DISINFO: There was electoral fraud in the US because the Deep State didn’t want Trump reelected
SUMMARY
Already before the election, president Donald Trump warned of the possibility of fraud, especially in postal voting. If everybody thought that the US presidential elections had lost all capacity of surprise with the arrival of an outsider like Trump, the 2020 election proved them wrong and showed that it could be historical, worsened by an electoral fraud allegedly cooked from inside the Deep State, that would despise a reelection for the New York tycoon.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory with no evidence presented to back it.
Allegations of electoral fraud have been dismissed more than 60 times by different US courts and judges, both Republican and Democrats, due to lack of any significant evidence, including the Supreme Court in two occasions. The OSCE Observation Mission has stated that the 2020 Presidential election were “competitive and well managed”. Read more OSCE statements on the American elections here.
This is also a recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about global elites secretly ruling the world, and specifically a so-called ‘Deep State’ in the United States who rule above elected officials. This narrative aims to question the legitimacy of democracy and Western institutions and, in this case, to favour Donald Trump by framing him as the victim of a conspiracy and the Biden Administration as illegitimate.
See other examples of these disinformation narratives, such as claims that the result of the US 2020 election doesn’t matter because the real ruler is the Deep State, which will kill any US president that confronts it and is moving the country towards war with Iran and Russia; that Hillary Clinton published the Deep State strategy for the world; or that Covid-19 vaccines will lead to full spectrum dominance.