NBC’s Welker Tries Check-Mate Question When Trump Refuses To Concede Election He Lost To Biden

NBC News anchor Kristen Welker tried to check-mate President-elect Donald Trump when he told her he still refuses to concede the 2020 election he lost to President Joe Biden.

Trump sat for an exclusive interview that aired on Sunday morning’s edition of NBC’s Meet the Press, during which Welker pressed Trump on a wide range of issues, and prompted many newsworthy responses.

In one exchange, Welker revisited the 2020 election by asking Trump if he would “concede” — then deploying a thought experiment  when he refused:

KRISTEN WELKER: This is your first interview since you won the election.

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: Congratulations.

KRISTEN WELKER: Yes, congratulations to you.

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: I hope you do well.

KRISTEN WELKER: Yes. And sir, I don’t have to tell you this, because you’ve talked about it. It comes at a time when the country is deeply divided, and now you’re going to be leading this country for the next four years. For the sake of unifying this country, will you concede the 2020 election and turn the page on that chapter?

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: No. No, why would I do that? But let me just tell you —

KRISTEN WELKER: You won’t ever concede —

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: – when you say the country is deeply divided, I’m not the president. Joe Biden is the president.

KRISTEN WELKER: But you’re going to be the president.

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: No, no. I’m not the president. So when you say it’s deeply divided, I agree. But Biden’s the president, I’m not. And he has been a divider. And you know where he divided it more than anything else, and it probably backfired on him. I think definitely is weaponization. When he weaponized the Justice Department and he went after his political opponent, me. He went after his political opponent violently because he knew he couldn’t beat him. And I think it really was a bad thing, and it really divided our country.

KRISTEN WELKER: Sir, Democrats have control of the White House now. They didn’t in 2020. If they are going around stealing elections, why didn’t they do it this time —

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: When you say Democrats have control now —

KRISTEN WELKER: Of the White House. So why didn’t they steal this election? Since they have more power now?

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: Because I think it was too big to rig.

KRISTEN WELKER: So you won’t —

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: It was too big to rig.

KRISTEN WELKER: To the people who say that you’re now directing your Justice Department to investigate 2020 and they want to move on —

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: No, I think Pam is going to be great —

KRISTEN WELKER: Is that a good use of precious resources? Is that what you want them to do —

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: By the way, just so you know, I have the right to do that but I’m not interested in that.

KRISTEN WELKER: Oh, you’re not? You’re not going to do that?

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: I’m not interested. I have the absolute right. I’m the chief law enforcement officer, you do know that. I’m the president. But I’m not interested in that. You know what I’m interested in? Drilling, and getting prices down, and stopping people from pouring into our border that come from prisons and mental institutions.

Watch above via NBC’s Meet the Press.