Congressman: 'Biden right to sound the alarm about Trump's election remarks'
Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin says US President Joe Biden was right to "sound alarm” about former President Donald Trump’s calls to reinstate the 2020 election or restore him in the office as president.
Trump repeated claims of fraud in the 2020 election in a Truth Social post last week.
He once again called for the "rightful winner" to be declared or have the election declared, "irreparably compromised and have a new Election, immediately!"
He also appeared on the conservative Wendy Bell Radio show and said that if re-elected he would "look very, very favorably about full pardons" for Jan. 6 rioters.
On Thursday, Biden condemned Trump, saying that the former president and his supporters are determined to "take this country backward.”
“Backward to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love," Biden said.
Ruskin said on Sunday that “Biden was right to sound the alarm … about these continuing attacks on our constitutional order from the outside by Donald Trump and his movement.”
“Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are, one, they don’t accept the results of elections that don’t go their way. And two, they embrace political violence,” he said.
Raskin, a member of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot, also said that Trump’s suggestion that the 2020 election be “rerun” is “totally outside of the Constitution.”
Trump claimed that he won the 2020 presidential election and that there was "massive" voter fraud.
Raskin said that more than 60 courts have so far rejected Trump’s claims of election fraud.
On January 6, 2021, his supporters occupied the US Capitol while lawmakers were in the process of reviewing the certification of state electors, which indicated Biden's victory. Some Trump supporters had hoped that this process could have resulted in some of the electors being disqualified, thus overturning the outcome of the presidential election.
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