Trump acknowledges Biden 'won' before backtracking

Donald Trump.
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President Trump had to catch himself again.

On Saturday morning, Trump took to Twitter to complain about the election results, briefly acknowledging that President-elect Joe Biden "won" thanks to a "rigged" voting process even though there's no evidence to back up the voter fraud claim.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.