Donald Trump appeared to finally concede to Joe Biden in a tweet Sunday, but he and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani quickly clarified that he still believes he is the rightful winner and the election was ‘stolen’ by Democrats.
Giuliani told Fox News that President Trump was being ‘sarcastic’ when he finally admitted via Twitter that Biden has won the election more than a week after most major outlets called him the winner.
When Fox’ Maria Bartiromo asked the president’s lawyer Sunday morning if Trump’s tweet was a concession to Biden, Giuliani said, ‘No, far from it.’
What he’s saying is more, I guess, you would call it sarcastic, or a comment on the terrible times in which we live, in which the media has said he won, but by going on to point out that it was illegal,’ Giuliani continued. ‘Obviously, he’s contesting it vigorously in the courts.’
Trump tweeted in reference to his Democratic rival Sunday morning: ‘He won because the Election was Rigged.’
Giuliani clarified in his interview on ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ that because Trump went on to criticize the election and call it illegal was a testament to the fact that the ‘win’ is not legitimate.
‘NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas
(which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more!’ Trump wrote in his tweet Sunday morning.
He also clarified in a tweet sent an hour later that he is still not ‘conceding’ to Biden, despite what his earlier tweet may have suggested.
‘He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA,’ he wrote. ‘I concede NOTHING!’
‘We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED ELECTION!’ the president added.
Trump’s tweets Sunday, like many he has sent questioning the results since Election Day, were flagged by Twitter. The warning from Twitter reads: ‘This claim about election fraud is disputed.’
Giuliani is spearheading the legal challenges Trump’s campaign has launched in several states questioning the validity of the election.
Last Saturday, Biden declared himself the victor after projections showed him ahead in enough states with enough Electoral College votes to win the presidency.
Since then, Trump has refused to concede and has just upped his attacks on the election process this year, which included expanding mail-in ballot measures in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
‘The media has tried to call the election,’ Giuliani lamented to Bartiromo – one of Trump’s biggest allies in the press. ‘And they don’t have a legal right to call the election.
‘It gets decided by our electors, not by NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, and even FOX. You don’t get the right to call it. I don’t get the right to call it. So he’s contesting it vigorously,’ he continued.
‘As he’s gotten more evidence of the rigging that went on, he’s really outraged. And I am too. It’s way beyond what people think,’ Giuliani revealed.
