Former President Trump said Sunday that he “shouldn’t have left” the White House in 2021.
Speaking at a rally in Lititz, Pa., the former president confirmed Democrats’ concerns about him not wanting to give up power after he lost the presidential election in 2020.
“I shouldn’t have left, I mean, honestly,” Trump said. “We did so well.”
“So now, every polling booth has hundreds of lawyers standing there,” Trump added.
Trump, who has refused to accept that he lost the last election to President Biden, lost support among some voters after his supporters attempted to stop Congress from certifying the election results following a speech on the Ellipse in Washington.
Trump has been sharply criticized for sitting in the White House while people stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, attacking law enforcement and damaging Capitol grounds.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said in her 2022 book that Trump reportedly told his aides that he would remain in the White House after Biden was inaugurated.
“I’m just not going to leave,” Trump told one aide, according to Haberman’s book.
“We’re never leaving. How can you leave when you won an election?” he told another.
Sarafina Chitika, a senior spokesperson for the Harris campaign, said in a post online that Trump’s message about not leaving the White House is a “dark closing message from a candidate with nothing to offer the American people.”
“It’s time to turn the page on” Trump, Chitika’s post said.
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Trump says he "shouldn’t have left" the White House in 2021 https://t.co/R0z2mIAVmT
— The Hill (@thehill) November 3, 2024
He wasn’t joking. pic.twitter.com/LJcICS1JSv
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 3, 2024
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