When special counsel Jack Smith reindicted Donald Trump last month on accusations of interfering in the 2020 election, he undoubtedly assumed the ex-president would have something absurd and incomprehensible to say about the charges, as is Trump’s wont. What Smith probably didn’t expect was for the 2024 GOP nominee to effectively admit to the crimes he’s been accused of—and claim breaking federal law is fine. But…surprise!
In an interview with Fox News that aired on Sunday night, Trump insisted that he had “every right” to interfere in the 2020 election, telling host Mark Levin: “It’s so crazy that my poll numbers go up. Who ever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it—you get indicted and your poll numbers go up?”
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It is, of course, not actually true that Trump had “every right” to interfere in the last presidential election. As Representative Ted Lieu, speaking for many, wrote on X, “Dear @realDonaldTrump: Are you seriously this stupid? You think President [Joe] Biden has the right to interfere in the upcoming election? Do you want VP [Kamala] Harris to do what you tried to get former VP Mike Pence to do? Are you really this dumb? Also, interfering in elections is illegal.” On CNN, attorney George Conway called Trump’s remarks on Fox “an admission that he tried to interfere with the election and that he wasn’t trying to enforce federal law,” adding: “And that’s a crime.”
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Obviously, reasonable people who lived through the last election and its aftermath—which included a violent riot in a last-ditch attempt to keep the then president in power—already know that Trump tried to overturn his loss to Biden. More worrisome is the fact that, with basically two months until the 2024 election, the guy who couldn’t admit he lost last time around is out here claiming it’s perfectly fine to try to overturn a result you don’t like. Which very much suggests he will have no qualms about engaging in similar behavior four years later.
Meanwhile, this isn’t even the first time Trump has made clear he will very likely pull a 2020 again in 2024. For more than a year now, he’s been laying the groundwork to not accept the election results a second time by:
Selecting a running mate who maintains the false claim that the 2020 election was “stolen” and won’t commit to accepting the results this NovemberPicking his daughter-in-law to be installed at the RNC, with Lara Trump already sowing doubt about the results of the upcoming contest and talking about prosecuting “cheat[ers]”Refusing himself to commit to accepting the outcome of the election, regardless of what happensConvincing his supporters that he alone decides what is real and fake
In other words, don’t be surprised if he pulls the same shit 60-something days from now.
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