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Donald Trump requested that Jared Kushner trademark “Rigged Election!”
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This comes from a recently released transcript of Kushner’s Jan. 6 House panel interview.
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The former president has relentlessly spread false claims that the 2020 election was “rigged”.
Former President Donald Trump wanted the phrase “Rigged Election!” after losing the 2020 election, according to a newly released transcript of an interview his son-in-law Jared Kushner gave to the House select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
According to the transcript of the March 31 interview, published Friday, Kushner received an email from former White House aide Dan Scavino just a few days after the race was declared in favor of President Joe Biden.
The email was titled “POTUS Requests,” according to the transcript, which Kushner said “most likely” conveyed a direct request from Trump.
According to the transcript, the body of Scavino’s email said, “Hey Jared! POTUS wants a trademark/property for below, don’t know who to see – or ask… I don’t know who to go to.”
Two sentences in bold, including exclamation marks, were “Rigged election!” and “Save America PAC!”
Kushner, who served as his father-in-law’s senior adviser, told the panel he did not remember or act on the request. An email later that day showed Kushner asking to do it “ASAP.”
A response that same day from Eric Trump, his brother-in-law, said that both web URLs had already been registered, according to the transcript.
Kushner told the panel he couldn’t remember what Trump meant by using the phrase “rigged election,” adding that his role was “operational” and involved forwarding requests to the right people, the transcript shows.
After losing to Biden in November 2020, Trump tweeted it was a “WRONG ELECTION”. He has continued to use the phrase when spreading false allegations of electoral fraud. On December 9, he posted on his Truth Social platform that the presidential election was “WRONG”.
Curiously, Ken Cuccinelli, who was appointed by Trump to a position in the Department of Homeland Security, claimed in a 2021 interview with the House panel that he had no recollection of the former president calling the election “rigged.”
According to fact-checkers from various media outlets, the allegation that the election was rigged is unfounded. Numerous recounts, assessments and audits have deemed the election results legitimate.
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