As former President Trump’s legal problems mount, he is embracing the kinds of false claims about the 2020 election that got him into trouble in the first place.
Trump has been indicted twice this month over his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election, with prosecutors pointing to his repeated false statements alleging there was widespread fraud and his attempts to pressure state officials to overturn the results in his favor.
But rather than move away from the rhetoric that got him into legal trouble and led to calls for some in the party to focus on the future, Trump has doubled down, repeating his claims that the election was “rigged” and “stolen,” and vowing to share “evidence” to support his claims next week.
Mark Weaver, an Ohio-based Republican strategist, suggested Trump is continuing to bring up his 2020 election fraud claims as both a political and legal tactic. On the campaign front, he’s firing up his supporters with his pitch that the cases he faces are a “witch hunt” — and on the legal front, he may be trying to back up his defense against charges related to his attempts to subvert the 2020 election results.
“They have to show that he knew in his heart that he had lost, but he continued to try to fraudulently convince people otherwise. Here he is in 2023 continuing to say, ‘Hey, I didn’t lose the right way. That wasn’t fair.’ So in some ways, it supports his defense in the D.C. case,” Weaver said.
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