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A new recording has been released with Former President Donald Trump admitting that he lost the 2020 election.
Knewz.com has learned that the admission was made during an interview with biographer Ramin Setoodeh after Trump left the White House.
The recording shared with CNN’s Jim Acosta captured Setoodeh asking about one-time “Apprentice” contestant, Geraldo Riviera.
“What was Geraldo like?” Setoodeh asked, to which Trump replied. “He was good. He did a good job.”
“He was smart, cunning. He did a good job”
“And are you guys still close, or are you no longer…” Setoodeh asked, and before he could finish, Trump responded, saying: “No, I don’t think so.”
“He is uh… After I lost the election,” Trump says, and in the same breath corrects himself: “ I won the election, but when they said we lost, he called me up three or four times.”
Acosta stops the recording at that point and asks “Did you catch that?” and continues to say that it may be a slip of the tongue but that the uncorrected statement paralleled allegations by other personalities who spent time close to Trump during his tenure at the White House.
One such individual is Cassidy Hutchinson, who claimed that the Republican front-runner “knows he lost.”
During a September 14, 2022, Congressional hearing, Hutchinson, an aide to Trump’s then chief of staff, Mark Meadows, appeared before the committee on the January 6 insurrection.
She testified that Meadows told her “A lot of times he’ll tell me that he lost, but he wants to keep fighting it, and he thinks that there might be enough to overturn the election.”
“He’s just so angry at me all the time,” Cassidy’s former boss said. “I can’t talk to him about anything post-White House without him getting mad that we didn’t win.”
Hutchinson noted that on another occasion, Meadows told her: “He said something to the effect of, ‘he knows it’s over. He knows he lost. But we are going to keep trying. There’s a chance he didn’t lose. I want to pull this off for him.’”
Despite these claims, Trump stands by his narrative of election theft. Acosta observed the same and said: “In public, Trump continues to perpetuate that the election was stolen.”
The former president has since lashed out at Setoodeh on social media.
“He had nothing but great and glowing things to say during his interviews with President Trump — now, he’s lying in a sad, desperate attempt to sell his trash book,” the post on X ranted.
Setoodeh, in turn, who just released the Trump biography named The Apprentice in Wonderland, suggested that Trump may have a tenuous grasp on reality.
In his interview with Acosta, he says “Trump views the world through the prism of reality TV, and in fact, he still sees himself in a lot of ways as a reality TV star.”
He refers to the recording of Trump’s admission calling it the “performance artist in Donald Trump”—a skill he (Trump) learned during his tenure as the host of The Apprentice where he manipulated the media and changed narratives so they suited the reality he desired.
