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Detroit was just the place of a crazy day. Trump had previously retaliated against a head of a Department of Homeland Security who dared to call the November 3 election “the safest in American history.” As usual, the president announced the expulsion on Twitter: Chris Krebs, head of the cybersecurity and infrastructure agency, had been removed “with immediate effect.” His claim that the election had not been rigged is “very inaccurate.” There were “massive irregularities”. Twitter again provided the tweet with a warning.
Krebs, who had been nominated for the job by Trump, responded to his firing with a tweet: It was an honor to serve the country. He and his authority couldn’t blame each other. Nancy Pelosi, the House “spokesperson,” said Krebs made the elections safe and worked against dangerous misinformation. Rather than reward this patriotic service, the president fired Krebs for not being afraid to stand up for the truth in front of his superiors and for not participating in the Trump campaign. Republican Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Intelligence Committee until May of this year, thanked Krebs for his service. He and his team did an important job to secure the election. He did not respond to Trump’s accusations. Other Republicans were silent.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, has now found his own way of dealing with the demands to finally speak up, put Trump in his place, and acknowledge Biden’s election victory – it’s like after every election. There will be a “proper handover” of official business from this government to the next. Frankly, he continued on Capitol Hill Tuesday, “what we say is irrelevant.” You don’t have to berate Trump if it means things are going their normal course. Only a small tip was allowed against her group colleague Lindsey Graham. When asked if it was okay for the chairman of the judiciary to question state election officials about voting by mail, McConnell said Graham should be asked.
“The future of the country depends on it”
The background for this was the accusation by Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s interior minister who currently oversees the counting of votes in his state, that Graham had asked him in a telephone conversation if he did not have the authority to cast certain postal ballots during the count in progress. Raffensperger is a Republican, and for days he has had to listen to the accusations of Trump and the two Georgian senators who must defend their seats in the second round elections in January. Graham denied the matter: it was “ridiculous,” he said. I just wanted to understand how the authorities would verify the signatures on the postal ballot envelopes.
Why did he even make the call? Because the future of the country depends on the ballots. Was Graham really trying to influence the second round of the January 5 election? After all, Trump couldn’t turn the presidential election in his favor even if the tally showed that the state’s electorate would beat him up. Although around 3,000 ballots were found in some constituencies that had not yet been calculated, Raffensperger believes this will not change the fact that Biden won the Georgia election.
Trump’s game could continue until December 14. The electorate must then cast their vote in their state capitals. The president is said to have given up on his plan to spend the Thanksgiving holiday in Florida next week. The mood at the White House is bleak, employees report behind closed doors. There is a “bunker mentality”.
