America 45th president, Donald Trump, has accused some Secretary of State of manipulating the law to aid Joe Biden’s win
By Kehinde Okeowo
Barely 385 days after his defeat by Democratic party candidate, Joe Biden, former American president, Donald Trump, is still insisting he was rigged out of office in 2020.
He lost the election after his Democratic challenger polled 306 electoral college votes while he gathered 232 votes in the presidential election.
The president of the United States is determined by registered voters in all of the fifty states and Washington, D.C., casting ballots not directly for the presidential candidates, but for members of the Electoral College, who are known as electors.
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These electors in turn cast direct votes, known as electoral votes for president, and vice president. The candidate who receives an absolute majority of electoral votes, that is, at least 270 out of the total 538 votes wins the election.
In a statement cautioned “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America”, the ex-president accused the Secretary of State of some of the states he lost of manipulating the electrical laws in their states, to suit his opponent.
Some of the Secretary of State he accused are fellow Republican party members, who refused to upturn the election result despite his pleas.
His defeat at the election was quite emphatic, as Joe Biden won in the red states of Arizona and Georgia, where Democrats have not won since Bill Clinton’s victory 29 years ago.
The 75-year-old challenged heads of media houses who called his claims of winning the presidential election ‘Big lie’ to a debate.
He also wondered why the house committee looking into the January 6th riot at the capital has refused to look at his allegation of election fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
“The Fake News Media cannot stand the fact that so many people in our Country know the truth, that the 2020 Election was rigged and stolen, yet almost every article written contains the words the “Big Lie” or “unsubstantiated facts,” etc., always trying to demean the real results.
“I am willing to challenge the heads of the various papers or even far left politicians, who have perpetuated the Real Big Lie, which is voter irregularities and fraud on a massive and determinative scale. This includes members of the highly partisan Unselect Committee of Democrats who refuse to delve into what caused the January 6th protest-it was the Fake Election results! While I am willing to do it, they will never agree because they cannot argue that facts in states including wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, and others such as New Mexico, where the Democrat Secretary of State changed the voting laws without legislative approval just prior to the Election, making it virtually impossible for the Republican presidential candidate to win.
” If anyone would like a public debate on the facts, not the fiction, please let me know. It will be a ratings bonanza for television!” The statement read.