Trump slams Biden, voices unsubstantiated election fraud claims at first rally of 2022
Former President Trump held his first rally of the midterm year in Arizona on Saturday, taking the opportunity to hit President Biden and continue to voice his unsubstantiated claims about election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
In an address from Florence, Ariz., Trump covered a plethora of issues, including the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, foreign policy and crime.
“They’re incompetent, actually,” Trump said, referring to the Biden administration.
Trump also used the address to attack Biden’s chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, who worked with Trump during his administration as well.
“Biden’s made him the person. He’s like the king. Fauci’s the king,” Trump said, invoking chants of “lock him up.” The comments come less than a week after Fauci accused Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) of putting him in personal danger due to public attacks.
But while he discussed other topics, Trump’s election fraud claims and the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol played a dominant role in his address.
Trump slammed the House’s Jan. 6 select committee, which he referred to as “the unselect committee of political hacks,” and denounced what he described as the inhumane treatment of those who were arrested during the storming of the Capitol.
“What’s happening to those people in those jails — why aren’t they doing it to Antifa and Black Lives Matter?” Trump said. “Partisan Democrats have celebrated their indefinite detention without trial.”
Trump was supposed to hold a news conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., as counterprogramming for a scheduled prayer service at the Capitol to commemorate the events of Jan. 6 on their one-year anniversary, but canceled it and said he would address the topic at the rally in Arizona.
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Trump made clear that he would not be endorsing Gov. Doug Ducey (R), who is said to be mulling a potential Senate run in the state. Ducey has faced Trump’s ire since he certified the 2020 election results in Arizona.
“Somebody said ‘oh he wants to run for the Senate,’” Trump said of Ducey. “He’s never going to get my endorsement.”
He warned that “weak Republicans” who do not acknowledge election fraud or the situation at the border will be losing elections.
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Trump slams Biden, repeats unsubstantiated election fraud claims at first rally of 2022 https://t.co/k7i6Jiw3aU pic.twitter.com/qaJ7aGQmoT
— The Hill (@thehill) January 16, 2022
I saw a clip of him whining yet again about the stolen election. His voice was so tired. Even he is weary of having to repeat the same BS over and over again.
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