Trump news – live: latest updates as president denounced over premature victory claim

Michael Moore says Trump is a ‘bigoted strongman’

Trump critic and Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has written an analysis of the president’s demands to stop counting votes Wednesday morning, and the premature claim of victory over Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee. :

“The places where he demanded the counting stop are the places … wait! … these are the places with the majority of black voters!”

“Just like a fanatic leader of a bully would in a non-democracy. He then declared that he would go immediately to his Supreme Court. The one who packed. Will this damn court carry out your orders? Will we support it? “

“The only vote thief here will be Trump,” he added, lamenting that “nearly 70 million Americans still embrace a bigot and a psychopath.”

You can read it in full here.

Chris Wallace of Fox News on Trump

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace accused Donald Trump of “throwing a match” into “a flammable situation” with his speech at the White House claiming victory in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

“This is an extremely flammable situation and the president just threw a match at it,” Wallace said. “They haven’t won these states. No one is saying they won these states. The states haven’t said they won.”

“This goes back to what Joe Biden said: the president can’t say he won states, the American people can say it, and state officials can declare it,” added the veteran reporter.

Harriet Alexander has the latest:

Fox News Says Trump ‘Beyond Boundaries’

Leading Republicans and conservative commentators joined opponents of President Donald Trump in criticizing his false claim that he had already won the US presidential election.

Among those who condemned the president was Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, who said his claim of victory was “beyond the limits” while political commentator Dana Perino called him “deeply irresponsible.”

Why Trump’s false declaration of electoral victory is dangerous

The situation in the US is much more flammable than in 2000, when there was similar confusion over the outcome of the presidential elections, Kim Sengupta, Defense and Security Editor of the Independent writes here:

The United States asks the Ivory Coast to respect the electoral process

The United States was not the only country to hold national elections this week, and the Ivory Coast voted in a controversial election that opposition parties largely boycotted.

But after President Donald Trump’s calls to stop counting votes on Wednesday morning after the US election, some critics have pointed to the irony of the following statement by US officials in the West African country.

It says: “The United States calls on the leaders of the Ivory Coast to show commitment to the democratic process and the rule of law.”

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Adam Schiff calls president a ‘would-be despot’

The California congressman and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, one of Trump’s most hated enemies since he led the impeachment effort against him, has joined the chorus of condemnation for his premature victory claim.

Trump’s optimistic outlook on Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin belied by results

The president’s bravado in the East Room of the White House in the early hours of this morning, in which he prematurely declared victory and claimed to be winning in states that had not yet completed their counts, is already beginning to look fanciful.

Ilhan Omar says Trump’s speech ‘what Somali dictators used to do’

As Donald Trump tried to claim victory on Wednesday morning, long before the final results were released, Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar attacked the president, claiming he is doing exactly what “Somali dictators used to do.”

Along with her family, Ms. Omar came to the United States as an asylum seeker and became a citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old.

Maynak aggarwal has the latest:

Biden’s campaign responds to Trump’s speech

Democrat Joe Biden’s campaign says it will combat any efforts by President Donald Trump’s campaign to go to the US Supreme Court to prevent ballots from being tabulated.

In a statement Wednesday, Biden’s campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, called Trump’s statement that he “will go to the United States Supreme Court” and that he wants “all voting to cease” “scandalous, unprecedented. and wrong “.

O’Malley Dillon said that if the incumbent Trump “follows through on his threat to go to court to try to avoid proper vote tabulation,” Biden’s campaign has “legal teams ready to be deployed to resist that effort.”

She said: “It was outrageous because it is a naked effort to take away democratic rights from American citizens.”

John Bolton says Trump claims to be a ‘disgrace’

Speaking to Sky News, John Bolton, who served as Donald Trump’s national security adviser between 2018 and 2019, said the president’s comments this morning were a “disgrace.”

“I think the comments that President Trump made a few hours ago, in which he basically said that he was winning, that he had won and that the election would be stolen from him are some of the most irresponsible comments that a president of the United States has ever made.

“We don’t know what the result will be,” he continued.

“It is very possible that Trump could win, but he has called into question the integrity of the entire electoral process simply for his own personal gain. It is a shame.