
Trump finally admits he lost the election but still falsely says it was ‘rigged’
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Donald Trump was apparently caught admitting that he lost the 2020 US presidential election to Joe Biden in a Zoom meeting last summer, according to a video recirculated in recent days. Mr Trump said of South Korean president Moon Jae-In, Chinese premier Xi Jinping and Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi: “By not winning the election, he was the happiest man – I would say, in order, China was – no, Iran was the happiest”. During the meeting, Mr Trump also said of the now-cancelled Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany: “So we had a deal, would have happened, all set, and then when the election was rigged and lost, what happened is that the deal went away.” The call was carried out by Princeton University professor Julian E Zelizer,who described the exchange with Mr Trump as an attempt “to influence the narratives being written about him”. Former US president Donald Trump speaking in July 2021 Mr Trump has long accused Democrats of “rigging” the vote in 2020 and even pressured his own vice president, Mike Pence, into overturing the election during a special joint session of Congress on 6 January 2021.
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