Trump links Serbia to efforts to steal US presidential election

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared a post from the X platform on his personal social network "Truth Social", which states that Elon Musk prevented the manipulation of the results of the 2024 US presidential election by blocking the computers of the company "Dominion Voting Systems" in Serbia.

He lost the 2020 presidential election for a second term to Democratic candidate Joe Biden. He claimed that Democrats had stolen the election, and these claims culminated in his supporters attacking the US Congress on January 6, 2021, writes N1.

Now he has shared the message of one of his loyalists with a verified account, Johnny St. Pete, who on X published information from the American conservative commentator and columnist, Benny Johnson, who, according to him, X's owner, Elon Musk, saved the 2024 presidential election by monitoring IP addresses in foreign countries through which votes were counted and blocking their computers.

"Musk knew he would win the election and it seems that this happened because they identified the systems and machines in foreign countries that would do what we saw in 2020," St. Pete wrote in the post that Trump also shared, the Telegraph reports.

He adds that Musk tracked the IP addresses of the company "Dominion Voting Systems" in Serbia and blocked the computers a few days before the 2024 elections. In his post, which Trump also seems to agree with, St. Pete refers to Emerald Robinson, a former White House correspondent who worked for several media outlets, including Newsmax, and is now one of the most well-known conspiracy theorists in the US.

Voting machines and the connection with Serbia

The second American conspiracy theorist, Patrick M. Byrne, has also put forward theories about vote-rigging through vote-counting machines. In one of the lawsuits filed against him by the company “Dominion” in 2021, it is said that Byrne posted on his blog that year that there had been an external attack on the voting system in the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, with the aim of influencing the outcome of the elections.

Referring to statements by a senior military security official, Byrne claimed that the "Dominion Voting System" is controlled and owned by individuals and companies outside America and that control over the data of these machines is lost once they leave the US.

He added that electronic information from voting and vote counting machines from the US in the 2020 elections was sent to Germany, Barcelona, ​​Serbia and Canada, where it was manipulated and the altered data was sent back to the US.

The theory further alleged that the Dominion company corrupted American election officials and that the machines tampered with and destroyed ballots to hide fraud committed electronically abroad.

The company stated in its lawsuit that all of these allegations are false and that Byrne had hired people to create false "evidence" which he published on his personal blog to support his claims.