By Ginika Igboke
President Donald Trump has again suggested that new, extensive evidence will soon emerge alleging improprieties in the 2020 presidential election, saying the information is both clear and substantial.
Speaking at a White House Christmas reception on Dec. 14, Trump said he believes the 2020 election was improperly conducted and claimed documentation supporting that view would soon be released.
“The election was rigged in 2020. We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you’ll see it come out. It’s coming out in truckloads,” he said.
Trump focused particular criticism on California, questioning the security of the state’s practice of mailing ballots to all active registered voters.
“They mail out 38 million ballots, and they come in. Where do they go and where do they come from?” he asked.
He argued that his performance among Hispanic voters in 2024—especially in Florida and along southern Texas—demonstrated that he should have been able to compete strongly in California as well. His failure to carry the state, he said, pointed to flaws in the election process.
“It’s a rigged election in California, because we would win California by a lot,” Trump said. “They feel they have the advantage with Hispanic voters. They don’t, because I won the Hispanic vote.”
Trump made similar claims days earlier in a Dec. 9 interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns, again asserting that proof of election irregularities would soon be made public.
“It was a rigged election. Now everyone knows it,” Trump said. “It’s going to come out over the next couple of months—loud and clear—because we have all the information.”
The 2020 election, conducted amid COVID-19 restrictions, was followed by widespread allegations of fraud and procedural violations. The Trump campaign pursued multiple legal challenges, but none succeeded in overturning election results, with many cases dismissed on procedural grounds.
In 2023, Trump was charged following an investigation initiated during the Biden administration and later overseen by special counsel Jack Smith. The charges related to Trump’s efforts to contest the election results, including the organization of alternative slates of electors. Smith later dropped the case after Trump won the 2024 election, citing long-standing policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
Documents released in October by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), based on whistleblower disclosures, showed that prosecutors in the case had issued sealed subpoenas to more than 400 conservative organizations and individuals, including members of Congress.
Grassley also released internal FBI communications earlier this year indicating that, before the 2020 election, intelligence from an informant alleging the shipment of tens of thousands of counterfeit driver’s licenses from China was withheld from wider dissemination. The intelligence was initially reported by the FBI’s Albany field office in September 2020 but later recalled at the direction of headquarters and never reissued.
In March, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to strengthen enforcement of voter eligibility requirements, including citizenship verification. The order also instructed the Department of Justice to collect voter fraud data from states and prioritize investigations in states that decline to cooperate.
The order further directed the DOJ to take action to enforce laws barring the counting of ballots received after Election Day.
Since May, the Justice Department has requested voter registration data from states to review the accuracy of voter rolls. The department has since filed lawsuits against at least 18 states that have refused to provide the information.
Beyond allegations of fraud, Trump and his allies have pointed to other factors they argue influenced the 2020 election, including pandemic-related changes to election rules and a letter signed by more than 50 former intelligence officials that characterized reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop as potential “Russian disinformation.”
Some polling has suggested that a notable minority of voters might have reconsidered their vote had they been aware of the laptop story before the election.
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