Rosie O'Donnell claimed in an interview Wednesday that President Donald Trump didn’t actually defeat former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. O'Donnell, a longtime critic of Trump, fled the country after he won the 2024 election and moved to Ireland.She said she was "astonished" that Trump occupies the White House before suggesting his victory wasn’t legitimate. "I mean, part of the reason that I left is I never in a million years thought we would put a convicted felon, who tried to start an insurrection, back in office.
How did that happen? I don't think it happened.I think Kamala won.
I do," O'Donnell told former CNN host Jim Acosta on his podcast. "Interesting," Acosta, who was known for his antagonistic reporting at CNN when he was White House correspondent during the first Trump administration.Trump in turn often attacked Acosta and called him "fake news."ROSIE O'DONNELL QUIETLY RETURNS TO US AFTER ABANDONING COUNTRY OVER TRUMP'S VICTORYRosie O'Donnell doesn’t believe President Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election. (Getty Images)"I think that we're going to find all this out, it’s going to come out.
I'm not the first person to say this.There are all these researchers who are saying it.
I read it online again today," O'Donnell said before pondering whether Elon Musk somehow influenced the election.O'Donnell failed to offer evidence that Trump did not actually win the election. Acosta offered only mild pushback, saying it’s "hard to believe" that Trump won but insisting he typically trusts American democracy because he’s "old-fashioned." "I would never think that something like that can happen, so I tend to trust it," Acosta said."But I do worry he’s going to try to steal the next one." Acosta is one of several former mainstream media figures who now hosts openly left-wing independent programs; he recently compared Trump's name coming off the Kennedy Center to the falling of the Berlin Wall....