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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(133,899 posts)
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 08:14 PM Jan 21

Trump says individuals will soon be prosecuted for 2020 election

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.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-individuals-soon-prosecuted-162527200.html



That horse must be pulp by now.

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Trump says individuals will soon be prosecuted for 2020 election (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 21 OP
Quiet piggy & release TRUMP EPSTEIN FILES & BANK RECORDS NOW! SheltieLover Jan 21 #1
There's a five-year statute of limitations on almost all federal crimes. Ocelot II Jan 21 #2
You read my mind. Fiendish Thingy Jan 21 #4
Ummm, hasn't the statute of limitations expired? Fiendish Thingy Jan 21 #3
Trump lost 61 out of 62 cases he brought Botany Jan 21 #5
He's full of shit Takket Jan 21 #6
Venezuela ABC123Easy Jan 21 #7
Joe won. Case closed. Next. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jan 21 #8
He has a crack team of lawyers Johonny Jan 21 #9
All crack heads? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 22 #10
I was wondering when someone would pick up on that... DET Jan 22 #11
About fucking time. Report to jail Trump . Emile Jan 22 #12
Is one of them named "Trump"? kentuck Jan 22 #13

Ocelot II

(129,722 posts)
2. There's a five-year statute of limitations on almost all federal crimes.
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 08:21 PM
Jan 21

If there really had been some kind of prosecutable election rigging in 2020, how is he going to prosecute it in 2026? And weren't all those claims unsuccessfully litigated already?

Fiendish Thingy

(22,454 posts)
4. You read my mind.
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 08:26 PM
Jan 21

But these morons don’t think about this kind of stuff, they just think about the fear and stress and expense they’re going to put their victims through, even if the charges get dismissed for being outside the statute of limitations, or some other prosecutorial error.

Fiendish Thingy

(22,454 posts)
3. Ummm, hasn't the statute of limitations expired?
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 08:24 PM
Jan 21

I mean, yesterday was literally the fifth anniversary of Biden’s inauguration, and that would have been the last possible date for anyone to have “rigged” the election.

If they indict anyone, I fully expect the charges to be dismissed and never go to trial.

Botany

(76,686 posts)
5. Trump lost 61 out of 62 cases he brought
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 09:13 PM
Jan 21

and the one he did win allowed an observer
to sit 2 feet closer to the counting and all his real lawyers from Porter Wright quit be-
they liked their lawyers licenses. Trump
wanted them to support perjury.

ABC123Easy

(138 posts)
7. Venezuela
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 09:35 PM
Jan 21

I'm hearing (not justifying or claiming) that Dump wants Maduro and the regime in Venezuela to come up with some kind of "proof" that the 2020 election was rigged. Obviously this would be in exchange for a pardon or leniency for Maduro, etc...(whatever).
Remember Dump trying to link Smartmatic and other machines to Venezuela?

DET

(2,409 posts)
11. I was wondering when someone would pick up on that...
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 02:18 AM
Jan 22

And no one did - at least in the mainstream media. TSF doesn’t give a rat’s behind about the statute of limitations, especially as he spirals inexorably into full blown dementia. He’s been obsessed with the ‘stealing’ of the 2020 election that he’s convinced he had successfully stolen himself, and someone has to pay for that. I just hope that he does not make Joe Biden’s final years more difficult than they already are.

kentuck

(115,276 posts)
13. Is one of them named "Trump"?
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 09:26 AM
Jan 22

That name should be at the top of the list.

Jack Smith will tell us why today when he testifies publicly.

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