Donald Trump’s Ex-Wife Ivana Trump Responds to His Election Defeat

It's been a rough week for Donald Trump.

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As you will all be aware by now, the president suffered a colossal loss to his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, for this year's presidential election.

Of course, Trump has been doing everything in his power to challenge the result...

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But he has faced a whole lot of ridicule as a result.

And, amid the reactions to the result...

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Trump's ex-wife, Ivana, has now weighed into his election defeat, sharing her thoughts on her ex's plan to refuse to concede.

Now, this year's presidential election has been perhaps the most anticipated in decades.

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And, as Trump and Biden went head-to-head, a record number of Americans made sure to get their votes in early.

However, it brought with it a lengthy counting process.

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As a result of the increased numbers of mail-in ballots this year, Americans far and wide were left waiting in anticipation for days for any form of result or conclusion.

Though polls across the country closed on Tuesday, November 3rd...

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It took days for a result to be announced. As the days trickled by, each State gradually announced their winning candidate and, throughout those tense couple of days, the numbers remained painfully close between President Trump and former vice president, Joe Biden.

Trump was clearly feeling the heat...

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And, as the counts went underway, he tried to temporarily stop vote-counting in Michigan and Pennsylvania, States where Joe Biden was projected to win.

He also called for a recount in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania...

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And then went on to threaten legal action against any State wherein Biden had won.

Though a Biden campaign lawyer brushed off the threats as "meritless."

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“I want to emphasize that for their purposes these lawsuits don’t have to have merit. That’s not the purpose. ... It is to create an opportunity for them to message falsely about what’s taking place in the electoral process," lawyer, Bob Bauer said, accusing the Trump campaign of “continually alleging irregularities, failures of the system and fraud without any basis."

But, regardless of his many threats, the result were in after 4 long days of ballot counting.

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The Associated Press called the race for Biden when Pennsylvania's twenty electoral votes put him over the 270-vote threshold needed to win the Electoral College.

Shortly after his victory, Biden Tweeted this:

"America, I’m honored that you have chosen me to lead our great country. The work ahead of us will be hard, but I promise you this: I will be a President for all Americans -whether you voted for me or not. I will keep the faith that you have placed in me."

Democrats all over the country have been rejoicing at the news of Biden's historic win...

And remarkable footage of people cheering and celebrating from the streets of New York was quick to circulate.

However, there's someone who isn't in the mood for celebrating...

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And that's President Trump, of course.

Now, Trump's reaction to Biden's win has been nothing short of outrageous.

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Though the president is a historically sore loser - he's very rarely had to admit defeat ever in his life - and has long made wild accusations against the Biden campaign team, people simply cannot believe his refusal to accept what has happened.

His first response to Biden's win was to release a lengthy and damning statement...

In which he accused Biden and his team of rigging the entire election. As per Sky News, the statement read: “We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don’t want the truth to be exposed. “The simple fact is this election is far from over. Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor. “In Pennsylvania, for example, our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process.  Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media."

The statement then went on to explain how legal proceedings will begin immediately.

It continued: “Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated. “The American People are entitled to an honest election: that means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots. This is the only way to ensure the public has full confidence in our election. “It remains shocking that the Biden campaign refuses to agree with this basic principle and wants ballots counted even if they are fraudulent, manufactured, or cast by ineligible or deceased voters. Only a party engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully keep observers out of the count room - and then fight in court to block their access. “So what is Biden hiding? I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands."

And the frenzied Twitter rants were quick to follow.

In his rage, Trump took to the social media platform to dispute the result further, insisting that he was the one to have won.

He tried to take some small victory from the situation...

And proudly Tweeted that he received a record-breaking number of votes.

However, more damning accusations were quick to follow...

Trump seems set on the idea that Biden and his team rigged the entire election to play out in their favor, and made strong hints that something happened in the counting rooms that had "never happened before."

And it didn't take him long to slam the Biden campaign as "thieves."

"The big city machines are corrupt. This was a stolen election. Best pollster in Britain wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election, that it’s impossible to imagine that Biden outran Obama in some of these states."

Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, also held a press conference following the result...

Where he, too, repeated the allegations that the election was tainted by widespread voter fraud.

However, the Trump campaign has so far not produced any sufficient evidence to justify their claims...

Which has prompted people to accuse them of fraud.

Anyway, a small issue of lack of evidence isn't going to stop Trump from trying to get his own way...

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Because, just days after the result, his campaign team set up an election fraud hotline number. 

It's probably the most Donald Trump move of 2020, isn't it?

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Anyway, the hotline was set up in the Trump campaign's headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, so people - presumably republicans - could report any shady goings-on they had noticed at their voting stations.

Trump's son, Eric Trump, took to Twitter to advertise the new hotline:

"Help stop voter suppression, irregularities, and fraud. Tell us what you're seeing."

Safe to say, it looks like Trump has no plans to concede defeat any time soon.

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And now, his ex-wife Ivana has weighed in on the matter.

Speaking to PEOPLE on Monday, the seventy-one-year-old shared her thoughts on Trump's reaction to the election result.

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"I just want this whole thing to be over with, one way or the other. I really don't care," explained the star, who is the mother of his 3 eldest children: Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric.

"He's not a good loser," Ivana continued.

"He doesn't like to lose, so he's going to fight and fight and fight."

Amid claims that Trump will run again in 2024, Ivana says she thinks her ex's political career will be over after this loss.

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"I don't think he has a choice," said the former model. "He's going to go down to Palm Beach and play golf and live the normal life, I think. This is the best choice for what he can do."

She continued.

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"He has to go and declare that he lost. "But he hates to be a loser, that I'm sure of. But if he loses, he loses. He has plenty of money, places to go and live in and enjoy his life."

Meanwhile, Ivana said her children are doing "fine," and are looking forward to putting the White House behind them.

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"I just want them to be able to live their normal lives -- normal lives," she said. "Not the Washington life and all that, just in New York or wherever they're going to be and just live their normal lives."

Ivana is relieved the whole thing is over...

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"I think they enjoyed being around Donald and running the election and seeing what will happen, but now it is -- thank God -- over," she added. "I'm not really sure what they are going to be up to."

So, it seems we'll have to sit tight and see what Trump does next.

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