evidence: The former president’s false claims — widely debunked as misinformation, or outright lies — aren’t new: He’s been saying for years that the US electoral system is rife with voter fraud. [...] Four years later, as he ran for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Trump accused his rival Senator Ted Cruz of winning the Iowa caucuses through "fraud". He demanded the vote either be nullified or held again. [...] And in 2020, that incendiary rhetoric reached new heights with the so-called "Big Lie": the false claim that Democrats stole that year’s election, resulting in Trump's loss to US President Joe Biden.