Washington
Joe Biden “won because the Election was Rigged”, Republican President Donald Trump said Sunday, in what was seen as a sign he was edging toward accepting the victory of his Democrat rival, Joe Biden, and acknowledging his defeat.
Railing against supposed mass fraud in the vote won by his challenger, Trump reasserted that “We will win” in his signature all-caps styled tweet.
“No vote watchers or observers were allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company,” Trump tweeted in his clearest admission of defeat to date.
Trump has refused to concede the election, and repeatedly said he intended to overturn the result through legal cases — though no evidence of mass fraud in the November US Election 2020 has been found.
He also keeps pushing “the Rigged Election Hoax”, saying his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was “doing a great job exposing” his accusation of manipulation.
But the first two words of his Sunday tweet — two days after a slip in which he said “time will tell” if he remains president — seemed to bring him another step closer to admitting defeat.—AFP
