Piers Morgan says Trump has a 'blind, pathological' belief that the 2020 election was stolen from him
- Piers Morgan spoke to Fox News about his recent interview with Donald Trump, set to air today.
- Morgan said Trump has a "pathological" fixation with 2020 election-fraud claims.
The British TV host Piers Morgan described Donald Trump's fixation with the belief the 2020 election was stolen from him as "pathological" and stood by his claim that the former president stormed out of an interview when challenged about it.
In an interview with Fox News' "Media Buzz" on Sunday, Morgan discussed his recent interview with Trump that will be broadcast in full on his new TalkTV chat show on Monday.
In promotional clips of the interview released last week, Trump was seen growing furious and storming out when challenged about his election-fraud claims. Trump has since challenged Morgan's characterization of the interview, releasing audio apparently showing that he ended the interview politely after it ran over its allocated time.
"It was uncomfortable," Morgan told the Fox host Howard Kurtz on Sunday. "I've never seen him like that. He was very angry. Quite profane, in fact."
Morgan also described what happened after he told Trump that he does not believe the 2020 election was rigged.
"At that point, the fuse kind of went with him," Morgan said. "He started insulting me, called me a fool seven times. I was very respectful back, I accepted if he wanted to call me that. That's fine. But he wasn't going to change my mind."
"He couldn't accept that. He has a kind of blind, pathological belief that it was taken from him."
Trump has pushed the claims of election fraud since his defeat to Joe Biden in the November 2020 election, and has made support for the claim a litmus test of loyalty in endorsing hundreds of candidates for the November 2022 midterms.
Morgan and Trump were previously friends, with Morgan having been the winning contestant on Trump's reality show "Celebrity Apprentice" back in 2008. But Morgan has been critical of Trump's refusal to accept defeat in 2020.