Donald Trump has confessed that he did not win the election in 2020.
He admitted, “I didn’t win the election.”
Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor and editor of The Presidency of Donald Trump: A First Historical Assessment, held a video discussion with a panel of historians. The Atlantic released the interview on Monday.
Trump said Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, was among the “happiest” world leaders after Joe Biden was elected to the White House in the 2020 US election, as he described his efforts to make South Korea pay more for US military assistance.
Trump said Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, was among the “happiest” foreign leaders when Joe Biden was elected to the White House in the 2020 US election, as he described his efforts to get South Korea pay more for US military assistance.
“By not winning the election, he was the happiest man – in order, China was – no, Iran was the happiest,” Trump remarked.
“[Moon] was supposed to pay $5 billion a year.” But, since I didn’t win the election, he had to be the happiest — I’d put South Korea in the third or fourth place.”
“The election was rigged and lost,” Trump added.
Trump’s refusal to recognize Biden’s defeat sparked judicial battles to overturn election results in important states – the great majority of which were lost – and the deadly attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Trump was impeached a second time, this time for inciting insurgency, but was acquitted after enough Senate Republicans remained loyal.
Trump is so free to run for President in 2024, as he has previously stated.
Trump “was the one who had decided to reach out to a group of competent historians so that we created ‘an accurate book,'” Zelizer wrote for the Atlantic.
“I think rather than being critical, I’d like to have you hear me out, which is what we’re doing now, and I appreciate it,” the former president said of the historians collected by Zelizer.
“Trump seemed to want historians’ approval, without any understanding of how historians gather evidence or render judgments,” Zelizer wrote.
Trump announced shortly after the meeting with the historians that he would no longer conduct interviews for books about his presidency, according to Zelizer.
In July 2021, Trump remarked in a statement, “It appears to me that meeting with authors of the ludicrous amount of books being published about my very successful government, or me, is a total waste of time.”
