Trump continued to fuel the pipe dream that he could be reinstated as president, telling supporters to look forward to '2024 or before!'

• Trump fanned the flames of a conspiracy theory about his reinstatement in a Tuesday statement.

• After denying a news story he said was false, he urged readers to look forward to "2024 or before!"

• It is not legally possible for Trump to be reinstated as president.

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Former President Donald Trump fanned speculation on Tuesday that he could be reinstated in the White House.

In a statement shared by the conservative outlet RSB News, Trump repeated the falsehood that the vote of November 2020 was a "very Fraudulent Election." He concluded with "2024 or before!"

The suggestion that Trump could be reinstated before the next presidential election has been floated by his most ardent supporters for months, and the former president is said to have embraced the idea.

None of this is legally possible, as Insider's Grace Panetta and Jake Lahut reported. The claims of election fraud have been publicly and repeatedly found meritless in dozens of lawsuits.

But while Trump continues to deny the validity of the election result, the idea of reinstatement continues to hold sway with his supporters.

In a recent poll, almost a third of Republican voters said it was "likely" Trump would return to office this year.

Sidney Powell, a lawyer who has spread conspiracy theories, said without evidence during a May conference that Trump could "simply be reinstated." And Mike Lindell, MyPillow's CEO, has pinned August as the time when legal efforts to overturn President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory would purportedly bear fruit.

But not all of Trumpworld is convinced. Corey Lewandowski, a former Trump campaign manager, told Fox News earlier in June that he hadn't heard discussions of an August 2021 return. And Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, also said there are "no plans" for him to be reinstated.

Trump's most recent hint came at the end of a muddled statement about a different matter - his treatment at the hands of the writers on "SNL."

Trump denied a recent report from The Daily Beast that he asked the Department of Justice to investigate the show.

The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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