The 2020 US presidential election was rigged.
Said by Donald Trump, Checked
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The Health Ranger ReportAug 14, 2026
The claim that the 2020 US presidential election was rigged is false, as multiple high-credibility fact-checkers have repeatedly found no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to overturn the results.
What was said
… there's i mean, I can't i can't replicate all the insanity, but there's that subgroup which is made up of a bunch of complete retards, and the funny thing is, you know, I mean, I know some of those retards, and years ago, some of what they said made sense. I mean, even years ago, let's say, right after the election was stolen in 2020, for a brief time, I thought maybe there was an actual grassroots effort to correct the stolen election, because 2020 was clearly a rigged election. That's obvious. So, for a short while, my understanding of what was happening could have intersected with some of those people, but then, when reality uh took hold, and you realize, uh, this is not some plan, this is actually, you know, the Democrats stole …
The Health Ranger Report · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. High-credibility fact-checkers explicitly state that the 2020 election was neither rigged nor stolen and characterize the claim as a "debunked falsehood" and a "false narrative."[1][2][3][4][10]
Context. Fact-checking organizations have repeatedly concluded that there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.[5]
Context. Specific claims of election fraud, including those related to mail-in ballots, foreign interference, and failed lawsuits aimed at overturning the results, have been deemed baseless and unfounded.[6][7][8]
Context. Specific assertions used to support the rigging narrative, such as claims that a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling proved the election was rigged, have been refuted as false.[9]
Sources
10 sources: 2 tier 2, 7 tier 1, 1 not rated
- 1In a memo stripping security clearance from Chris Krebs, former director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, President Donald Trump repeated the debunked falsehood that the 2020 election was “rigged.” Joe Biden won the election, one of the most scrutinized and lipolitifact.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 22020 election Archives - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · tier 1 · cited for: context
- 3Trump Repeats Baseless, False Claims About the Election - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · tier 1 · cited for: context
- 4Posts Falsely Claim CBS News Reported 'Cheating' in Election - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · tier 1 · cited for: context
- 5FactChecking Trump's ‘60 Minutes’ Interview - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · tier 1 · cited for: context
- 6Nine Election Fraud Claims, None Credible - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · tier 1 · cited for: context
- 7Trump's Repeated False Attacks on Mail-In Ballots - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · tier 1 · cited for: context
- 8The President's Trumped-Up Claims of Voter Fraud - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · tier 1 · cited for: context
- 9No, a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling did not say the state’s results from the 2020 election were “rigged.”politifact.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 10Both Sides Distort Incomplete Vote Counts to Falsely Suggest Election Fraud - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · not rated · cited for: context
Fact checks by others
10 published fact checks found by search. Each rules on its own statement, which may not be this claim word for word.
- Chris Krebs cybersecurity 2020 electionPolitiFactFalse
- Trumps claim that a pa supreme court ruling provesPolitiFactFalse
- Both sides distort incomplete vote counts to falsely suggest election fraudFactCheck.orgFalse
- 2020 electionFactCheck.orgFalse
- Nine election fraud claims none credibleFactCheck.orgFalse
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- Factchecking trumps 60 minutes interview 2FactCheck.orgFalse
- Trumps repeated false attacks on mail in ballotsFactCheck.orgFalse
- The presidents trumped up claims of voter fraudFactCheck.orgFalse
- Trump repeats baseless false claims about the electionFactCheck.orgFalse
- Posts falsely claim cbs news reported cheating in electionFactCheck.orgFalse
Where this claim was made
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