Trump continues to fantasize about victory, his surroundings see him increasingly terrified

A few days after presidential election day, when he was already sure that Joe biden Democratic Presidential Candidate Won, Republican Politicians And Officials Still Not Really Concerned Donald trump because. Although the president of the United States who failed his re-election did not want to accept the result and claimed without any evidence that Biden had won electoral fraud, the Republican leaders were not particularly concerned about what Trump would do, who could not accept defeat in general.

As an anonymous Republican official told the Washington Post at the time, no one believes the outcome can be changed and Trump will not weave plans to prevent Biden from taking power. Republicans thought the president would sue a couple of lawsuits, then they wouldn’t rage or mention the fraud on his Twitter page, but he would eventually leave the White House anyway. An official who spoke to the Post added:

What could be wrong with letting him do it for a bit?

A month later, the United States Armed Forces gave the answer to the question last Friday. The Secretary of State of the Army and the Chief of Staff of the Army are a group Communication informed the Americans and Trump:

The US Armed Forces have no role in determining the outcome of a US election.

There would be nothing surprising in this in itself. In the United States, they take particularly seriously that the military does not interfere in the internal politics of the United States, and this statement has only reaffirmed that principle.

However, many found it appalling that the announcement had to be made and interpreted the action to mean that the army had indicated that it would not participate. none in a coup attempt, with which they would like to change the outcome of the presidential election, no matter how long Trump’s political imagination stretches.

The announcement did not come out of nowhere. Trump’s most ardent defenders have been saying for weeks that Trump should retain power by introducing a stadium and mobilizing the military because they believe that Biden could only win the presidential election through widespread fraud. The week before Michael flynn The retired lieutenant general, Trump’s former national security adviser, raised the idea in a statement to a news outlet, saying that a statesman should be announced and new elections should be held under the supervision of the Army. Then it turned out that Trump was discussing the possibility of this in the Oval Office.

According to US press reports, Trump held a particularly stormy and tense meeting at the White House on Friday with several of his advisers, as well as Flyn, and Sidney Powell with a lawyer who preaches voter fraud conspiracy theories so far-fetched that Trump’s own campaign team also tried to keep their distance from him. Among other things, the idea of ​​a possible deployment of the army, which, according to the New York Times, Trump himself, was raised during this discussion.

Although the idea ultimately turned out to be nothing, of course, thanks in large part to Trump’s chief of staff and White House legal adviser, it filled the president’s staff with horror that it was being discussed in the office of the president of the United States. .

No one knows how this will end. He will be president one more month

One government official told CNN on Monday, while another described what was happening in the White House as “scary”, adding that he had become “obsessed” with the president changing the election result with impractical and helpless.

Meanwhile, journalists working with Trump for years have reported that senior administration officials have never seen with concern and terrified they watch what the president does, and even Trump’s most devoted supporters in the White House watch out of fear that the president will enthusiastically embrace Flynn’s ideas. As a senior government official told Axios:

When (Trump) has conversations with conspiratorial lunatics who openly claim that the introduction of a statarium is not that important, it is impossible not to worry about the end.

Can’t deal with anything else

Since the presidential election, Trump has ceased to hold the presidency entirely and cannot deal with anything other than changing the outcome of the presidential election. While the worst epidemic in the United States in the last hundred years, killing thousands of people every day, Trump’s time is tied to the elections. There have been no events on his presidential program for weeks, except for some ceremonial functions that he regularly left early or did not show up.

In the meantime, he did his best to bring about a change in the outcome of the elections. He filed dozens of lawsuits in the few states that decided the presidential election and then personally tried to pressure election officials, Republican lawmakers, officials, and governors in some states not to recognize Biden’s victory and call him the winner.

However, presidential pressure was resisted by the courts, where conservative and liberal judges successively dismissed Trump’s campaign actions, and so did the conservative-majority Supreme Court, to which Trump appointed three justices.

There was also resistance from election officials who made the results official and from Republican politicians who also acknowledged Biden’s victory. And last week, the electorate also named Bident the winner of the presidential election, after which Mitch McConnell, the powerful Republican Senate leader also congratulated the Democratic presidential candidate on his victory.

However, Trump will not give up. According to Politico, the president held several hours of talks on Monday with dozens of loyal members of the House of Representatives about how they could change the outcome of the January 6 election, when Congress officially recognizes the election result. Meanwhile, Trump is a conservative radio host on the election result. set:

We obtained an overwhelming victory.