4 highlights from Trump's post-indictment speech
Trump doubles down on his claims of a stolen election
As more than two years have passed since Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to President Joe Biden, the former president doubled down on his claims that widespread voter fraud cost him a second term.
He condemned the "unconstitutional changes to election laws by not getting approvals from state legislators" and claimed that "millions of votes" were "illegally stuffed into ballot boxes and all caught on government cameras."
Trump's claims that the election was stolen do not match the opinion of his administration's own attorney general, William Barr, who testified to Congress that he "did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff" and that the president's "view" was "unsupported by specific evidence."
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Trump also maintained that the FBI and the DOJ worked with Twitter and Facebook "not to say anything bad about the Hunter Biden laptop from Hell, which exposes the Biden family as criminals."
He cited "pollsters" purportedly showing that if voters had known about the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop, it "would have made a 17-point difference in the election result, and we needed a lot less than that, like about 16.9."
"It would've been in our favor, not my favor, our favor because our country is going to Hell," he added.
After declaring that "our elections are like those of a third world country," he described his indictment ahead of the 2024 presidential election as "massive election interference at a scale never seen before in our country."
While the public did learn of the troubling contents of Hunter Biden's laptop ahead of the 2020 election, dozens of former intelligence officials dismissed it as "Russian disinformation," causing many to doubt the validity of the story.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
