Trump says he ‘didn’t respect’ his lawyers who said he lost 2020 election
by Brett Samuels - 09/17/23 10:37 AM ETFormer President Donald Trump in a new interview said he did not respect his campaign and White House lawyers who told him in 2020 that he had lost the election.
In an interview with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that aired Sunday, Trump was asked about why he ignored his lawyers’ advice following the election and instead pushed the false claim that it was stolen, chalking it up to a combination of outside advice and his own instincts. Trump is facing criminal charges in Washington, D.C., and Georgia over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Asked why he ignored White House and campaign lawyers who told him he’d lost, Trump said it was because “I didn’t respect them.”
“You hire them, you never met these people, you get a recommendation, they turn out to be RINOs or they turn out to be not so good,” Trump said, deriding some of his own staff as “Republicans in Name Only.”
“In many cases I didn’t respect them,” he continued. “But I did respect others, I respected many others that said the election was rigged.”
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