The Daily Populous Saturday June 22nd, 2024 morning edition
Authored by salon.com and submitted by Quirkie

Donald Trump got caught forgetting his own lie — that the 2020 election was stolen from him — during an interview with journalist Ramin Setoodeh for his new book, “Apprentice in Wonderland,” according to a tape Setoodeh shared Thursday with MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace.

Setoodeh, the co-editor-in-cheif of Variety, told Wallace that he and Trump were discussing the latter's falling out with his once close friend, former Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera. As the subject came up , the presumptive GOP nominee let it slip that Rivera called him after he “lost the election,” which he then quickly corrected to say, “I won the election, but when they said we lost.”

Trump went on to belittle Rivera, who he said "called me up three or four times, and finally, I had a little time. I called him back. And he went on Fox and he started talking about, 'The president called me.' I didn't call him."

As Wallace noted, Trump, "speaking casually," actually "admitted" that he lost. At the same time, he publicly insists that he won, a lie fervently believed by supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Setoodeh said the interview took place in August 2021.

“He was very comfortable that day because we were actually watching clips of 'The Apprentice,' and I think part of the reason the mask slipped off was that he was remembering his life as an entertainer, he was very amused, he was excited to see himself in the boardroom,” the author said.

“This is all performance art for Donald Trump,” he added.

At least one legal expert believes Trump's remark could be used against him.

"This statement made on tape and on the record by Mr. Trump would be admissible in evidence against him on the issue of his corrupt intent in the four Smith indictments in DC that SCOTUS is inexcusably keeping on hold in United States v. Trump," Laurence Tribe, a law professor at Harvard University, posted on X.

theClumsy1 on June 21st, 2024 at 18:30 UTC »

Add to the list of evidence.

I mean come on, he knew the EXACT number needed in Georgia to win the state

> "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state."

How much did Biden win Georgia by?

> Biden narrowly won Georgia by a 49.47% plurality over Trump's 49.24% vote share: a margin of 0.23% and 11,779 votes.

So it was EXACTLY 1 more vote than Biden's count which he SAID IN A TAPED FUCKING CONVERSATION. There is no other way to view this.

This was the fucking smoking gun but sure lets add this in there to. That he knew that he lost.

OpenImagination9 on June 21st, 2024 at 17:13 UTC »

This will be useful in the Georgia trial.

Bored_guy_in_dc on June 21st, 2024 at 17:08 UTC »

His mouth is his greatest weakness, and always was.