President Donald Trump has called for a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election won by Joe Biden, claiming it was ‘FRAUD’.
‘Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD,’ he wrote on social media today.
‘The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin!’
Trump’s post comes amid an amped-up effort by him to undermine the legitimacy of Mr Biden’s presidency.
Earlier this month, Trump directed his administration to investigate Biden’s actions as president, alleging aides masked his ‘cognitive decline’ – something which Biden slammed as a ‘mere distraction’.
The post also revives a long-running grievance by Trump that the election was stolen, even though courts around the country and a Trump attorney general from his first term found no evidence of fraud that could have affected the outcome.
The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity arm pronounced the election ‘the most secure in American history’.
The Justice Department has appointed a succession of special counsels in recent years – sometimes, though not always, plucked from outside the agency – to lead investigations into politically sensitive matters.
In 2024, Trump’s personal lawyers launched an aggressive and successful challenge to the appointment of Jack Smith, the special counsel assigned to investigate his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election.
Republicans have continually tried to deem the 2020 election, which Trump lost, as fraudulent, four years after it wrapped up.
In the meantime, Trump has been sharing wildly outlandish theories about his predecessor online, amid accusations that Trump himself is suffering cognitive decline as well.
Earlier this month, Trump shared a post on his TruthSocial site claiming the former US president was executed in 2020 and replaced by a ‘clone’.
Paul Quirk, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada, previously told Newsweek in early 2024: ‘Biden’s age should be less of an issue than Trump’s more apparent cognitive decline – displayed in slurred speech and gross, repeated errors in one campaign rally after another.’
An often tongue-twisted Trump has confused Biden with Barack Obama, his former Republican opponent Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi and the presidents of Hungary and Turkey.
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