Former White House adviser Peter Navarro claimed the former president on Friday afternoon Donald Trump Citing his own suspicious voter fraud report released in December last year, he easily won the 2020 election.
Navarro was one of the first Trump administration staff to publicly support the former president’s baseless allegations of voter fraud. In an interview with Steve Bannon, he continued to insist that the 2020 election was based on his Stolen from the previous boss. War room podcast.
“I wrote the Navarro report, and I call them that, because the Hatch Act was completed in my own time, and it makes it very clear that, as you said, Trump not only won the victory, but he did so with amazing The overwhelming advantage of winning,” he said.
At Bannon’s request, Navarro repeated the claim twice. “In a terrible landslide, full stop,” he said. “Trump not only won, he also won by a surprisingly overwhelming advantage.”
In December last year, the former Trump administration staff member issued a report saying that widespread violations indicated that fraud caused the president to Joe Biden Won the November presidential election.
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Navarro’s conclusions are based on these allegations, which have been exposed and dismissed in dozens of Trump campaign lawsuits, and are intended to overturn the results of elections in several swing states.
The Washington Citizens’ Responsibility and Ethics Organization (CREW), a nonpartisan organization, criticized Navarro for publishing this report while working for the Trump administration. During his tenure at the White House, Navarro served as assistant to the president, director of trade and manufacturing policy, and defense production law policy coordinator.
The ethics organization cited the Hatch Act of 1939, which largely prohibits civil servants in the executive branch of the federal government from engaging in political activities during their tenure. The Office of the Federal Special Counsel also accused Navarro of violating the Hatch Act after repeatedly attacking Biden in a series of cable news interviews and statements. Twitter.
Navarro disputed the accusation, saying that he released the report “as an ordinary citizen.”
Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and adviser Stephen Miller joined Navarro to publicly publicize the Trump campaign’s legal efforts to reverse his election defeat, often appearing in Fox News Claim that they have evidence of widespread voter fraud.
After the election, Department of Homeland SecurityThe Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency stated that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was compromised in any way.”
In December, the former U.S. Attorney General William BarrWidely regarded as one of Trump’s most loyal cabinet officials, he also stated that there is “no evidence” to support widespread voter fraud allegations.
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