“This is total fraud. And how the FBI, and Department of Justice — I don’t know, maybe they’re involved — but how people are allowed to get away with this is stuff is unbelievable. This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud,” Trump said.
President Trump on Sunday gave his first interview since losing the Nov. 3 election. As he has done for almost four weeks, Trump continued to angrily deny that reality, this time adding a new claim: His own Department of Justice and the FBI are falling down on the job of investigating his allegations of fraud.
“We won the election easily,” the president falsely said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
President-elect Joe Biden comfortably won the election, but Trump has seized on mail-in voting, which increased sharply due to the coronavirus pandemic, to sow confusion. He has used Twitter and lawsuits — most of which have been tossed out of the courts — as the vehicle for that confusion. On Sunday, he took to Maria Bartiromo’s Fox News show.
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