‘I didn’t win the election’: Trump admits defeat in session with historians

[Guno צְבִי]

Donald Trump has admitted he did not win the 2020 election.


“I didn’t win the election,” he said.

The admission came in a video interview with a panel of historians convened by Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor and editor of The Presidency of Donald Trump: A First Historical Assessment. The interview was published on Monday by the Atlantic.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-election-defeat-historians-zelizer-princeton

 

[BidenPresident]

Donald Trump has admitted he did not win the 2020 election.


“I didn’t win the election,” he said.

The admission came in a video interview with a panel of historians convened by Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor and editor of The Presidency of Donald Trump: A First Historical Assessment. The interview was published on Monday by the Atlantic.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-election-defeat-historians-zelizer-princeton

But if anything, our conversation with the former president underscored common criticisms: that he construed the presidency as a forum to prove his dealmaking prowess; that he sought flattery and believed too much of his own spin; that he dismissed substantive criticism as misinformed, politically motivated, ethically compromised, or otherwise cynical. He demonstrated a limited historical worldview.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...terview-a-first-historical-assessment/629454/

 

[Guno צְבִי]

The former president called the historians assembled by Zelizer “a tremendous group of people, and 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”.

Trump, Zelizer wrote, “seemed to want the approval of historians, without any understanding of how historians gather evidence or render judgments”.

 

[BidenPresident]

Trump the criminal, lying scumbag:

he eventually turned to the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021. According to his memory, the expert opinion was off. The “real story,” Trump argued, “has yet to be written.” When Congress met to certify the Electoral College results, Trump told us, there had been a “peaceful rally,” more than a “million people” who were full of “tremendous love” and believed the election was “rigged” and “robbed” and “stolen.” He made a “very modest” and “very peaceful” speech, a “presidential speech.” The throng at the Capitol was a “massive” and “tremendous” group of people. The day was marred by a small group of left-wing antifa and Black Lives Matter activists who “infiltrated” them and who were not stopped, because of poor decisions by the U.S. Capitol Police when some “bad things happened.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...terview-a-first-historical-assessment/629454/

 

[BidenPresident]

After answering our questions for half an hour, Trump ended the conversation by thanking us: “I hope it’s going to be a No. 1 best seller!” It was certainly an upbeat way to sign off, though I wasn’t quite convinced he meant it.

A few days after our meeting, Trump announced that he would stop doing interviews with authors, because they had been a “total waste of time.” He added: “These writers are often bad people who write whatever comes to their mind or fits their agenda. It has nothing to do with facts or reality.”



https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...terview-a-first-historical-assessment/629454/

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Donald Trump has admitted he did not win the 2020 election.


“I didn’t win the election,” he said.

The admission came in a video interview with a panel of historians convened by Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor and editor of The Presidency of Donald Trump: A First Historical Assessment. The interview was published on Monday by the Atlantic.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-election-defeat-historians-zelizer-princeton

Maybe he saw Doonesbury from this last weekend? lol