Daily Star

TRUMP FINALLY ADMITS HE LOST But still claims fraud

- ■ CHRISTOPHE­R BUCKTIN news@ dailystar. co. uk

DONALD Trump looks like he has admitted losing the election for the first time, saying rival Joe Biden “won”.

It came just hours after violence erupted between Trump supporters and counter- protesters close to The White House in Washington DC.

Trump tweeted Biden, below, had won as he once again fuelled elled tensions in America that the e November 3 election was

“stolen” from him.

He moaned: “He won because the election was rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a radical left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation and bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas ( which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media and more.”

White House sources said recent days have seen the president’s mood turn from anger to one of resignatio­n back to anger as his legal challenges to the result began to collapse. But an hour after posting Biden “won”, Trump backtracke­d on his comments as thousands of people took to social media to say he had conceded the race.

He posted: “RIGGED ELECTION. WE WILL WIN.

“He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA. I concede NOTHING. We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED ELECTION!” Trump’s tweet yesterday was the first acknowledg­ement that he may accept the result having lost both the electoral college and popular vote.

He has become the first president since 1992 to fail to get re- elected for a second term and one of only five in American history.

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