Shortly after he was indicted by the Fulton County district attorney’s office for trying to overturn the election in Georgia, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to make an announcement. “A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete & will be presented by me at a major News Conference at 11:00 A.M. on Monday of next week in Bedminster, New Jersey,” he wrote. “Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me & others – There will be a complete EXONERATION! They never went after those that Rigged the Election. They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!”
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The announcement obviously raised a lot questions, such as: Why hadn’t one of the many state and federal investigations into the 2020 election uncovered this “Irrefutable” evidence? Why had literally nothing come up in the last three years proving that Trump’s claims of election fraud were actually legit? Why hadn’t Trump mentioned that such a report was in the works, say, before he was criminally charged in Georgia, and why did he still need an additional week for the “Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT” to be completed? One possible explanation is that he was simply planning to present a bunch of lies. Why do we think this might be the case? Because shortly after he broadcast his plans, ABC News reported that legal advisers to Trump, who’d undoubtedly had a collective coronary when they read his post, had “told him that holding such a press conference with dubious claims of voter fraud [would] only complicate his legal problems,” with some of attorneys advising him to cancel it.
And while the ex-president has made it abundantly clear over the last several years that he listens to no one, it seems that what we can only assume was advice along the lines of “This is one of the worst ideas you’ve ever had and will probably result in additional felony counts” actually sunk in—to a point.
We caveat that because while Trump said on Thursday that he was canceling the Monday presser, he also claimed that he would be “putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings.” (Will his lawyers go along with putting his election lies in official court filings? We’ll just have to wait and see!)
In other Trump legal news, he’d like to put off his federal trial for attempting to overturn the election until spring 2026. Per Axios:
Should Trump win the 2024 election, he’d be more than a year into his second term in April 2026, at which point he could just pardon himself, a fact we’re sure no one on Team Trump even considered when putting in its requested trial date. Meanwhile, the ex-president is expected to be arraigned in Georgia next week, where Fulton County sheriff Pat Labat has previously suggested he will have his mug shot taken like a common criminal. (Unlike a common criminal, Trump will presumably slap said mug shot on all manner of merch and use it to fundraise millions.)
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