From the time polls closed on Nov. 3, 2020 until he left office, Donald Trump made over 800 false claims of fraud in the presidential election. In the ensuing three and a half years, he has remained fixated on “The Steal.” In his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention, Trump declared, “And then we had that horrible, horrible result that will never happen again. The election result. We’re never going to let that happen. They used COVID to cheat.”
Trump has asserted that 82 percent of Americans think the 2020 election was rigged. The actual percentage, which is closer to 30 percent, should be more than sufficient to convince Americans that Trump’s lies are undermining faith in free and fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power, two fundamental pillars of our democracy. And that his lies must be refuted every time he repeats them.
There should be no doubt that Joe Biden was elected president in 2020. After pointing out that every state except Louisiana had paper ballots to facilitate hand recounts of electronic voting machine results, Chris Krebs, the Trump-appointed director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security, declared the contest “the most secure in U.S. history.”
Attorney General William Barr told Trump the Justice Department had found no evidence of a rigged election. True to form, Trump practiced “kill the messenger” politics: he fired Krebs, accepted Barr’s resignation, and blasted Vice President Mike Pence for maintaining, correctly, that he...
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