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Trump says individuals will soon be prosecuted for 2020 election

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said individuals will soon be prosecuted for their role in what he called the “rigged 2020 election,” continuing his fixation on an election he lost.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said “everybody now knows that” the 2020 presidential election was rigged and “people will soon be prosecuted for what they did.“

Trump did not elaborate on who will be prosecuted or with what crimes they would be charged with, and The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed that former President Joe Biden did not actually win the 2020 presidential election.

Though Trump has claimed that there was widespread voter fraud, federal judges and election officials have refuted the claim. In 2022, Trump-appointed Attorney General William Barr also said there was no evidence of the alleged massive voter fraud.

Trump has spent much of his return to office relitigating his defeat to Biden. The Department of Justice sued Fulton County, Georgia — which is home to Atlanta — for ballots and other election materials from 2020 at the end of last year. The DOJ has also sued dozens of largely Democratic-controlled states for access to their voter rolls.

Trump has also repeatedly sought to assert federal control over elections, and has seen an executive order attempting to direct changes to the states largely blocked.

The president on Wednesday also attributed the war in Ukraine, in part, to the 2020 election results.

“We are thousands of miles away separated by a giant ocean,” he said. “It’s a war that should have never started and it wouldn’t have started if the 2020 U.S. Presidential election weren’t rigged.”

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