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In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has sought to defend his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election by turning to fringe theories about the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
In a recent statement, the former president said that an “overwhelming amount of evidence” showed that the deadly attack on the Capitol was “a pre-planned and coordinated attack” and that it was “incited by an entirely different group” than his own supporters. Trump has repeatedly used this line of reasoning to imply that his supporters were not responsible for the insurrection, even though multiple law enforcement agencies and news reports have found that his own rhetoric played a significant role in motivating the deadly attack.
The former president has also suggested that a large number of Democratic voters may have been fraudulently cast in key states’ vote counts, pointing to the January 6 incident as an example of the “fraud” that was allowed to occur. Trump also used the events of January 6 to falsely accuse Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker Nancy Pelosi of treason for refusing to pursue any “investigation into the massive election fraud.”
These claims are being vigorously refuted by Democrats, as well as a number of Republicans, who argue that the attack on the Capitol was an unprecedented and illegal assault designed to overturn the results of a free and fair election. It is clear that Trump is using the insurrection to distract from the lack of evidence for his claims of fraud in the 2020 election.