Trump gets tripped up by a double negative — and calls himself 'either very stupid or very corrupt'
Former president Donald Trump apparently fell victim to a double-negative on Saturday night — inadvertently stating that anyone who believes his "big lie" is stupid or corrupt.
"Anybody that doesn’t think there wasn’t massive Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election is either very stupid, or very corrupt!" Trump said in a statement from his Save America PAC.
As Politico reporter Kyle Cheney noted, "This… doesn’t say what Donald Trump thinks it does."
Daniel Drezner, a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School, wrote, "Former President Donald Trump is 100% correct."
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale added, "This is, accidentally, Trump's first ever accurate statement on the legitimacy of the 2020 election."
More below.
double negative own goalhttps://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1467310339217924100\u00a0\u2026— Shawn Hils (@Shawn Hils) 1638669560
It took a double negative, but he finally told the truth!https://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1467310339217924100\u00a0\u2026— Tim Fullerton (@Tim Fullerton) 1638670156
Listen to the man. He doesn\u2019t not know what he\u2019s talking about.https://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1467310339217924100\u00a0\u2026— Scott Imberman (@Scott Imberman) 1638669823
I don't not agree with this statementhttps://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1467310339217924100\u00a0\u2026— Jeremy Sklarsky (@Jeremy Sklarsky) 1638670638
I didn\u2019t not just burst out laughing at thishttps://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1467310339217924100\u00a0\u2026— Kendall Baker (@Kendall Baker) 1638671079
BREAKING: Trump concedes to Biden.https://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1467310339217924100\u00a0\u2026— Evan Cree Gee (@Evan Cree Gee) 1638671073
Who wants to tell them?https://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1467310339217924100\u00a0\u2026— Brian Tyler Cohen (@Brian Tyler Cohen) 1638671044