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On Thursday, for the second time in a day, President Donald Trump refused to promise to accept the election result if challenger Joe Biden won.
“We want to make sure the election is fair and I’m not sure it can be,” Donald Trump said, the New York Times reported.
Earlier on Thursday, the leaders of the White House and the Republican Senate assured that a possible change of power would be carried out peacefully.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConell also took to Twitter and wrote that whoever wins the election can be sworn in on January 20, and “it will be an orderly transition, as it has been every year since 1792.”
Nancy Pelosi: “Honor the President”
Nancy Peolosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has made it clear that Trump will “honor the oath of office.”
“He’s not in North Korea, he’s not in Turkey, he’s not in Russia, Mr. President, and by the way, he’s not in Saudi Arabia,” he told the New York Times.
– You are in United States. It’s a democracy, so why can’t you try to honor the oath you took to the constitution?
Pentagon: “The military won’t solve it”
Now even the Pentagon’s defense headquarters is participating in the heated debate.
According to CNN, the agency explains in a letter sent to Congress in August that the Pentagon will not interfere in the election and its results.
The General and Pentagon Chief of Defense Mark Milley write there, among other things:
“In the event that any ambiguity or dispute is the result of the election result, it is the courts and Congress that will solve the problem. Not the US military.”
Another high-ranking military officer, Brook DeWalt, told CNN:
– The task of the Ministry of Defense is not to get involved in the transfer of power after an election.
American expert: He calls them when he goes to bed.
