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WhileDonald Trumphas repeatedly claimed the 2020 election was rigged against him, the former president admitted in a Sunday interview that he was told those claims were false — years before he was indicted for allegedly attempting to overturn the election in his favor.
“It was my decision, but I listened to some people,” Trump, 77, said of making his false claims of election fraud, during a wide-ranging interview that aired Sunday on NBC’sMeet the Press.
Trump said that, while he was “listening to different people” who said the election was not rigged against him, he ultimately decided it had been, and continued making the claims.
“When I added it all up, the election was rigged,” Trump told moderatorKristen Welker. He continued: “You know who I listen to? Myself. I saw what happened.”
In total, Trump said more than a dozen times in the interview that the 2020 election was “rigged,” per anNBC Newstally.
The former president has beenindicted four timessince leaving office, including twice on the federal level.
Per theindictment, Trump was charged with one count each of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
The indictment alleges that Trump, after losing the 2020 presidential election, “was determined to remain in power.”
“So for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won,” it reads.
A separate indictment filed in Georgia details Trump and his allies' failed efforts to overturn the results that gave now-President Biden the state’s 16 electoral votes.
source: people.com
