John Bolton, a former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, on Tuesday slammed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying Trump won a second presidency despite being called by big networks and news outlets for the national election Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.
During Tuesday’s news conference, Pompeo was asked about a possible transition of power to the Biden administration. Pompeo replied, “There will be a smooth transition to Trump’s second administration.”
Despite Pompeo’s remarks that Trump will be in charge of the second presidency, Biden won the 2020 election with at least 4,909,587 popular votes and 76 abstentions.
“It’s misleading for Mike to say that, and I must say that he has opened up his credibility internationally,” Bolton told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer in response to Pompeo’s remarks during a television interview Tuesday.
Bolton said he thinks there are “very few people” in the U.S. government who believe Trump won the presidential election faithfully. Bolton then wondered if Pompeo had commented on him to avoid being fired by Trump or as a way to defend his own potential Republican presidency in 2024.
Blitzer then asked Bolton whether accepting the biden victory, which was denied by the Trump administration, and providing security briefings to the president-elect was a potential national security issue. Bolton said he believes both Trump and Biden should get the briefing because he will eventually take over as president.
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As of Nov. 10, Biden puts Trump ahead of Trump by nearly 273,000 votes in six different states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which helped cement Biden’s victory with an electoral vote.
Many states in Trump’s re-election campaign have claimed that thousands of votes were fraudulent and that states should throw them out before certifying their election results in December, presumably. Trump’s party changed the election results.
However, the Trump administration has been criticized for repeatedly claiming voter fraud without any concrete evidence.
On Monday, Attorney General William Barre allowed federal prosecutors to investigate the claims so far. Democratic Congress leaders called his decision baseless and corrupt.
In response to the bar’s decision, the U.S., which oversees the investigation into voter fraud, The department’s director of justice, Richard Pilger, resigned just hours later.
In a speech Monday morning, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “President Trump has 100 percent in his right to investigate allegations of irregularities and to weigh his legal options, and it is noteworthy that the constitution does not give rich media a role in this process.” Estimates and comments do not veto the legal rights of any citizen, including the President of the United States. “
