Trump Walks Back Factual Admission Biden Won, Returns To Falsely Claiming Victory

President Donald Trump, arms crossed, listens during a roundtable meeting on seniors in the Cabinet Room at the White House on June 15, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump on Sunday night vehemently backtracked on his apparent acknowledgement of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the election.

“I WON THE ELECTION!” Trump tweeted shortly before midnight, peddling the lie once again.

And a few hours earlier, he tweeted “Why does the Fake News Media continuously assume that Joe Biden will ascend to the Presidency” (the answer is that the Democrat won the election).

The posts were a reversal of the President seeming to finally admit on Sunday morning that he had lost the race, although he did so while baselessly asserting for the umpteenth time that the election was fixed against him.

“He won because the Election was Rigged,” Trump tweeted of Biden.

Though it’s been over a week since the former vice president was officially projected as the winner, Trump has refused to concede and his administration continues to block Biden’s transition process. There is no evidence that the election was “rigged,” and the President’s bogus lawsuits claiming so have been collapsing one by one.

The Biden team has sounded the alarm over how Trump’s stonewalling could hinder their response to the COVID-19 pandemic and distribution of the vaccine for the virus.

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  1. Avatar for elkal elkal says:

    History will record the GOP took no steps to distance themselves from or temper an all-caps spewing deranged clown.

  2. It really shouldn’t be a surprise that Trump can’t accept that he lost to Joe Biden.

    He and his followers still can’t get over that he won against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

  3. Avatar for grack grack says:

    No takesies backsies, loser.

  4. Avatar for brumby brumby says:

    How long until the States certify the results and the Electoral College meets? Can the House subpoena GSA chief to testify on what criteria she is using for ascertainment and how that compares to previous transitions? And make clear how she is personally liable if she follows illegal orders to impede the transition.

  5. Avatar for fgs fgs says:

    I’m calling it the Trump Virus from now on. He has done less to mitigate it than any other world leader and more to personally spread it than any other identifiable human.

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