After midnight on the East Coast on what had just become Saturday, ex-President Donald Trump was posting baseless conspiracy theories alleging Democratic plans for extensive voting by newly arriving migrants.
He mentioned by name Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) in his Truth Social rant, notably remarking in the middle-of-the-night tirade that the Kentucky Republican and others in the Republican Party should “wake up.” “It’s becoming more and more obvious to me why the “Crazed” Democrats are allowing millions and millions of totally unvetted migrants into our once great Country,” Trump told his followers on the floundering platform. “IT’S SO THEY CAN VOTE, VOTE, VOTE. They are signing them up at a rapid pace, without even knowing who the hell they are. It all makes sense now. Republicans better wake up and do something, before it is too late. Are you listening Mitch McConnell?”
There is no evidence proving the basic premise that Democrats are “signing… up” undocumented immigrants arriving to the United States with ambitions of boosting their electoral chances, though the conspiracy theory mirrors years of past rhetoric from the ex-president.
In Trump’s federal criminal case alleging a series of conspiracies that targeted the presidential election results from 2020, prosecutors — led by Special Counsel Jack Smith — have already revealed ambitions of pointing at trial to past rhetoric from Trump around even presidential elections before the 2020 race amid discussions of his mindset and intentions. Trump made false claims of fraud around the 2016 presidential race and even the 2012 contest, when he wasn’t even on the ballot!
Prosecutors now want Trump and his team blocked from repeating some of his conspiracy theories in court for eventual jurors, a range of nonsense including suggestions that responsibility for the violence of January 6, 2021, lies somewhere other than, again, his lies about the country’s high-stakes elections. Trump has tried pointing to Nancy Pelosi, the D.C. mayor, and even alleged foreign influence in explaining things away — besides separately attempting to push excuses that repeat his election lies.
