donald trump appeared to reveal what he will do if the president Joe Biden he won it for the second time in a row in November – and it is worrying to say the least.
In an interview Wednesday with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Trump said of the upcoming presidential showdown: “If everything is honest, I will gladly accept the results. I don’t change that. If it’s not, you have to fight for the country’s rights.”
In other words, it appears he will contest any outcome where he is not the winner.
It’s the same kind of rhetoric upon which he built the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. This led to a violent coup attempt to prevent the certification of the results and charges against him for allegedly conspiring to annul the result.
In an interview with Time magazine published this week, Trump suggested there would be no political violence if he won the November election — but “if we don’t win, you know, that depends.”
Trump spent a day off at his trial in the campaign silence case in Wisconsin, where he baselessly claimed victory in that state last time.
“If you go back and look at all the things that were discovered, you will see that I won the election in Wisconsin,” Trump told the Journal Sentinel. “It also showed that I won elections in other places.”
After Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin in the 2016 election en route to the presidency, he lost the state to Joe Biden by more than 20,000 votes in 2020. It’s a defeat he refused to accept.
A bipartisan audit in 2021 determined that there were no widespread fraud in state elections after Biden’s victory resisted recounts and court rulings.
In 2022, Trump suggested that a court-ordered reduction in drop boxes for absentee ballots in Wisconsin meant that votes counted in those boxes in 2020 were somehow fake.
“That means I got the same closely contested (not really) Wisconsin presidential race because they used these corrupt, scandal-ridden Scam Boxes,” he falsely wrote in Social Truth at the time.
