Donald Trump's new 'From the Desk of...' website is restored after crashing following a post claiming that Arizona election results were rigged
Former President Donald Trump's new website 'From the Desk of...' crashed on Saturday evening after he shared a claim on his site that the Arizona election result had been rigged by voter fraud.
The site was down for at least an hour before service was restored.
Conservative news website The Gateway Pundit reported that From the Desk of Donald Trump crashed shortly after the former president issued a statement claiming Arizona's election results were fraudulent
It is unclear why Trump's website crashed and whether the site was hacked. So far no statement has emerged on whether it was attacked, or went down because of an IT malfunction.
Before the website's crash, Trump had asserted the entire Maricopa County ballot database has been deleted before alleging massive fraud in the form of 'broken seals on boxes, ballots missing, and worse.'
Trump's new 'From the Desk of...' website crashed after he repeated false claims that the election was 'rigged' including the state of Arizona
Before the website came down, Trump had asserted the entire Maricopa County ballot database has been deleted before alleging massive fraud in the form of 'broken seals on boxes, ballots missing, and worse.'
Trump had previously stated that the southwestern state would be the first to undo the 'rigged' 2020 election after a recount in Maricopa County conducted by the Florida company Cyber Ninjas. Arizona's recount started late last month after the state's Republican-led Senate hired a Florida company to conduct the audit.
Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, was overseeing the audit despite the company having no experience working elections.
Logan had previously spread outrageous conspiracy theories that a company tied to Hugo Chavez, the long-dead Venezuelan dictator, rigged voting machines against Trump.
The audit, which was expected conclude on Friday, only looked at votes cast in the presidential and U.S. Senate races, which were won by Democrats.
Former President Donald Trump, pictured at his Mar-a-Lago resort in April, had ranted at the start of May that Arizona will be the first state to undo the 'rigged' 2020 election
Former Arizona state Rep. Anthony Kern, who was pictured among insurrectionists during the Capitol riots, recounts ballots from the 2020 general election as a contractor working for Cyber Ninjas
'Let's see what they find. I wouldn't be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes,' Trump said earlier this month.
'We're going to watch that very quickly and, after that, we'll Pennsylvania, we'll watch Georgia, and you're going to watch Michigan, and Wisconsin, and New Hampshire.'
He continued: 'This was a rigged election and everybody knows it and we're going to be watching it very closely.'
Trump repeatedly tried to contest last year's election result, but was unable to do so after failing to provide compelling proof that Joe Biden's win was fraudulent.
As far as his new website is concerned, Trump launched the new communications platform on earlier this month in order to get around his social media bans by allowing supporters to share his statements on Twitter and Facebook.
The website, which is essentially a blog, only allows Trump to upload content and does not allow users to interact.
The website, which is essentially a blog, only allows Trump to upload content and does not allow users to interact. It was down early on Saturday evening
Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, is overseeing the audit and has spread conspiracy theories that the election was fraudulent
Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas, who was hired by the Arizona State Senate, examine and recount ballots from the 2020 general election
Former President Donald Trump launched a webpage, www.DonaldJTrump.com/desk, which allows supporters to share the statements Trump has been emailing to the press to their social media platforms
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