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Things could be better for Donald Trump in every way. In his attempt to somehow avoid his electoral defeat by Joe Biden, the president suffers one setback after another. Setbacks in the courts, setbacks in the decisive states, setbacks even in the Republican Party. Maybe that’s why Trump has to settle for token actions. On Monday night, he announced on Twitter that he had fired Chris Krebs, director of the US cybersecurity agency.
Krebs had been a director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, for the past two years. Trump himself had appointed him to the position. Last week, the agency issued a statement rejecting Trump’s continued claims of massive voter fraud. “The November 3 election was the safest in the history of the United States,” said the statement, which was also endorsed by state election officials.
Cancer already knew what he would get out of it: Trump’s revenge. According to media reports, the former Microsoft manager said he expected his dismissal a few days ago. In his Monday night tweets, Trump claimed that the cancer-directed agency’s position on the election was wrong. There have been great irregularities and fraud. These included votes from deceased persons and voting machine failures that would have moved votes from him to Biden.
Outrage in Washington
Although Krebs’ firing was expected, many in Washington expressed outrage at the move. Cancer ensured election security, supported local electoral authorities and stopped dangerous propaganda, said Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic House spokeswoman. But instead of rewarding him for his patriotic service, Trump fired him for telling the truth about his misinformation about the election.
A dispute that took place in the state of Michigan also caused quite a stir Monday night. Initially, it seemed that Trump’s plan to avoid timely certification of election results and overturn Biden’s victory over the Republican-dominated state parliament could work. That would be a blatant evasion of the will of the voters, a maximum escalation; After all, Biden had beaten Trump in Michigan by nearly 150,000 votes, so anything but close. And yet the scenario didn’t seem so absurd for a few hours.
In Wayne County, the district that encompasses the greater Detroit area, Republican officials from the main electoral body blocked the certification of votes. They justified it with alleged irregularities in Detroit. Trump was already cheering him on Twitter, his lawyer spoke of a “great victory.” However, after a protest on social media and under pressure from voters in Detroit, the Republicans on the committee reversed their decision shortly thereafter and yet certified the election result.
Republicans: Trump declared the winner in Nevada
That is not to say that Trump will not continue to do anything to stop certification in other states as well. And quite often he has the support of Republican politicians. For example, in Nevada, where Biden defeated Trump by more than 33,000 votes: there, the president’s Republican allies filed a lawsuit on Monday urging the court in the capital, Carson City, to declare Trump the winner of the Nevada election. . – or cancel the result.
According to election law experts, such lawsuits stand no chance as long as Trump’s lawyers are unable to substantiate their allegations of systematic fraud or serious mishaps. So far, Trump has failed virtually every lawsuit. As things stand right now, the continued recount of all votes in the state of Georgia will not turn one victory for Biden into another for Trump. Plus, the president is running out of time: Most states need to have their election results certified by the end of November.
The question that remains is how top Republicans will behave when it becomes increasingly clear that Trump cannot win a second term even through legal channels. So far, almost no Republicans have publicly congratulated Biden on his election victory; In response to journalists’ questions, it was generally said that Trump had the right to challenge the election in court. Recently, however, several senators have indicated that they are beginning to leave this post. “It looks like Biden is going to be president,” South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds told the web magazine. Politician.
