I went by means of Trump’s, um, assertion. The strains from it you could see are under.
1. “If that they had any actual proof, they’d maintain actual hearings with equal illustration.”
2. “They use the illegally-constituted committee to placed on a smoke and mirrors present for the American folks, in a pitiful last-ditch effort to deceive the American public … once more.”
3. “They’ve refused to permit their political opponents to take part on this course of, and have excluded all exculpatory witnesses, and anybody who so simply factors out the issues of their story.”
4. “The Unselect Pseudo-Committee has coordinated with their media puppets to broadcast their witnesses on nationwide tv with none opposition, cross-examination, or rebuttal proof.”
I hate to sound like a damaged document right here, however the committee took greater than 1,000 depositions from all kinds of witnesses — together with Invoice Stepien, who managed Trump’s 2020 marketing campaign, and Invoice Barr, who served as Trump’s lawyer common. These aren’t precisely portraits of Trump haters. Plus, the committee tried to speak to folks like Bannon and Navarro.
5. “What are the members of this treasonous ‘Committee’ afraid of?”
That is coming from somebody who refused to just accept the outcomes of a free and truthful election and incited folks to protest the outcomes due to a sequence of simply debunked conspiracy theories.
6. “Democrats created the narrative of January sixth to detract from the a lot bigger and extra necessary reality that the 2020 Election was Rigged and Stolen.”
Uh, what. So, a number of folks died on account of the riots on January 6. Greater than 100 cops had been injured. Over 800 folks have been criminally charged for his or her roles within the revolt that day. That is much less necessary {that a} set of lies about supposed election fraud?
7. “They illegally inflated voter rolls, illegally allowed harvested and stuffed ballots, abused the usage of mail-in ballots, bodily eliminated Republicans from counting services, abused the aged in nursing properties, bribed election officers with donations, stopped relying on Election Evening, gave Democrats three additional days to reap ballots, and demanded that the American folks imagine it was respectable.”
8. “The reality is that People confirmed up in Washington, D.C. in large numbers (however seldom revealed by the press), on January sixth, 2021, to carry their elected officers accountable for the plain indicators of legal exercise all through the Election.”
Crowd dimension has lengthy been a Trump hobbyhorse. However there’s simply no proof that the press purposely low-balled the group on January 6. Additionally, that’s completely inappropriate. Which is that this: A mob of rioters stormed the US Capitol fueled by an election lie pushed by Trump that he had one way or the other been cheated out of victory.
9. “That is all a ridiculous and treasonous try and cowl up the truth that Democrats rigged the Election and are siphoning People’ freedoms and energy for their very own profit.”
What, precisely, is treasonous in regards to the January 6 committee? Trump — shock, shock — does not clarify.
10. “On Election Evening, America watched as my lead grew and grew over Joe Biden, as I used to be set to assert one other victory.”
Merely not true. We knew effectively prematurely of Election Day that, largely due to new guidelines in place to take care of the Covid-19 pandemic, the variety of mail-in ballots can be far increased than in previous elections. And we knew that it will take a while to correctly course of all of them. This is what Stepien, Trump’s marketing campaign supervisor, steered he say on election evening: “My suggestion was to say that ‘votes had been nonetheless being counted, it is too early to inform, too early to name the race however we’re pleased with the race we ran and we predict we’re in good place.'” Trump did not take that recommendation.
11. “The Swamp was so decided to maintain their stranglehold on energy that they delayed the outcomes of the Election in order that they might discover, manufacture, or produce extra ballots, after they knew what number of they wanted to beat me.”
12. “There is not any affordable rationalization for why it took a lot longer to depend the few remaining ballots versus the tens of millions on Election Day — aside from they wanted to visitors extra ballots, and it took 4 days to provide the ballots and do it.”
Other than merely claiming it to be so, Trump gives no proof for his declare that there have been “few remaining ballots” left to be counted after Election Day. The explanation he does not provide any proof for this declare is that none exists.
13. “Like drug mules, on this context, mules are these paid to illegally visitors ballots from nonprofits organizations and drop them into the poll drop packing containers.”
14. “The reality is, in line with Joe Biden, that the Swamp has created the ‘most in depth and inclusive voter fraud group within the historical past of American politics — and it facilities round poll trafficking.'”
15. “It is also extremely doubtless that True the Vote didn’t uncover 100% of the mules, making the numbers a lot bigger than a landslide in scope, and that there have been many extra mules on the market affecting extra of the Election than we notice. This was not a detailed Election.”
Joe Biden received greater than 81 million votes to Trump’s 74 million. So no, by current measures it wasn’t a very shut election. However I do not suppose that is what Trump means.
16. “Joe Biden, a candidate who by no means left his basement and may’t converse with out a teleprompter, outperformed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton of their two high-charged elections.”
17. “Both there’s numerous black voters in America who establish extra with Joe Biden than Barack Obama, or Democrats are stealing black votes — and everyone knows the reply to that.”
Earlier than this line, Trump cites a handful of majority-Black counties and areas the place Biden did higher in 2020 than Obama did in 2008 or 2012. That reality is proof constructive of fraud, in line with Trump. In fact, it isn’t. To begin with, the inhabitants, within the Black neighborhood and elsewhere, grew between 2008 and 2020, that means that there have been simply extra voters available for Biden than for Obama. Additionally, and I’m simply spitballing right here, is not it potential that the will to vote Trump out of workplace was a robust motivator for tons and plenty of Black voters?
18. “Mark Zuckerberg contributed $419 million {dollars} to election initiatives across the nation.”
19. “Zuckerberg ought to be criminally prosecuted. Election legal guidelines forestall people from donating greater than $5,000 per yr, but Zuckerberg gave $419 million.”
18. “Rumors circulated that the Justices devolved to shouting and argued intensely over the way to deal with the Texas v. Pennsylvania case. Finally, the Justices yielded to the identical worry mongering ways Democrats had deployed for years. They punted and threw the case out on standing.”
19. “However, the Swamp runs deep. I suppose that turning round an election was a step too far.”
Sure, I might say overturning an election was a “step too far.”
20. “People are struggling to fill their gasoline tanks, feed their infants, educate their kids, rent workers, order provides, shield our border from invasion, and a bunch of different tragedies which can be 100% brought on by Democrats who obtained energy by means of a rigged election, and the folks of our nation are each indignant and unhappy.”
This sentence is 53 phrases lengthy. Yup.
21. “No person brings this up, however as President, I suffered years of vicious lies, scandals, and innuendo regarding a pretend and contrived narrative of Russia, Russia, Russia.”
Enable me to cite from the Mueller Report: “(I)f we had confidence after an intensive investigation of the info that the President clearly didn’t commit obstruction of justice, we’d so state,” reads the Mueller report. “Based mostly on the info and the relevant authorized requirements, we’re unable to succeed in that judgment. … Accordingly, whereas this report doesn’t conclude that the president dedicated a criminal offense, it additionally doesn’t exonerate him.”
22. “That is merely an try and cease a person that’s main in each ballot, towards each Republicans and Democrats by large margins, from operating once more for the Presidency.”
So, is Trump saying he’s operating for president once more in 2024? Huge information! Yeah, this appears like place to finish.
