Donald Trump Admits He Lost the Election
[guest post by Dana]
I feel like this should be getting way more attention than it has:
Former President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that he did not win the 2020 presidential election, telling podcaster Lex Fridman that he “lost by a whisker.”
Fridman asked the Republican nominee about his expectations for his debate next week against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, in a podcast episode released Tuesday.
Trump initially answered, “I’ve done a lot of debating … I’ve done well with debates,” before embarking on a tangent about the number of votes he received in 2020, saying: “I became president. Then the second time I got millions more votes than I got the first time.”
“I was told 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 more votes than that and lost by a whisker,” Trump added
Trump admitting that he lost the election is no small thing. Especially when considering what he dragged the country through. From his election denial and efforts to overturn the results, to the violent insurrection on Jan. 6, to his rejection of a peaceful transfer of power, to his complete willingness to ignore the Constitution and the 60 court cases he lost concerning the said election. How do his supporters feel? It’s been years of his endless lies and denials about the election, and now he admits that he knew he lost? That’s got to sting.
Moreover, how do those hundreds of Trump supporters who went to jail for him, feel about their leader admitting that he lost the election? Because when you’ve lost the foul Nick Fuentes. . .
Nick Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) talks about Donald Trump's "I lost by a whisker" comment admitting he lost the 2020 Election.
"Would have been good to know that before 16K people got charged. Before I got my money frozen & put on a Federal No Fly List." pic.twitter.com/v4pypEY6mV
— KaizerRev (@Kaizerrev) September 4, 2024
—Dana
Hello.
Dana (942a23) — 9/5/2024 @ 10:17 amI don’t think that means he didn’t think the election was stolen though.
whembly (477db6) — 9/5/2024 @ 10:28 amA month (or less) from now Trump will deny he ever said that.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/5/2024 @ 10:47 amOh?
whembly (477db6) — 9/5/2024 @ 10:55 amTrump cultists hardest hit.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/5/2024 @ 11:51 amNow they don’t know what to believe after Trump’s flip-flop.
Putin may be a bigger troll than Trump, but his “endorsement” is enough for the Orange Rubes.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/5/2024 @ 11:54 amThis elegant quote reminds me of the MAGA hordes…
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/5/2024 @ 12:04 pm–Mark Twain
Odd Trump would tell the truth. I wonder if he’s feeling ok.
Time123 (83908a) — 9/5/2024 @ 12:27 pmWhat makes you all think he believes it? Any more than he believed that he won in a landslide?
This is Trump. Everything he says is a spiel for the rubes. Whatever works. And with the Deplorables, anything works.
nk (9e6268) — 9/5/2024 @ 1:42 pmTrump said:
Whembly @ 2,
What in the statement makes you think that? Because it seems pretty clear to me: either you believe he says what you he means, or he’s lying about it.
Dana (3b8f45) — 9/5/2024 @ 1:44 pmOr the better question, Dana, is…was he lying then or lying now. Either way, he’s a liar.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/5/2024 @ 1:50 pmPutin says he wants Harris to win 2024 election https://t.co/eOpcjHHCQM
— Axios (@axios) September 5, 2024
whembly (477db6) — 9/5/2024 @ 10:55 am
I’m confident this is true, because Putin has a sterling reputation for honesty.
norcal (027a30) — 9/5/2024 @ 2:09 pmWhose whisker? To quote somebody or other from where J. D. Vance comes from, “I ain’t never seen no whisker 7 million people across”.
nk (9e6268) — 9/5/2024 @ 2:09 pm@10
Why is it so hard to understand that on the one hand, you can say that you “lost by a whisker”, as Trump stated and at the same time believe there were election shenanigans in 2020?
You can hold those two thoughts at the same time.
whembly (477db6) — 9/5/2024 @ 2:10 pmDictionary
nk (9e6268) — 9/5/2024 @ 2:17 pmDefinitions from Oxford Languages
dou·ble·think
/ˈdəbəlˌTHiNGk/
noun
the acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time, especially as a result of political indoctrination [or love].
