Donald Trump calls for Mark Zuckerberg to be prosecuted after donating $2 million to Georgia’s election board

Donald Trump is calling for Mark Zuckerberg to be prosecuted amid revelations that a group linked to him gave $2 million to the Georgia election board.

The former president exposed the allegations against the Facebook CEO on his Truth Social platform on Sunday while sharing an article about the controversial donation.

‘He [Zuckerberg] He cheated in the Elections. The whole system is rigged. Why is he not being prosecuted? Democrats only know how to cheat. The United States will not take much longer! he wrote.

He then repeated his false claims that the 2020 vote was rigged against him and expressed concern that it could happen again.

‘Crooked Democratic prosecutors, many of them backwards racists, are trying to steal a second presidential election. They did it in 2020, and we are not going to let them do it again in 2024. MAGA!!!’, Trump wrote then on his Truth Social platform.

Trump’s anger stems in part from an allegation that a Georgia election board may have violated state law by accepting $2 million from a Zuckerberg-linked group, the US Alliance for Electoral Excellence.

Conservatives have long accused the tech mogul’s social media platform of censoring right-wing voices as part of their campaign against disinformation.

A watchdog, the Honest Elections Project, is now calling for a full investigation of the DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections into what they say is a “gross and egregious” violation of a state ban on private funding.

The ban was put in place after allegations that donors used their money to push their left-wing agenda ahead of the 2020 election.

It was spurred by anger and suspicion from the right that Zuckerberg’s money benefited Democrats in 2020.

The watchdog is now calling for the state attorney general, secretary of state and state election board to set up an investigation and look into the cash donation.

“Now we’re pretty convinced that this is an attempt to do two things: get around those prohibitions on private funding by doing what they did in DeKalb County, looking for loopholes and final rounds, doing what they can to get money in these offices; or doing what I think is an even more important job, which is injecting influence into these offices,’ said Honest Elections Project executive director Jason Snead. foxnews.

“They are trying to collect data and reshape the way these offices operate so that they essentially become left-wing outposts for progressive electoral reform. Everything they do is a ruse to get into these offices and achieve that goal.’

Part of the funding that came in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic helped jurisdictions deal with the pandemic by providing ballot boxes, voting equipment, additional labor, protective gear for poll workers, and public education campaigns on new voting methods. voting, among other expenses.

Zuckerberg’s money was largely distributed through a nonpartisan foundation that had liberal roots.

Some conservative groups cite analysis that money went disproportionately to Democratic-leaning counties, resulting in higher turnout.

“This massive influx of funds, which ultimately exceeded $400 million, was met with strong criticism fueled by post-election analysis that revealed that money was overwhelmingly funneled to Democratic-leaning jurisdictions,” an Elections Project letter reads. honest.

A spokesperson for Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan said the grant was a “one-time donation given the unprecedented nature of the crisis.”

“During the 2020 election, Mark and Priscilla made a one-time donation to help address the unprecedented challenge of ensuring Americans could vote safely during the height of the pandemic,” Brian Baker told Fox.

In some states, including Georgia, recently introduced laws now require that all donations to local election offices be distributed by the secretary of state.

The issue of Zuckerberg Trump’s donations had been something of a nightmare for the former president.

He told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, last year that something was wrong with the amount of money Zuckerberg funneled into groups that were being used to support the work of the people who run the elections.

Conservatives have long complained about how the majority was funneled to Democratic counties, where turnout increased.

“Let’s do a full forensic audit of the $417 million that Mark Zuckerberg, who used to come to the White House and kiss my ass, spent to take over local election offices in key Democratic counties,” Trump said in February 2022.

And I think you’re going to hear a lot of that. You know that if you are a person who wants to make a contribution, you can give less than $6,000; otherwise, they put you in jail,” Trump explained.

‘He gave 417 million dollars. What the hell is going on?’ she demanded to know.

“These people, they call them mules, ballots in Georgia and other swing states were trafficked and sold on an unprecedented scale and the brutality…it was just unbelievable what happened that we have on record,” he said.

Elections are more expensive in populated urban areas, and especially more so in 2020, when states rushed to vote-by-mail to deal with the pandemic.

Metro areas had to buy expensive equipment to open and sort mail-in ballots, a task smaller, Republican-leaning counties could do by hand or with less equipment.

Republican-leaning areas were also discouraged from accepting election grants due to Zuckerberg’s conservative suspicions.

In 2020, Louisiana’s Republican attorney general ordered his state’s election offices to reject grants from the nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life, which distributed $350 million of Zuckerberg’s money.

All election departments that applied received funds,” CTCL Executive Director Tiana Epps-Johnson said, adding that the distribution of the money “reflects who chose to apply.”