Donald Trump almost involuntarily admitted his defeat on Friday, November 13. The President of the United States was speaking in the rose garden of the White House to congratulate himself on the progress made on the progress of a vaccine against Covid-19. Obliged to evoke the outbreak of contaminations in his country, he assured that “This administration will not decide on confinement”. “Hopefully the… the… “, he began before recovering just before talking about a new team led by Joe Biden. “Whatever happens in the future, who knows what administration it will be. I guess time will tell ”, added the president.
This hesitation, then his abrupt return to the Oval Office without answering a single question after the eulogies of his health secretary, Alex Azar, and then Vice President, Mike Pence, underscored how consumed he is with the outcome of the presidential election, nearly a week after the announcement of the Democrat’s victory on November 7.
Because the president continued to say Friday that the election is still not played. On two occasions, he assured on his Twitter account that the November 3 ballot was “Rigged”. And he confided that “It’s heartwarming to see all this enormous support, especially these spontaneous gatherings that are flourishing across the country, including a big Saturday in [Washington] DC ”. “I might even try to stop by and say hello “, he added obviously to boost mobilization, while these “Spontaneous gatherings” have so far remained very marginal.
A thesis that fraud that nothing comes to support
The President of the United States having assured before the election that he could not lose faithfully, he is now forced to defend a thesis that nothing, or almost nothing, supports. While the accusation of fraud has been hammered home by Donald Trump since the end of the ballot, it is much more rarely taken up in current proceedings.
Thursday, one of his lawyers, Kory Langhofer, defended a complaint in Arizona by assuring that “ we are not alleging that anyone stole the election ”. When a judge asked two days earlier in Pennsylvania whether another lawyer was implicating a “Fraud” about a few hundred disputed ballots, the latter replied in the negative. “ To my knowledge, at the moment, no Said Jonathan Goldstein.
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