For years, Marjorie Taylor Greene has been one of the loudest voices insisting the 2020 election was stolen. This week, watching Trump revive that same argument in a primetime address, she ran the numbers out loud and landed somewhere unexpected.
“If the Russians rigged the 2016 election and China rigged the 2020 election, who rigged the 2024 election?? And why won’t both parties, who both say voting machines can be hacked and votes flipped, get rid of voting machines?” she wrote on X.
It’s a fair question on its own terms: if foreign interference has supposedly flipped two consecutive elections, something has to explain why the third one landed in Trump’s favor with no tampering claimed at all.
She kept going from there.
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Greene noted that prosecutors have gone after plenty of people tied to the fraud narrative over the years, just never the ones repeating it from inside the White House. “Has anyone been arrested besides Trump supporters? Nope,” she wrote, calling the renewed push a convenient distraction from things she thinks deserve more attention, including the ongoing Iran conflict, the still-unreleased Epstein files, and campaign promises she says haven’t materialized.
Her next post went past distraction and into a direct accusation.
“The foreign influence we are experiencing comes from Israel and their donors. And Trump, his admin, and Republicans are the ones controlled by a foreign government,” she wrote, adding that this influence is “why they pulled America into senseless a war with Iran that the American people do not support.”
All of this followed Trump’s Thursday night address, where he returned to familiar territory, calling the 2020 result “rigged,” “corrupt,” and part of a “cover-up.”
He introduced a new claim to go with the old rhetoric, alleging China had accessed 220 million U.S. voter records since 2020 and tried to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden. China’s government pushed back hard, calling the accusation “entirely fabricated” and “maliciously slanderous.”
Trump has reached for different justifications for this same underlying claim before.
Last August, he told reporters that Vladimir Putin had said to him at their Alaska summit, “If you would’ve won, we wouldn’t have had a war,” treating the comment as some kind of proof his 2020 loss wasn’t legitimate.
That framing runs directly against what U.S. intelligence agencies have already concluded. A declassified March 2021 assessment from the National Intelligence Council, built with input from the CIA, FBI, DHS and NSA, determined with “high confidence” that China never attempted to alter the outcome of the 2020 election.
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