News Desk
In an interview with “60 Minutes” that will air on Sunday, Obama was asked what he made of the “false claims of widespread election fraud” Trump has been making since Joe Biden won the poll. “They appear to be motivated, in part, because the president doesn’t like to lose and never admits loss,” Obama responded, adding, “I’m more troubled by the fact that other Republican officials who clearly know better are going along with this, are humoring him in this fashion.” Obama was interviewed by “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley about his memoir “A Promised Land.” CBS released a short excerpt that dealt with the 2020 election and Trump’s refusal to concede. Just a handful of Republican office holders have offered their congratulations to President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and the Trump campaign has pursued more than a dozen legal challenges to the election results. Trump’s legal team has come up with scant evidence of voter fraud, and none with the potential to change the outcome in any of the battleground states.
