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Arguably, against his better judgment, Trump has come out of the underground he’s been in since the election to give his first television interview on where else? – Fox News.
The highly anticipated interview with presenter Maria Bartiromo has already been tagged “delirious“For Trump’s continued insistence that he won the election, even though he actually lost. One person even compared his ramblings to that of a “drunk guy at the end of the bar getting tired.”
So what did the president actually say?
He started pushing more discredited electoral conspiracy theories, enraged by “landfills, massive massive landfills in Michigan, in Pennsylvania and … everywhere.” He goes on to state outright that “this election was rigged” and “a total fraud.”
He then goes on to perpetuate a discredited claim that Republican poll watchers were “kicked out” from polling stations. Trump has attempted to present several legal challenges based on this theory, which has been widely discredited.
Due to the pandemic, the capacity of election observers was limited, but polling stations across the country maintain that the Trump campaign had sufficient access.
Earlier this week, a Pennsylvania appeals court dismissed the president’s case, which sought to overturn the election result. In his ruling, the judge said: “The charges of injustice are serious. But calling an election unfair does not. The charges require specific charges and then evidence. We have neither.”
Trump then goes on to discuss the upcoming elections in Georgia, which will be a runoff for the two remaining Senate seats for which no candidate won a majority in the election. This baseless claim of fraud in the state has been hyped by the president for weeks. Rightly so, it is concerning for Republicans, who face the possibility of low turnout if their supporters believe their vote is essentially worthless.
Trump then repeated a strange argument that his son Eric has joined him in the peddling – that the election results cannot be accurate because Biden could not have won more votes than Obama. (He won more votes than Obama, and any other president in history, in part due to the record number of ballots cast by mail by Democratic voters.)
Then he seems to get a bit confused when he talks about black voters. We can’t exactly follow what you’re trying to say, so we’ll leave your words here for you to make up your own mind:
“[Biden] he did not beat Obama in black communities. You go to some of these communities where Obama is very, very popular, and he hits him in some of these communities, but in the rest of the United States, in a black community, he really does it badly, he doesn’t do it very well. . But he beats Obama in the swing states. Now think about it. He beat Obama in undecided states. You know that didn’t happen. They filled the polls. “
Aside from the fact that Biden, of course, was not running against Obama, it goes without saying that the political and social landscape of 2020 is very different from that of 2012. Therefore, whatever point he is trying to make does not hold up.
Trump then goes on to unsubstantiate that he has “thousands of votes, in some cases hundreds of thousands of votes, more than we need in each transitional state we are talking about.” He complains that the FBI and the Department of Justice are “missing in action” and complains that they are not investigating his allegations of voter fraud.
At this point, Trump turns to rant about the “Russia hoax Russia, pure hoax!” And that’s basically that.
Next, look at the incumbent president complaining strangely about “where the country has gone in the last 10 or 15 years.” For the avoidance of doubt, that is the same country that has been running for the last four.
He also goes on to talk about how he will fix it “if I go in or in” thanks to an agreement with Iran. Again, to avoid doubts, Trump lost the election. He did not “come in”, nor will he “come in” again anytime soon.
He does a short interlude here amid conspiracy theories to praise Sean Hannity for no apparent reason:
Trump finally tells Baritomo that he is going to “use 125 percent of my energy” to prove his claims in the coming weeks. This doesn’t seem like the best use of energy for a president in the midst of a global pandemic. It’s almost enough to make you lose golf.
In closing, Trump claims that “they” (without clarity on who exactly are, his supporters, perhaps?) Say that it is “statistically impossible” that he lost the election.
And with that, the exchange concludes. A wild ride indeed, but we expected no less.
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