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President Trump: “This administration is not going to a shutdown. Hopefully the – the, whatever happens in the future, who knows what administration it will be, I guess time will tell – I can tell you this administration is not going to lock up.” pic.twitter.com/7Y1KrZCsge
– The hill (@thehill) November 13, 2020
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has yet to admit that he has lost the presidential election and instead spoke about his administration’s response to the pandemic in his first press conference in more than a week.
Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, however, Trump at one point reflected on “what happens in the future, who knows what administration it will be, I guess time will tell” when referring to the potential for future shutdowns.
The president of the United States also attacked the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, suggesting that the vaccine would be available to all Americans except those in the state of New York.
He said this would be for “political reasons” and suggested that Cuomo had made a number of mistakes in his handling of the coronavirus. He said it “hurt” him that New Yorkers didn’t get the vaccine.
The briefing focused on Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s efforts to produce and distribute a vaccine, and came in the wake of Democrat Joe Biden solidifying his election victory with a final tally of 306 votes in the Electoral College. state by state deciding the presidency, versus 232 for Trump.
The result came after several US networks called the traditionally Republican-leaning Georgia in favor of Biden, while Trump took North Carolina.
Trump won by the same margin in 2016 against Hillary Clinton, and has repeatedly referred to his own 306-vote victory as a “landslide.”
He had not had a press conference since last week’s election and the last time he addressed the nation was on November 5, when he falsely claimed to have won.
Trump has spent the past 10 days consumed by his search for a conspiracy theory that Biden was declared the winner only through massive ballot manipulation.
Despite yesterday’s declaration by his own intelligence officials that the elections were “the safest in American history,” Trump and his right-wing media allies show no signs of abandoning their crusade.
Today, Trump tweeted thanks to supporters backing his claim that “the election was rigged” and said he could “come by and say hi” at a planned rally in Washington on Saturday.
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Meanwhile, Biden is constantly preparing to take office on January 20, and the list of world leaders who accept that he will be the new president continues to grow.
China was the last nation on board, and a Foreign Ministry spokesman said “we express our congratulations.”
However, Biden’s new chief of staff, Ron Klain, told MSNBC late Thursday that Trump’s moves to block the incoming administration’s access to confidential government briefings pose a growing risk.
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Klain highlighted the inability to join the preparations for the launch of the Covid vaccine in “February and March, when Joe Biden will be president.”
“The sooner we can get our transition experts to meet with the people who are planning the vaccination campaign, the more seamless it will be,” he said.
With AFP report
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