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Trump Honors 'Angel Families' at the White House, Repeats False Claims About the 2020 Election

President Trump honored relatives of victims killed by individuals in the U.S. illegally and repeated unfounded claims that the 2020 election was rigged, despite no evidence.

  • At the White House, Trump held an angel-families remembrance and signed a proclamation designating Angel Family Day on Monday.
  • The administration defines angel families as relatives of people killed by someone in the U.S. illegally; Laken Riley, 22-year-old Georgia nursing student, was killed jogging in February 2024.
  • Allyson Phillips, Laken Riley's mother, thanked Trump for honoring her daughter and emphasized the importance of his work for the families of victims, recalling Riley was responsible and had been out for a run the morning she was killed.
  • Trump used the ceremony to repeat claims he only lost the 2020 election because it was rigged, asserting victims would be alive if he’d won despite no evidence and court losses.
  • The proclamation and ceremony position victim cases at the center of the administration's immigration narrative, highlighting Laken Riley whose case became a flashpoint and lent its name to the first bill signed in Trump's second term.
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PBS NewsHour broke the news in Washington, United States on Monday, February 23, 2026.
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