{"id":51851,"date":"2022-01-20T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T20:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51851"},"modified":"2022-01-20T12:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T20:22:40","slug":"desperate-or-delusional-trump-lies-that-biden-admitted-there-was-election-fraud-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51851","title":{"rendered":"Desperate or Delusional? Trump Lies that Biden Admitted There Was Election Fraud in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fact that Donald Trump is a textbook example of a pathological liar isn’t going to make any headlines. His innate, self-serving aversion to the truth has been well documented<\/a><\/strong>. And despite the frequency of his deliberate diversions from reality, he persists in prevaricating with an utter lack of the shame that even a marginally decent person would muster.<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/p>\n

On Thursday morning Trump provided yet another example of his unabashed bullshittery. In a message<\/a><\/strong> posted by his Twitter ban defying spokes-shill<\/a><\/strong>, Trump reveled in what he thought (or pretended to think) was a concession by President Biden to his “Big Lie”<\/em> that the 2020 election was “rigged”<\/em> and “stolen”<\/em> from him:<\/p>\n

“President Biden admitted yesterday, in his own very different way, that the 2020 election may very well have been a fraud, which I know it was. I’m sure his representatives, who work so hard to make it look legit, are not happy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, Biden never “admitted”<\/em> anything of the sort. In his psychotic state, Trump is either making this up or imagining it. Or perhaps a little of both. What Trump is deceitfully referring to are remarks Biden made in his press conference the day before. What Biden actually said<\/a><\/strong> was…<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m confident that we can take the case to the American people that the people they should be voting for – who are going to oversee whether your elections, in fact, are legit or not – should not be those who are being put up by the Republicans to determine that they\u2019re going to be able to change the outcome of the election.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And later in an exchange with Allison Harris of News Nation…<\/p>\n

Harris:<\/strong> Speaking of voting rights legislation, if this isn\u2019t passed, do you still believe the upcoming election will be fairly conducted and its results will be legitimate?
\nBiden:<\/strong> Well, it all depends on whether or not we\u2019re able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election. [,..] Remember how we thought not that many people were going to show up to vote in the middle of a pandemic? We had the highest voter turnout in the history of the United States of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In both statements Biden was clearly referring to upcoming elections in 2022 and 2024. He was not – as Trump said – talking about the 2020 election at all, which has been hailed by Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security<\/a><\/strong> as the “most secure in American history.”<\/em> All fifty states certified the election results, including those led by Republicans. And Trump lost some sixty court cases that alleged election fraud because he couldn’t produce a shred of evidence.<\/p>\n

Biden has good cause to be concerned about future elections considering the efforts by Republicans to pass state legislation that suppresses the votes of likely Democratic constituencies. And the GOP candidates for posts that oversee elections in many states are pro-authoritarian extremists campaigning on promises to take elections out of the hands of voters, and place them into partisan legislatures.<\/p>\n

These are things that worry Biden (and many Americans), and is what he was talking about in his press conference. But he was not in any way agreeing with Trump’s flagrant falsehoods about election fraud in 2020. To the contrary, Biden was encouraged by the record voter turnout in 2020, despite significant obstacles. His press secretary, Jen Psaki, affirmed that on Twitter<\/a><\/strong>, and in an interview Thursday morning on – of all places – Fox News:<\/p>\n

“The point he was raising was both that in 2020, even amongst challenging circumstances, efforts to suppress the vote, and in the midst of a pandemic, there was record turnout – Democrats and Republicans – record turnout to go to the polls. And the point he was making was that the former president asked a number of states – seven or more in fact – to overturn the outcome of the election.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.@PressSec<\/a> told Fox News that President Biden "absolutely is not predicting that the 2022 elections would be illegitimate." <\/p>\n

In a Wednesday press conference, @POTUS<\/a> said "it depends" when asked if the midterm elections will be free and fair if his voting rights agenda stalls. pic.twitter.com\/enwD3xKSOQ<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n