Trump says ‘it was my decision’ to try to overturn 2020 election and insists he didn’t act on lawyer’s advice
- Donald Trump took responsibility for his actions after the 2020 election
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‘It was my decision. But I listened to some people,” he said in an interview on Sunday
- Ex-president also said he doesn’t lose sleep over the idea of going to prison, 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 new claim that sees the ex-president take responsibility for his actions.
The stunning new admission shows that Trump did not act on the advice of lawyers, which could impact the many lawsuits against him over his efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory.
Trump gave some of his most extensive responses to what happened on and after January 6, 2021, during an interview with NBC News, where he told new Meet the Press host Kristen Welker that he was the one driving the efforts to overturn his reelection loss to make.
“We have a lot of people, and it’s my choice,” Trump said in the pre-recorded 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, seeking to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory
Trump even said there were government officials and campaign lawyers who told him he lost the election and that he should accept that, but he ignored their input and said he “disrespected them.”
When Welker reminded the ex-president that he had hired some of these people for their advice, he said he did not know they were “Republicans in name” when he quoted them.
“They turn out to be RINOs, or they turn out not to be that good, in many cases I had no respect for them,” he said. ‘But I did respect others. I respected many others who said the election was rigged.”
RINO has become one of Trump’s biggest attacks on his Republican critics. He says those he hired who turned out to be RINOs are defectors.
Trump wants to regain his place in the Oval Office after failing to win a second straight term when he lost to Biden in 2020. The ex-president looks far beyond the rest of the Republican Party’s presidential field.
Welker pressed at one point, “Do you acknowledge that you did not win?”
“I don’t acknowledge it,” Trump said. ‘No. I say I won the election.”
Trump is facing a series of legal battles and has been sued four times this year. Two of the cases involve his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, while a third relates to the retention of classified documents after he left the White House.
Trump sat down with NBC News host Kristen Welker for a wide-ranging interview that aired Sunday morning on Meet the Press
Trump has been indicted four times in the past year — twice in cases related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. His stunning revelations on Sunday morning could impact the cases against him
In his NBC interview, Trump took responsibility for the decision to try to overturn the 2020 results.
But he said his legal troubles won’t stop him from actually ending up behind bars.
“I don’t even think about it,” the four-time indicted ex-president said when Welker asked him if he was kept awake at night thinking about going to prison.
“I think I’m built a little differently because people would come up to me and say, ‘How do you do that, sir?’ How do you do it?’ “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.”