The White House has criticized Donald Trump after the former president called for the US law to be repealed.
Trump called out a post Saturday on the social media site Truth Social, which he owns, in which he repeated false claims that he had won the 2020 presidential election.
White House spokesman Andrew Bates said the US Constitution is a “sacred document” that unites the American people.
“The attack on the Constitution and all that it stands for is an abomination to the life of our nation, and must be condemned around the world,” Bates said in a statement.
“You can’t love America when you win,” he said.
Mr Trump, who announced last month that he would seek another run for president, said his election loss was significant.
“The Great Fraud of this nature and magnitude allows for the annulment of laws, regulations, and documents, even those found in the Constitution,” he wrote. Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and will not allow False & Fraudulent Elections!
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro, who reported from Washington DC, said Trump’s comments were “extraordinary” because the president takes an oath of office to protect the US Constitution.
“The world is now used to Trump’s harsh words, but perhaps he seems to be going through a new path because the US constitution is so respected.”
“This is the latest in Trump’s actions since he announced his intention to run for a third term,” Zhou-Castro said. “He has come so close to extremism at meetings with anti-Semites at Mar-a-Lago that he will condone the riots that attacked the US Capitol on January 6 if he is elected back to the White House.”
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The former president was criticized by both the Democratic Party and his Republican Party.
The incoming Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, on Sunday described Trump’s comments as shocking and dangerous and said that Republicans must decide whether to continue to accept Trump’s anti-democratic views.
“Republicans have to deal with their problems with the former president and decide whether to let him go and go back to more moderate things or continue to lean on the ideology, not just Trump, but Trump,” he said. Jeffries said.
Trump, who is the first president to be impeached twice and whose term ended when his supporters violently stormed the Capitol to stop a peaceful transition on January 6, 2021, is facing mounting criminal charges, including several that could lead to criminal charges.
This includes the FBI’s investigation of classified documents seized from Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and ongoing federal and state investigations into efforts to tamper with the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Asked about Trump’s comments on Sunday, Representative Mike Turner of Ohio, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said he “absolutely” and “absolutely” condemns the comments, saying they should be the reason Republicans choose who should lead their party. in 2024.
“There is a political process that needs to go forward before anyone can get ahead or anyone else can join the party,” he said.
“I hope people will really consider words like this when evaluating a person,” he added.
Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, also criticized the statement, saying that it was time to stop thinking about “complaints of the first election”.
“This law is put in place for a reason, to protect the rights of every American,” Lawler said. “I think the former president would be well-advised to look to the future if he wants to be president again.”
Mr. Zhou-Castro said Mr. Trump has become more and more vocal about the rhetoric that worries many Republicans.
“Republican leaders have been reacting to Trump’s extreme demands, hoping they won’t do it because the party has struggled in the midterm elections in recent years,” he said.
