Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy said Friday that it is “absurd” to call President Trump’s tweet suggesting a delay in the presidential election due to possible election fraud amid the coronavirus pandemic an impeccable crime.
“The tweet was highly discouraged. If you wanted people to talk about the potential of electoral fraud, then talk about electoral fraud. Don’t talk about delaying the election, “the former assistant chief prosecutor said to Fox News @ Night.
“The suggestion that it was impeccable is almost as absurd as the tweet,” said McCarthy.
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McCarthy argued against an opinion piece by a prominent conservative stating that Trump’s tweet is a matter of impeachment.
Federalist Society co-founder Stephen Calabresi said Trump’s tweet suggesting postponing the election is “fascist” and “grounds for the immediate removal of the president.”
“Until recently, I had taken Democrats’ claim that President Trump is a fascist as political hyperbole,” Calabresi wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times. “But this latest tweet is fascist and is itself the reason for the immediate removal of the president from the House of Representatives and his removal from the Senate.”
Calabresi noted that he has voted Republican in all presidential elections since 1980, including for Trump in 2016. He said he had defended the president against the Mueller investigation and against the impeachment investigation.
The Federalist Society is an influential conservative and libertarian organization that advocates the textualist and originalist interpretation of the Constitution.
McCarthy said people concerned about Trump’s tweet should take a “deep breath” and acknowledge that the presidential election is decentralized into 50 state elections.
Additionally, McCarthy rejected the idea of ”talking about the election before it happens and suggested that the mail-in process is going to delegitimize the outcome.”
“Let’s play the game before we start worrying about how it played out,” he said.
Claiming at the White House briefing Thursday that the 2020 elections could be “arranged” and “manipulated,” Trump again highlighted the risks of universal mail-in-the-nation voting in clear terms, even citing news articles. and experts who have raised similar concerns. .
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Before answering questions, Trump honored former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, noting that “unfortunately, he passed away from a thing called the China virus.” Trump also hit Democrats’ plans to keep schools and businesses closed, saying they would cause “probably more deaths” and economic destruction than the coronavirus itself.
