This was Trump's biggest fib about the 2020 election

Donald Trump loves to tell tall tales about what happened during the 2020 election that caused his loss to Joe Biden, and most of these stories are just simply not true. However, the former president took things to a new level in November 2023.

While speaking at the Florida Freedom Summit, Trump might have told what is his biggest falsehood about the 2020 election when he said in front of a crowded room that he actually won all 50 states.

"We won every state. We then did great in the election. We got 12 million more votes or so, 12 million more votes than we got the first time,” Trump said during his speech at the Freedom Summit in Orlando according to ABC News. 

"The whole thing is a lie … the whole election is a lie,” the former president added. But the election wasn't a lie and Trump’s claims that he was the true winner of the 2020 election revealed that he may indeed believe his own delusions. 

Anyone with half a brain and enough intelligence not to believe the former president’s claims about the last presidential election being stolen would immediately recognize Trump’s untruth as one of the biggest falsehoods he had uttered in years. 

Despite what the former president has claimed, he really did lose the election in 2020 and that fact has been relayed over and over again to the American people. Joe Biden beat Trump 306 electoral votes to 232 and no lie can change it. 

Numerous lawsuits from Trump and his diehard political supporters have since fallen apart in court in nearly every state where he claimed fraud took place. But that truth hasn’t stopped the former president from claiming he won the election. 

In 2021, Reuters noted that more than 50 lawsuits of alleged irregularities and electoral  fraud had been dismissed by courts in the United States, quoting officials who said that the 2020 election was “most secure in American history.”

However, Republican voters seem to have overlooked the fact that no evidence of any electoral fraud exists and the reality that it is Trump who is facing two charges of trying to undermine the country’s elections through interference. 

The Freedom Summit revealed the struggle between more moderate Republicans and the former president's wing of the party with speakers like the Governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson urging voters to reconsider choosing Trump to run in 2024. 

"There is a significant likelihood that Donald Trump will be found guilty by a jury on a felony offense next year," Hutchison explained at the time to the crowd at Freed Summit according to the Australian media outlet ABC News. 

"That may or may not happen before you vote [in the Republican primaries] in March,” Hutchison went on to say, “and it might not make any difference to you, but it will make a difference for our chances to attract independent voters in November.”

The Arkansas Governor warned voters not to ignore the “destructive behavior” of the former president all the while being met with jeers and boos from a crowd that clearly still heavily supported Trump as the future of the party. 

Then-Republican nomination hopeful and former Trump ally Chris Christie told the crowd at the Freedom Summit that their “anger against the Truth was reprehensible” as he tried to call for bringing back character to the White House. 

Trump mostly ignored the criticism he faced from Hutchison and Christie, instead using his time to tell his fibs and attack his only actual opponent at this stage in the race: Ron DeSantis, which went poorly for the Florida Governor. 

“I endorsed him and he became a rocket ship in 24 hours. ... Now he’s like a wounded falling bird from the sky,” Trump said of DeSantis, claiming that DeSantis begged for the then-president’s endorsement in 2018 according to the Associated Press. 

How some Republican voters can reconcile Trump’s lies with reality is difficult to understand but it will certainly make for an interesting presidential election in 2024 if Trump not that Trump is the only candidate left standing in the Republican primary and the party's presumptive pick for the 2024 election.