Corrected comment: What in the statement makes you think that? Because it seems pretty clear to me: either you believe he says what he means, or he’s lying about it.
Apologies for sloppy wording…
Dana (00e2e8) — 9/5/2024 @ 2:30 pmHere’s Trump’s latest word-salad “weave” on the child care problem in America.
The man is mentally unraveled, mentally unfit, can’t even keep his lies straight.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/5/2024 @ 2:33 pmP.S. The video is even worse…
Except that Trump has never claimed these past four years that he “lost by a whisker”. Rather he’s only claimed that he *won* the election and that it was stolen from him.
Dana (284941) — 9/5/2024 @ 2:35 pmHe did not send 5,000-6,000 people to invade the Capitol because he lost by a whisker.
nk (9e6268) — 9/5/2024 @ 2:41 pmYes, Paul @ 11.
Dana (ef5d15) — 9/5/2024 @ 2:45 pmAbsolutely correct, nk.
Dana (ef5d15) — 9/5/2024 @ 2:45 pmExtremism in the defense of preferred policies is no vice.
– A Certain Commenter Here
norcal (027a30) — 9/5/2024 @ 2:52 pmTime123 (83908a) — 9/5/2024 @ 12:27 pm
Trump may be getting tired of saying he won by a lot, at least saying that to people who don’t believe him.
He’s been saying a lot of unusual for him things lately.
The other day, instead of saying he wanted to deport 20 million people, he said he wanted (to start with at least) only the criminals) something close to that.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 9/5/2024 @ 3:32 pmHe could have pardoned all those
Kevin M (a9545f) — 9/5/2024 @ 3:46 pmmarksrubessuckerspatriots, but he didn’t.Earlier today I watched a Youtube video of Tom Brokow interviewing Ronald Reagan, three days before he left office. I know that people say that Reagan was mentally impaired by that time, but he appeared to be aware with an active mind.
Neither Biden nor Trump would measure up to Reagan at 77 years of age. Not even close. Even Harris would have trouble matching him unscripted.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 9/5/2024 @ 3:50 pmHere’s some word salad from Trump, this one on his tax policy and its effect on the deficit, pulled almost completely from his ass.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/5/2024 @ 6:10 pmPeople, this is cognitive and mental unfitness. Make it stop.
This is what Kamala has to figure out, how to handle Trump’s gish-galloping in the upcoming debate, because Trump will turn that firehose on.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/5/2024 @ 7:17 pm@17, quite the ramble. How could 75% of the GOP think this is a good idea?
AJ_Liberty (5f05c3) — 9/5/2024 @ 7:35 pmAJ, Trump’s “ramble” at #26 is equally troubling. Trump’s brains are going to mush.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/5/2024 @ 8:55 pmI mean, even Trump’s Gettysburg Address, four short months ago, sounded more coherent than the gibberish he said today…
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/5/2024 @ 11:24 pmDid you watch the video of Putin making those remarks? He was obviously trolling. Here’s Pat’s reaction, below which you can click through to Putin’s video:
lurker (c23034) — 9/6/2024 @ 2:13 amAnyone who thinks that Putin really wants Harris to win the election is way too credulous. Putin obviously wants to hand the Republicans a talking point against Harris, saying “Look! She even got Putin’s endorsement!” If Trump wins, Ukraine is toast, and that has to be what Putin really wants.
Roger (cda40f) — 9/6/2024 @ 6:13 am@6
It was enough for you when the argument was made that Russia wanted Trump to win in 2016.
Does that make you a Gullible Rube too?
whembly (477db6) — 9/6/2024 @ 6:50 amWhat lurker said, whembly.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/6/2024 @ 7:05 amCatch a clue.
