
Trump admits for first time that Biden won the election
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 President Donald Trump finally admitted to losing the election — before immediately continuing to spread misinformation about false allegations of mass voter fraud, and later claiming President-elect Joe Biden “only won in the eyes of the Fake News Media”. After days of refusing to concede, the president wrote in a tweet on Sunday morning: “He won because the Election was Rigged.” Mr Trump falsely claimed in all-caps there were “NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS” allowed in the polling places, which is simply not true and can be easily disputed by the witness statements and video evidence of polling place observers watching the ballot count all across the country. In a follow-up tweet, Mr Trump alleged Democrats “succeeded plenty” due to voter fraud while adding: “Mail-in elections are a sick joke!” However, a vast pool of research and analysis has shown mail-in voting to be a safe and effective way to cast ballots in an election without fear of rigging or cheating. Virtually all of the president’s claims about voter fraud have been consistently debunked: his campaign falsely said dead voters cast ballots when in fact they did not; it also falsely said military families were casting illegal ballots when in fact they were not; and it also falsely said that Mr Trump could only lose the election if there was mass voter fraud.
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