“So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION?” Trump wrote in a post published Saturday on his social network, Truth Social.
Trump continued: “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”
Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally.Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg via Getty
The emails themselves showed that Twitter employees initially suppressed the story due to worries that the information in thePostcame via a Russian hacking operation. The independent journalist whom Twitter selected to publish the emails — Matt Taibbi — wrote in his Twitter thread, “there is no evidence — that I’ve seen — of any government involvement in the laptop story.”
Hunter, the 52-year-old son of PresidentJoe Biden, has never run for public office nor had any involvement with his father’s presidential campaign.
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The White House swiftly condemned Trump’s words, saying an attack on the Constitution “isanathema to the soul of our nationand should be universally condemned.”
As theNew York Timesreports, McCarthy’s silence comes just weeks after he publicly declared that Republicans would “read every single word of the Constitution aloud from the floor of the House” once the party takes control of the chamber in January.
Others in the GOP have said they disagree with the president on “terminating” the Constitution, but have stopped short of saying it would impact their decision to support Trump in 2024, when he isagain running for president.
The controversy is the latest in a long string of instances in which Trump has seen only subtle pushback from members of his party.
Several Republicans publicly criticized Trump for arecent private dinnerhe had withKanye Westand white supremacist Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, but did not say it would dissuade them from voting for him again.
source: people.com
