take a listen. they say i m being aggressive, but you have to be aggressive to weed out this horrible election corruption. you have to be aggressive. in truth, they re not after me. they re after you. i just happen to be in the way. that s what s really happened. once again we just have to underline the president is lying. former president is lying. there was no evidence of widespread fraud that would have changed the election result and the only person who sought to disenfranchise legal voters was trump and his team and yet it seems like it doesn t matter that the republican base now believes this. this is an exercise in facts and logic. what donald trump is doing, this is a continuing act of election subversion. it s happening in arizona. i don t even like calling what s going on audits. these are partisan sham investigations meant to delegitimize the investigation and prime the base to overturn the results of a duly of a credible election.
this is ongoing. we could fact check this all day but this is an exercise in power in the way he gets other republicans to do what he wants to do. and that s why these sham investigations are spreading to places like texas, wisconsin, pennsylvania because this isn t about votes. it s not about counting them. it s raw power and setting the stage to cancel elections that republicans don t win. and every time we cover trump on this show, i always hear feedback from liberals who say or progressives who say stop giving him oxygen, air. all you re doing is what he wants. but the truth is this is a continued threat to democracy. take a listen to what liz cheney said about this on 60 minutes yesterday. those who think that by ignoring trump he will go away have been proven wrong. when you look at the spread of these mistruths and the spread of the disinformation, silence
that s shocking. and yet it isn t in a way because of what we know about shocking yet not surprising as always? that s kind of like the epithet for the trump administration. but i think that we know this is a president who didn t want to punish that group, who didn t want to say anything bad about neo-nazis marching at charlottesville, for goodness sake, because there were people in that movement that supported him. that didn t that said nice things about him. and at the end of the day that s all that mattered. look what happened in the aftermath of january 6th. he went from not saying anything to kind of supporting this failed rally that went on a couple of weeks ago on the hill p. and amanda, trump continuing his efforts to undermine democracy, setting the stage for 2024. this time defending his efforts to get state officials to audit or question the 2020 results.
it was a coup. that was an attempted coup. and now when you look at 2022 and 2024, they are putting in place not just laws to make it ea easier but they are putting in place trump supporters in those states who are going to run those elections who people like brad raffensberger aren t going to be there to protect the election. a maga congressman who believes the election lie, pushes it, he s running against him. i just saw an interview with a youngking, the republican running for governor who said he would have refused to certify the votes for biden. i find this extremely troubling because a smart political consultant will tell you a person like youngkin who is an establishment rich guy will be the one to knight the forever trump and never trump. when he indulges this conspiracy
the right by a maga. but his family is getting threats. there is if trump turns against you, in this republican party that we re currently seeing run things, there is just no path forward or liz cheney i guess will be our next youngkin told axios that he did believe that president biden had legitimately won the election. he affirmatively said that but tried to dodge on the other question since then. today our understanding is he told a local reporter in virginia, though, he wouldn t vote to certify but it s that constant tightrope, that threading the needle. a close race and understands the market that he s running in and is still constantly reassessing how to couch this answer. trump has spent his entire career trying to delegitimize the press and now delegitimize the government. what do we do when half the country doesn t believe our elections are legitimate? that s how you break down a