A few facts with which, I think, all will agree:
- Trump does not like losing. He's admitted this.
- The last public loss he had was in the 2016 election when he lost the popular vote by about three million (I am not saying that he therefore lost, or should have lost, the election: I'm just noting that it was a loss, and that he took it as one).
- He protested that loss, stating repeatedly (while providing no supporting evidence) that if there had been no cheating/fraud, he would have won the popular vote.
- After he took office, he created a special commission to investigate the cheating/fraud during the 2016 election. That commission quietly dissolved a year after its creation when they were unable to find any evidence for any cheating/fraud.
- Several months before the 2020 election, he began to cast doubt on its integrity, particularly on the mail-in ballots process. Election experts uniformly said that there was no basis for such doubt and that the mail-in ballot process was sound, secure and had been for decades.
- In the immediate lead up to the 2020 election, he refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power, repeatedly mentioning that if the election was fair, he would win.
In the light of the above, why would anyone believe his claims of cheating/fraud in the 2020 election, particularly when:
a) those claims are made without supporting evidence,
b) a number of international organisations observing the election have stated that it was fair, even and that there was no evidence of cheating or fraud,
c) those claims are made in a way that exhibits an appalling lack of knowledge of general election processes and the realities of this election in particular,
d) across the board, virtually all officials, Democrat and Republican, agree that the election was honest and more secure than any in recent memory,
e) across the board, judges, both Democrat and Republican, have thrown out court cases created by his legal team about the election due to the non-existence of evidence for his claims,
f) virtually the only people who have come out to agree with him are those with a history of acceding to his claims/decrees,
g) he has a long, well-documented history of lying, usually for his own aggrandisement,
h) if he is correct, the Democrats organised a fraud/cheating effort that spanned the country without a single defector confessing to their crimes and
i) if he is correct, the Democrats managed to subvert the entire electoral process by 'stealing' at least three (3) states from the rightful victor but were at the same time happy to lose seats in the house and make no gains in the senate?
- Trump does not like losing. He's admitted this.
- The last public loss he had was in the 2016 election when he lost the popular vote by about three million (I am not saying that he therefore lost, or should have lost, the election: I'm just noting that it was a loss, and that he took it as one).
- He protested that loss, stating repeatedly (while providing no supporting evidence) that if there had been no cheating/fraud, he would have won the popular vote.
- After he took office, he created a special commission to investigate the cheating/fraud during the 2016 election. That commission quietly dissolved a year after its creation when they were unable to find any evidence for any cheating/fraud.
- Several months before the 2020 election, he began to cast doubt on its integrity, particularly on the mail-in ballots process. Election experts uniformly said that there was no basis for such doubt and that the mail-in ballot process was sound, secure and had been for decades.
- In the immediate lead up to the 2020 election, he refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power, repeatedly mentioning that if the election was fair, he would win.
In the light of the above, why would anyone believe his claims of cheating/fraud in the 2020 election, particularly when:
a) those claims are made without supporting evidence,
b) a number of international organisations observing the election have stated that it was fair, even and that there was no evidence of cheating or fraud,
c) those claims are made in a way that exhibits an appalling lack of knowledge of general election processes and the realities of this election in particular,
d) across the board, virtually all officials, Democrat and Republican, agree that the election was honest and more secure than any in recent memory,
e) across the board, judges, both Democrat and Republican, have thrown out court cases created by his legal team about the election due to the non-existence of evidence for his claims,
f) virtually the only people who have come out to agree with him are those with a history of acceding to his claims/decrees,
g) he has a long, well-documented history of lying, usually for his own aggrandisement,
h) if he is correct, the Democrats organised a fraud/cheating effort that spanned the country without a single defector confessing to their crimes and
i) if he is correct, the Democrats managed to subvert the entire electoral process by 'stealing' at least three (3) states from the rightful victor but were at the same time happy to lose seats in the house and make no gains in the senate?
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