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Warriors
National
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30 in
Washington,
D.C.
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Trump
says he
had
'every
right'
to
interfere
in 2020
election
By
Jasper
Ward,
and
Kanishka
Singh
~4
minutes
Moms
for
Liberty
National
"Joyful
Warriors"
Summit,
in
Washington
Republican
presidential
nominee
and
former
U.S.
President
Donald
Trump
participates
in a
fireside
chat
during
the Moms
for
Liberty
National
"Joyful
Warriors"
Summit,
in
Washington,
U.S.,
August
30,
2024.
REUTERS/Evelyn
Hockstein/File
Photo
WASHINGTON,
Sept 2
(Reuters)
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Republican
former
U.S.
President
Donald
Trump,
who
faces
federal
and
state
charges
accusing
him of
trying
to
overturn
his 2020
election
loss to
Democratic
President
Joe
Biden,
insists
he had
"every
right"
to
interfere
in that
election.
"Whoever
heard
you get
indicted
for
interfering
with a
presidential
election
where
you have
every
right to
do it?"
Trump
said in
a Fox
News
interview
that
aired on
Sunday.
A
federal
indictment
accuses
Trump of
defrauding
the U.S.
by
attempting
to
prevent
Congress
from
certifying
Biden's
victory
and
deprive
voters
of their
right to
a fair
election.
He faced
a
revised
federal
indictment
last
month
accusing
him of
illegally
trying
to
overturn
his 2020
election
loss.
Trump's
supporters
stormed
the U.S.
Capitol
on Jan.
6, 2021,
in an
unsuccessful
attempt
to
prevent
Congress
from
certifying
the 2020
election
results
after
weeks of
false
claims
by Trump
that he
had won.
Trump
faces
similar
charges
in
Fulton
County,
Georgia,
where he
was also
charged
with
racketeering,
which is
used to
target
members
of
organized
crime
groups
and
carries
a
penalty
of up to
20 years
in
prison.
That
case,
which is
on hold
while a
state
appeals
court
weighs
the
district
attorney's
role,
stems
from a
Jan. 2,
2021,
phone
call in
which
Trump
urged
Georgia's
top
election
official,
Brad
Raffensperger,
to
"find"
enough
votes to
reverse
his
narrow
loss in
the
state.
Raffensperger
declined
to do
so.
Trump,
who is
the
current
Republican
candidate
for
president,
has not
said
whether
he would
unconditionally
accept
the
results
of the
Nov. 5
election
if his
Democratic
rival,
U.S.
Vice
President
Kamala
Harris,
wins.
In a
statement
on
Monday,
Harris'
campaign
said
Trump's
latest
comments
to Fox
News and
his
previous
remarks
"make it
clear
that he
believes
he is
above
the
law."
"Now,
Trump is
claiming
he had
'every
right'
to
interfere
in the
2020
election.
He did
not," a
Harris
campaign
spokesperson
said in
the
statement.
The
Reuters
Daily
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Reporting
by
Jasper
Ward and
Kanishka
Singh;
Editing
by Ross
Colvin,
Mark
Porter
and
Sandra
Maler
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