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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(139,582 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 12:22 AM Yesterday

Trump's speech stops short of offering evidence of vote tampering

Source: Washington Post

After almost six years of promises to imminently reveal smoking-gun proof of tampering with the 2020 election, President Donald Trump stopped short again on Thursday.

In a prime-time presidential address that the White House and Republican allies said would present bombshell findings from an exhaustive reexamination of law enforcement and intelligence files, Trump never claimed to have any evidence of altered votes or compromised machines.

Instead he described “vulnerabilities” in election infrastructure, without alleging that the weaknesses were exploited.

“They’re vulnerable, and they’re easily compromised,” Trump said of electronic voting machines.

Read more: https://wapo.st/4vy3hII



Because he has no evidence
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cstanleytech

(28,728 posts)
2. Trying to justify controlling the elections to ensure his 100 year Republican Reich.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:48 AM
Yesterday

My response to him and the Republicans on that is Sieg Heil this 🖕 you assholes!!!

Karasu

(2,529 posts)
3. Gee. I wonder why. Maybe the same fucking reason Republicans never bother to offer evidence for every other claim they
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 04:19 AM
Yesterday

make anymore?

Kind of hard to push baseless conspiracy theories otherwise.

pat_k

(14,782 posts)
5. The f-ed up thing is some machines ARE vulnerable to corruption ...
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 12:38 PM
18 hrs ago

... and he has done everything in his power to disband cybersecurity and stop any patching to leave elections open to corruption TO SAVE HIS psychopathic malignant narcissist ass.

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