In the past few days, we’ve seen something of a seismic shift in the rhetoric of former President Donald Trump: He has admitted on three separate occasions to losing the 2020 election. The very same race Trump’s been committed to baselessly claiming for years he actually won.
The latest instance of Trump’s brief encounter with reality came in an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, who asked a rather anodyne question: “How do you think you’ll do in the debate coming up?”
Trump boasted about his success in debating and recalled “the famous Rosie O’Donnell debate” before pivoting to 2020.
“I became president, and then the second time, I got millions more votes than he got the first time,” he said, starting down a path familiar to anyone who’s paid attention. “I was told that if I got 63 million, which is what I got the first time, you would win. You can’t not win. And I got millions of more votes than that. And I lost by a whisker.”
This wouldn’t be the first time Trump has admitted he lost. Over the years he’s made headlines for apparent slips in which he concedes that he did indeed lose the election to President Joe Biden, admissions that are at odds with his deranged crusade to insist the election was stolen — a crusade that has somehow convinced the majority of Republican voters of this fantasy. But in the last few weeks, the pace of Trump’s 2020 confessions has accelerated.
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He admitted to losing a rigged election
Its gonna be no different this upcoming election. If trump gets ahead by a lrge number than aroud 2 or 3 in the am the box trucks will roll into the voting stations. They will already have millions of mail in ballots pre filled out all for kamala. Then we wake up the next morning with kamala ahead by millions of votes that will fall from the sky.
Gonna get his A— handed to him
And all of 34 felony convictions…
F@#$ biden/harris. Did you think he didn't win or did biden cheat?
What about those 1600 folks that got charged on Jan6 who believed the lies. Wonder how there are feeling these days.
Trump's words as well as his power have capsized… His 15 minutes have passed…in my opinion, he's an empty shell of his fomer self… the peterman…
Women vote for kamala
Trump's admission that he lost in 2020 will solidify his reputation for honesty.
Can't see that he not right look what happened to the world look at it😢
Trumps narcissism is fighting what little brains he has. He knows he'll be humiliated by Harris but his ego won't let him pull out.
Trump is a convicted 34 count felon why is he not in jail ? Is Trump on the national sex offender list for his conviction of molesting a woman ?
Trump all the way baby!
Ya gotta know his tone. I know what he's sayin ✌️
Yep he lost. He went through all the courts trying to say the election was rigged. No proof of it He lost.
Now he admits it?! After all the lives lost, the deaths? People sitting in prison? Sharing this.
A "whisker" of just over 7 million votes, and 306:232 in the electoral college.
He’s admitting it now because he knows it would make no sense for him to run in 2024 if the election is rigged against him anyway. So he has to admit it so he can give himself and his idiot supporters a reason to run again.
The Democrats need to direct their fury at themselves. The election WAS a
fraud. Just look at the statistics. Dementia Joe Biden received
81,281,502 votes in November, almost 12 million MORE, 17% MORE, almost
one in five MORE votes than the previous record holder, 0bama got WAY
back 2008, 69,480,000, a mere 12 years later. I’ll bet NO candidate EVER
receives as many votes as Dementia Joe in ANY election EVER again.
but, have you noticed any MAGA's upset 'cause he's lied to them? He's their Savior, today's news .. he mumbled about all the bibles he has around his house. Without laughing!
he looks like he smells like cheap cologne, farts and a cadaver’s ass.
They need to put this clip on national news so his Mega morons can understand this guy can never ever tell the truth why would he do it now because syphilis has been eating his brain for the last 8 years😮
Why is this not on the front page of every newspaper and leading news story of every tv station? It should be on repeat. This is insane!! The mf'r finally admitted it. WTF???
Sure didn’t sound sarcastic
Who told him if he gets 63 million he wins? They lied to you? If your opponent gets more votes, they win!
Wait! DID HE JUST ADMIT HE LOST BY A WHISKER? 😅
Lost by a cat whisker?
What an ass