{"id":56,"date":"2025-06-20T19:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/56\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T19:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:39:19","slug":"trump-calls-for-special-prosecutor-to-investigate-2020-election-biden-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/56\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls for special prosecutor to investigate 2020 election Biden won"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump<\/a> on Friday called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election<\/a> won by Democrat Joe Biden, repeating his baseless claim that the contest was marred by widespread fraud.<\/p>\n

\u201cBiden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD!\u201d Trump said in a social media post in which he also sought to favorably contrast his immigration enforcement approach with that of the former president. \u201cThe evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s post, made as his Republican White House is consumed by a hugely substantial foreign policy decision<\/a> on whether to get directly involved in the Israel-Iran war<\/a>, is part of an amped-up effort by him to undermine the legitimacy of Biden\u2019s presidency. Earlier this month, Trump directed his administration to investigate Biden\u2019s actions as president<\/a>, alleging aides masked his predecessor\u2019s \u201ccognitive decline.\u201d Biden has dismissed the investigation as \u201ca mere distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post also revives a long-running grievance by Trump that the election was stolen even though courts around the country<\/a> and a Trump attorney general from his first term found no evidence of fraud that could have affected the outcome. The Department of Homeland Security\u2019s cybersecurity arm pronounced the election \u201cthe most secure in American history.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

It was unclear what Trump had in mind when he called for a special prosecutor, but in the event Attorney General Pam Bondi<\/a> heeds his call, she may face pressure to appoint someone who has already been confirmed by the Senate. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment Friday.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department in recent years has appointed a succession of special counsels<\/a> \u2014 sometimes, though not always, plucked from outside the agency \u2014 to lead investigations into politically sensitive matters, including into conduct by Biden<\/a> and by Trump.<\/p>\n

Last year, Trump\u2019s personal lawyers launched an aggressive, and successful, challenge to the appointment of Jack Smith, the special counsel assigned to investigate his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election<\/a> and his retention of classified documents<\/a> at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. A Trump-appointed judge agreed, ruling that then-Attorney General Merrick Garland<\/a> had exceeded his bounds by appointing a prosecutor without Senate approval and confirmation, and dismissed the case.<\/p>\n

That legal team included Todd Blanche, who is now deputy attorney general<\/a>, as well as Emil Bove<\/a>, who is Blanche\u2019s top deputy but was recently nominated to serve as a judge on a federal appeals court.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of President Donald Trump at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump on Friday called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[92,97,91,84,69,90,87,57,86,83,99,88,82,98,50,85,80,95,89,94,61,67,68,96,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-56","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-2020-united-states-presidential-election","10":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","11":"tag-diontae-johnson","12":"tag-district-of-columbia","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-elections","15":"tag-emil-bove","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-government-policy","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-jack-smith","21":"tag-joe-biden","22":"tag-merrick-garland","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-political-news","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-todd-blanche","27":"tag-u-s-democratic-party","28":"tag-u-s-department-of-justice","29":"tag-u-s-news","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-war-and-unrest","33":"tag-washington-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114717390433148138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}