Donald Trump attacked the swing state of Nevada as “disgraceful” and falsely claimed he won the Silver State in both 2016 and 2020 “by a lot” in a new interview.
The Nevada Globe, a right-wing website, noted that the state hasn’t voted for a Republican candidate since President George W. Bush carried it in 2004.
That seemed to set him off.
“I think I won the last time. I think I won both times by a lot,” Trump insisted. “This is a state that is disgraceful.”
The former president lost the state by about 2.5 percentage points in both 2016 and 2020.
But he told the Globe “they robbed the vote at a level” and attacked the co-chair for his campaign in the state, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt.
“Adam Laxalt is a stiff and he didn’t do the job,” he said, calling him a “terrible attorney.”
In the same grievance-filled interview, Trump also repeated his attacks on his own attorney general, Bill Barr; bragged about firing then-FBI Director James Comey as “one of the best firings ever”; and repeated his debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
Twitter users were baffled by Trump’s claims:
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