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Donald Trump, former president and 2024 presidential candidate

“Regarding Trump’s January 2021 telephone call with Georgia election officials, “nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call until a book promotion tour many months later.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

PolitiFact says: Multiple politicians promptly criticized Trump’s phone call and the Fulton County District Attorney launched an investigation weeks later.

Donald Trump, former President

“The 2020 election could not have been fair because “Los Angeles County agreed, during litigation, that there were 1.2 million ineligible voters after the election.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Having inactive voters on the voter rolls is common nationwide and does not signal that an election was not fair. Election officials must take steps to remove inactive voters as outlined in federal law.

Donald Trump, former president

“The revelation of massive & widespread fraud & deception” in the 2020 election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

PolitiFact says: Trump’s own advisers, federal and state officials, and judges nationwide found no widespread fraud in the 2020 election. There is no mechanism for the “termination” of constitutional rules because of undesired election r

Donald Trump, Former President of the United States

“In 2018, "when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County ... I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys. ... I stopped his [Ron DeSantis'] Election from being stolen.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: A spokesman for the county elections office said there was no "federal law enforcement presence" and "no evidence of corruption" in that election.

Donald Trump, Former president of the United States

“From a statement alleging "cheating" in the 2020 election: "Jocelyn Benson, the Michigan Secretary of State ... insisted that the Antrim County Clerk simply made a mistake, and this was not a cause to look closer at every county in Michigan.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Hand Recount Verified Results

FactCheck.org says: An audit, including a hand recount, conducted in December 2020 had confirmed Antrim County's election results.