Trump: Constitution should be terminated due to "massive" election fraud - Axios

Former President Trump is seen astatine his Mar-a-Lago location connected Nov. 15, 2022, successful Palm Beach, Florida. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Former President Trump connected Saturday falsely cited predetermination fraud arsenic a crushed to terminate the Constitution, aft Elon Musk released information astir Twitter's relation successful limiting entree to a communicative astir Hunter Biden.

What he's saying: "So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION successful moving intimately with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, bash you propulsion the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and state the RIGHTFUL WINNER, oregon bash you person a NEW ELECTION?" Trump wrote connected Truth Social.

• "A Massive Fraud of this benignant and magnitude allows for the termination of each rules, regulations, and articles, adjacent those recovered successful the Constitution," helium continued. "Our large 'Founder' did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!"

Between the lines: The connection comes aft “Twitter Files" were released Friday by Musk. The files focused connected "free code suppression," regarding a determination by the erstwhile absorption of the societal media level to bounds entree to a New York Post communicative on Hunter Biden's laptop three weeks earlier the 2020 statesmanlike election.

• Twitter said it blocked the communicative due to the fact that of a institution argumentation connected hacked and stolen materials, Axios reports.
• Conservatives, meanwhile, argued astatine the clip that Twitter was censoring the news.

What they're saying: The White House condemned Trump's words successful a connection sent to Axios connected Saturday.

• “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," the connection from White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said.
• "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. Attacking the Constitution and each it stands for is anathema to the psyche of our nation, and should beryllium universally condemned. You cannot lone emotion America erstwhile you win," the connection said.

The large picture: In the weeks since launching his 2024 reelection bid, Trump has been making headlines much for contention than his campaign.

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Editor's note: This communicative has been updated with a connection from the White House.