Former President Donald Trump hung up during a phone interview about the 2020 election.
After nine minutes of questioning about why “the vast majority of [Trump’s] allies in the United States Senate are not standing behind” him on his claims of widespread voter fraud and whether Republicans hoping to earn the former president’s backing “must press [his] case on the past election in order to get [his] endorsement,” Trump ended the call.
“The only way it’s not going to happen again is you have to solve the problem of the presidential rigged election of 2020,” Trump told NPR’s Steve Inskeep in an interview released on Wednesday before disconnecting.
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Trump also reiterated criticism of Sen. Mike Rounds, whom he had blasted on Monday over the senator’s comments about the 2020 election being fair.
“Rounds is wrong on that, totally wrong … This was a corrupt election,” he said when Inskeep asked about Rounds’s defense of the security of the 2020 election.
Trump said he believes speaking about the 2020 election is an advantage for Republicans because “otherwise [Democrats are] going to do it again in ’22 and ’24.”
The former president, who also claimed several times that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “corrupt,” argued his campaign’s legal challenges to the 2020 election results were “so good” despite the majority of them being tossed by federal courts amid official assurances the election was secure.
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In endorsing his preferred candidates ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Trump has made clear his preference for primary contenders who back his views on election fraud and opposed efforts to impeach him. In one instance, he even backed a candidate on the condition that the candidate not endorse Trump foe Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a prerequisite that the gubernatorial hopeful later accepted.
A representative of Trump did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
