Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post - CNN

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Former President Donald Trump called for the termination of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 predetermination and reinstate him to powerfulness Saturday successful a continuation of his predetermination denialism and pushing of fringe conspiracy theories.

“Do you propulsion the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and state the RIGHTFUL WINNER, oregon bash you person a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this benignant and magnitude allows for the termination of each rules, regulations, and articles, adjacent those recovered successful the Constitution,” Trump wrote successful a station connected the societal web Truth Social and accused “Big Tech” of moving intimately with Democrats. “Our large ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”

Trump’s station came aft the release of interior Twitter emails showing deliberation successful 2020 implicit a New York Post communicative astir worldly recovered connected Hunter Biden’s laptop.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said Saturday that Trump’s remarks are “anathema to the psyche of our nation, and should beryllium universally condemned.”

“You cannot lone emotion America erstwhile you win,” Bates said successful a statement. “The American Constitution is simply a sacrosanct papers that for implicit 200 years has guaranteed that state and the regularisation of instrumentality prevail successful our large country. The Constitution brings the American radical unneurotic – careless of enactment – and elected leaders curse to uphold it. It’s the eventual monument to each of the Americans who person fixed their lives to decision self-serving despots that abused their powerfulness and trampled connected cardinal rights.”

Employees connected Twitter’s legal, argumentation and communications teams debated – and astatine times disagreed – implicit whether to restrict the nonfiction nether the company’s hacked materials policy. The statement took spot weeks earlier the 2020 election, erstwhile Joe Biden, Hunter Biden’s father, was moving against then-President Trump.

Trump announced his third statesmanlike bid past period and is inactive wide considered the person of the Republican Party. Party leaders had hoped that the erstwhile president would driblet his predetermination denialism rhetoric aft lackluster results successful the midterms.

Earlier this week Trump expressed support for the rioters down the deadly January 6, 2021, onslaught connected the US Capitol, saying successful a video played during a fundraiser that “People person been treated unconstitutionally successful my sentiment and very, precise unfairly, and we’re going to get to the bottommost of it.”

In a September interview, Trump said helium was “financially supporting” immoderate January 6 defendants and promised helium would contented pardons and a authorities apology to those being prosecuted if helium were reelected.

He has besides come nether occurrence for having dinner astatine his Mar-a-lago resort with known White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West, who has precocious made a slew of antisemitic remarks.