Todd Blanche tells Fox News Sunday the 2020 election was rigged to defeat Donald Trump -- even though Trump himself has admitted he lost to Joe Biden

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said during an interview on Fox News Sunday the 2020 election was rigged in order to defeat Donald Trump. Blanche, however, promptly started backpedaling on his claim, which might be a good idea considering Trump himself has admitted multiple times that he lost the election to Joe Biden. In fact, we published an article roughly two weeks ago about Trump's admission that he knew he had lost in 2020.

A jointly published article at The Independent and Yahoo! News indicates Blanche did not get that memo. Under the headline "Trump AG Todd Blanche says he can't give 'definitive answer' as to whether the 2020 election was stolen." Josh Marcus writes:

There’s a “ton of evidence” the 2020 presidential election was rigged against President Donald Trump, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday, though he soon conceded he couldn’t provide a “definitive answer” if that was actually true or when federal officials would prove it.

“I’m not promising there’s going to be a definitive answer,” Blanche told Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News. “That wouldn’t be fair to you or anybody else, but we are looking at it, and we’re hoping to get one.”

It sounds like Blanche has decided to talk tough about the 2020 election, even though he seems to know he has little, if anything, to back it up. That is a slightly different game from the one Trump is playing: Trying to convince voters, especially any MAGAs who might still be taking him seriously, that an election was stolen from him though he has admitted he lost it. Our conclusion? In slightly different ways, both Blanche and Trump are playing sections of the American electorate for fools. Here is more from Josh Marcus:

Speaking with host Maria Bartiromo, Blanche (who is Trump’s former criminal defense attorney) pointed to the Trump administration’s ongoing investigations in Georgia and Florida but said it was unclear what those probes would yield.

“It takes a lot of work to uncover what happened in 2020,” he said. “It takes a lot of, good-old-fashioned law enforcement, police work, which is what we’re doing, and we have great prosecutors working on it as well, and I assure the American people that as soon as we have something to say for it — whether it’s charges, whether it’s a report, whether it’s the results of an investigation — the American people will learn about what we uncovered.”

What kind of tab will Blanche and his team run up for taxpayers to pay -- on what he seems to admit would have to improve to qualify as a wild goose chase? Blanche doesn't go into that. The Independent explains why, in succinct terms:

To date, no credible evidence has been discovered that proves the 2020 election was rigged and Trump was the rightful winner.

The Trump campaign and its allies repeatedly challenged the results in states he lost to Joe Biden in the aftermath of the 2020 election court, and subsequent court cases, recounts, committee probes, and press investigations have not yielded any proof of the president’s ongoing claims that he won the contest.

Nonetheless, top officials across the administration have echoed the president’s conspiracy theories about the election, and Trump loyalists are driving multiple highly unusual investigations across the country looking for proof six years later that the election was indeed stolen from him.

Are members of the Trump regime convinced that MAGAs are such saps they will believe anything that supports their pre-conceived notion that Dear Leader cannot possibly lose an honest election? Are Trumpers setting the stage for allegations that Democrats used fraud to steal the 2026 and/or 2028 elections? Here is Josh Marcus' roundup of investigative activity driven by the Republican conspiracy train:

In Florida, former Trump lawyer Joseph diGenova has been selected to lead a sprawling federal investigation about the president’s rivals, reportedly premised on the idea that various actions since 2016 constitute a “grand conspiracy” among Democratic officials to keep Republicans out of power.

This, of course, is laughable. Are we to believe Democrats are so bad at executing their grand conspiracy that it has resulted in a Republican takeover of the executive branch, both houses of the legislative branch, with a judicial branch dominated by a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court? Are Democrats such inept cheaters that their underhandedness has resulted in the GOP controlling every corner of government? That apparently is what Trumpers want their followers to believe? And we've only scratched the surface of the GOP-fueled investigative frenzy, Marcus reports:

The Trump FBI has seized election records in Arizona.

Earlier this year in Georgia, meanwhile, the FBI raided an elections office in the closely fought 2020 battleground state, based on a referral from election denier Kurt Olsen, who worked closely with Trump’s campaign in 2020 to challenge election results as part of a “Stop the Steal” movement.

The warrant that prompted the search itself provided no additional evidence to support a claim of fraud, and it even noted that “many allegations” have already been “disproven.”

“After more than five years, dozens of court cases, and over a year in total control of the federal government, this is all they’ve got?” elections law expert David Becker, director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, told The Independent at the time of the raid.

They don't have much of anything, and it's nuttier when you understand that the man at the center of it all, Trump himself, has admitted over and over that he lost the 2020 election. Consider this from our post dated May 5, 2025, in which we noted that Trump used the occasion of Rudy Guiliani's hospitalization in an attempt to reignite claims he was cheated in the 2020 election . . . . 

"Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition," Trump wrote in the post. "What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING! They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!" 

. . . What about the section I highlighted above as being of particular importance? In it, Trump is claiming Democrats "cheated on the Elections," an apparent reference to the 2020 presidential election that Trump lost to Joe Biden. Here is the key point: Trump now claims, and has been claiming for some time, that he was cheated in that election -- even though he already has admitted that he lost. Here are several examples where Trump said he knew he lost, usually using the term "by a whisker":

* NBC News: Trump admits in podcast appearance that he did not win the election against Joe Biden;

* The Guardian: Trump privately admitted to aides he lost the election, top aides testify;

* Common Cause: Eight times Trump knew he lost; 

* Mother Jones: Trump finally is admitting he lost the 2020 election.

After all of these times admitting that he lost in 2020, why did Trump use the occasion of Rudy Giuliani's hospitalization to change course and claim Democrats won by cheating -- which in his own words, he knows is not true? 

Is Trump counting on voters to forget, or ignore, all the times he admitted that he lost in 2020? That's the only reason I can come up with that Trump would be trying such a charade six years later.