Donald Trump on the White Home on Friday (Image: Getty)
Donald Trump muttered ‘I gained’ throughout his second public look since dropping the US presidential election to Joe Biden a fortnight in the past.
The President of the USA made the comment on the White Home Friday – solely the second time he has spoken publicly since Biden was declared winner on Saturday November 7.
Talking about his efforts to decrease drug costs, Trump went off-piste and stated: ‘Massive pharma ran billions of {dollars} of destructive advertisements towards me throughout the marketing campaign, which I gained by the best way.
‘However, you understand, you’ll discover that out. Nearly 74 million votes. we had large pharma…the media…large tech…a variety of dishonesty towards us.’
The references to ‘large pharma’ got here throughout a press briefing about decreasing drug costs for Individuals.
Trump left afterwards with out taking any journalists’ questions on his declare to have gained the competition.
He has repeatedly refused to concede the election end result to Joe Biden, and made repeated however unfounded claims the end result was fraudulent.
The success-obsessed president faces the ignominy of turning into solely the eleventh president in United States historical past to be voted out of workplace after a single time period.
President Trump left Friday’s press briefing with out taking any questions from journalists about his declare to have gained the election (Image: AFP)
Earlier on Friday, officers in Georgia confirmed that Joe Biden had gained the state for his Democrat occasion for the primary time since Invoice Clinton clinched it in 1992.
Biden additionally flipped Arizona – a historically Republican state. And he managed to win again Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania – historically Democrat states that Trump flipped Republican within the 2016 election.
Trump cited the 74 million individuals who voted for him throughout Friday’s look.
That’s the second largest turnout in US election historical past, however nonetheless falls far in need of the 80 million who voted for Biden.
Many White Home aides – now stated to incorporate his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner – privately settle for that Trump has misplaced.
However a number of key cronies proceed to persuade Trump in any other case.
The president’s authorized fixer Rudy Giuliani held a rambling press convention Thursday unveiling plans to mount authorized challenges to election ends in varied US states.
Trump and one other of his authorized advisers, Sidney Powell, are stated to be satisfied that voting machines from a producer referred to as Dominion are behind the alleged rip-off, though they’ve but to supply any stable proof to assist their claims.
President-elect Joe Biden has dismissed Trump’s fraud claims, and says his plans to change into forty sixth President of the USA on January 20 are effectively underway.
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