trump says in his labor day statement fix 2020 first in response to accusations that joe biden stole his election victory
Despite being banned from most social media platforms, former President Donald Trump was still able to get a short and simple Labor Day message across to his supporters, in his latest claim that Joe Biden stole his election victory.
Trump transmitted the three-word, all-caps statement on Saturday morning through the mailing list for his 'Save America' Political Action Committee, as first reported by Mediaite.
'September 4, 2021 – Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,' the message's introduction began.
'FIX 2020 FIRST!' Trump wrote.
While the statement didn't clarify what exactly needs to be fixed, the rhetoric seems to fall in line with Trump's accusations that current-President Joe Biden stole the 2020 presidential election from him during his bid for re-election.
Saturday's message was captured in a screenshot and tweeted by Right Side Broadcasting Network, a verified account with nearly 600,000 followers
Trump transmitted the three-word, all-caps statement on Saturday morning through the mailing list for his 'Save America' Political Action Committee
Both Trump and his supporters have claimed Biden defeated him by way of voter fraud.
'This election is about great voter fraud, fraud that has never been seen like this before,' Trump said in a 46-minute address posted on social media in December of last year.
'It’s about poll watchers who were not allowed to watch. So illegal. It’s about ballots that poured in and nobody but a few knew where they came from. ... It’s about machinery that was defective, machinery that was stopped.'
Trump's constant claims of machine tampering and voter fraud, while widely debunked per an Associated Press fact check, appear to have made a lasting impact on Republican voters regardless.
An August report by The Independent found that two out of three Republicans believe Biden stole the election.
Saturday's message was captured in a screenshot and tweeted by Right Side Broadcasting Network, a verified account with nearly 600,000 followers.
Some commenters said Saturday's statement would have worked more effectively as one of Trump's tweets, although the president's access to his account - and its 88 million followers - was permanently suspended two days after the US Capitol riot on January 6 this year.
An August report by The Independent found that two out of three Republicans believe Biden stole the election
As of Saturday afternoon, the tweet had over 8,000 likes, 2,500 retweets and nearly 400 comments just hours after being posted.
Trump's claims of voter fraud have been far from harmless, however, with ardent supporters storming the US Capitol in a violent siege on January 6 in an attempt to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election by disrupting a joint session of Congress as they counted electoral votes.
Meanwhile, a Reuters fact check from July showed that many Trump supporters falsely predicted the former president would be reinstated on August 13.
The claim stemmed from a conspiracy theory and was not factually-based, according to the outlet.