Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump plans to assemble investigative teams at the Department of Justice to search for evidence in battleground states that fraud tainted the 2020 election, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing sources.
Trump, who won the 2024 election but lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, has falsely claimed that he lost the 2020 election due to extensive voter fraud, a view shared by millions of his supporters.
President-elect Donald Trump isn’t letting his grievance about the 2020 election go now he’s returning to office.Credit: AP
Trump was indicted last year on federal charges for his attempts to overturn the election. The charges stemmed from an investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
The Washington Post, citing two people close to Trump’s transition team, reported that Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with Smith.
Asked about Trump’s plans to fire prosecutors on Smith’s team, a Trump spokeswoman said: “President Trump campaigned on firing rogue bureaucrats who have engaged in the illegal weaponisation of our American justice system, and the American people can expect he will deliver on that promise,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
Trump’s unwillingness to believe his loss in 2020 prompted him to encourage rioters to storm the US Capitol.Credit: Getty Images
“One of the many reasons that President Trump won the election in a landslide is Americans are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars spent on targeting the Biden-Harris administration’s political enemies rather than going after real violent criminals in our streets.”
In a separate legal case, a judge confirmed on Friday that Trump won’t be sentenced this month in his hush money case, instead setting a schedule for prosecutors and his lawyers to expand on their ideas about what to do next.
Amid a flurry of filings in the case since Trump’s election win this month, it had already become clear that the November 26 sentencing date wouldn’t hold.