Trump Puts Himself in Legal Jeopardy By Admitting He Lost the 2020 Election.

“We got the most votes of anybody — of any sitting president in history, and he beat us by a whisker,” Trump said Aug 30. He has made similar comments in other appearances in the past few days.

“It was probably politically smart for Trump to admit he lost the election, but legally, that sure could have consequences,” said Tom Dupree, who was a deputy assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration.

“The whole thrust of (Special Counsel) Jack Smith’s indictment is Trump was trying to defraud and to cheat and to steal an election he didn’t win. If he’s now admitting (that) maybe he actually knew all along that he lost, well, he’s not really defending the accuracy of the vote. He really was trying to steal something.”

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/trump-saying-he-lost-could-mean-legal-trouble/

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SW-User

So... he now claims he won the popular vote??

WonderGirl ·

@SW-User The general election in the U.S. on Nov. 5th (correction), 2024, will mark exactly 20 years since a candidate for the Republican Party won the popular vote in a presidential election.

SW-User

@WonderGirl Isn't it on the 5th? But I get your point.

beckyromero · 36-40, F

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WonderGirl ·

@SW-User You're right. I should have checked that. Thanks. 🤗

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@SW-User Well, not at this point. He has been claiming he won the popular vote all along. Nancy Pelosi has told the story that after becoming president, in his first meeting with Congressional Leadership in 2017 instead of talking about what he wanted to accomplish as president, he led a conversation about how he won the popular vote. Pelosi corrected him that he didn't win the popular vote each time he brought it up and then tried to get him to focus on what they could do to work together and he would keep circling back about how he won the popular vote with crazy excuses: "The count was off," "The Democrats bussed in immigrants to California to illegally vote," "The Democrats bussed in Democrats from Massachusetts to New Hampshire to illegally vote."

He didn't like her from that point on.