The ex-president’s claims came one day after officials from Arizona’s second-largest county concluded that none of the 151 cases they reviewed merited criminal charges. “The Big Lie is a lot of bull****, that’s what it is,” he said to more cheers. They always talk about the Big Lie - they’re the Big Lie.” Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds in Florence, Arizona, on January 15, 2022. “We have a lot of proof and they know it’s proof. “Last year we had a rigged election and the proof is all over the place,” he continued. We’re going to have, I think, a great year,” Trump said shortly after taking the stage to loud cheers. We had a tremendous victory in Arizona that was taken away and I just want to wish everybody a happy New Year. Trump won the state handily in 2016 against Hillary Clinton by over 4 percentage points. MSNBC host duped by fake statement claiming Twitter’s Trump ban was reversedįormer President Donald Trump held his first political rally of the new year in Arizona on Friday, continuing to insist that he had won the 2020 election without evidence.Īt the large rally in Florence, Ariz., Trump again claimed that he had actually won the state in 2020, despite having lost to Joe Biden 49.4 percent to 49.1 percent. The event also comes after the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers - a pro-Trump militia group - and 10 others were indicted for seditious conspiracy over their role in the January 6 assault on the Capitol.Trump reposts Megyn Kelly saying DeSantis can’t win 2024 face-off The former president had repeatedly directed his fans towards the conspiracy theory-peddling outlet, which is hoping to take a bite out of the market for right-wing viewers dominated by Fox News.
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The rally comes 24 hours after pro-Trump TV channel OAN was dumped by its main distributor. While some supporters AFP spoke to said they had been vaccinated, others were distrustful of the shot. Nationwide, more than 750,000 people a day are testing positive for the disease. There were almost no masks or other anti-Covid-19 precautions in evidence among the crowd in Florence, despite the Omicron variant wave that is washing over the United States. He then cut the interview short when challenged over his claims of election fraud. Trump has largely shunned many major media outlets since leaving office.īut last week he ventured onto National Public Radio (NPR), where he said he recommends that people get vaccinated against Covid-19 - a hot button issue in the United States, where there is widespread vaccine hesitancy. In the lead up to his election win in 2016, and throughout his presidency, tens of thousands of supporters would throng venues to hear him speak. Turnout at the Florence rally will be keenly watched as a gauge of how much power he still wields with the base. Trump, who lost his Twitter megaphone for his claims about the poll, has been a much lower-key presence in US politics since leaving office.īut he still looms large in the Republican party, where adherence to his theories - or at least not publicly denying them - is often vital to survival for members of Congress and state legislatures. "And I will promise you this, there's not gonna be any election with any machines or computers done in 2022," he said. The rally in Arizona will be former president Donald Trump's first outing in front of a large crowd since October AFP / Robyn Beck
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