President Donald Trump released a lengthy 46-minute speech on social media Wednesday detailing his concerns about the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Calling it “the most important speech I’ve ever made,” the president said America’s election system “is now under coordinated assault and siege.”
The “assault,” he continued, is a product of Democrat efforts to take the alleged fraud they’ve been committing in major cities for decades and export it to the whole country.
“This is not just about honoring votes of 74 million Americans who voted for me, it’s about ensuring that Americans can have faith in this election and in all future elections,” Trump said.
Trump has expressed regret about endorsing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and has lashed out at Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans who have refused to sow doubts about election results showing Democratic President-elect Joe Biden won their states by small margins. Trump carried both states in 2016.
“Why is he rushing to put a Democrat in office?” Trump demanded as Ducey discussed the swearing-in of newly elected Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly. “Especially when so many horrible things concerning voter fraud are being revealed at the hearing going on right now.”
Trump also took jabs at Democrats, saying “they had it rigged from the very beginning” and used the COVID-19 pandemic to execute their supposed plan.
He then claimed that the Dominion software in voting machines was used to change the outcome of the election, among the other discrepancies.
Trump also took aim at the media for failing to cover the allegations of fraud.
He said that he has long been victim to their attacks and in 2016 was falsely targeted, referring to the now-debunked allegations his campaign had ties to Russia.
“While it has long been understood that the Democrat political machine engages in voter fraud from Detroit to Philadelphia, to Milwaukee, Atlanta, so many other places, what changed this year was the Democrat Party’s relentless push to print and mail out tens of millions of ballots sent to unknown recipients with virtually no safeguards of any kind,” he said.
“This allowed fraud and abuse to occur on a scale never seen before. Using the pandemic as a pretext, Democrat politicians and judges drastically changed election procedures just months, and in some cases, weeks before the election on the 3rd of November.”
He added that “rarely were legislatures involved,” which is a problem because “constitutionally, they had to be involved.” Indeed though, by not involving them, the Democrats inadvertently made their efforts vulnerable to legal challenges.
In California, for instance, Gov. Gavin Newsom used executive power to implement universal mail-in ballots. The move was slammed in court last month:
Judge rules California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mail-in ballot order overstepped authority https://t.co/ZTgAtrG2Mw via @BIZPACReview
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) November 16, 2020
“Many states, such as Nevada and California, sent millions of live ballots to every person on their voter rolls whether those individuals had requested ballots or not, whether they were dead or alive, they got ballots,” the president continued.
“Other states such as Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin, instituted universal absentee balloting right in the middle of an election year, sending absentee ballot requests forms to all voters on all rolls. It didn’t matter who they were.”
The president then argued that this “expansion of mail-in voting” opened the flood gates to “massive fraud.”
Trump just posted a 46-minute video of him talking about why he thinks there was widespread election fraud (there is no evidence yet of widespread election fraud).
It is staged almost like a press conference but the press weren’t in the room. pic.twitter.com/z0NX2zSOTk
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) December 2, 2020
