Following the 2020 election, Donald Trump recognized he had lost to Joe Biden, but he told aides that he would remain in the White House even after President Biden’s inauguration, according to a new book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.
“I’m just not going to leave,” Trump told his aides Haberman writes Trump told one aide. “We’re never leaving,” he reportedly told another, CNN reports.
In her book, titled “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” The New York Times reporter writes that Trump in the immediate aftermath of the election asked advisers to tell him what went wrong, telling one adviser “we did our best,” CNN reported, adding that he also told junior press aides, “I thought we had it.”
But later, Trump reportedly began expressing his intention to not leave the White House in January 2021 upon the start of Biden’s term as Trump’s team began attempts to overturn the election.
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Trump and his allies’ actions following the 2020 election have come under scrutiny through multiple investigations. The House select committee is investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack and is expected to hold an additional public hearing later this month. A separate Justice Department probe is also examining the attack.
In Georgia, Trump and his allies are under investigation for unlawfully attempting to overturn the election in the state.
Haberman’s book will be released early next month.
