Fact-checking Trump’s election fraud falsehoods in White House remarks
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In his first public remarks since falsely saying he won re-election hours after the polls closed, President Donald Trump lashed out at ballot-counting efforts in several states, alleging with no evidence that the system was stacked against him in multiple ways.
"If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us," Trump said Nov. 5 from the White House press room podium.
There is no evidence at this point that any significant number of illegal votes have been cast. An illegal vote would be multiple votes cast by the same person or a vote cast by someone ineligible to vote.
Over 17 minutes, Trump made many inaccurate claims about the counts in several states and mail-in voting overall. Here are fact-checks of many of his allegations.
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