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Liberal America is celebrating, Donald Trump refuses to admit it. After hours of radio silence, he posted his first tweet since the afternoon’s result, with old messages.
Donald Trump was playing golf at his private club in Virginia when, shortly before eleven thirty, the news from Washington circulated around the world: Joe Biden will be the new president of the United States of America. Trump had gone there in the morning, employees informed him of the news by phone, according to the “New York Times.”
Then his team issued a statement from the president in which he did not acknowledge the electoral victory: “The simple fact is that this election is far from over.” On Twitter, where the president often and frequently likes to present his opinion unfiltered, he is silent for hours, probably also due to the golf trip.
It’s nearly 5 p.m. when Trump makes his first tweet after Biden’s election. In capital letters. In this he sticks to the messages he has practiced in recent days. He also states: “I won the elections.”
OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED IN THE COUNTER ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTIONS, I OBTAINED 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED THAT OUR OBSERVERS COULD NOT SEE. IT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF TICKETS IN THE MAIL WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER REQUESTED THEM!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020
And he goes back to talking about electoral fraud without presenting any evidence. When the votes were counted, “bad things” happened, he writes. Republican election observers were deliberately excluded. “That has never happened before.”
In fact, so far there is no evidence that something like this has happened in a relevant way. There is even less evidence that he would change anything in the election results, because Biden now leads quite comfortably. Twitter immediately warned Trump’s message: “The allegation of electoral fraud is controversial.” According to experts and studies, voter fraud is extremely rare in the US.
In a second tweet a few minutes later, Trump wrote that he had received 71 million “legal votes,” more than any other sitting US president before. So far they are not 71 million, but the rest is correct, it is a record. Solo: challenger Biden just got over 74.5 million votes.
As Trump angrily tweets, tens of thousands in many cities across the United States celebrate Biden’s election victory, many of them at Trump’s doorstep, in the streets around the White House.
A man who sells water to celebrators from a shopping cart laughs in the afternoon and yells, “It feels like America again!”
Watch the video above or here Mood impressions at the celebrations in Washington.
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