Former President Donald Trump claimed that comedian Joan Rivers voted for him in the 2016 election despite the fact she died in 2014.
That’s according to audio released by Ramin Setoodeh, who has authored a new biography of Trump titled, Apprentice in Wonderland.
Setoodeh’s book focuses on Trump’s life after leaving the White House in 2021. According to the author, Trump said TV ratings are his “whole life” and also appeared to admit he lost the 2020 election. Publicly, Trump has falsely claimed the election was rigged against him.
On Thursday’s edition of The ReidOut, MSNBC’s Joy Reid aired audio of the former president telling Setoodeh about Rivers and her 2016 vote, which she never got to cast.
“Here is exclusive audio from one of the interviews where they spoke about the late comedian Joan Rivers and her appearance on the Celebrity Apprentice,” Reid said:
SETOODEH: Joan said she was a Republican. Did you know that?
TRUMP: I thought she might have been a Republican. I know one thing. She voted for me according to what she said.
The MSNBC host noted the problem with Trump’s claim.
“Ok, well, there’s just one minor problem with that,” Reid said. “Joan Rivers died two years before the 2016 election – a little too early for early voting.”
Reid then pivoted to more audio in which Trump appeared to suggest he believed he still retained some presidential powers regarding foreign policy even though he was a private citizen.
“The reason I’m doing this and devoting a lot of time to it, I have to get back up because, you know, doing the whole thing with the Afghanistan,” Trump says on the recording. “Has he blown that Afghanistan.”
Watch above via MSNBC.
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