Trump cuts interview short after asked about election lies

 Pressed on his election lies, former President Trump cuts NPR interview short

"While there were some irregularities, there were none of the irregularities which would have risen to the point where they would have changed the vote outcome in a single state," Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., said Sunday on ABC's This Week. "The election was fair, as fair as we have seen. We simply did not win the election, as Republicans, for the presidency. And if we simply look back and tell our people don't vote because there's cheating going on, then we're going to put ourselves in a huge disadvantage."

Wow, I must honestly say that was relatively mild, for Trump standards.

You hear him lose it when he's pressed, with nonsensical sentences, like:

We had many cases. In fact, they say, and I can't testify because it's been through a lot of systems, a lot of different systems. But they say, and they say very strongly, the judges just — nobody's really gotten a chance to look."

And he falls back on his usual tell for a fabrication:

"So I wanted to file it myself. They said, "Sir, you don't have standing.""

But fully goes rampage when it comes Biden getting 80 million votes. My guess is that is the point where some handler next to Trump started signaling to him to cut the interview of...

I wonder why he keeps referring to "the findings" and "reports" that just don't exist. He keeps insisting that if the courts would just look at these same things he's looking at it would be obvious.

I think it's pretty fucking clear what is going on here: Trump has surrounded himself with nothing but bootlickers and they keep presenting him single page documents with large pictures, maybe written in crayon, which he has consumed, feeding him nonsense.

Dude is literally not able to discern reality from the bullshit he demands his lackeys give him.

I think the worst Trump snip in this vein happened to Peter Alexander. In March 2020, he asked Trump this question:

“What do you say to Americans, who are watching you right now, who are scared?”

That was the whole question. No snarky or adversarial context. And it's an easy question, isn't it? It's an open invitation for the president to engage people directly and demonstrate some understanding of their hardship and sacrifice. Hell, you could use the opportunity to push pretty much any agenda you wanted in the answer, as long as you could couch it in terms of people's wellbeing. I imagine that politicians at every level of government had a round already in the chamber for this question. My county dogcatcher probably had a response prepped for it. Given the crisis of the time, this was a softball pitched slow and right down the middle.

Trump's response, in its entirety:

“I say that you’re a terrible reporter. That’s what I say. I think it’s a very nasty question and I think it’s a very bad signal that you’re putting out to the American people.”

Inhuman cowardice and flippancy.

Kaitlan would really trigger him. There’s the story where he wanted his Press Secretary at the time, Stephanie Grisham, to to boot Kaitlan Collins from briefing room before a late March 2020 press conference because he was upset nobody from Fox or other right wing networks were there, and Trump was furious at Grisham when she refused. And then the following month he tried to have her switch seats to sit in the back. .

Read NPR's full interview with former President Donald Trump

Out of this interview comes the (accidentally revealed) truth.

Trump thinks the election was rigged because he literally cannot understand how Biden got more votes.

A man with historically low approval ratings cannot understand how the other guy got more votes.

Notice he linked Biden's votes to his crowd sizes? "How come Biden couldn't attract 20 people for a crowd? How come when he went to speak in different locations, nobody came to watch, but all of a sudden he got 80 million votes?"

Followed by Inskeep's zinger: "If you'll forgive me, maybe because the election was about you."

Could it be because Biden didn’t actually have rallies with a pile of mouth breathers shoulder to shoulder during a fucking respiratory pandemic that had killed hundreds of thousands of people in the US alone at that point?