'It was my decision,' Trump said on NBC's Meet the Press, on concluding that the election was 'rigged' against him.
Neal Katyal, the former acting solicitor general of the United States, noted in the same segment that Welker had made"huge news" with her interview.
"And she got him through masterful interviewing and playing to his ego [to say] 'oh no, I did it all myself." Weissmann said that"the other thing that Kristen Welker got the president to say was essentially a part of this scheme, a part of the obstruction, a part of the 241 Civil Rights scheme, which is the stop of the electoral count.
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