In actually shocking news…

Trump acknowledges losing the 2020 election ‘by a whisker’ …Hang on, WHAT?

Former President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that he did not win the 2020 presidential election, telling podcaster Lex Fridman that he “lost by a whisker.”
Fridman asked the Republican nominee about his expectations for his debate next week against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, in a podcast episode released Tuesday.
Trump initially answered, “I’ve done a lot of debating … I’ve done well with debates,” before embarking on a tangent about the number of votes he received in 2020, saying: “I became president. Then the second time I got millions more votes than I got the first time.”
“I was told if I got 63 million, which is what I got the first time, ‘You would win. You can’t not win.’ And I got millions more votes than that and lost by a whisker,” Trump added.
Trump received about 74 million votes nationally in 2020, compared to 81 million for Joe Biden.
His admission is a departure from his usual rhetoric about the 2020 presidential election results, which he often claims were “rigged.”

I mean, that’s not really a “whisker” as such, but that’s not the important thing, which is that Trump just acknowledged having lost the 2020 election after years of claiming it was stolen and legal issues surrounding the matter. He apparently went back to the fraud story later in the interview, but too late, the damage was done, and OH that’s going to have some ramifications for his ongoing court strife. And Nick Fuentes is PISSED:

Fuentes noted that if Trump knows that he lost the 2020 election, then he “deserves to be charged” by special counsel Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn the results of the election.
“That actually vindicates the DOJ charge against him!” Fuentes declared. “Because the charge is that he knew he lost but he lied to defraud the people.”
“So, why did we do Stop the Steal?” Fuentes demanded to know. “Why did anyone go to Jan. 6? Why is anyone sitting in jail? Why did anything bad happen to anybody? Why did everyone get censored? Why is everything bad that has happened to the people that were involved, why did that need to happen if you’re just going to walk it all back and say, ‘Oh, I lost’?”
“Well, it would have been good to know that before 1,600 people got charged,” he continued. “It would have been good to know that before I had all my money frozen, [was] put on the No Fly List, [got] banned from everything, lost all banking and payment processing. It would have been good to know that before I, in 2017, dedicated my life to this as an 18 year-old in college. It just feels like a big ripoff.”
“It just goes to show what a tremendous betrayal it is,” Fuentes said. “It’s just such a callous indifference to the sacrifices that his supporters made on his behalf.”

Poor Nick. Daddy let you down so much. I’d feel sorry for you if you weren’t you.

And the worst of it is, I don’t think Trump actually meant to make that admission. It just slipped out of him cos he can barely put a coherent thought together any more. It’s not even like Lex Fridman was trying to coax that out of him or trip him up, Dampnut tripped himself up without any help… and, more to the point, I suspect that he never even noticed. Not only did he not mean to say it, he wasn’t even aware that he did say it… I don’t think going back to calling it a fraud later in the interview was an attempt to walk the statement back cos he didn’t even know he’d said it. I’ll admit it, I never used to like the line of attack suggesting Trump has mental issues, cos if someone is a titanic piece of shit I feel like ascribing a medical reason potentially gives them a way to diminish their responsibility for that. And I’m always a bit wary of diagnosis from a distance with this sort of thing… but in Trump’s case it’s getting harder and harder to ignore.