Trump continues to claim the 2020 election was ‘rigged and stolen’ in response to Jan. 6 committee hearings

Former President Donald Trump on Monday launched a 12-page assertion claiming Democrats are utilizing the continued Jan. 6 committee hearings to distract Individuals from inflation, gasoline costs and the newborn components scarcity. 

The forty fifth president used a dozen pages to reiterate his claims that the election was rigged in opposition to him — even if lots of the precise claims he talked about have been debunked — whereas ignoring the chaos of the Jan. 6 revolt.

“Democrats created the narrative of January sixth to detract from the a lot bigger and extra vital reality that the 2020 Election was Rigged and Stolen,” Trump stated within the assertion.

He additionally stated Democrats are utilizing the Home committee hearings — which had been televised Thursday and Monday — to distract Individuals from ongoing points like inflation, gasoline costs, provide chain hold-ups, border management and the newborn components scarcity.

“America is crumbling, and Democrats don't have any options. Our nation has no hope of change for the higher below Democrat management,” Trump stated. “Individuals are determined. Fairly than fixing issues, Democrats are rehashing historical past in hopes of fixing the narrative.”

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A video exhibit displaying former President Donald Trump performs because the Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
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The previous president referred to as the investigation by the particular Home committee a “Kangaroo Court docket” and “smoke and mirrors present” and appeared to applaud the insurrectionists.

“The reality is that Individuals confirmed up in Washington, D.C. in huge numbers (however seldom revealed by the press), on January sixth, 2021, to carry their elected officers accountable for the apparent indicators of legal exercise all through the Election,” Trump wrote.

He used the vast majority of his response to element alleged cases of voter fraud and poll corruption — a lot of which have been investigated and located to be false.

Trump questioned why a number of states, the place he held a slim early lead, took further days to rely ballots and claimed it was as a result of they wanted further time to “visitors the ballots and manipulate the result of the Election” to present Biden extra votes.

The declare was debunked by former Fox Information digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt at Monday’s listening to.

The states, equivalent to Pennsylvania, used the times following Election Day to rely early votes and mail-in ballots after these solid on Election Day. Early voting and mail-in poll numbers are inclined to favor Democrats, whereas day-of votes lean Republican — an enigma which known as a “crimson mirage,” Stirewalt stated.

Trump additionally famous an alleged Democratic poll trafficking scheme that was laughed off throughout Monday’s listening to. Trump cited a movie produced by conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza backing the previous president’s statements that the election was stolen as proof.

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Rep. Lofgren, Rep. Thompson , Chairman of the Choose Committee and Vice Chairwoman Rep. Cheney pay attention throughout a listening to on the Jan. sixth investigation.
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Former Lawyer Common William Barr, who served below Trump, laughed on the point out of the movie titled “2000 Mules” at Monday’s listening to.

“My opinion then and my opinion now's that the election was not stolen by fraud,” Barr stated throughout his deposition. “And I haven’t seen something for the reason that election that modifications my thoughts on that, together with the ‘2000 Mules’ film.”

Barr and different Trump administration officers and marketing campaign aides testified Monday that they repeatedly knowledgeable the previous commander-in-chief that his claims of widespread election fraud and poll tampering had been bogus however he remained steadfast in his assertion that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

Trump closed his 12-page response by stating that the Jan. 6 investigation is simply an try and cease him from working for president in 2024.

“That is merely an try and cease a person that's main in each ballot, in opposition to each
Republicans and Democrats by extensive margins, from working once more for the Presidency,” Trump stated.

The following committee listening to will probably be held Wednesday at 10 a.m.

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