Former President Donald Trump sent a “cease and desist” message on Truth Social and X, issuing a legal warning to anyone attempting to cheat in the 2024 presidential election.
“CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election,” Trump wrote. “It was a Disgrace to our Nation!”
“Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” he added. “We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T!”
Trump clarified that the legal exposure “extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials.” He also warned, “Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”
Trump’s warning follows the style of a “cease and desist” letter. For example, if a newspaper printed something that someone considers to be defamation, the allegedly defamed person’s attorney would write a letter to the newspaper, warning of a lawsuit unless the paper retracts the claim and ceases to continue publishing such claims.
Trump did not clarify which laws he considers the alleged cheaters to have been violating, but the Biden-Harris administration has recently attempted to stop states like Virginia and Alabama from removing aliens from their voter files. A federal judge ruled Friday that Virginia must put the names of aliens back on the rolls. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, the commonwealth’s Republican governor, pledged to appeal the ruling to higher courts, and to the Supreme Court, if necessary.
