In an exclusive interview with Univision Noticias, former President Donald Trump challenged the official vote count of the 2020 election, asserting he received “much more than 75 million votes.” The conversation, conducted by Enrique Acevedo, covered diverse topics, with Trump’s responses reflecting his characteristic conversational style.
Trump’s attention gravitated toward the topic of President Joe Biden’s resounding electoral victory, both in popular and electoral votes. Despite the widely accepted figures — Biden securing over 81 million votes and Trump closer to 74 million — the former president insisted on his claimed 75 million votes, albeit slightly inaccurate.
During the interview, Trump hinted at the possibility of doubling or tripling the vote count “in terms of the real — the feeling,” leaving the interpretation of this statement open-ended. This assertion was made against the backdrop of numerous felony charges against Trump, prompting an impassioned response from him as he decried the legal actions as a form of “weaponization” aimed at influencing elections.
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Trump argued vehemently that a popular and successful president should not be subjected to investigations for electoral gain, considering such actions unacceptable to the people. He expressed concern that these legal maneuvers were orchestrated to tarnish his image and interfere with the political landscape.
In his own words, Trump declared, “What they’ve done is they’ve released the genie out of the box. You understand that they’ve done something that nobody thought would happen. They’ve taken a president who is very popular. I got 75 million votes, much more than that. I believe no president’s ever gotten that many votes, and they’ve taken that number of people. And I think you can double it or almost you can triple it in terms of the real — the feeling.”
Asserting his position further, Trump argued against the pursuit of investigations to influence elections, stating, “You can’t go after people. You know, when you’re president and you’ve done a good job and you’re popular, you don’t go after them so you can win an election. They’ve done indictments in order to win an election. They call it weaponization, and the people aren’t going to stand for it.”
This interview provided a glimpse into Trump’s complex narrative, interweaving discussions on electoral numbers, legal challenges, and his perception of investigations’ motivations. The former president’s distinctive conversational style and use of dramatic language underscored the multifaceted nature of the issues discussed.
