Trump calls for himself to be reinstated as president by falsely claiming fraud overrides Constitution - The Independent

Donald Trump is calling for himself to beryllium reinstated arsenic president oregon for the 2020 election to beryllium tally again.

In a Saturday greeting station connected Truth Social, the twice-impeached erstwhile president falsely claimed that alleged “massive and wide fraud and deception” by Democrats and large tech companies undermined the results.

He asked: “Do you propulsion the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and state the RIGHTFUL WINNER, oregon bash you person a NEW ELECTION?”

Further, the one-term president and erstwhile world TV big falsely claimed that the alleged fraud was of specified magnitude that each laws, including the Constitution, could beryllium formed aside.

“A Massive Fraud of this benignant and magnitude allows for the termination of each rules, regulations, and articles, adjacent those recovered successful the Constitution. Our large ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!” helium wrote.

Mr Trump’s online rant began connected Friday nighttime successful effect to a Fox News report that the FBI had met with Twitter and different societal media companies successful the run-up to the 2020 predetermination to combat the dispersed of disinformation online.

The study relates to a suit filed against the Biden medication by the attorneys wide of Louisiana and Missouri that accuses high-ranking authorities officials of moving successful conjunction with large tech companies to censoring online contented “under the guise of combating misinformation”.

As the 2020 predetermination approached and online misinformation campaigns ramped up, meetings betwixt the FBI and societal media companies accrued successful frequence and determination was a circumstantial informing from the bureau regarding a imaginable Russian “hack and dump” oregon “hack and leak” operation.

There were aggregate reports astatine the clip and Capitol Hill grounds from FBI manager Christopher Wray regarding overseas attempts to power the 2020 election. Russian actors were said to beryllium targeting the Joe Biden campaign whereas China and Iran preferred that Mr Trump not triumph reelection, intelligence reports said successful the months starring up to the election.

Late connected Friday, the erstwhile president accused the FBI, moving successful conjunction with the Justice Department, of gathering with large tech firms to “bend them into saying atrocious things astir ‘Trump’ and Republicans successful bid to RIG & STEAL the 2020 Presidential election”.

“Now further evidence, antithetic but conscionable arsenic amerciable and sinister arsenic the galore different forms of cheating used, is flowing retired of the crevices of this corrupt wound,” helium wrote, somewhat viscerally.

Over 5 posts helium railed against the instrumentality enforcement agencies and the justness system, accusing them of being “totally corrupt” and of “harassing, cajoling, and intimidating Big Tech companies”, claiming their actions were “no antithetic successful meaning than STUFFING THE BALLOT BOXES, lone acold much blase and impactful”.

In 1 station helium wrote that thing volition beryllium done astir his claims “But they’ll support investigating ‘boxes’ that were legally and openly taken from the [White House]”, referring to the trove of classified documents that were taken to his Palm Beach home, Mar-a-Lago, astatine the extremity of his presidency.

The scandal-plagued erstwhile president continues to lash retired astatine the FBI and judicial strategy arsenic a myriad of ineligible problems swirls astir him, his family, his businesses, and his actions during his last months successful office.