Goya Foods CEO falsely says Trump is ‘the real, the legitimate, and the still actual president’
On Sunday, though, Unanue appeared on the CPAC stage in Orlando and said: “It’s just an honor to be here. But my biggest honor today is gonna be that — I think we’re gonna be on the same stage — as, in my opinion, the real, the legitimate, and the still actual president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.”
Trump is not the real, legitimate, or actual president anymore. That would be Joe Biden, who legitimately defeated Trump in November.
Unanue said at CPAC: “But we still have faith that the majority of the people of the United States voted for the president.” He added soon after, “I think a great majority of the people in the United States voted for President Trump, and even a few Democrats.”
Unanue also said at CPAC that “not only the presidential election” but “the Georgia election” was “not legitimate.”
The presidential election in general, the presidential election in Georgia in particular, and the January runoff elections for two Georgia Senate seats were all legitimate.
Unanue also made vague insinuations at CPAC about voter fraud involving mail-in ballots, saying that he received “unsolicited ballots” and that, “as a citizen of the United States, I think I’m allowed to vote once, once — not twice, or three times, or 10 times.”
There is no evidence that anyone voted three times or more in the 2020 election — and certainly no evidence that such a thing happened often enough to affect the outcome.
Goya Foods did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday afternoon. It was not clear if Unanue’s comments at CPAC violated the board’s January directive limiting his political remarks; CNN and other outlets reported that the board had required Unanue to get approval before making media appearances, but his Sunday remarks came in a speech rather than an interview.
