He finally admits losing 'by a whisker'

So now Donald J. Trump is finally admitting he lost the 2020 election by “a whisker.”

A lot of people who supported him since he lost four years ago should be outraged, but I bet they’re not. Like the parent who raises a psycho kid, they’ll never pay attention to any of the bad stuff the kid does.

Consider: Most people are online these days. Both Republicans and Democrats.

No matter if it’s a far-left liberal cause or a far-right cause, I’m always amazed that more people won’t do any research on their own before believing what they’re told or read.

In the old days, the availability of info was nothing like it is today.

To research a subject, any subject, I’d have to go to the library, which still serves the community in most cities. I’d have to go where few people went: the “Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.”

Then I’d have to find the topic of interest by alphabetical letter.

The older books would be bounded by year. The newer ones by months, or by quarter. Can’t remember.

Then I’d have to see if any magazines published anything on the topic, and then go to another part of the library to see if the magazine or periodical was even available. You couldn’t take a photo of the story, so you’d have to take written notes.

That’s how one kept up with current news that was only a few months, or years old.

The lucky few worked at a newspaper and had easy access to both in-house and wire-story archives, but those types probably constituted well less than 5 percent of the U.S. population.

To do a report, you’d have to go to the library and find books about the subject.

The Dark Ages and Trump

Those were the Dark Ages compared to today when almost everyone has access to the world’s largest data base, courtesy of the web and highspeed internet, in a fraction of a second.

Find a search engine or AI, type in some key words, and boom, the results are on the screen. One can’t be completely stupid and trust only one source, but it’s all there, including both sides of the argument.

Still, given that fact, the availability to the truth, too many people will choose to remain entrenched solely in what someone is telling them, whether in person or wherever they get their news online.

Which is why it should come as a shock to them last week when Trump told podcaster Lex Fridman that he lost 2020 by “a whisker.”

Said Trump in that interview: “I was told if I got 63 million, which is what I got the first time, ‘You would win. You can’t not win.’ And I got millions more votes than that and lost by a whisker.”

Actually, the electoral votes aside, in 2020, Trump got about 74 million votes in the U.S. compared to the approximate 81 million who voted for Biden.

Trump then claimed that the Democrats used “Covid to cheat. It was a terrible thing.”

Trump has since been indicted in connection with attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

The “Election Steal” has transitioned into the “Big Lie,” and people still believe it. Even though Trump himself now admits that he lost, they’ll probably still believe the 2020 election was stolen.

According to one federal indictment thrown at him, Trump knew his claims were false but “repeated and widely disseminated them anyway — to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, to create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and to erode public faith in the administration of the election.”

That helped inspire the Jan. 6 insurrection, when his supporters attempted a violent takeover of the Capitol. (Source: The Chicago Tribune.)

If you were like me on the morning of Jan. 6, you were watching Trump’s speech and you had to be thinking, like me, this guy is inciting people. Feed them a lie, convince them that their rights were being stolen, this was far bigger than an election, tell them that nothing would change until they walked to the capitol.

Trump said later that he never thought he was inciting people.

Come on. You’re not that dumb.

Courts Rule No

What’s insane, too, is that so many courts, comprised of both Republicans and Democrats (judges) ruled that there was no credible evidence to support massive, wide-spread voter fraud. Not only that, but his own AG and the Homeland Security Dept. ruled the 2020 election legal and binding. No fraud.

In 2020, then-Attorney General William Barr (a Trump appointee) told The Associated Press that no such fraud had been found.

“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” he said at the time.

After all of the lies told by Trump and his groupies — the election was stolen — he now finally admits he lost it “by a whisker.”

Wow.

One of his most staunch Trump supporters has been a guy named David Fuentes. Considered a White Supremacist by many (look him up), Fuentes has taken hits from multiple angles, but still retains an online platform.

Guys like Fuentes are the angriest over what they consider to be Trump’s betrayal. On his online show over the weekend, Feuntes had this to say, as if was speaking directly to Trump. After all, he has visited Mar a Lago once, so he was a legit Trump (former) supporter: “So what was the point? Like, what’s the point of any of it? You lost in 2020? Seriously? What are we even doing anymore? You’re a loser. You just lost. Then you lost to Joe Biden. You deserve to be charged!”

Trump has more court battles going on, some tied to the election, and so it’s hard to keep up, but he does stand charged in some.

More from Fuentes:

“So why did we do Stop the Steal? Why did anyone go to January 6th? Why is anyone sitting in jail? Why did anything bad happen to anybody? Why did that need to happen? If you’re just going to walk it all back and say, ‘Oh, I lost.’”

Indeed, why did the entire country have to endure the BS Trump legacy and its Big Lie — the 2020 election was stolen.

So now, thanks to him, we’re going to get a terrible Democrat ticket, but they’re going to win. Of course at this point, Trump has outstayed his welcome with most people, save the few diehard voters he has remaining.

Just sad that neither the Republicans or Democrats can’t do better than a Harris/Walz ticket vs. Trump/Vance.

Dipping the bottom of the barrel, but here we are.

Just one last time to make it sink in — Trump has known all along that the 2020 election wasn’t fraudulent, he lost, but only now is he admitting it?

“By a whisker.”