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Former President Donald Trump likely believes his groundless claims the election in 2020 was stolen from him because he lives in an "alternative reality," documentary maker Alex Holder said.
Holder was filming Trump in the months surrounding his defeat in the 2020 election, culminating in the attack on the Capitol by supporters that was fueled by Trump's false claims the election had been stolen from him.
In an interview with UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, Holder said that Trump seemed to genuinely believe his claims. This is despite having been told by top officials, including then Attorney General Bill Barr, that they were groundless, and seeing them rejected in a series of court cases.
"He believed in his own lie. He had absolutely convinced himself that he had actually won, and that all the things he was saying prior [to the election] came true, that actually there was some malfeasance," Holder said.
"I'm not a psychiatrist. But my take was this is not a rational player. Barr had said there was no issue. A few days later he is going on and on to me about how there's no way President Biden got 80 million votes, and that he needed to find brave judges, and they're not...
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