This is an older article, but I thought it was very germane and important to remind everyone with the 2024 election looming.

What I mainly would like to emphasize is this statement Trump posted on his website on 10/13/21, where he says:

If we don’t solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented), Republicans will not be voting in ’22 or ’24. It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do.

I cannot find it on Trump’s website anymore as they kept changing the URL, but now it seems they may have removed it altogether. Thankfully, the internet never forgets.

To address a common criticism when I posted this elsewhere: Yes, his statement is poorly worded and you might assume he is just saying if the 2020 ‘election interference’ is not ‘resolved’, Republican voters will be disenfranchised in subsequent elections. IMO, that is an extremely generous interpretation as it doesn’t really fit the tone of the overall statement. My interpretation (which, as mentioned in the article, aligns with the reaction of GOP elected officials who ‘winced’ at this statement and interpreted it as a ‘threat’) was that, unless the 2020 ‘election interference’ is ‘resolved’ (which it hasn’t been because there was no interference, as evidenced by the dismissal of the plurality of lawsuits brought by the GOP after the 2020 election), Republicans will not be voting in 2024 (notice he doesn’t say ‘will not be able to vote’, which would make more sense if the other interpretation was correct) as they will assume, in their view, it is a rigged election. One could reasonably assume he believes Republicans should stay home to ‘send a message’ that they will not participate in a ‘broken election system’.

That’s it! Just a reminder. Please share and remind everyone you know!