CNN reports:
Former President Donald Trump repeatedly told aides in the days following his 2020 election loss that he would remain in the White House rather than let incoming President Joe Biden take over, according to reporting provided to CNN from a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.
“I’m just not going to leave,” Trump told one aide, according to Haberman. “We’re never leaving,” Trump told another. “How can you leave when you won an election?”
Trump’s insistence that he would not be leaving the White House, which has not been previously reported, adds new detail to the chaotic post-election period in which Trump’s refusal to accept his defeat and numerous efforts to overturn the election result led to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by pro-Trump rioters.
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Given everything else reported about the coordinated efforts to cling to power, it would seem pretty important to know exactly when Trump changed his tune and started saying he wouldn’t leave. But we don’t get that info here https://t.co/ICeUwctDfS
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) September 12, 2022
“I’m just not going to leave,” Trump told one aide, according to Haberman.
“We’re never leaving,” Trump told another. “How can you leave when you won an election?”
He was even overheard asking the chair of the RNC, Ronna McDaniel, “Why should I leave if they stole it from me?”
— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) September 12, 2022
Trump: “I’m just not going to leave.”
Oh good, another fact, vital to the safety and continuation of the nation, that @maggieNYT withheld from the public for many months if not a year-and-a-half so she could put it in her fucking book https://t.co/fOwd2io4kX
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 12, 2022