The president still has not conceded defeat but made the statement in a morning Twitter blitz in which he also lashed out at Fox News
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Barack Obama’s interview with CBS Sunday Morning will be broadcast today, before his interview with CBS 60 Minutes follows this evening. The 44th president has a book out, you see, and we’ve seen it. Reports here, and here.
The CBS interviews have been extensively trailed, of course. Here’s some of what Obama told Gayle King for Sunday Morning, about Donald Trump’s claim that the election he lost convincingly to Joe Biden was rigged against him:
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Amidst Trump’s Fox News-centric Twitter blitz this morning, comes this:
He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more! https://t.co/Exb3C1mAPg
