Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called the 2020 presidential election “the most corrupt election in modern times” and accused Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of working to help Democrats.
“I think the Democrats focused on the election where Republicans focused on the campaign. The Democrats didn’t care if Biden never campaigned. They were going to generate votes and turn out votes,” Gingrich said during an interview on “The Cats Roundtable” radio show. “And when you go around and look state by state, the results are fascinating. And I think they raise real questions about exactly what happened. I personally believe this was the most corrupt election in modern times.”
Gingrich said that Zuckerberg and Facebook spent millions to maximize Democratic turnout, which was a “direct violation” of voting laws.
“Just take the one example of Zuckerberg and Facebook, they put in $400 million basically renting city governments and getting them to maximize turnouts and precincts that they couldn’t carry, which is a direct violation of the 2002 voting act by Congress, which says that you have to have a fair effort across the board,” Gingrich said. “You can’t just select areas you’re going to try to maximize turnout in. So, I think just the $400 million that Zuckerberg put into maximizing Democratic turnout, by itself, is a big enough corruption that it raises enormous questions about the legitimacy of the Biden potential presidency.”
President Trump has continued to insist that there was large scale voter fraud in key swing states, leading to President-elect Joe Biden’s narrow victory in those states and handing him the Electoral College majority.
Meanwhile, Facebook and Zuckerberg have been under intense scrutiny for the platform’s handling of the election. Democrats have claimed that Facebook is a source of misinformation, while Republicans have countered that the social media giant censors conservative views.
More than 40 states have joined an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, while Trump has demanded that it and other social media companies such as Twitter lose their Section 230 protections.
