Trump Admits He Lost the 2020 Election to Joe Biden

It’s not the first time he’s let it slip, but it might be the straw that did something awful to the camel’s back

Gippolito Ndp
6 min readSep 9, 2024
Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash

Recently, Donald Trump has been quoted in several different events essentially admitting that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. Check out this little screenshot of a Yahoo search:

Screenshot by author from Yahoo search, accessed 9/8/24

Here’s the particular quote that I focused on, which appeared in an article in The Hill:

We got the most votes of anybody of any sitting president in history, and he beat us by a whisker.

That particular article featured an opinion by former Deputy AG Tom Dupree that such a statement would be admissible evidence at a trial on the recent superseding indictment filed by Jack Smith in the election interference case in D.C.

In fact, that superseding indictment had just been announced on August 28th.

Here are Tom Dupree’s thoughts in his own words:

The whole thrust of (Special Counsel) Jack Smith’s indictment is Trump was trying to defraud and to cheat and to steal an…

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Gippolito Ndp

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