The president has already initiated investigations into his failed 2020 candidacy. Now he wants a special counsel to tell him what he wants to hear.
As Trump demands a “special prosecutor†to investigate his 2020 defeat, he should be careful what he wishes for:
Every other investigation into the 2020 race that he initiated and/or paid for proved how ridiculous his conspiracy theories are. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-06-20T17:41:59.959Z
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-floats-special-prosecutor-2020-careful-wishes-rcna214116
Hardly a day goes by that Trump doesn’t say something about his ridiculous belief that the 2020 race was “rigged.” Indeed, just this week, the president floated a new, weird conspiracy theory — his latest idea apparently has something to do with Chinese license plates — adding fresh evidence to the idea that he just can’t move on from his defeat, even after having completed a successful comeback.
On Friday morning, the Republican appeared to take this pitiful crusade in a new direction. The Washington Post reported:
President Donald Trump is calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election, which he has baselessly claimed for years was rigged against him, despite there being no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Nevertheless, six months into his second term as president, Trump is still relitigating the race he lost to Democrat Joe Biden — and is now calling for a special counsel to investigate his claims of fraud that have already been rejected by the courts dozens of times.
As part of his latest online tantrum, Trump peddled a variety of familiar and child-like assertions before claiming there’s
“MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING” evidence of election “fraud” that he’s never been able to produce.
The Republican added,
“A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. ... Let the work begin!”.....
In his opinion piece, Block, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate, explained that
his investigation failed to turn up meaningful evidence of voter fraud, adding that rank-and-file GOP voters have been fed “a steady diet of innuendo, misrepresentations and outright lies” on the issue.
I mention this because Trump has already initiated investigations into his 2020 defeat. These investigators were motivated to tell their client exactly what he wanted to hear, but they simply couldn’t provide Trump with proof that didn’t exist. The same is true of state-based audits, which confirmed that the actual election results from that race were accurate.
Now, the president is effectively saying that yet another investigation is necessary, since the original investigations, including the ones he paid for, were apparently too reality-based for him.
What’s more, the Justice Department is in the hands of shameless Trump loyalists who might very well find some far-right partisan willing to take on the duties of a special counsel.
But happens when this investigation concludes the same thing as all of the other investigations? Does he seek another? Followed by another?
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