BREAKING: Trump finally admits Biden won but with a caveat

The United States (US) President, Donald Trump, has finally admitted Joe Biden won the presidential election.

In a tweet on Sunday, the president acknowledged Biden’s victory but said attributed it his rival’s victory to irregularities.

“He won because the Election was Rigged.

“NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more!” he tweeted.

Trump had claimed victory on the night of the election.

The tweet comes eight days after the media the projected Biden as winner. Trump has not yet conceded, and his campaign has deployed lawyers to key battleground states to contest the ballot-counting processes there.

Some on Twitter wondered if they had just read a concession statement from Trump.

“Did a just wake up to Trump’s version of a concession?” journalist Yashar Ali tweeted.

Twitter quickly flagged the tweet with a label that reads, “This claim about election fraud is disputed.”

Last week, Biden on Tuesday called Trump’s refusal to concede the election “an embarrassment,” which will hurt “the president’s legacy.”

On Friday, the US appeals court rejected an effort to block about 9,300 mail-in ballots that arrived after Election Day in Pennsylvania.

The judges noted the “vast disruption” and “unprecedented challenges” facing the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic as they upheld the three-day extension.

In Michigan, a judge Friday refused to stop the certification of Detroit-area election results, rejecting claims the city had committed fraud and tainted the count with its handling of absentee ballots. It’s the third time a judge has declined to intervene in a statewide count that shows Biden up by more than 140,000 votes.

And in Arizona, a judge dismissed a Trump campaign lawsuit seeking the inspection of ballots in metro Phoenix after the campaign’s lawyers acknowledged the small number of ballots at issue wouldn’t change the outcome of how the state voted for president.

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