In the weeks following the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump began claiming that mass amounts of fraud resulted in him losing the election. Now, a forthcoming book shines a light on his determination to stay in the White House, despite his loss.
The book, written by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, depicts Trump's conversations with his aides and his claims that he would not leave the house no matter what happened, CNN reported.
"I'm just not going to leave," Trump told one aide, Haberman wrote in her book.
But Trump's claims didn't end there as he also told another aide that he's "never leaving," asking, "How can you leave when you won an election?"
However, what makes the situation even stranger, is Trump seemed to acknowledge he had lost to Biden, according to Haberman in her book.
She wrote in her book that Trump had asked advisers to tell him what had gone wrong while saying to one, "We did our best." According to Haberman, Trump also told one of his junior press aides that he "thought we had it."
But his actions weeks after Nov. 3, 2020, showed that Trump was not ready to leave just yet. She wrote that his mood seemingly changed as he quickly switched key, saying he had no plans of leaving the White House.
The revelations of just how far Trump was willing to go to stay in the White House come as the U.S. House and the Justice Department probe Trump's refusal to concede the election.
Hearings from the House select committee are expected to begin again in the coming weeks before the committee's final report is issued this fall.
Haberman has covered Trump since his campaign in 2016, making her a frequent target for the former president's social media topics.
Haberman's book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America," will be released on Oct. 4.
Not only does it share more about Trump's feelings post-election, but it also examines what those around him were saying. One voice was that of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who Haberman says was reluctant to confront Trump on the defeat.
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