In a White House interview Friday, United States President Donald Trump smoothly deflected reporters' questions on the North Carolina Ninth Congressional District election fraud by making unfounded statements of alleged electoral fraud in California, Texas, and even Florida. He further shut down one reporter who tried to clarify the point that the cases he mentioned have already been officially deemed false.
Despite being naturally voluble in expressing his views, President Trump was surprisingly keeping it low-key and tried to avoid giving straightforward comment about the issue of electoral fraud in the NC Ninth Congressional District.
This matter had been recently voted on unanimously Thursday by the North Carolina State Board of Elections, with a decision to order a new election based on findings of "a coordinated, unlawful, and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme," according to a staff member of the aforementioned Board of Elections.
However, at the aforementioned interview with reporters at the Oval Office, when asked a direct question regarding the NC election fraud, Trump immediately launched into his "I condemn any election fraud" piece. Then he tries to avoid a direct answer by proceeding to make far-off references and ramble on about other "fraudulent votes" and election "catastrophe."
The president made references to "what happened in California" and went on to mention a supposed case of "a million fraudulent votes" there, then suddenly making a change in direction referring to Texas, and then the Florida "catastrophe" where purportedly "Republican candidates kept getting less and less," referring to votes. He then topped it off with a story on Senator "Rick Scott" and "Ron" (referring to Governor Ron DeSantis) who were "fortunate" according to him to have won, but that there was something "disgraceful" which took place there (in Florida).
When a reporter tried to interrupt him with the clarification that the California and Texas election fraud matters had already been looked into and proven to be unfounded accusations, the President of the United States (POTUS) plowed on with his piece.
Trump tried to prevent the reporter from talking by going, "Excuse me, excuse me."
The U.S. President Trump then went on with his unsupported assertions on Texas and California. He even took up the state of Florida's 2018 gubernatorial elections (which Republican Ron DeSantis won) where he again refers to "Republican candidates" who ostensibly kept getting lesser votes. This had been previously looked into without any concrete findings to support Republican claims of fraud.
However, even with all his dodging and avoidance, Trump claimed to "condemn all of it," and finally throwing in "that includes North Carolina."
He pointed out, "But I'd like to see the final report. Any form of election fraud I condemn."
