Donald Trump s interview Wednesday night with Eric Bolling on Newsmax came with a surprise ending: a disclaimer.
The former president repeated his debunked claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
I believe I won that election by many, many votes, many, many hundreds of thousands of votes, he said. Thats what I think.
After the interview, Bolling came back on camera with his disclaimer.
All right, folks, now just to note: Newsmax has accepted the election results as legal and final, he said.
After airing an interview in which Donald Trump denied he lost the 2020 election, Newsmax's Eric Bolling reads a statement from the network:
\"Now just a note. Newsmax has accepted the election results as legal and final\" pic.twitter.com/Paq9WC9d7b
After airing an interview in which Donald Trump denied he lost the 2020 election, Newsmax's Eric Bolling reads a statement from the network:
aliciasadowski (@aliciasadowski6) August 10, 2023
"Now just a note. Newsmax has accepted the election results as legal and final" pic.twitter.com/Paq9WC9d7b
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Trump, in fact, lost the election by some 7 million votes in total, and by 306 to 232 Electoral College votes.
But Newsmax has an additional reason to ensure it gets that message out to viewers: a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems that claims the networks reporting about the company was false.
Dominion settled its defamation suit with Fox News in the spring for $787 million, but its lawsuit against Newsmax is pending.
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