Oh, regarding Putin’s intent to have Trump, it wasn’t “the argument was made”, it was factually concluded in both the Mueller and Senate Intelligence Committee reports. Not honest.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/6/2024 @ 7:07 amThe irony about Russian tools like Tim Pool and Dave Rubin was their accusing Hunter of being bribed while both accepting $100,000 a week a from Russia.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/6/2024 @ 7:14 amIs this about Russia Russia Russia? Yes, yes it is, and it deserves to be.
@34 Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/6/2024 @ 7:05 am
Ya’ll sure about that?
Because your trolling/sarcasm meters only seems to work one way.
whembly (477db6) — 9/6/2024 @ 7:15 amwhembly, I’ll just note your wall of denial when you read things you don’t like, despite the facts, despite actual video that lurker showed you.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/6/2024 @ 7:34 am@38 w
After the Russian Collusion Hoax Saga… you don’t get to have this “nuance”, and at the same time take the most absurd interpretation that confirms your biases.
whembly (477db6) — 9/6/2024 @ 7:41 amThat impenetrable wall of denial including your false “Russian Collusion Hoax Sage”. Sad.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/6/2024 @ 7:43 amIt’s like when poor Mr. Trump wanted to say how much he loved cats, and when he met a childless cat lady he would just reach down and pick up her cat, just reach down and grab it, and everybody said that he meant something completely different, and said all kinds of bad things about him.
nk (4d2f5a) — 9/6/2024 @ 7:43 amSO UNFAIR!
nk (4d2f5a) — 9/6/2024 @ 7:44 amDon Jr. invited Natalia Veselnitskaya (I am more than mildly annoyed that I can still spell her name) to Trump’s campaign headquarters at Trump Tower because he, Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner all were looking to adopt Russian babies.
nk (4d2f5a) — 9/6/2024 @ 7:48 amGood grief, and this denial at a time when a right-wing media operation was literally busted for Russian collusion (and I doubt the indictments will stop at Tenet Media).
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/6/2024 @ 8:16 amYou can’t go on the internet without running across one right-wing grifter or another, oft times parroting Kremlin propaganda, and it’s irreparably damaged the credibility of this Republican Party.
Burn this b-tch down is where I’m getting with this nonsense, especially when its mush-brain nominee is speaking incoherent gibberish, trying to pass it off as Trump Policy.
Seriously, Trump’s gish-galloping and rambling and incoherence is just as bad–if not worse–than Biden’s last “we finally beat Medicare” debate performance, and so far Trump is getting a pass. Not from me, the stakes are too high.
Paul Montagu (01ae08) — 9/6/2024 @ 8:19 amI can see why BuDuh and lloyd and Rob took leave. It’s hard work constantly defending the indefensible.
Paul Montagu (e4817e) — 9/6/2024 @ 8:46 amIt is, however, no secret that Iran is working to elect Harris.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 9/6/2024 @ 8:59 am@46
It’s hard work trying to convince those who insists on being stubborn.
But, I’m a happy warrior, so alas, you’re stuck with me. 😉
Look, I’ll agree with you that Trump has mountains… mountains of negatives.
But, I don’t care because a Harris/Walz administration will be so much worse.
whembly (477db6) — 9/6/2024 @ 9:14 am@47
Bruh… what?
whembly (477db6) — 9/6/2024 @ 9:15 amIran Emerges as a Top Disinformation Threat in U.S. Presidential Race (NYT free link)
Kevin M (a9545f) — 9/6/2024 @ 9:50 amLook, I’ll agree with you that Trump has mountains… mountains of negatives.
But, I don’t care because a Harris/Walz administration will be so much worse.
I’m like the donkey between two dung piles.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 9/6/2024 @ 9:52 amI think it wants to, but actually what it’s doing is working to elect Trump.
They made the same mistake in 1980.
Maybe they are realizing it. The first day of classes there was a picket line outside the gate of Columbia University, but they didn’t come back the next day
Or some other intervention stopped that.
Sammy Finkelman (c5132f) — 9/6/2024 @ 9:54 amNow Putin knows how to use reverse psychology.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 9/6/2024 @ 9:56 am