Posted on 04/10/2023 4:21:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — Legally, the most important words former President Donald Trump said after he was charged with 34 felonies by the Manhattan District Attorney last week were “not guilty.” But, politically, the most significant may be “election interference.”
Trump’s repetition of those words, which have been taken up by other top Republicans, show how he is trying to turn his historic position as the first former president charged with crimes to his advantage. It’s another example of what’s been a consistent refrain throughout his political career — claiming without evidence that an election is being rigged against him.
After his initial court appearance in the New York case, the first of several in which he is in legal jeopardy, Trump ticked through the varied investigations he was facing and branded them as “massive” attempts to interfere with the 2024 election.
“Our justice system has become lawless,” Trump said as he appeared before supporters as his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago. “They’re using it now, in addition to everything else, to win elections.”
In 2020, Trump began arguing the election would be fraudulent months before voting started. He attacked efforts to loosen restrictions on mail voting during the coronavirus pandemic, and expanded those allegations after losing the election to claim he’d actually won it. Those lies led to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the 2020 election was tainted. The former president’s allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by courts, including by judges Trump appointed.
Trump is behaving like a politician in the legal crosshairs, said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist.
“He’s certainly not the first politician to be prosecuted to play the political victim card,” Levitsky said.
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The lie that Biden won?
That is much easier to believe than “Joe Biden received 81,000,000 votes”.
We are seeing daily reminders that the 2020 Election Theft really happened. At least those of us who are actually paying attention are seeing them.
Baaaaaseless! Misinformation!
Repeat loudly and incessantly
Eventually you to get the rubes to buy in
crAP strikes again ...
Notice it always takes two or more lefty writers to do hit pieces on their political opponents!
That Biden’s team stole the election-—who cares?
If America is ripe for stolen elections,
then what good is so-called democracy, anyway.
In an era when governments are literally stealing our
freedoms from us, you gotta
get what you can, while you can.
God is going to expose all the truth about the election. Just watch
The AP: Anti-American Press...
That is correct. The adage you cannot fight city hall is in operation. Look at whom controls the big cities teeming with the you owe mes and you get the picture.
In late 2020 my wife and I were ona road trip through southern Georgia. After an hour she said give all the trump signs I see he has this wrapped up. I pointed out to her every farm you see is about 4 votes. Now put a apartment house from
Atlanta on it and consider what we are against. A bidet sign but zillions of real and fake votes.
Wow. The Asspress bootlickers really have their flaming darts out on this one.
Ain’t no way.
The lie in the article is “claiming without evidence that an election was rigged”.
Oh, there’s been overwhelming evidence. It’s just the DOJ, FBI , etc won’t pursue it because the agencies have been politically weaponized.
The impossible spike in the middle of the night in WI, IL. The delayed counting of mail in ballots in PA. The fiasco in AZ. Ballot stuffing caught on tape inGA. The mules, etc etc.
There are a few here at FR who actually believe it was a straight up election and old Joe got 81 million votes; more than Obama ever totaled. That is the big lie.
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ALL PROPAGANDA !!!
States that violated their own election laws...
Adjudication rates that were through the roof...
Here in my little neck of the Upstate NY woods we’ve seen something interesting...
We had voted at the same place for decades.
Until after Trump was elected.
Then the venue was switched.
The new place to vote was much smaller, had a postage stamp sized parking lot, was not easily accessible for the elderly and disabled, no place to wait to vote if the weather was inclement.
The last time, the midterms, there were no election observers present when we voted. Half the equipment was down. And that’s not all if it.
I wonder if something similar is going on elsewhere.
If so, bet it’s to drive people to use mail-in.
The criminal charges are a lie. The democrats are using lawfare to fight CWII at this time. If lawfare stops working, trust me when I say the democrats will revert back to using force (like they have done before) with their paramilitary armies of antifa, blm, and their army of men pretending to be women.
The AP is certainly right about this. They are already recycling their own lies about the 2020 election.
The psychologists call this ‘projection’. It’s the only thing the Left knows how to do. Original thinking is non-existent in the Left.
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