Trump Refuses to Commit to Accepting Election Outcome in Milwaukee Interview - The New York Times
By: Michael Gold and Chris Cameron (nytimes)
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Michael Gold reported from Waukesha, Wis. Chris Cameron reported from Washington.
Former President Donald J. Trump told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday that he would not commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election, as he again repeated his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
"If everything's honest, I'll gladly accept the results. I don't change on that," Mr. Trump said, according to The Journal Sentinel. "If it's not, you have to fight for the right of the country."
In an interview with Time magazine published on Tuesday, he also dismissed questions about political violence in November by suggesting that his victory was inevitable.
When pressed about what might happen should he lose, he said, "if we don't win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election."
Mr. Trump's insistent and fraudulent claims that the 2020 election was unfair were at the heart of his efforts to overturn his loss to President Biden, and to the violent storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by a mob of supporters who believed his claims. Mr. Trump now faces dozens of felony charges in connection with those events.
Mr. Trump's vow to "fight for the right of the country" also echoes his speech on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, where he told his supporters that "if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," before urging his supporters to march to the Capitol.
As he campaigns in battleground states this year, Mr. Trump has repeatedly tried to sow doubt about the integrity of the fall election, while repeating many of the same lies that he used to assail the integrity of the 2020 election. Months before any voting has taken place, Mr. Trump has regularly made the baseless claim that Democrats are likely to cheat to win.
"Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020, but we're not going to allow them to rig the presidential election — the most important day of our lives — in 2024," Mr. Trump said at a rally in Freeland, Mich.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mr. Trump has for years promoted the lie that he won Wisconsin in 2020, and he did so again in the Journal Sentinel interview. Even after Jan. 6, 2021, and years after his exit from office, he has repeatedly pressured Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the top Republican in the State Legislature, to help overturn Mr. Trump's loss in the state and to impeach the state's nonpartisan chief of elections.
More than 1,250 people have been charged with crimes in connection to the Jan. 6 attack — and hundreds of people have been convicted. Mr. Trump said in a recent interview that he would "absolutely" consider pardoning every person convicted on charges related to the storming of the Capitol. A bipartisan Senate report found that at least seven people died in connection with that attack.
The former president and his allies have also installed election deniers in influential positions in his campaign and in Republican Party institutions. In March, Trump allies newly installed to the leadership of the Republican National Committee appointed Christina Bobb, a former host at the far-right One America News Network, as senior counsel for election integrity. A self-described conspiracy theorist, she has relentlessly promoted false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Ms. Bobb was indicted in Arizona last week, along with all of the fake electors who acted on Mr. Trump's behalf in that state and others, on charges related to what the authorities say were attempts by the defendants to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.
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Are the apathetic "moderates " of America ever going to wake up ?
Keep gaslighting. Meanwhile thinking Americans wonder why so many Bidenettes can’t seem to accept a desire for honest elections.
Vexing, very vexing …..
I would discuss with you all the times Trump has claimed elections were rigged against him, which includes when his tv show didnt win an Emmy, but I doubt you know anything about all that.
Prior to the 2020 election Trump had been saying for weeks and even months that the election wasnt going to be fair to him. To him, an election is ONLY fair if he wins. It is astonishing you dont understand that.
I remember when he said that all the way back to 2016 and my memory isn't all that good anymore
Because Trump's definition of an "honest" election goes no further than him winning it, any other result, in his definition, is a "dishonest" election.
you are correct TG.
I would discuss my post with you but it appears you prefer to deflect to a different narrative.
Again, why are so many liberals apparently against honest elections?
It’s vexing to say the least.
Yeah, we've seen how this game is played. The Democrat Party won't accept a Trump win. 'Apathetic' moderates know full well they're screwed, no matter who wins in November.
BTW, Trump did commit to accepting the results of an honest election. The headline is a lie. But what else can we expect from the New York Times? We all know the New York Times won't accept a Trump win.
Are you ok?
Trump is doing EXACTLY what he did in 2020, which led to the riot/insurrection at the Capitol.
The last election was far from honest or fair. A candidate who did not campaign won the election with mail-in ballots that could not be certified. Even Russia doesn't run elections that way.
all nonsense.
Thinking folks opinions do vary
OMG...anyone who continues to believe that the 2020 elections weren't fair...well...NT rules won't allow me to say what I really think
We are having a rash of dishonest gaslighting the last few days on this forum. Unfortunately they get away with it.
Oh, I know. But I ain't falling for it. Still can't say what I really want to say. Let's just say it involves lips and the backside of a member here*
*me
Agree, Biden won, move on.
Thank-you, George
[deleted] [✘] can’t [✘] Problem is, this discussion is not about 2020. It about 2024. The 2020 discussion is just a deflection. Gaslighting of gaslighting as it were.
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Total nonsense. Your candidate is the same guy who fomented a riot/insurrection after the 2020 election and is threatening to do the same thing this time, for the same illegitimate reason. Take your complaints up with Trump.
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This time the Republicans are going to use all the tricks the Lefties are famous for. Considering how badly Biden is doing in the polls, Trumps pretty sure to emerge on top, despite all the efforts against him, including the very obvious election interference being perpetuated by these bogus trials.
What we’ve learned from our friends on the left since 2020: