Elections United States: Donald Trump speaks for the first time of the triumph of Joe Biden – USA and Canada – International



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Eight days after the results of the US presidential election were announced, Donald Trump through Twitter again evoked his hypothesis of a massive fraud, which has not been supported by any specific element.

“He won because the election was rigged,” the president tweeted on Sunday morning, referring to former vice president Barack Obama. The first two words of his tweet: “he won” (‘He won’) caught the attention of public opinion as it was the first time he had spoken them after the announcement of results.

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Already last Friday Trump had referred – albeit half – to the victory of his Democratic adversary by letting it be understood, before retracting, that he would no longer be in charge of the management of the coronavirus crisis after January 20, day of the presidential inauguration.

The results of all the states have already been announced by the big television networks of the country.

He won because the election was rigged

Biden got 306 electoral votes, against 232 for the outgoing president: just the same numbers, but in reverse, than in the victory of the Republican magnate – then described by him as a “tsunami” – against Hillary Clinton in 2016. And several local and national electoral authorities, including the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency (CISA), which depends on the Ministry of Internal Security, have frontally refuted the accusations of irregularities made by the president.

“The November 3 election was the safest in the history of the United States,” they said in a joint statement. “There is no evidence of a voting system that has been deleted, lost or changed ballots, or that it has been hacked in any way.”

AFP



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