Former US president Donald Trump, who recently announced his bid for the 2024 election, in a social media post called for the termination of the Constitution, terming the 2020 election “massive fraud”.
This comes weeks after Democrats retained control of the Senate as many Republican candidates, backed by Trump, lost both in both Senate and House races, fueling more election denialism.
Donald Trump’s post also comes after the release of internal Twitter emails showing deliberation in 2020 over a New York Post story about material found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
“A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote in a post on the social network Truth Social. The Republican also accused “Big Tech” of working closely with Democrats.
“Our great ‘founders’ did not want, and would not condone, false and fraudulent elections!” Trump said in reference to Joe Biden’s election win.
The White House rebuked Trump’s statement saying, “attacking the Constitution and all it stands for is anathema to the soul of our nation and should be universally condemned.”
“You cannot only love America when you win,” spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement, calling the Constitution a “sacrosanct document”.
Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, by more than seven million votes and by 306-232 in the electoral college, but continues to claim that Biden won key states through electoral fraud, an allegation that fueled the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
Republican Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who serves as vice chair of the House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol, tweeted that no honest person can now deny that Trump is an enemy of the Constitution.