Donald Trump has doubled down on his unfounded claims of election fraud after a congressional panel investigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the US capitol voted to subpoena the former president and possible 2024 candidate.
In a letter to the committee’s chairperson, dated Thursday and posted to Trump’s Truth Social platform Friday, the former US president reiterated his wholesale rejection of the investigation, which was launched months after his supporters stormed the US Capitol in the hopes of overturning President Joe Biden’s election victory.
Trump did not mention the subpoena, which the panel unanimously approved following its ninth public hearing on the events surrounding the deadly riot and Trump’s role in it.
Instead, Trump repeated a litany of falsehoods related to the incident, including the unfounded claims that widespread fraud had affected the outcome of the presidential vote.
To date, there has been no evidence that malfeasance shifted the election results. Dozens of lawsuits by Trump’s campaign and its supporters were dismissed or dropped because they were found to have no merit.
“This memo is being written to express our anger, disappointment, and complaint … you have not spent even a short moment on examining the massive Election Fraud that took place during the 2020 Presidential Election,” read the letter, which was signed by Trump, “and have targeted only those who were, as concerned American Citizens, protesting the Fraud itself.”
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