Miami: A visibly angry Donald Trump stormed out of a major television interview after he was pressed for evidence on a series of sensational and baseless claims, including that American elections are habitually rigged “like a third world country”.
Trump threw his microphone to the ground and stepped on it as he exited a combative interview with NBC’s Meet the Press - a long-running political talk show akin to the ABC’s Insiders - during a trip to Wisconsin last week. The segment aired on Sunday.
He used the interview to repeat false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him, and to argue that the January 6 rioters were victims of “dirty cops” and wrongly imprisoned.
NBC host Kristen Welker protested that Trump and his allies had never presented any evidence for those claims which had been accepted by a court of law. Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
“Listen to me, there’s tremendous evidence,” Trump said. “The election was rigged, it was a dirty election and it’s happening again right now in California.”
Trump was referring to elections for California governor and Los Angeles mayor held on Tuesday, for which the counting is still incomplete.
Republican Steve Hilton - Trump’s preferred candidate for governor - has called for an overhaul of the state’s notoriously slow electoral system, including the grace period for mail-in ballots.
The Trump-appointed federal US attorney in Los Angeles, Bill Essayli, has also announced multiple fraud investigations...
President Donald Trump repeated his claim that primary elections in California were rigged on Sunday, as the state continued to count the votes from several key races. Echoing his false claims abou...