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Here are the plain facts, that would counteract Trump’s Big Lie ...
AP INVESTIGATION FINDS MINIMAL VOTER FRAUD IN SWING STATES
An exhaustive AP investigation in 2021 found fewer than 475 instances of confirmed voter fraud across six battleground states — nowhere near the magnitude required to sway the outcome of the presidential election.
The review of ballots and records from more than 300 local elections offices found that almost every instance of voter fraud was committed by individuals acting alone and not the result of a massive, coordinated conspiracy to rig the election. The cases involved both registered Democrats and Republicans, and the culprits were almost always caught before the fraudulent ballot was counted.
Some of the cases appeared to be intentional attempts to commit fraud, while others seemed to involve either administrative error or voter confusion [...]
The AP review also produced no evidence to support Trump’s claims that states tabulated more votes than there are registered voters.
APnews.com — August 27, 2023
Here are the dozens of lost law suits, devoid of facts — summarily laughed out of court after court ...
COURTS HEARD TRUMP’S LEGAL CHALLENGES AND REJECTED THEM
The Trump campaign and its backers pursued numerous legal challenges to the election in court and alleged a variety of voter fraud and misconduct. The cases were heard and roundly rejected by dozens of courts at both state and federal levels, including by judges whom Trump appointed. [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court also rejected several efforts in the weeks after Election Day to overturn the election results in various battleground states that Biden won.
APnews.com — August 27, 2023
And here is the plea from President Biden, made directly to the media gate-keepers themselves, imploring them to make these plain facts obvious — in this anything-goes, unhinged age of disinformation ...
Remarks by President Biden at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
www.whitehouse.gov — April 27, 2024
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The defeated former President has made no secret of his attack on our democracy. He has said he wants to be a “dictator on day one,” and so much more.
He tells supporters he is their “revenge” and “retribution.” When in God’s name have you heard another president say something like that? And he promised a “bloodbath” when he loses again. We have to take this seriously.
Eight years ago, you could have written off it as just Trump talk. But no longer. Not after January 6th.
I’m sincerely not asking of you to take sides but asking you to rise up to the seriousness of the moment; move past the horserace numbers and the gotcha moments and the distractions, the sideshows that have come to dominate and sensantio- — sensationalize our politics; and focus on what’s actually at stake. I think, in your hearts, you know what’s at stake. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
Every single one of us has roles to play — a serious role to play in making sure democracy endures — American democracy. I have my role, but, with all due respect, so do you.
In the age of disinformation, credible information that people can trust is more important than ever. And that makes you — and I mean this from the bottom of my heart — it makes you more important than ever.
So, tonight, I’d like to make a toast.
To a free press, to an informed citizenry, to an America where freedom and democracy endure. God bless America. (Applause.)
(The President offers a toast.)
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The stakes couldn’t be higher. The fate of America’s “freedom and democracy” hinges upon a majority of Americans understanding these "plain facts” — that were so clearly documented by the Associated Press last year.
Team Trump has flooded the air waves his conniving Big Lie, out of authoritarian desperation. And not a single claim of theirs — most unsubstantiated — would have changed the 2020 Election.
It is the responsibility of the Free Press to make these “plain facts” abundantly clear, to both the casual and avid consumers of the “News” alike …
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