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OOPS: Trump Almost Accidentally Concedes
Two weeks after the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump still refuses to concede the race to President-Elect Joe Biden. As we have said, a concession is just a formality, and Trump’s concession is not necessary to inaugurate Biden and Harris on January 20th. However, it is a long-held tradition in American history that the loser of the presidential election concedes to the winner as a way to unify the country and ensure trust in the democratic system. Donald Trump is breaking with that tradition because his ego and his fragile emotions are more important to him than the good of the country. There is no sign that Trump will ever accept that he lost the race fair and square and to this day he is blocking Biden’s transition team from beginning their process of settling into the White House.
Even though Trump is an egomaniac, he is also not very smart. Therefore, it is possible that Trump concedes the election by accident at some point between now and January. He came close to doing that a few times over the past week. During a Rose Garden press conference, Trump almost referred to the incoming Biden administration, before saying “time will tell” about who will win the election, even though we already know who won. In a tweet yesterday, Trump said, “He won because the Election was Rigged.” The outgoing president later clarified that he is not conceding and that his legal fights will continue. This is the closest we’ll probably ever get to an actual acceptance of reality from the defeated Donald Trump.
Obama Likens Trump to Child in Brutal Interview
Two-term President Barack Obama went on 60 Minutes with Scott Pelley to promote his new memoir, A Promised Land. Obama spoke about some of the trials he faced while serving as America’s 44th President, but he spent much of the time discussing Donald Trump’s refusal to concede and the worry that there won’t be a peaceful transition of power. Obama correctly pointed out that Trump is not the only cause of division in the country, and that polarization existed before Trump mainly because of Fox News and Republican obstructionism. But he also expressed that Trump has capitalized on those divisions and never even attempted to be a unifying president.
Obama said that Trump is refusing to accept defeat because Trump doesn’t like to lose. Obama said that he wouldn’t accept this behavior from his own daughters if they had lost some competition and that no other decent parent would either. Therefore, we should not accept this behavior from the President of the United States. Obama said he was not surprised that Trump is doing this, but is taken aback by Republicans who continue to go along with the voter fraud narrative. This is all an attempt to delegitimize Joe Biden’s decisive victory over the incumbent president and to continue stretching the divisions in the country.
From over the weekend:
SHOCK: Trump Knows He Can't Win, SCAMMING His Supporters
Donald Trump knows that he has no path to victory in the 2020 election. His frivolous lawsuits keep getting thrown out and the vote margins in even the tightest states are too large to overcome with a recount. Even as many of his supporters across the country believe he was robbed and that Trump will eventually succeed in getting a second term, the 45th president knows better. He is doing this charade in part to save face, because he doesn’t want to be seen as a loser. But this is also to scam his supporters one more time. The Trump campaign is aggressively fundraising for Trump’s legal efforts and half of the donations they raise go to paying off campaign debt. The supposed billionaire somehow doesn’t have the money, so he’s taking it from his gullible sycophantic supporters who will donate even after he’s lost.
--More on the show:
--Based on preliminary data, Moderna announces that its coronavirus vaccine is 94.% effective at preventing infection, which if true, is a potential game-changer in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
--Barack Obama is interviewed by Gayle King and issues a warning that what we have been experiencing under Donald Trump, as well as Trump's behavior itself, "is not normal"
--Donald Trump humiliates himself overnight with an endless Twitter meltdown, including claims that he won the election, retweets of deceptive videos, and completely outrageous behavior
--Donald Trump is furious with Fox News as they continue their insanity, including sycophantic defenses of Donald Trump's bogus voter fraud claims
--Donald Trump's Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany appears to completely lose her mind during a series of recent interviews
--ABC's Martha Raddatz interviews "COVID-skeptical" Trump supporters and it goes horribly wrong
--Despite completely demonetizing our Facebook channel for mentioning recent Steve Bannon comments, Mark Zuckerberg has decided Steve Bannon himself doesn't deserve to be banned
--Voicemail caller asks whether Donald Trump will resign before the end of his presidency so that Mike Pence can pardon him
--On the Bonus Show: Biden urged to embrace executive action, judge rules DACA restricted without authority, Deutsche Bank wants 5% privilege tax for work-from-home, much more...
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Steve Tali-Bannon. Makes terroristic threats against high government officials, the FBI director and Dr. Anthony Fauci, by calling for them to be beheaded and their heads placed on spike points on the fence around the White House. Bannon is already on probation after being convicted of a felony. He should be arrested and thrown in jail for making such outrageous terroristic threats. Whatever mind Bannon may have had has been invaded by Brain cell-eating parasites.