MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned that Donald Trump is already ramping up his election lies over fraud because he doesn't believe he'll win fair and square.
The Republican nominee repeatedly suggested over the weekend that the election would be stolen from him after making similar claims before the 2020 vote, and the "Morning Joe" host said Trump was setting the stage to attempt to overturn his potential loss in November.
"Donald Trump's own staff members watched in 2020, and do you know what they said?" Scarborough asked. "The person who was in charge of actually watching the election, that Donald Trump put in charge, Chris Krebs said it was the cleanest, fairest election on record.
"Of course, Donald Trump — see, and this is the thing. People go, 'Oh, I don't know what to believe because Donald Trump says this, but then I turn on this cable news channel that's lying for 24 hours a day on the right, and they tell me that what he is saying is the truth.' We're like, you know what the truth is, and you deliberately choose lies. You know where the light is, and you deliberately choose the darkness. You do it deliberately because you know and I know, 63 federal judges said there was no evidence of any, any fraudulent behavior, any widespread voter fraud in 2020."
"The United States Supreme Court, time and again, refused to listen to these because there was nothing there," Scarborough continued. "The one time they did, in a Pennsylvania case, the most conservative justices said, you know what? Even if we responded to this case, it wouldn't change the outcome of the election. You had Republican officials in Michigan, Republican officials in Pennsylvania, Republican officials in Georgia, Republican officials in Arizona repeatedly say that their elections were fair, and yet the lies continue."
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"Now, am I saying this because I think Donald Trump's ever going to change his tactics?" he added. "No, he knows he's lying. He admitted last week he was lying. He said he lost by a smidge, whatever he said. No, I'm saying this for the people that actually continue to spread his lies and know differently.
"You know, the pace that has picked up so much over the past couple weeks about Donald Trump saying, 'Oh, they're going to steal the election, they're going to steal the election,' it suggests the man doesn't have a whole lot of confidence that he's actually going to win this election."
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