Former President Donald Trump invoked Stacey Abrams‘ name after he was arrested and booked in Atlanta following a sweeping RICO indictment centered on allegations that he attempted to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.

While repeating the lie that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” and “stolen” from him, the same man who’s been indicted four times in as many months disingenuously cited Georgia’s former Democratic gubernatorial nominee as an example of why he says he should have “never” been indicted.

Trump spoke to reporters at an airport before he flew from Georgia back to his golf club in New Jersey.

“If you challenge an election, you should be able to challenge an election,” Trump said. “I thought the election was a rigged election, a stolen election and I should have every right to do that.”

He then deflected to Abrams and Hilary Clinton as examples of Democrats who have contested election results without being criminally charged.

“As you know, you have many people that you’ve been watching over the years doing the same thing, whether it’s Hilary Clinton or Stacey Abrams or many others,” Trump continued. “When you have that great freedom to challenge, you have to be able to. Otherwise, you’re gonna have very dishonest elections.”

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Of course, Trump’s comparison to Abrams and Clinton is flawed.

What Trump failed to mention is that while Abrams and Clinton both contested the results of the 2018 midterm and 2016 presidential elections, respectively, neither of them took the steps that Trump is accused of: violating a racketeering act, the solicitation of violation of oath by public officer, conspiracy to impersonate a public officer, conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree and giving false statements and writings and filing false documents.

It’s those allegations that earned him a trip to the Fulton County Jail, not simply vocally objecting to an election’s results.

Trump went on to tell reporters that it was he, not Georgia, who is the true victim of election interference, suggesting his criminal charges are a conspiracy to disrupt his presidential candidacy for the 2024 election.

“What they’re doing is election interference,” Trump insisted. “They’re trying to interfere with an election. There’s never been anything like it in our country before.”

He suggested prosecuting him is the Democrats’ “way of campaigning” against him.

Trump on Thursday joined most of his 18 co-defendants in surrendering for arrest in the Georgia indictment. The accused were given a deadline by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to voluntarily turn themselves in by Friday.

This is America.

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