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MaddowBlog-Trump says 'people will soon be prosecuted' as part of his 2020 election crusade
More than five years later, the president’s obsession with his failed re-election bid appears, somehow, to be intensifying.
Trump says ‘people will soon be prosecuted’ as part of his 2020 election crusade
— Mike Walker (@newnarrative.bsky.social) 2026-01-22T17:43:00.923Z
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-says-people-will-soon-be-prosecuted-as-part-of-his-2020-election-crusade
During a harangue on border policies, the president abruptly switched direction. “It was a rigged election,” he said, referring to one of his go-to conspiracy theories. “Everybody knows that now. And by the way, numbers are coming out that show it even more plainly. We caught them. We caught them.”....
A day later, during remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump repeated the same nonsense — this time with a fresh element.
.....It’s tempting to wonder why the president would have direct, personal knowledge about who “will soon be prosecuted,” but there’s no point in playing dumb about the White House’s control of the Justice Department.
That said, there’s no reason to assume that Trump was telling the truth. To the contrary, there’s every reason to believe the opposite — in part because he’s the most prolific liar in American public life, and in part because there’s still no evidence that anyone committed any crime connected to the 2020 race (apart from the president and his allies).....
In October, Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who has touted election conspiracy theories, joined the administration as a special government employee with one focus: investigating the 2020 election.
With time running out in the 2024 presidential election and early voting underway across much of the country, then-Sen. JD Vance refused to answer questions about who the rightful winner of the 2020 race was. The Ohio Republican complained at the time that political journalists were “obsessed” with the election from four years earlier.
More than a year later — and roughly five years since Trump lost his re-election bid — someone is obsessed with the 2020 race, and by all appearances that fixation is intensifying.
A day later, during remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump repeated the same nonsense — this time with a fresh element.
Trump: "It was a rigged election. Everyone knows that, they found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It's probably breaking news, but it should be. It was a rigged election."
— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-01-21T15:18:23.612Z
.....It’s tempting to wonder why the president would have direct, personal knowledge about who “will soon be prosecuted,” but there’s no point in playing dumb about the White House’s control of the Justice Department.
That said, there’s no reason to assume that Trump was telling the truth. To the contrary, there’s every reason to believe the opposite — in part because he’s the most prolific liar in American public life, and in part because there’s still no evidence that anyone committed any crime connected to the 2020 race (apart from the president and his allies).....
In October, Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who has touted election conspiracy theories, joined the administration as a special government employee with one focus: investigating the 2020 election.
With time running out in the 2024 presidential election and early voting underway across much of the country, then-Sen. JD Vance refused to answer questions about who the rightful winner of the 2020 race was. The Ohio Republican complained at the time that political journalists were “obsessed” with the election from four years earlier.
More than a year later — and roughly five years since Trump lost his re-election bid — someone is obsessed with the 2020 race, and by all appearances that fixation is intensifying.
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