Former U.S. President Donald Trump has admitted that he did not win the Presidential Election 2020 after claiming for years to have won a second term in the White House.

Trump admitted his defeat during an interview with a panel of presidential historians working on a book about his presidency. The interview was published on Monday by The Atlantic, according to a Newsweek News report.

The former president has defended his leadership during the interview as his claims that the Presidential Election 2020 was stolen continue to affect U.S. politics.

Princeton Professor and editor of the upcoming "The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment," Julian Zelizer, convened the interview with a panel of presidential historians.

Zelizer said that when Trump learned about the book, the former president reached out to its author hoping to offer his perspective on his presidency.

Trump said during the call that the book "is a very important book." He added that rather than being critical, he would rather have the group hear him out, according to a People News report.

Trump said during the interview that he did not win the election, which contracted his repeated claims of the Presidential Election 2020 being stolen from him.

Elsewhere in the interview, Trump described the 2020 election as being "rigged and lost."

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Donald Trump's Interview With Presidential Historians

The former president described the presidential historians assembled by Zelizer as "tremendous group of people," adding that he appreciates that the group heard him out, according to The Guardian News report.

Zelizer wrote that Trump "seemed to want the approval of historians," without any knowledge of how historians collect evidence or render judgments.

Zelizer also noted that shortly after the session with the presidential historians, the former president said that he would give no more interviews for books about his presidency.

In July 2021, Trump earlier said that meetings with authors of the "ridiculous" number of books being written about him are a "total waste of time."

He added at the time that those writers are "often bad people" who write whatever "fits their agenda."

Trump said that those being written about him have "nothing to do with facts or reality."

Presidential Election 2020

Trump has repeatedly claimed that there were fraudulent votes in states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia that change the result of the election, according to The Hill report.

However, experts and election officials have not found any evidence to support Trump's claims of fraudulent votes.

In December 2020, former Attorney General William Barr has turned down Trump's claims. He said that the Justice Department had not discovered any widespread voter fraud.

He acknowledged his defeat on Jan. 7, 2020, a day after the Capitol riot. He recognized that U.S. President Joe Biden would take office on Inauguration Day.

Many of Trump's Republican allies have continued to prompt such narrative about the Presidential Election 2020, namely Reps. Jim Jordan, Jim Banks, Paul Gosar, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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