2026-01-12 18:03
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2026-01-12 18:03
US President Donald Trump stated in an interview with the New York Times that he should have sent the National Guard to seize the ballot boxes to uncover alleged fraud in the 2020 elections. Trump stressed that the US elections are “very unfair”.
Trump expressed regret over not sending the military to the election during a two-hour interview with the newspaper last week, the full transcript of which was published on Monday.
When asked if he would respect the results of the November midterm elections, Trump said he “always respects elections,” but added that there was fraud in all of them, including the ones he won in 2024.
“They cheated like hell in the last election, but I made it too big to rig,” he said. When a newspaper reporter reminded him that he had in the past threatened to send in National Guard troops to seize the ballot boxes, Trump replied that he “should have done it,” although he acknowledged that the troops might not have had enough intelligence to detect Democrats' election-rigging methods.
Trump expressed his desire to completely ban mail-in voting because he said it was associated with fraud, although this matter is the responsibility of state authorities.
– We have very unfair elections. I say it loud and clear. I don't know if that's politically correct or not. I shouldn't complain. I won three times, the president noted. – The second time I did great, but it wasn't recognized. Covid was also a problem. He facilitated fraud. But the last election was so big that they tried but failed, he added.
Despite Trump's repeated claims of election fraud, none of them have been substantiated so far. In 2023, Fox News agreed to pay almost $800 million in compensation to the voting machine manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems for repeating the claims made by Trump and his advisers about alleged fraud. Still, Trump consistently repeats his accusations. They were also repeated on a specially created White House website about the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6.
From Washington Oskar Górzyński (PAP)
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