President Donald Trump said Wednesday that a number of individuals will soon be prosecuted for their roles in what he called a “rigged 2020 election,” as he continued to brood over the election he lost.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said “everyone now knows” the 2020 presidential election was rigged and “people are going to be prosecuted very quickly for what they did.”
Trump did not elaborate on who would be indicted or charged with what crimes, and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed that former President Joe Biden did not actually win the 2020 presidential election.
Despite Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud, federal judges and election officials have dismissed the claims. In 2022, Attorney General William Barr, appointed by Trump, also stated that there was no evidence of large-scale voter fraud.
Trump has spent much of his return to office renewing his battle with Biden’s defeat. Late last year, the Justice Department sued Fulton County, Georgia (home to Atlanta), seeking ballots and other election materials from 2020. The Justice Department has also sued dozens of mostly Democratic-controlled states seeking access to their voter rolls.
Trump has also repeatedly sought federal control of elections and found executive orders seeking to impose changes directly on states have been largely stymied.
The president on Wednesday also partly blamed the war in Ukraine on the 2020 election results.
“We are thousands of miles apart and separated by vast oceans,” he said. “This is a war that should never have broken out, and it wouldn’t have broken out if the 2020 U.S. presidential election had not been rigged.”
