Dean Obeidallah
Progressive reporter, commentator, and radio host Dean Obeidallah was dragged on social media after he implied the 2024 election might have been influenced by malfeasance.
In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter), Obeidallah suggested that at the very least, vote recounts might be in order, citing the number of Democrats with “questions” about former President Donald Trump winning a second term Tuesday.
“The growing chorus of Democrats raising questions about whether Trump won legitimately is now too big to simply ignore,” Obeidallah tweeted. “I’m not saying there was fraud– but I am saying we need public recounts and audits so that people can trust the system.”
In another post, Obeidallah wrote, “If anyone could fund a massive election fraud scheme it’s Elon musk. He also has motive.”
Given Obeidallah’s history of hitting Trump and his followers over their stolen election claims, he was put under the microscope. Here is a small sample of some of the responses:
In an opinion piece for NBC News after the 2020 election, Obeidallah commented:
President Donald Trump is not trying to simply undermine President-elect Joe Biden’s presidency, nor is he primarily trying to position himself for a 2024 presidential run, as many have suggested. No, Trump’s No. 1 goal is to overturn the results of the 2020 election. It’s time for Biden and other Democratic leaders to describe his actions in the most forceful and universally understandable language possible. And that means, in this case, calling them part of an attempted coup to illegally overthrow the Biden presidency.
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