Trump Says ‘Truckloads’ of Evidence on 2020 Election Rigging Are Coming

President Donald Trump doubled down on his long-standing assertions that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him, telling guests at a White House Christmas reception on Sunday that his administration possesses “truckloads” of evidence to prove widespread fraud.

Addressing a crowd gathered for holiday festivities, Trump reiterated his claim that Democrats are “professionals at cheating” in elections and teased a forthcoming release of documentation he says will vindicate his assertions.

“We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you’ll see it come out. It’s coming out in truckloads. But then we won again in 2024 with an election we call ‘too big to rig,’” Trump said to the crowd. “And we were leading big in the polls, but I said, ‘Go out and vote, you gotta go out and vote, make it too big to rig.’”

“[The Democrats] tried to rig it, but they couldn’t do it. It was too big to rig … too many votes,” he added.

The remarks come nearly six years after Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election to former President Joe Biden and reflect an ongoing effort by the president to cast doubt on the integrity of that vote. Trump also suggested that without alleged interference, he believes he would have won key states such as California.

“If the vote in California was legitimate, which it’s not. If 38 million ballots … Everything is mail-in voting. They mail out 38 million ballots and they come in — where the hell do they go and where do they come from?” Trump asked the crowd.

He added, “It’s a rigged election in California because we would win California by a lot. And again, they feel they have the advantage with the Hispanic, they don’t because I won the Hispanic vote.”

In a post on X shared with a video of the president’s remarks, California Governor Gavin Newsom responded with a brief message: “Hahahahahahahahaha ok.”

Trump’s claim ties into legal and political actions: in recent days, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit seeking ballots and records from Fulton County, Georgia — a state critical to Biden’s 2020 victory — to review compliance with federal election laws. Fulton County officials have said the records are sealed without a court order.

The lawsuit specifically seeks ballots, ballot stubs, signature envelopes, and related digital records from the 2020 general election. Federal officials argue that access to these materials is required under the Civil Rights Act of 1960, which authorizes the attorney general to examine election records to ensure compliance with federal law.

Fulton County officials have refused to turn over the records, maintaining that the materials are sealed under Georgia law and cannot be released without a court order.

The dispute now places the issue before a federal court, setting up a clash between federal oversight authority and state election record protections in one of the most closely scrutinized counties from the 2020 election cycle.

The 2020 presidential election became one of the most controversial in modern American history following Biden’s victory over President Trump. In the weeks after the election, Trump and his allies claimed the outcome was the result of widespread voter fraud, citing issues such as mail-in ballots, voting machines, ballot counting procedures, and irregularities in key battleground states like Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.