Greg Gutfeld: “The suspicion of a rigged election is more than justified”
Gutfeld: “It wasn’t an attempt to overthrow the government”
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Citation From the October 3, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Five
GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): They're trying to revive the corpse of January 6.
I have to say, though, this is an improvement over 2020, because in this case this election interference is done right in front of you, you know, from a combination of lawfare and the media embrace. You've got to go back to February 4th, 2021, when Time magazine published an article boasting of the conspiracy of business titans and left-wing activists to oppose what they called Trump's assault on democracy. You know, they described it as a vast shadow effort, an organized collection of operatives that changed voting systems and laws, secured hundreds of millions of dollars in public and private funding. They recruited, you know, armies of poll workers, got millions to vote by mail. Then they went after disinformation, they pressured social media companies, they called that election protection.
So we -- Republicans, Independents, libertarians -- were suspicious when we're told that our side or the person we support is an existential risk. We were told that everything was on the table. That in fact, if you didn't cheat, that would be immoral. So what they did was they suppressed Hunter's laptop, which ushered in Joe's ill-gotten victory. So the suspicion of a rigged election is more than justified, because you told us that. You told us what you were going to do. So I think that's an important context when you approach January 6. It wasn't an attempt to overthrow the government, it was just like, 'We're just reacting to what you guys said.'