

He’s a sore loser whose pettiness and insecurity know no bounds. He’ll never emotionally recover from that loss, and the only way he can cope is to get everyone else to agree that he didn’t, in fact, lose.
Remember, this is the guy who, after a journalist called him a ‘short-fingered vulgarian’, mailed him photographs of himself with his hands circled and notes like ‘See, not so short!’ for 25 years.
It’s definitely an admission, but also, I’m pretty sure he’s panicking because he knows it’s either going leak soon and/or there will be congressional hearings in which Bondi, Bonjino, and even Maxwell will have to testify under oath (Maxwell has already said she’s willing to testify – the late-night GOP scramble yesterday was related to this).
He’s trying to poison the well with his usual ‘lügenpresse’ schtick.