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Donald Trump
stated on September 25, 2021 in a rally in Georgia:

Says Biden “didn’t win in Arizona. He lost in Arizona based on the forensic audit.”

By Amy Sherman • September 28, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on August 12, 2021 in Email statement:

“A Milwaukee election employee even acknowledged dropping off just the margin of ballots needed for a Biden win at 3 a.m.”

By Madeline Heim • August 23, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on July 15, 2021 in a statement:

Says that in the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County, Ariz., "74,243 mail-in ballots were counted with 'no clear record of them being sent.'"

By Tom Kertscher • July 19, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on July 11, 2021 in in an interview on Fox News:

“There were no guns whatsoever” at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.

By Gabrielle Settles • July 13, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on July 7, 2021 in a press conference:

"The person that shot Ashli Babbitt — boom — right through the head — just boom — there was no reason for that."

By Louis Jacobson • July 8, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on June 26, 2021 in Statement:

“In 2020 we won (Wisconsin).”

By D.L. Davis • July 6, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on June 25, 2021 in Statement:

Says Republican leaders “are working hard to cover up election corruption in Wisconsin.”

By Laura Schulte • July 5, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on June 27, 2021 in a statement:

“Facts have now come out to show conclusively” that the 2020 presidential election wasn’t legitimate.

By Amy Sherman • June 29, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2021 in a statement:

Georgia didn’t update its voter rolls prior to the 2020 presidential election; “this means we (you!) won the presidential election in Georgia.”

By Amy Sherman • June 23, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on June 5, 2021 in a speech to the North Carolina Republican Convention:

“Republican state senators” who started an audit of 2020 election results in Maricopa County are “exposing this fraud.”

By Amy Sherman • June 9, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on May 15, 2021 in a statement:

"The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!"

By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on April 19, 2021 in an interview on Fox News:

“Human trafficking and drugs” at the Mexico border have “doubled, tripled and quadrupled” since Joe Biden became president.

By Tom Kertscher • April 27, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on March 29, 2021 in a statement given to the press:

Says Deborah Birx “traveled a great distance to see her family for Thanksgiving, only to have them call the police and turn her in. She then ... resigned.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 30, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2021 in a statement to the media:

"We proudly handed the Biden administration the most secure border in history. All they had to do was keep this smooth-running system on autopilot.”

By Amy Sherman • March 24, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2021 in an interview:

Says he requested “10,000 National Guardsmen” for his Jan. 6 rally, but Nancy Pelosi “rejected it.”

By Tom Kertscher • March 2, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2021 in a speech at CPAC:

HR 1 “automatically registers every welfare recipient to vote.”

By Amy Sherman • March 2, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2021 in a CPAC speech:

Says Joe Biden “has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 1, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2020 in a campaign speech:

Says Joe Biden has plans to ban animal agriculture and gas-powered cars.

By Julia Shanahan • January 18, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on January 6, 2021 in a speech on the Ellipse outside the White House:

"We won. We won in a landslide. This was a landslide.”

By Daniel Funke • January 6, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on January 6, 2021 in a tweet:

"They just happened to find 50,000 ballots (in the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff elections) late last night."

By Bill McCarthy • January 6, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on January 5, 2021 in a tweet:

“The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.”

By Jon Greenberg • January 5, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2021 in a phone call with Georgia's Secretary of State:

“You had (4,925) out-of-state voters… in Georgia.”

By Noah Y. Kim • January 4, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2021 in a phone call with the George secretary of state:

After a “major water main break,” Georgia election workers counted “18,000 ballots, all for Biden” that they pulled from suitcases and with no election observers present.

By Bill McCarthy • January 4, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2021 in a phone call with Georgia's Secretary of State:

“We won Georgia easily. We won it by hundreds of thousands of votes.”

By Miriam Valverde • January 4, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on December 15, 2020 in a tweet:

“68% error rate in Michigan Voting Machines. Should be, by law, a tiny percentage of one percent.”

By Paul Egan • December 15, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on December 8, 2020 in comments made during a White House Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit:

The percentage of Americans with natural immunity from getting COVID-19 is “a very powerful vaccine in itself.”

By Victoria Knight • December 15, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on December 9, 2020 in a tweet:

“No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost.”

By Amy Sherman • December 10, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2020 in a speech:

“In Wisconsin, there are approximately 70,000 absentee ballots that do not have matching ballot applications as required by law.”

By Eric Litke • December 10, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on December 5, 2020 in Rally:

“Actually, I won Wisconsin.”

By D.L. Davis • December 9, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2020 in a speech:

“No state in the country verifies United States citizenship as a condition for voting in federal elections.”

By Amy Sherman • December 7, 2020

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