Sorry, Trump Lost
By JOHN MCCORMACK
May 25, 2023 1:49 PM
Elections are supposed to be about the future, but Donald Trump is stuck in the past. He is dead set on running for president in 2024 by campaigning on the very worst part of his record.
In his much-hyped return to the mainstream media, a CNN town hall on May 11, Trump doubled down on his claims that millions of fraudulent votes were the cause of his defeat in 2020. He said he had no regrets about his behavior before and during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, and that he does not owe Mike Pence an apology for ordering him to flout the Constitution and the federal law governing the counting of Electoral College votes. He recast his December 2022 endorsement of the “termination” of the Constitution when there is voter fraud as “cherishing” the Constitution. He said that if elected in 2024, he would pardon many of those convicted for illegally storming the Capitol, and he even left open the possibility of pardoning leaders of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys who were recently convicted of seditious conspiracy for spearheading the attack on the Capitol.
But two and a half years after the 2020 election, the voter-fraud theories on which the “stop the steal” campaign was based look weaker than ever.
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