Just pissing him off more

White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, who has reported on Trump over the past 20 years, sheds light on his refusal to concede.

"[Trump] can't handle the concept of the label 'loser,' " Haberman says. "He has never before encountered a problem that he couldn't sue away through the court system or spin away. ... This is just an objective fact that he can't do anything about. It is roiling him."

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The president was very displeased by the black rivulets of sweat running down Giuliani's face at the press conference. But the president has a very long relationship with Rudy Giuliani; he's never going to cut ties with him. He's really not. And Giuliani has convinced the president that it's activist judges or it's this one or it's that one who are thwarting them — and not that it's at all Giuliani's fault. Giuliani is saying to the president what the president wants to hear, which is that the president was robbed. This president has made clear over time that he loved hearing about how his endorsements impacted Republican primaries. I believe he wants to continue throwing his influence around in Republican primaries, and you're going to see early tests of that in 2022.

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He doesn't like being told he can't have something. [...] [H]e is constantly fighting for things that he has cost himself. He's very, very self-destructive.

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He likes having power. Almost everything about Donald Trump for 50 years at this point has been about power and dominance. ... He knows that he has a group of millions of people. And is it the full 74 million who voted on the Republican line? Probably not, but it is a substantial segment of that group that will go with him. And so if he sets out when he leaves office and not just tries to be influential, but indicates he's running for president again, which he has told many, many people he's going to do, that is essentially going to freeze the Republican field.

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I can't feel sorry for them. They've had many chances to keep him in check and passed on all of them.

[Haberman] describes the president as a "self-destructive" individual who tends to crave most what he does not — or cannot — have.

Still, Haberman thinks it's unlikely that Trump will have to be forcibly removed from office.

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Presumably he can use some of the money [collected ostensibly for a legal challenge to the election loss] for his own legal fees if he faces ongoing legal battles, which many people think he will, over his own conduct and over questions around his children's behavior going forward.

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It's going to make him probably the most influential after-the-fact president that I can think of. [...] He's not just going to quietly exit.

Unfortunately for the entire world.