During a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump suggested that legal actions might soon be taken against individuals involved in the 2020 election, which he continues to baselessly assert was manipulated.

While addressing the audience at the forum, Trump deviated from his prepared remarks to make this unexpected announcement.

He reiterated his belief that the conflict in Ukraine would not have occurred had he been re-elected for a second term.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine was initiated by President Vladimir Putin in February 2022, more than a year after President Joe Biden assumed office.

“And it wouldn’t have started if the 2020 U.S. presidential election weren’t rigged,” Trump declared to those gathered. “It was a rigged election,” he insisted.

‘Everybody now knows that. They found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did,’ he continued. 

‘That’s probably breaking news, but it should be – it was a rigged election, can’t have rigged elections,’ Trump added.

Trump has long pushed that he lost the 2020 election due to widespread voter fraud, instead of voters’ discontent over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

President Donald Trump said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Wednesday that people will be prosecuted over their roles in the 2020 election, an election the president still falsely claims was ‘stolen’ from him 

Biden was able to flip back the blue wall of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan that Trump had won in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton and add several traditionally red states, including Arizona and Georgia, to his column. 

Despite the president’s historic political comeback in the 2024 election, beating Biden’s No. 2, Vice President Kamala Harris, to become only the second president in history to win non-consecutive terms, Trump continues to bring up the 2020 election burn.

Some of the top voices in the MAGA movement have wanted to see Attorney General Pam Bondi look more into the 2020 race. 

‘Folks are desperate for action and just haven’t seen it,’ Steve Bannon, Trump’s former White House chief strategist, told the Wall Street Journal in an interview earlier this month.

Bannon said the president’s supporters have wanted to see movement on cases related to the 2020 election and also the 2016 election related to the Russia probe.

It’s unclear who would be indicted in a 2020 election case. 

In the aftermath of the election, Trump and his allies filed 62 cases contesting the election results, with nearly all dismissed over a lack of standing or evidence. 

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overruled one initial Trump campaign win, which dealt with whether first-time voters could be asked for photo identification if they wanted to ‘cure’ their mail-in ballots. 

President Donald Trump appears at a ‘stop the steal’ rally the morning of January 6, 2021. Trump told supporters that he had lost the election due to widespread voter fraud. Supporters ransacked the U.S. Capitol later that day 

At the same time, several Trump-aligned officials, including his personal lawyer, former New York City Mayor, have gotten in legal trouble over their roles in trying to overturn Biden’s win. 

Last April, Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and other Republican officials who signed a document submitted to Congress falsely saying Trump won the election were indicted in Arizona.

There were also droves of prosecutions related to January 6. 

Trump was impeached for a second time, after leaving office, for inciting an insurrection on January 6, 2021. 

He was acquitted in the Republican-led U.S. Senate.

His rhetoric at a ‘stop the steal’ rally at the Ellipse led to thousands of Trump supporters ransacking the U.S. Capitol. 

In the years following the Capitol attack, more than 1,500 rioters were charged with crimes, but Trump pardoned them all shortly after taking office for a second time last year.