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So Trump Has Admitted He Didn’t Win the 2020 Election.
As if any of his supporters will care either way.
It doesn’t happen often, but I’m finding I’m in the mood to discuss a lighter topic and tonight, that’s Donald Trump’s ability to put his own foot in his mouth.
As we all know, Donald Trump has maintained from the moment the election was determined to have been won by Joe Biden in 2020 that the election was rigged against him. Of course, there is no denying that this has been incredibly damaging for a number of reasons too numerous to list here, and all it takes is a glance at polling among the Republican party to see this. An overwhelming majority of the Republican base believes this outright lie, and — as has been discussed countless times — it should go without saying that this spells absolute disaster for elections to come.
And yet, on a lighter note, even the strongest of narcissistic conmen will slip up on their narrative from time to time.
Bryan Metzger with Business Insider writes:
“Former President Donald Trump may have had a Freudian slip during a July Zoom interview with a group of historians.
Trump indicated that he “lost” the 2020 presidential election toward the end of a nearly 30-minute monologue that touched on what he viewed as…
