Speaking with reporters on Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump said he is hopeful former presidential opponent Hillary Clinton will finally be investigated for election fraud. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images and AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
"You have to have honest reports and when you look at those numbers or when you look at just before the election and then after the election, they corrected it by 8 or 900,000 jobs," he said.
"Why should anybody trust numbers? You go back to election day. Look what happened two or three days before with massive, wonderful jobs numbers, trying to get him elected or her elected, trying to get whoever the hell was running because you go back and they came out with numbers that were very favorable to Kamala," he went on. "And then on the 15th of November or thereabouts, they added 8 or 900,000 overstatement reduction right after the election."
Addressing a reporter directly, Trump added, "It didn't work, because, you know who won, John? I won."
Trump’s comments regarding Clinton hearken back all the way to his first presidential campaign during which he warned that if he were president he would get his attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her behavior. In one of the 2016 debates, Trump famously quipped to Clinton that if he were president: "you’d be in jail."
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard addresses reporters at the White House on July 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In a July interview, Trump described the Russiagate allegations against Obama and members of his administration as "serious treason."
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"What they've done is so bad for this country. And it really started right at the 2016 election," Trump claimed of Gabbard's findings. "And there's a difference when you know it — and when you know it, and it's all written down for you. I mean, it's all there. It's right there. The orders, the memos, the whole thing. It's right there."
Fox News Digital's Diana Stancy and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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