“This was a short comment deep into the thing that wasn’t really central to what he was talking about,” said North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (who, if you recall, was running for the GOP nomination early in the cycle) on a Sunday panel for CNN. “A majority of Americans feel like the trial that he’s in right now is politically motivated.”

Trump peppered in some more points as well. “When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40 percent because you have civil service, you have the unions and you have welfare,” said Trump at another point in the speech. “And don’t underestimate welfare. They get welfare to vote, and then they cheat on top of that—they cheat.”

As usual with Trump, there’s a tiny bit of truth nestled between the lies and exaggerations: Union members and poor people who rely on government handouts are disproportionately Democrat voters. The point is made even more salient by Biden’s repeated yet ill-fated attempts at student loan forgiveness, which looks like an obvious ploy to win over younger voters, prudence (and legality of the policy) be damned.

Trump’s frequent allegations that Democrats cheated to win the 2020 election, on the other hand, are not well-substantiated. The courts have repeatedly considered the question of whether Democrats committed voter fraud in the aftermath of the 2020 election, with outcomes that have been decidedly unfavorable to the “stolen election” types, across all jurisdictions and considered by judges of all political persuasions. (Dear readers, before sending me hate mail for this point, please do take the time to read some substantial number of the 12 links I inserted above.