Trump says “it was my decision” to overturn the 2020 election, stressing he did not act on the advice of a lawyer
- Donald Trump took responsibility for his actions after the 2020 election
“It was my decision. “But I listened to some people,” he said in a Sunday interview
- The ex-president also said that the thought of going to prison doesn’t give him any sleep, claiming: “I don’t even think about it.”
Donald Trump says it was his call to take action to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, in a bombshell new claim that finds the ex-president taking responsibility for his actions.
The startling new admission shows that Trump did not act on the advice of lawyers, which could impact the numerous lawsuits against him over his efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory.
Trump gave some of his most detailed reactions to the events on and after January 6, 2021, in an interview with NBC News, in which he told new Meet the Press host Kristen Welker that he was the one driving the effort , to make up for his re-election defeat.
“We have a lot of people, and it’s my decision,” Trump said in the taped interview that aired Sunday morning.
He later added, “It was my decision. But I listened to some people.”
Donald Trump took responsibility for his actions after the 2020 election when he tried to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory
In fact, Trump said there were administration officials and campaign lawyers who told him he lost the election and to accept that, but he ignored their input and said he “doesn’t respect them.”
When Welker reminded the ex-president that he had hired some of these people for their advice, he said that he had not known that they were “Republicans in name only” when he hired them.
“They turn out to be RINOs, or they turn out to be not so good, in many cases I didn’t respect them,” he said. “But I respected others. I respected many others who said the election was rigged.”
RINO has become one of Trump’s biggest attacks for his Republican critics. He says those he hired who turned out to be RINOs are renegades.
Trump is fighting to reclaim his place in the Oval Office after failing to win a second consecutive term in defeat to Biden in 2020. The ex-president is well above the rest of the Republican presidential candidate in the polls.
Welker once pressed, “Are you confirming that you didn’t win?”
“I’m not admitting it,” Trump said. ‘NO. I say I won the election.’
Trump faces a number of legal battles and has been impeached four times this year. Two cases involve his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, while a third case relates to the retention of classified documents after he left the White House.
Trump sat down with NBC News anchor Kristen Welker for an in-depth interview that aired Sunday morning on Meet the Press
Trump has been impeached four times in the last year – twice in cases involving his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. His startling revelations on Sunday morning could have an impact on the cases against him
In his NBC interview, Trump took responsibility for the decision to overturn the 2020 results.
But he said his legal troubles don’t worry him about actually ending up behind bars.
“I don’t even think about it,” the four-time indicted former president said when Welker asked if he was thinking about going to prison at night.
“I guess I’m built a little differently because I’ve had people come up to me and ask, ‘How do you do that, sir?’ How you do that?’ “I don’t even think about it,” he said.
“If you say: Am I losing sleep? “I’m sleeping,” Trump said later in the interview, “I’m sleeping. Because I really feel like we’re going to win in the end.”