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LETTER: Where is his evidence?

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Donald Trump started saying, “The only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged,” on Aug. 17, 2020, in Oshkosh, Wis. (Morgan Chalfant, in “The Hill”). On that day, Trump made a decision. With all the power of the presidency and the support, then, of his chosen Attorney General Bill Barr, Trump could have presented whatever evidence had convinced him the election could or would be rigged, accused those involved, and stopped the danger to a fair election in its tracks. This was, of course, months before the election. What Trump did was simply repeat his statement in rally after rally to crowd after crowd.

Still, to this date, after a number of deaths, hundreds of arrests and convictions of his followers, tens of millions of Republican dollars spent in over 60 court cases, all of which were lost, and the obscene spectacle of thugs smashing windows and chanting “Hang Pence,” Trump has not been called to testify or volunteered to testify about what convinced him by August 2020 to make his prediction. And, he keeps saying it was true.

Think of where our country could be now, if, back in August 2020, Trump had presented his evidence in open court where people could be charged and crimes proven or disproven. Such a “vast conspiracy” involves somebody doing or saying something somewhere. All Americans want honest elections. We’re not divided on that point.

Why has Trump never presented his own evidence for his statement in August 2020?

Gerard Weiss

Pittsburgh

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