Claims of rigged system by convict ex-president and allies ‘threaten rule of law’

Ex-prosecutors and historians warn that Republicans' parroting of ex-president's wild allegations of political bias could erode trust and lead to violence…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/trump-republicans-justice-system-attacks

Biden hits back at Trump’s ‘dangerous’ claim hush-money trial was rigged

The US president said: "It is reckless, it is dangerous, it is irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged, just because they don't like the verdict. The US justice system has endured for nearly 250 years and is literally a cornerstone of America." 

He added that the system and the justice it produced should be respected. 

"And we should never allow anyone to tear it down, simple as that, that's America," Biden said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/31/trump-legal-team-appeal-verdict

Trump insists the United States is 'rigged, crooked and evil'

A former American president described the United States as "evil." This generated almost no attention whatsoever. Why is that?…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-insists-united-states-rigged-crooked-evil-rcna55278

A quarter of Americans open to taking up arms against government, poll says

Survey of 1,000 registered US voters also reveals that most Americans agree government is 'corrupt and rigged'…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/poll-americans-guns-against-government

The US state that fought back after Republicans tried to rig its elections

Despite a flurry of legal action and very public disputes between members, Michigan has produced some of the fairest voting maps in the US…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/01/michigan-republican-effort-rig-elections-voting-rights

Trump is already claiming the California recall is rigged - POLITICO

…With Republican figures simultaneously telling voters that Newsom's defeat is inevitable and cautioning that Democrats will try to manipulate the outcome — and polls showing Newsom is likely to survive — it's a combustible combination. It also might be a preview of what's in store for the 2022 midterm elections in the wake of Trump's barrage of false claims about the integrity of election results…

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/09/trump-california-recall-rigged-511025

PolitiFact | Ted Cruz’s dubious claim that GOP didn’t “rig” SCOTUS confirmations

… "I don't know what else you call it. When you use your majority to make up the rules as you go along in ways that benefit your party, that's kind of the definition of rigging the game. You make the rules that lead to the outcome that you desire," Berman said…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/27/ted-cruz/ted-cruzs-dubious-claim-gop-didnt-rig-scotus-confi/

How to rig an America - The Washington Post

...Republicans are trying to game the system — to game a system that's already often rigged to their advantage...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/29/how-rig-an-america/

PolitiFact | Ted Cruz’s misleading statement on people who believe the election was ‘rigged’

...Another question in the survey asked people more directly about their view of the election. The percentage of people who said the election was "the result of illegal voting or election rigging" was much lower than the numbers Cruz cited. Other polls show far greater confidence in the integrity of the election...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/06/ted-cruz/ted-cruzs-misleading-statement-people-who-believe-/

Predictably, some Republican voters in Georgia are turning on the party - The Washington Post

...Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was campaigning in Georgia this weekend when she encountered some GOP voters who don't see the point in voting if the election is supposedly rigged...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/30/georgia-republican-voters/

Pastor Urges Trump Admin to 'Shoot' Democrats, Journalists if They Conspired to 'Rig' Election

...Rick Wiles, the senior pastor of the Flowing Streams Church in Florida, said that President Donald Trump's administration should "start shooting" Democrats and members of the media in firing squads if it turns out they conspired to rig the presidential election...

https://www.newsweek.com/pastor-urges-trump-admin-shoot-democrats-journalists-if-they-conspired-rig-election-1551246

Trump goes OFF THE DEEP END in first interview since election loss

https://youtu.be/1_V3mIzc-DU

Republicans are right: democracy is rigged. But they are the beneficiaries

Conservatives relish the irony of Trump's audacious reversal of the truth around rigging – because it distracts attention from their minority rule....

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/26/democracy-rigged-trump-biden

Opinion | How Republicans will try to destroy a Biden presidency - The Washington Post

As you’ve heard, Wolf Blitzer and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had a very contentious exchange on Tuesday, in which the CNN anchor demanded to know why the House Speaker was not prepared to support the White House’s offer of a $1.8 trillion stimulus package. “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” Blitzer told Pelosi, thus seeming to suggest that the real holdup to any deal is Democratic opposition. But new reporting from Bloomberg News strongly suggests another angle worth investigating, if the goal is to truly get to the bottom of what might end up holding up an agreement. And this angle points to an even bigger story: how Republicans may already be laying the groundwork to try to destroy a Joe Biden presidency, should he win the election.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/14/how-republicans-will-try-destroy-biden-presidency/

Analysis: The Coming Crisis of Legitimacy - Government Executive

"The instinct of the American people should be to trust in the outcome of our election," Marsden said. "When you actually look at the details of how elections are run—from security features to audits to transparency measures to legal guardrails—the list of fail-safes is quite long."

https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/09/analysis-coming-crisis-legitimacy/168447/

Biden adds top lawyers to teams preparing for election legal battles | Reuters

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has added top lawyers to his staff and launched a “special litigation” team as his campaign braces for potential legal fights over the outcome of the Nov. 3 U.S. election against President Donald Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden-legal-idUSKBN2652JB

What if Trump loses but refuses to leave office? Here's the worst case scenario

The risk of an electoral meltdown is ordinarily rather small, but this November promises a combination of stressors that could lead to epic failure and chaos https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/27/trump-loses-election-what-happens-possibilities

'It's all rigged': Trump foreshadows how he could undermine presidential election

Donald Trump falsely accused Democrats of trying to “steal” Tuesday’s special election in California amid the Covid-19 pandemic by adding a polling place in one of the most diverse sections of a district. But the county actually added the polling location at the request of the area’s Republican mayor.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/12/trump-foreshadows-how-he-could-undermine-presidential-election

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It with Robert Reich

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich presents the reader's digest of his latest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It. He explores the system of power in America that bails out corporations instead of people, even in times of crisis, and breaks down how we have socialism for corporations and the rich, and harsh capitalism for everybody else.

As power has concentrated in the hands of corporations and the wealthy few, those few have grabbed nearly all the economic gains — and political power — for themselves.

Meanwhile, workers have been shafted.

This isn’t a democracy, where all power is shared. It’s an oligarchy, where those at the top have the power to grab everything for themselves.

But history shows that oligarchies cannot hold on to power forever. They are inherently unstable. When a vast majority of people come to view an oligarchy as illegitimate and an obstacle to their wellbeing — which is happening before our very eyes as this crisis exacerbates — oligarchies become vulnerable. ....
https://youtu.be/Y_sjfchNsiM

Investigative journalist Greg Palast: How Trump will steal the 2020 election | Salon.com

Rigging elections is as American as apple pie. To wit: Nonwhite people have been systematically denied the right to vote for most of the country's history. Most notably, when black people won the right to vote following the Civil War, in practice that liberty was denied under Jim and Jane Crow and other white supremacist laws, both in the South and other parts of the country, for a full century. Voter registration laws themselves have a long and ugly history of being used to deny nonwhites, white ethnics and other "undesirables" the right to vote.....
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/28/investigative-journalist-greg-palast-how-trump-will-steal-the-2020-election/