The 2020 presidential election was rigged through COVID and other things.
Posted by Badlands Media, Checked
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Badlands MediaOct 15, 2026
The claim that the 2020 election was rigged through COVID and other things is contradicted by authoritative reviews: AP found far too little fraud to change the outcome, and PolitiFact found the COVID-era mail-voting changes were lawful, public, and applied to all voters. The post's own words are not evidence, and the claim's wording matches the post's 'rigged...
What was said
… I get elected, and I knew the prices were way too high. We had the greatest first term. It's not going to be as good as this one, by the way, but we had the greatest first term, financially speaking, in the history of our country, and I get elected, and then we had a rigged election. So that was not so good. We had a terrible, but because we did so well, because we actually won by millions and millions of votes, it was just rigged. They rigged it through COVID and other things. Uh, I said, "Let's do it again," and we did it again, and we won in historic, with historic numbers. It was amazing. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. An AP review of every potential fraud case in the six disputed battleground states found fewer than 475, too few to have changed the 2020 result, and found no collusion intended to rig the voting.[1]
Contradicts. Reuters reported that the top U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies concluded there was no widespread voter fraud, and that courts and state governments rejected the fraud claims.[2]
Contradicts. Attorney General William Barr said in December 2020 that the Justice Department had seen no fraud on a scale that could have changed the outcome, and that claims about machines skewing results were not substantiated.[5]
Contradicts. PolitiFact found that the COVID-era changes, such as loosened mail-ballot excuse rules and mailed ballot applications, were authorized through public processes and applied to all voters regardless of party, so calling them cheating is wrong.[3]
Contradicts. A Harvard report on the 2020 election found that judges dismissed almost three dozen lawsuits for lack of credible proof, and that election experts overwhelmingly rejected widespread fraud claims.[4]
Sources
5 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 1 primary, 1 tier 1
- 1Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP findsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2Trump's false claims debunked: the 2020 election and Jan. 6 riotreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 3States made voting by mail easier amid COVID-19 in 2020. ...politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 4PEI-US-2020 Report - Harvard Universityappext.hks.harvard.edu · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 5US attorney general finds 'no voter fraud that could ...bbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: contradicts
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