The false narrative being propagated by Hollywood celebrities suggests that should former President Donald Trump be re-elected, he will ban elections altogether. This misinformation stems from a recent speech in which the GOP candidate urged Christians to vote in large numbers this November, with crucial details omitted from a brief 27-second video excerpt.
“Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore. In four years, you won’t have to vote again,” Trump said Friday.
Public figures distorted Trump’s comments to suggest he planned to completely eliminate elections, whereas he actually emphasized the importance of achieving “a landslide that’s too big to rig” in order to enable a second Trump administration to revise election regulations by implementing voter ID mandates, thereby lessening the necessity for high voter turnout to combat purported voter fraud.
The statement, in context, reads:
“I will secure our elections. Our goal will be, as I said, one day voting with paper ballots, proof of citizenship, and a thing called voter ID. (Applause) You know, when you negotiate and I do that with the Democrats and I negotiate with them all the time on this. I say, look, we’re going to fix our laws with voting, we have to start with voter ID. Everybody has to — “No way!” — the discussion never even goes any further.
“I say, we have to have voter ID. It’s called voter identification. “No, we’re not going to do it.” Now, there’s only one reason they do that. because they want to cheat. There’s only one reason.
“You know, in their national convention, when they have their convention, they have a voter tag on them bigger than their chest, depending on who, whose, which chest we’re talking about. Bigger than this, I like this. It has their name, their serial number, it’s got the whole deal, middle name, past addresses, it’s got everything. Otherwise you can’t get into the Democrat National Convention.
“But with voting, one of your most important things you can do, maybe in many ways your most important, they don’t want to approve voter ID. That’s because they want to cheat. But until then, Republicans must win. We have to win this election. Most important election ever. (Applause)
“We want a landslide that’s too big to rig. If you want to save America, get your friends, get your family, get everyone you know, and vote, vote early, vote absentee, vote on Election Day. I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote.
“And again, Christians — get out and vote! Just this time. (Applause) You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore. My beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians. I’m a Christian. I love you. Get out. You’ve got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good. You’re not going to have to vote.”
Here it is America. We are warned. This guy and his inner circle intend to seize power -and keep it. Say a clear ‘ NO’ with your vote https://t.co/5vLXUsnPVm
— Mia Farrow ️ (@MiaFarrow) July 27, 2024
The blatant deception they are employing is a key component of the establishment’s continuous campaign to portray Trump as an adversary of democracy – all while diverting attention from the fact that Democratic leaders recently invalidated their own presidential primary, orchestrated a subtle overthrow of President Joe Biden, and designated Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s likely nominee without her receiving any votes.