2023-05-11 04:58:04
Former US President Donald Trump has repeated his lie that his 2020 election victory was stolen from him at the start of a rare appearance on CNN. “I think if you look at the result, and if you look at what happened in this election, unless you’re a very stupid person, you see what happened,” Trump said last night (local time).
According to the Republican, the presidential election that brought the Democrat Joe Biden into office was manipulated. CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins contradicted Trump. “It wasn’t a rigged election. It wasn’t a stolen election,” she said. Trump stuck to his often refuted claim and accused Collins of pursuing a political agenda.
Pence ‘made a mistake’
The subject of the interview was also the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump still does not want to apologize to Vice Mike Pence, who he pilloried at the time. “He’s a very nice man. He made a mistake.” That’s why he doesn’t owe him an apology. Trump had unsuccessfully called on Pence, who had chaired the congress session as Vice President at the time, to block the procedure.
Trump has now promised a pardon for the rioters convicted in the course of the storming of the Capitol if he moves back into the White House.
accept payment default
In the current debt dispute with the government of his successor Biden, Trump suggested that the Republicans accept a default. “I say to Republican lawmakers and senators: If they don’t give you big spending cuts, you’ll have to default.” But such a scenario is unlikely because Biden’s Democrats would ultimately give in.
Convicted: Consequences for Trump’s re-election
In the CNN interview, Trump also commented on his conviction for millions in damages for sexual abuse and defamation. “This is a fake story, a fabricated story,” Trump said of journalist and author E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegations.
Carroll is a “crazy”. The verdict might give his re-candidate a boost and at the same time heat up the mood in the party and in the population.
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