It took him a few days, but Donald Trump has nevertheless reverted to type by questioning the integrity of the US midterms.
Last week, a blue wave swept across the US as Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives and the Senate at the midterm elections.
The scale of the Democratic victory – and Republican humiliation – was so great that in the immediate aftermath Trump didn’t even bother trying to claim the vote was rigged.
But, fear not, the president has remembered who he is and how he usually reacts to electoral defeats by now questioning how “honest” the elections were.
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In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote on Monday evening: “Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong???
“Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote.
“It’s all about the machines, which are far more important that the voter!”
The talk about “machines” is a reference to the Dominion Voting Systems, which were infamously targeted by Trump and MAGA at the 2020 election.
Trump also hit out Americans who had the temerity to vote early in the midterms.
When he was asked by a reporter if he believed the midterms had been “rigged,” Trump replied: “I think the numbers were terrible in terms of early voters, you look at all those early votes.”
Early voting is entirely legal in the US, with almost 48 million Americans casting an early ballot at the midterms.
Reacting to Trump’s belated claims of rigged elections, people mocked the president.