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President Donald Trump dropped a stolen election claim on Fox News host Laura Ingraham right in the middle of an interview, along with a revelation that made Ingraham exclaim, “Wow!”

Trump has spent years falsely claiming the 2020 election was “rigged” against him, and part of the fallout from those lies was the Dominion defamation lawsuit was resolved when Fox News agreed to a settlement that included a $787.5 million payout just before the suit was about to play out in a weeks-long trial after volumes of damaging revelations were publicized pre-trial.

The settlement also included a mandatory “acknowledgment” of “the court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.”

In an interview that aired on Wednesday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Ingraham Angle, Trump claimed he won the 2020 election, and told Ingraham, “If I thought I didn’t win the election, I absolutely wouldn’t have run.”

Ingraham’s reaction was to seize on that revelation and ignore the false claim. There were also several edits in the segment as it aired:

TRUMP: The roses stay. No, it’s the Rose Garden. No, all of this stays. Just the center section, it’s going to — I think it’s going to be beautiful. I think it’s going to be more beautiful.Look at that view over there. See that?INGRAHAM: It’s pretty nice.TRUMP:

Look at that. How is that? Pretty good?INGRAHAM: Pretty beautiful.TRUMP: It’s a great place.INGRAHAM: So you thought there’s no doubt you’re get — you’re coming back into office when you walked out of here?TRUMP: Well, I felt that, but I didn’t know.INGRAHAM: Was that a — that’s…TRUMP: Let me say it. I didn’t know if I was going to run, because I knew how much I won that election by. But if I thought I didn’t win the election, I absolutely wouldn’t have run.INGRAHAM: Wow! (LOOKS AWAY)But, because of the fact I did so well, it was such a horrible…INGRAHAM: But if you didn’t run, they would never have come after you legally. They never would have done all that to you.(CAMERA CUT)If you didn’t run, they would have let you alone.TRUMP: I was told.(CAMERA CUT)And so I took a big chance.INGRAHAM: Yes, you sure did.TRUMP: No, I took a big risk, actually.INGRAHAM: And the mug shot.TRUMP: Nobody’s ever told me that. What you just said, nobody’s ever said it. That’s exactly correct. If I didn’t run, none of the…INGRAHAM: Oh, no, no, no, they wouldn’t have had any investigation. None of it…(CROSSTALK)TRUMP:
They hated me. But they — you have to get on with your life.INGRAHAM: They would be on to the next target.TRUMP: Right.INGRAHAM: They would have been on to the next target.TRUMP: It’s very interesting. You’re right about that.INGRAHAM: Yes. But that’s a pretty big gamble.TRUMP: That was a big risk.

Watch above via Fox News Channel’s The Ingraham Angle.

More from Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham

  1. Trump Reveals the One Thing He Admires About ‘Sleepy Joe’ Biden

  2. Fox’s Laura Ingraham Straight-Up Asks Trump ‘Will We See A Recession In 2025?’

  3. Trump Says He’s Selling American Citizenship to Foreign Bidders Because He’s ‘America First’

  4. Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Grills Trump: ‘You’re Tougher With Canada Than You Are With Some of Our Biggest Adversaries’

  5. Trump Claims Europe Has ‘Raped and Pillaged’ the United States

  6. Trump Shows Laura Ingraham the Button on His Oval Office Desk That ‘Everyone Thinks’ Is ‘the Nuclear’

  7. ‘How’d You Do That?’ Trump Tells Fox News He Was Stunned By Son Barron’s Ability to — Turn on a Laptop?

 

Tags: Donald Trump, Fox News, Laura Ingraham, The Ingraham Angle