Pierce Morgan showed the second part of his interview with Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon, revealing that the former president has not escaped.
A heavily edited trailer for the interview, released last week, seemed to suggest that Mr Trump angrily left the interview amid questions about his so-called “Big Lie” that he was deceived into winning the 2020 election.
The hint infuriated the former president, who issued a statement accusing his former Celebrity Apprentice contestant of “illegally and fraudulently” editing his “annoying” interview.
Presenting the latest part of his Talk TV interview on Tuesday, Morgan blamed Trump aide Taylor Budovich for the bad ending, saying he was constantly interrupting the couple as he tried to end a conversation that had already ended. Morgan called him “incredibly incompetent.”
However, footage shows Mr Trump answering a final question about hitting a hole in one – and claiming he hit seven during his golf career – before standing up, taking off his microphone and walking away. He can be heard saying “very dishonestly”, apparently referring to Morgan’s interrogation of his false allegations of electoral fraud as he left.
The former president has challenged Mr Morgan’s claim that he withdrew from the interview following a question of electoral fraud, and last week news agencies received an audio recording of the interview, which appears to support Mr Trump’s version of events. The argument led to the cancellation of another guest interview with Mr Morgan in the first week, when former Republican gubernatorial candidate Caitlin Jenner refused to appear on the show.
Mr Morgan himself famously left the show in 2021 after being scolded for his treatment of Megan Markle.
The Duchess of Sussex was the subject of a wide-ranging interview, as Mr Trump directly insulted her husband, Prince Harry, by claiming that he had been “whipped” or subordinate to his wife.
“I will not use the full expression, but Harry has been flogged like no one I think I have seen,” Mr Trump said in an interview. “I’m not a fan of Megan, I’m not a fan and I was wrong from the start. I think poor Harry is being led by the nose.
He and Mr Morgan touched on the issue of the 2020 elections and the credibility of the results, which show that Joe Biden has won, and although controversial, the exchange does not immediately precede the end of the conversation.
“I believe it was a free and fair election and that you lost. That is my conviction, “said Mr Trump’s TV presenter after the latter repeated his allegation of stolen elections.
“Well, then you’re a fool, so you’re a fool,” the former president replied. “And you’re a fool and you haven’t studied.”
The former president’s lies about the 2020 election led to his bans on both Twitter and Facebook after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, but he remained unperturbed by insisting that he had in fact won his re-election by a wide margin. According to Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, he even suggested (falsely) to guests at his Mar-a-Lago resort that he could be reinstated before Mr Biden’s term expires.
Despite or perhaps as a result of his longstanding efforts to sow distrust in America’s electoral system, the former president remains the de facto leader of the Republican Party and a broad favorite in most polls of likely Republican primary voters for the party’s 2024 nomination.
He continues to host campaign-style rallies across the country, supporting various loyal GOP candidates along the way, and has consistently hinted that 2024 may be on the horizon and is building a huge political military chest of more than 100 million dollars at the end of 2021.
The president himself told Fox News in November that he would announce his plans for 2024 after the 2022 interim mandate ends in the autumn.
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