Saying, quote, he won, with reference to joe biden on twitter. The words there you see are real. He won. And by the strange and low standards of a trumpian postelection period, that was actually the outgoing president s first direct reference to president elect bidens victory. Even as donald trump is also backpedalling on it and testing out a range of messages online for why he says that this all happened. Meanwhile, top trump aides are increasingly following reality and not trumps denial. Here is his own National Security adviser. We may have policy disagreements, but, look, if the biden harris ticket is determined to be the winner and, you know, obviously things look that way now, well have a very professional transition from the National Security council, theres no question about it. There you have it. That sounds straightforward, perhaps borderline boreing, but mr. Obrien, i can tell you, is the highest ranking white house official to refer to biden winning. Even with the weird ref