There is a current consensus as of May 2021 of the established media that Trump was in complete denial about the 2020 US election.
‘https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/politics/trump-presidency-election-loss.html
However, the same media had been in complete denial of Trump’s election of 2016
New York Times wrote in December 2016:
Russia and the U.S. Election: What We Know and Don’t Know
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/world/europe/russia-trump-election-cia-fbi.html
Russian Hacking and Influence in the U.S. election
https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/russian-election-hacking
3 years after the election Time Magazine continued denying the fairness of the 2016 election:
https://time.com/5565991/russia-influence-2016-election/
US media is still in denial about 2016 but yet complains about Trump’s behaviour.