Former President of the United States Donald Trump (2017-2021) said this Sunday that it was his “decision” to reject the results of the 2020 elections that he lost against the current president, Joe Biden, and launch a legal offensive to annul the elections. The Republican is charged in a federal court in Washington for his alleged attempt to reverse the results and having instigated the assault on the Capitol, and in a state court in Georgia accused of having led a mafia plot to reverse the elections in that state, cases for those who could end up in jail.

“It was my decision,” Trump responded in an interview with NBC, in which he reiterated that in reality it was he who won the elections but there was electoral fraud against him, something that he has not been able to prove. The former president said that he ignored the advice of his lawyers, who told him that he had lost the elections, because he “did not trust” them despite having hired them.

“You hire them but you don’t know those people and then it turns out they’re not that good,” he said. Among them he cited the attorney general he appointed, William Barr, who distanced himself from the false allegations of fraud and whom Trump accused of not having done his job because he was “scared.” On the other hand, Trump did listen to other collaborators who told him that the elections were “rigged,” but what he followed most was his own “instinct,” he explained.

According to the Justice Department investigation, Trump knowingly lied when saying he won the election, tried to alter the certification of the results with all kinds of legal tricks and instigated the violent assault on the Capitol by thousands of his followers to disrupt the ratification of Biden’s victory.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to all four criminal charges against him, two of them related to his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and has denounced a “witch hunt” by Biden. The White House has responded that the Justice Department’s investigations are independent of the Government. Trump is the great favorite to obtain the Republican presidential nomination for the 2024 elections, in which Biden seeks re-election for a second term.