WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump worked on Sunday to withdraw a clear acknowledgment that Biden had won from the White House and made it clear he would try to reverse the election result.
Trump’s earlier remarks gave some critics and supporters hope that the White House is ready to begin work on the transition with Biden’s team. Not so fast, Trump will guarantee soon.
Trump, without using Biden’s name, said he “won” as part of a tweet that made baseless claims about “tough” elections. But as the president saw how his remarks were being interpreted as an acknowledgment of his first publicly accepted bidon victory, Trump quickly reversed it.
Trump then tweeted, “He just won in the eyes of the fake news media.” “I did not accept anything! We still have a long way to go. This was an intense election! ”
There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election. In fact, election officials from both political parties have publicly stated that the election went well, and international observers have confirmed that there were no serious irregularities. Trump’s campaign has attempted to raise legal challenges across the country, but too many lawsuits have been thrown out and no one has included evidence that the outcome could be reversed.
Biden defeated Trump by winning the battlefield trio: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and topped the 270-vote threshold for the presidency. Biden has .878. million votes so far, the most by the winning candidate is Trump’s.73.1 million.
“If the president starts acknowledging that reality, it’s positive,” Biden’s incoming chief staffer, Ron Klein, told NBC. “Meet the press.” However, Klein said, “Donald Trump’s Twitter feed will not make Biden president or president. The American people did it. “
“It was good, really,” said Republican Gov. Asha Hutchins of Arkansas, seeing Trump’s tweet that Baden won. “I think that’s the beginning of acceptance. … We want to make sure there is a smooth transition, “Hutchinson told NBC.
Nearly two weeks after election day, Trump neither called Biden nor gave any formal formal leave, and White House officials have insisted he is preparing for a second term.
Former President Barack Obama said in an interview with CBS “Min0 Minutes” on Sunday that he would remind Trump that as president, he is a public servant and a temporary holder of office fees.
“And when your time is up, it’s your job to put the country first and think beyond your own ego, and your own interests and your frustrations.” “My advice to President Trump is, if you want to be remembered as someone who put the country first in this final phase of the game, now is the time for you to do the same.”
Obama also criticized Republicans for going with Trump’s widespread voter fraud allegations.
“I’m more disturbed by the fact that other Republican officials who clearly know better than this go along with this, mocking them in this fashion. This is one more step in handing over not only the upcoming Biden administration, but also democracy in general. And that’s a dangerous road, “he said.
In recent days, Trump has seemed closer to acknowledging the reality of his loss. In a comment Friday at the Rose Garden about the coronavirus vaccine, Trump said his administration would not “go on lockdown” to slow the spread of Covid-19, adding that “what happens in the future, who knows what administration it will have?” I believe time will tell. “
Trump on Sunday renewed his baseless attacks on election technology company Dominion Voting Systems without evidence of any serious irregularities. Dominic said it “rejects claims about any vote switching or alleged software issues in our voting systems.”
U.S. “The November 3, 2001 election was the safest in American history,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a federal agency that monitors election security, said in a statement last week. “There is no evidence that any voting system has deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or compromised in any way,” the agency said.
John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, said it was important for Republican leaders to convince voters that Trump had lost and that his claims of electoral fraud were baseless. Bolton left the administration last year. He says he resigned; Trump said he fired Bolton.
“I think there is no evidence that is as clear and clear as every day goes by. But if Republican voters are just listening to Donald Trump’s misrepresentations, it’s not surprising that they believe it, “Bolton told ABC’s” This Week. ” “It’s important for other Republican leaders to stand up and explain what really happened. We still have a free and fair election by the evidence of what Donald Trump has lost. ”
None of that was due to Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, helping to draw Trump’s national legal front on the election challenge. In a televised preview of Trump on Twitter after his morning tweets, Giuliani denied that Trump admits – “No, no, no, away from it.”
“I think,” Giuliani told Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures”, “you would call it sarcasm.”
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Associated Press authors contributed to this report in Zack Miller in Wilmington, Delaware and Washington.
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