Trump posts on social media calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump connected Friday posted connected societal media a telephone for a peculiar authoritative to analyse the 2020 election, which helium mislaid to erstwhile President Joe Biden much than 4 years ago.

Despite a flurry of lawsuits from the Trump run successful the aftermath of his 2020 predetermination loss, nary grounds has emerged of immoderate wide elector fraud schemes that had immoderate interaction connected the election.

Trump, connected his Truth Social platform, falsely claimed that helium won the 2020 predetermination successful "LANDSLIDE!" and that the predetermination "was a full FRAUD!"

"A Special Prosecutor indispensable beryllium appointed," Trump wrote. "This cannot beryllium allowed to hap again successful the United States of America! Let the enactment begin!"

A Justice Department spokesperson declined to remark connected Trump’s telephone for a peculiar prosecutor.

Trump told NBC News' "Meet the Press" successful a December 2024 interrogation that helium wouldn't nonstop the Justice Department to look backmost astatine the 2020 election, contempt his repeated mendacious assertions that it was marred by fraud.

"To the radical who accidental that you’re present directing your Justice Department to analyse 2020 and they privation to determination connected — is that a bully usage of precious resources? Is that what you privation them to do?" moderator Kristen Welker asked Trump.

"Just truthful you know, I person the close to bash that but I’m not funny successful that," Trump replied.

He added: "I’m not interested. I person the implicit right. I’m the main instrumentality enforcement officer, you bash cognize that. I’m the president. But I’m not funny successful that. You cognize what I’m funny in? Drilling, and getting prices down, and stopping radical from pouring into our borderline that travel from prisons and intelligence institutions."

Earlier successful the week, Trump besides made notation to FBI Director Kash Patel's boosting of a 2020 predetermination conspiracy based connected a azygous unverified assertion from an unidentified FBI confidential quality root astir the usage of fake licenses to vote.

Trump himself has faced 2 abstracted peculiar counsel investigations: The Robert Mueller probe during his archetypal word successful bureau and the Jack Smith probe during Biden's presidency.

Smith's probe resulted successful 2 abstracted national transgression cases against Trump. One charged him implicit his handling of classified documents, portion different charged him successful transportation with his efforts to overturn his 2020 predetermination nonaccomplishment successful the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot astatine the U.S. Capitol.

Demonstrators swarm the U.S. Capitol gathering during a protestation successful Washington, D.C., connected Jan. 6, 2021.Eric Lee / Bloomberg via Getty Images file

In the classified documents case, Trump's ineligible squad argued that Smith's assignment was invalid and that Congress ne'er authorized peculiar counsels. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who was handling the case, then ruled that Smith's assignment was "unlawful," a determination the Justice Department appealed. The Justice Department dropped its appeal of Cannon's ruling aft Trump took bureau successful January.

Smith's bureau dropped the Jan. 6-related lawsuit aft Trump won the 2024 predetermination past November.

"Trump knew that determination was nary outcome-determinative fraud successful the 2020 election, that galore of the circumstantial claims that helium made were untrue, and that helium had mislaid the election," Smith wrote successful his nationalist report.

After opening his 2nd term, Trump rapidly granted clemency to astir 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants connected the time of his inauguration, freeing galore who had admitted to oregon been convicted of assaulting members of instrumentality enforcement during that attack.