Trump's 46-Minute Rant About Election Fraud Is His 'Most Important Speech' [Watch]
KEY POINTS
- Trump gave his "most important speech" on Wednesday
- He repeated previous claims of election fraud
- Trump's campaign alleged it gathered enough evidence to overturn the election results
President Donald Trump on Wednesday posted a 46-minute prerecorded video of his “most important speech,” in which he ranted about election fraud and claimed he won in crucial battleground states.
The president’s speech echoed the false allegations he has been making on Twitter since he lost to President-elect Joe Biden. He has since launched legal battles in swing states in hopes of overturning the election outcome.
“This may be the most important speech I’ve ever made,” Trump said at the start of the video. “I want to provide an update on our ongoing efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place during the ridiculously long Nov. 3rd elections.”
In the video, the president alleged that voting machines were programmed to switch votes from Trump to Biden. He also claimed “millions” of illegal votes were cast and counted in key battleground states, The Hill reported.
“If we don’t root out the tremendous and horrible fraud that’s taken place, then we don’t have a country anymore,” Trump said.
The president, who spoke from the White House's Diplomatic Reception Room, offered no evidence to support his allegations. Yet he claimed his campaign team had acquired enough proof to overturn the election results.
Trump’s 46-minute speech came just a day after Attorney General William P. Barr rebuked the president’s claims about a widespread election fraud.
The attorney general on Tuesday said the U.S. Justice Department did not find evidence of voter fraud that could have affected the election outcome. He also dismissed the Trump campaign’s conspiracy theory that machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems were programmed to switch votes.
“There’s been one assertion that would be systemic fraud, and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results. And the D.H.S. and D.O.J. have looked into that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to substantiate that,” Barr told the Associated Press.
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” he added.
Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, pushed back on Barr’s statement and insisted that investigators had failed to conduct a thorough investigation. He also said the Justice Department had not interviewed people they claim witnessed voter fraud.
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