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Trump lets it slip that he 'didn't win the election' during interview - Business Insider

  • Trump spoke about his presidency to a group of historians on a Zoom call in July 2021.
  • He stated that he "didn't win the election" twice during the interview before saying that it was "rigged and lost."
  • He has otherwise maintained that the 2020 election was illegitimate. He called it the "real insurrection."

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Former President Donald Trump made a possible Freudian slip during a July 2021 Zoom interview with a group of historians.

Trump indicated that he "lost" the 2020 presidential election toward the end of a nearly 30-minute-long monologue that touched on what he views as his most notable accomplishments — the COVID-19 pandemic, NATO, trade relations with foreign countries, and the leaders of Russia, China and North Korea.

Trump's election-related comments began with a story of how he pressured the South Korean government, which hosts tens of thousands of US military personnel, to cover more of the costs of their defense.

"I said, what we'll do is we'll pay approximately 1.2 billion … and then, for next year, you'll pay $5 billion a year," Trump told the group of historians, according to the video, which The Atlantic published on Monday.

"'No, no, no,'"...



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