails that the newspaper said had come from Hunter Biden’s laptop and that it said it received from Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer.

Twitter supposedly blocked the story from the platform at the time due to its policy on hacked and stolen...



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