CNN Tags Latest Trump Lie As Indictment Looms

On Tuesday morning, former President Donald Trump announced he had received a target letter, an indication he could soon be indicted, in special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal investigation into Trump’s lie-filled effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election, Daniel Dale reported for CNN.

Photo Insert: Trump also lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in 2016 by a count of more than 1.5 million but the obsolete Electoral College gave him victory.

On Tuesday night, Trump went out of his way to tell another election lie.

At a town hall event in Iowa, Fox host Sean Hannity suggested that Trump, now a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, should embrace early voting, mail-in voting and legal “ballot harvesting,” which is known less pejoratively as ballot collection.

Trump said he would do so, but he refused to offer an unequivocal endorsement. Instead, he added the kind of false claim he deployed in 2020.

“I do,” he said of supporting the methods Hannity mentioned, “but I also have to say something else, ‘cause the one thing a lot of people, including you, don’t talk about: they also create phony ballots, and that’s a real problem.”

Trump didn’t say who “they” were, but his claim is pure fiction, Dale argued. All of those convicted of voting fraud in 2020 were Republicans, some of them filling out ballots for deceased voters or voting twice to pad the votes for Trump, who lost to Joe Biden by more than 7.5 million genuine votes.

Trump also lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in 2016 by a count of more than 1.5 million but the obsolete Electoral College gave him victory.

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