President Donald Trump called on the Department of Justice to investigate the 2020 election with “gusto,” reviving claims that it was “rigged and stolen.”
Trump made the plea in a Truth Social post, in which he downplayed the recent sports betting scandal involving an NBA player and head coach, calling the 2020 presidential election a “far bigger SCANDAL.”
“What’s worse, the NBA Players cheating at cards, and probably much else, or the Democrats cheating on Elections. The 2020 Presidential Election, being Rigged and Stolen, is a far bigger SCANDAL. Look what happened to our Country when a Crooked Moron became our ‘President!’ We now know everything. I hope the DOJ pursues this with as much ‘gusto’ as befitting the biggest SCANDAL in American history!” Trump said.
The president also warned that such alleged fraud would only continue into the 2026 midterm elections, urging Republicans to “GET SMART … BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!”
Trump’s Sunday statement is one of the most public calls he has made to date for the DOJ to investigate the 2020 election, a race he lost to Joe Biden by over 7 million votes.
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Trump previously called for a special prosecutor investigation into the election, also suggesting there was evidence that it was stolen.
“Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! 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!” he said in June.