‘Trump only claims “fraud” in elections where he doesn’t like the result.’ Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/Pool/Aaron Schwartz - Pool/CNP/Shutterstock By now, it is an event as regular and predictable as the tides: a Democrat wins an election, and Donald Trump says that that election was rigged. There does not need to be any evidence for this; indeed, there never is. Trump will say it anyway. He rallies the rightwing media ecosystem to spread the lie; he convinces his followers to believe it.