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Former US President Donald Trump has issued a 12-page reply to testimony and evidence presented against him by a House committee investigating the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. In his rebuttal Mr Trump accused Democrats of seeking to distract from a series of domestic issues facing the country, The Hill reports.
“Seventeen months after the events of January 6th, Democrats
are unable to offer solutions,” Trump said in a statement released through his
Save America PAC, according to The Hill. “They are desperate to change the
narrative of a failing nation, without even making mention of the havoc and
death caused by the Radical Left just months earlier. Make no mistake, they
control the government. They own this disaster. They are hoping that these
hearings will somehow alter their failing prospects.”
The 12 page document continues to suggest that Mr Trump is
still holding onto his conspiracy theory that the 2021 elections were rigged with
widespread voter fraud.
The House committee investigating January 6 violent siege on
Congress have held two public hearings and have heard testimonies from former
Trump aides whose testimonies seems to suggest that the former President was
informed by his aides that the election was not stolen or rigged. The committee
is seeking to establish the fact that despite the former President being fully
informed by his former aides that the elections was transparent, he continued
to claim publicly that the election was rigged in a bid to mislead his
supporters.
According to The Hill, In the 12-page document, Trump
repeats a handful of disproven claims to assert the 2020 election was stolen
from him and rigged in favor of Democrats, including some that were brought up
during testimony by former Trump campaign and administration officials.
A section of Trump’s statement focused on ballot trafficking
claims where he cited the Dinesh D’Souza documentary “2000 Mules,” The Hill
reported. On Monday former Attorney General William Barr made mockery of the
mention of the said film, saying he was “unimpressed with it” and dismissed any
idea that the film proved widespread fraud.
Mr Trump also asserted in another section of his response
that President Biden could not have won the states of Pennsylvania, Arizona or
Georgia on grounds that he got more Black votes and Hispanic votes than former
President Obama. The states mentioned about have reportedly carried out audits
and recounts and established that there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
In another section Mr Trump claimed that states such as
Pennsylvania and Michigan took additional time after Election Day to count
ballots because it was part of an elaborate scheme to ship in fraudulent votes
so Biden could erase Trump’s narrow leads in those states, according to The
Hill.
Several former Trump aides have dismissed his claims of
election fraud, saying they told the former President that his claims were not
established on fact.
“As we near the midterm elections, we’re watching the Swamp
creatures circle the drain as true Americans step up to replace the corrupt
Establishment with patriots who will fight for our freedoms,” Trump says in
Monday’s 12-page statement, according to The Hill.
“The Establishment is holding on as tightly as they can to
their power as they watch it slip from their grasp. Our country is in a
nosedive,” he said. “Americans are struggling to fill their gas tanks, feed
their babies, educate their children, hire employees, order supplies, protect
our border from invasion, and a host of other tragedies that are 100% caused by
Democrats who obtained power through a rigged election, and the people of our
country are both angry and sad.”