Trump finally broke his media silence by joining Fox News' Maria Bartiromo for his first interview since losing to Joe Biden –
26 days after the election. He called into the Sunday morning show from Camp David, where he spent the weekend after Thanksgiving.
Trump “went off” on the election results in the more than
45-minute interview where most of his answers spanned several minutes and repeated claims he has already made over the past weeks on Twitter.
The president claimed without any evidence during the interview that even 'most Democrats' believe 'election fraud' led to Biden's win. The president also told Bartiromo there's 'no way' Biden earned more votes than Barack Obama in his two presidential elections. He also said the U.S. will never have another Republican president, senator or representative elected if they allow Democrats to get away with 'stealing' the election for Biden. Trump suggested that Democrats now know how to 'cheat' the system effectively and will have their candidates win from now on.
Trump blamed the media for portraying his lawsuits and case against the election results as voice of any evidence.
'We don't have freedom of the press in this country. We have suppression of press,' Trump said. You can't have a scandal if no one reports about it. They make it like we don't have evidence, we have evidence all over the place.'
The president returned to the White House from Camp David, located in Frederick, Maryland, on Sunday afternoon. His daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who also both serve as the president’s senior advisers, returned to the White House on Marine One. They were joined by their three children Arabella, Theodore and Joseph.
Neither the president’s wife, first lady Melania Trump, or their son Barron returned with Trump.
Since November 3, the country has barely heard from the president and he has only emerged from the White House a handful of times – mostly to travel across the line from Washington D.C. to Sterling, Virginia for a round of golf at his club there.
The last interview Trump participated in was with a local Milwaukee radio station on Election Day. Since then, he has made a few public appearances for short remarks, whether it be on the coronavirus vaccine or soaring stock market, but has barely taken questions from the press or directly addressed the election results.
On Thursday – Thanksgiving Day – Trump took his first question from a reporter since the election, indicating for the first time directly that he would vacate office if the Electoral College ultimately votes for Biden.
While he has been quiet in public on the election, Trump has been very vocal on Twitter. Almost daily he tweets that he is the true winner and alleges there was massive fraud, rigging and cheating by Democrats to 'steal' the election for Biden.