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More than a year after losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden,Donald Trumpsays he is writing a book based on his continued (and unproven) claims of election fraud. And the book, he says, will be “depressing.”
Calling the election “the crime of the century,” 75-year-old Trump told a crowd ofrally attendees in Austin, TXover the weekend that he was writing a book with that very title.
“I’m actually writing a book about it calledThe Crime of the Century,” he continued, according toNewsweek. “I don’t think you’ll enjoy it. You’ll be very depressed when you read it, but we want to have it down for historic reasons.”
Politicoreported last year that Trump has not penned a post-White House memoir, which is standard among most former presidents. At least one reason for that, the outlet reported, is that “major publishing houses have recoiled at the prospect of having to fact-check his work or the social backlash that would ensue.”
Since leaving the White House, Trump has made unfounded and continued claims that he won the 2020 presidential election over Biden, who won both the electoral and popular votes, and has been in office since January 2021.
Despite Trump’s baseless allegations of wrongdoing, officials in nearly every state, including both Democrats and Republicans, have foundno evidence of widespread voter fraudin the election.
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“There are those in our party who believe that as the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress, I possessed unilateral authority to reject electoral college votes,” Pence — who recently told Fox News hehasn’t spoken to Trump in nearly a year— said. “Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election.”
source: people.com
