It’s been nearly 22 months since Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. But the former president’s insistence that he won has reached a new and perplexing peak.
After making a familiar yet bogus claim about how he would have “easily won” if not for “massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before in our Country,” the former and twice-impeached president proposed a “REMEDY” in a Truth Social post on Monday morning.
Trump pushed the idea again 14 hours later.
“Declare the rightful winner, or hold a new Election, NOW! Our Country, which is failing badly, knows the ‘score,’ and will never accept Criminal Election Interference,” he wrote in a follow-up post at 1:46 a.m. ET.
In making his demand to be reinstated as president or to hold a do-over election, Trump pointed to Hunter Biden’s laptop and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s comments about a warning to his company about Russian propaganda ahead of the 2020 election.
Though there was no mention of Hunter Biden or his laptop, Zuckerberg said Facebook made a decision to limit the appearance of stories about it in its newsfeed to allow time for fact-checking, HuffPost reports.
Still, that was enough for Trump, who apparently hit caps lock and wrote that the “FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION” in his Truth Social post on Monday.
National Review‘s Charles C. W. Cooke wrote a piece in 2021 about Trump’s belief then about getting reinstated to the presidency and called the idea “otherworldly and obscene.”
Lawrence Tribe, a Constitution expert and Harvard Law professor, considered whether there may be other motivations behind the call for a do-over as Trump faces intensifying investigations on several fronts. “If he’s setting up an insanity defense,” Tribe tweeted Monday, “here’s some free legal advice: It won’t work.”
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