Related video: Donald Trump admits he lost 2020 election 'by a whisker'
Lex Fridman
Far-right commentator Nick Fuentes – who has been labelled a white supremacist by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) – is now accusing Donald Trump of “betrayal” after the Republican changed his views on the 2020 presidential election and conceded he lost after all.
Yes, really.
Of course, to many, the former US president’s history of mistruths, false claims and inaccuracies are well-known.
In July, Trump falsely claimed his Democrat rival in the November election, Kamala Harris, “happened to turn Black” only recently. More broadly, analysts believe he made a total of 30,000 untrue statements – almost 21 a day on average – when he was in charge between 2016 and 2020.
As such, the majority of people have learned to take comments from the Republican and ex-Apprentice star with a pinch of salt – or, perhaps, to be more precise: so much salt that would give a nutritionist heart palpitations.
Now, in the latest case of flip-flopping from Trump, he’s finally admitted in an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman earlier this week he “lost by a whisker” in 2020 to Joe Biden, as opposed to his repeated false claims that the election was “stolen” from him in a case of “fraud” – which the media refers to as his “big lie”.
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