'I can clear that up!' CNN's Jake Tapper torches Trump in scathing monologue

While addressing the annual National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump once again doubled down on the disproven claim that he won the 2020 election — particularly in Georgia. CNN host Jake Tapper spent part of his latest show taking apart the president's argument piece by piece.

In a Thursday segment, Tapper noted that Trump remained "laser-focused on rewriting his 2020 election loss" in spite of overwhelming evidence that he lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College. He then observed that Trump used his captive audience at the National Prayer Breakfast — which is typically a non-partisan event — to defend his controversial FBI raid of an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's presence at the raid.

"Georgia was central to Trump's false, debunked claim that the 2020 election was rigged, which it was not," Tapper said. "... Why send Gabbard? It's a question that is baffling. Many senior intelligence officials and election election law experts who say that Gabbard's job as Director of National Intelligence gives her no legal authority over an FBI search."

The CNN host pointed out that Trump recently told NBC News that Gabbard was in Georgia because "we have to have honest elections."

"There should be nothing wrong with the fact that they went in, got ballots from a while ago, and they're going to look at them, and now they're going to find out the true winner of that state," Trump told NBC News' Tony Llamas.

"Oh, you want to know the true winner of the state of Georgia in 2020, President Trump? I can clear that up," Tapper said after playing the clip of Trump's NBC interview. "It was President Biden. No matter how badly you wish that were not true."

"The idea that Trump won Georgia has been thoroughly debunked by Republicans and multiple recounts and audits and top officials in Trump's first administration," Tapper continued. "... But the truth is not what this is apparently about for President Trump. It's about his ego. But that's not my interpretation of this. That's what he said today."

Tapper then aired a clip of Trump telling the National Prayer Breakfast that he needed to win the 2020 election "for my own ego."

"I would have had a bad ego for the rest of my life," Trump said. "Now I really have a big ego, though. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time, you know, they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did."

"President Trump, again, did not win the popular vote in 2020," Tapper said. "The real issues here, though, when it comes to whatever investigation the administration is cooking up when it comes to these ballots, is, A: The Trump administration and President Trump regularly lies to the public about even things that we can see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears, and. B: We already know what happens when President Trump requires a pre-ordained outcome in law enforcement activities related to his political desires. Just look up FBI Director James Comey, or New York Attorney General Letitia James."

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