Trump touts peaceful power transition despite 'rigged' 2020 election

Former President Donald Trump says he would peacefully surrender power after another four year term in the White House, citing the 2020 election. 

“I did that this time," he said during a radio interview with host Hugh Hewitt. "And I’ll tell you what, the election was rigged, and we have plenty of evidence of it. But I did it anyway," reported The Washington Times.

Trump is currently in the middle of criminal cases in Washington, D.C., and Georgia for efforts to challenge the 2020 election results. He has denied all charges and said they are politically motivated. 

During the radio interview with Hewitt, Trump also defended his recent comments about the migrant surge that he said is "poisoning" the U.S.

“When you look at it, and you look at what’s coming in, we have, from all over the world, not one group, they’re coming in from Asia, from Africa, from South America. They’re coming from all over the world,” Trump said, according to The Washington Times. “They’re coming from prisons. They’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums. They’re terrorists. Absolutely, that’s poisoning our country. That’s poisoning the blood of our country. And that’s what’s happening.”

Trump first made the migrant comment at a rally in New Hampshire, which received much criticism, including from President Joe Biden. 

“We always believed diversity is our strength as a nation. I don’t believe, as the president — former president — said again yesterday, that immigrants are polluting, polluting our blood,” Biden said during the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce.