Defeated President Trump, in a rambling interview this morning, accused his FBI and Department of Justices of conspiring to ‘rig’ the election for president-elect Joe Biden.
‘This is total fraud and how – the FBI and Department of Justice, I don’t know, maybe they’re involved – but how people are allowed to get away from this with this stuff is unbelievable,’ Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo in his first interview since losing. ‘This election was rigged.’
Trump went off on the election results in the more than 45-minute interview where most of his answers spanned several minutes and repeated claims he has already made over the past weeks on Twitter.
Trump claimed without any evidence during the interview that even ‘most Democrats’ believe ‘election fraud’ led to Biden’s win.
Biden’s victory was further solidified today as the Wisconsin recount confirmed that he had bested Trump in the key swing state by more than 20,000 votes.
Trump and his legal team also have failed in court challenge after court challenge as they have sought to overturn the results in various states.
Trump also told Bartiromo there’s ‘no way’ Biden earned more votes than Barack Obama in his two presidential elections, despite the fact the population has increased over a dozen years.
He also said the U.S. will never have another Republican president, senator or representative elected if they allow Democrats to get away with ‘stealing’ the election for Biden.
‘If Republicans allow it to happen, you’ll never have another Republican elected in the history of this country, at a Senate level or at a presidential level… or at a House level,’ Trump said, referencing the GOP accepting the election results.
‘Mail-in voting is a total disaster,’ he added, insisting this medium was the way Democrats were able to ‘rig’ the election.
Trump’s own Homeland Security department monitored the election and declared it the ‘most secure’ in American history.
Trump also insisted that he can prove the voting machines were used by Democrats to fraudulently win the election for Biden – but he did not yet offer any solid evidence.
Trump blamed the media for portraying his lawsuits and case against the election results as voice of any evidence.
‘We don’t have freedom of the press in this country. We have suppression of press,’ Trump said. You can’t have a scandal if no one reports about it.’
‘They make it like we don’t have evidence, we have evidence all over the place,’ he told Bartiromo.
All of Trump’s major lawsuits claiming voter fraud have been dismissed in battleground states Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Trump has still not conceded to Biden, who surpassed 80 million votes last week as states continue to count ballots as a record number of people voted by mail in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
One close adviser explained to the Washington Post that Trump was like ‘Mad King George’ going around the White House ‘muttering, ‘I won. I won. I won.’
The adviser added that the president’s aides are ‘happy to scratch his itch.’
‘If he thinks he won, it’s like, ‘Shh . . . we won’t tell him.,’ the source said.
Ahead of the Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections in Georgia — which will determine which party controls the chamber — Trump also renewed his criticism of Republican officials in the state, including Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, for not supporting his baseless fraud claims.
“The governor’s done nothing. He has done absolutely nothing. I’m ashamed that I endorsed him,” Trump said of Kemp.
Republicans are aiming to turn out GOP voters to lift Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) to victory in a state that Biden won this month, but those efforts could be made harder by the president’s persistent claims that voters should not trust that their votes will be counted.
Since November 3, the country has barely heard from Trump and he has only emerged from the White House a handful of times – mostly to travel across the line from Washington D.C. to Sterling, Virginia for a round of golf at his club there.
On Thursday – Thanksgiving Day – Trump took his first question from a reporter since the election, indicating for the first time directly that he would vacate office if the Electoral College ultimately votes for Biden.
He made sure to clarify that he is still not conceding that Biden did win as the president continues to launch legal battles in key swing states that went blue this year.
‘It’s going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud,’ Trump said. ‘As to whether or not we can get this apparatus moving quickly — because time isn’t on our side, everything else is on our side, facts are on our side, this was a massive fraud.’
While he has been quiet in public on the election, Trump has been very vocal on Twitter.
Almost daily he tweets that he is the true winner and alleges there was massive fraud, rigging and cheating by Democrats to ‘steal’ the election for Biden.
He also left reporters stunned last Tuesday by calling a press conference on the Stock Market reaching record-high levels and then speaking for less than a minute before leaving the White House briefing room without taking any questions.
Biden has already begun announcing members of his Cabinet as he prepares to take office on January 20.
The General Services Administration also finally ascertained the election for Biden last week, meaning he can now start receiving daily intelligence briefings and communicate with the coronavirus task force.
Trump’s tweets claiming fraud and insisting he won the election have been flagged by Twitter.