ABC’s Muir Rebuts Trump Saying ‘Lost by a Whisker’ Was Sarcasm: Watching the Videos, ‘I Did Not Detect Sarcasm’

EXCERPT:

MUIR: "Are you now acknowledging that you lost in 2020?"

TRUMP: "No, I don't acknowledge that at all. I said it sarcastically. You know that. I said, 'Oh, we lost by a whisker.' That was said sarcastically. Look, there is so much proof. All you have to do is look at it. And they should have sent it back to the legislatures for approval. I got almost 75 million votes, the most votes any sitting president has ever gotten. I was told if I got 63, which was what I got in 2016, you can’t be beaten. The election people should never be thinking about an election as fraudulent. We need two things. We need walls — and we have to have it. We have to have borders and we have to have good elections. Our elections are bad. And a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they are trying to get them to vote. They can’t even speak English, they don’t even know what country they are in, practically, and these people are trying to get them to vote. And that is why they are allowing them to come into our country."

MUIR: "I did watch all of these pieces of video. I did not detect the sarcasm. 'Lost by a whisker,' 'We didn't quite make it.' And we should just point out here as clarification, and you know this, you and your allies, 60 cases in front of many judges, many of them — "

TRUMP: "No judge looked at it. They said we did not have standing. That’s the other thing.”