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After weeks of claiming fraud and refusing to capitulate, Donald Trump moved more than likely to a concession.
He has effectively renounced his protest of the election results to undergo the Biden transition. In the end, he gave in to public pressure.
It wasn’t, of course, a magnanimous throw in the towel, a mea culpa for all the bad blood. It was never going to be that. But the writing was on the wall. He knows. More and more, even the loyal ones know … more and more.
Perhaps the most stark and sobering assessment of the political possibility of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat came from his once-beloved Fox News.
Host Laura Ingraham, a strong Trump advocate, told her audience: “Joe Biden will take office on January 20 … To say this constitutes living in reality. If I told you that there is an excellent and phenomenal possibility that (The Supreme Court) will step in and give President Trump a victory, he would be lying to him. “
It felt like a grudging line drawn with a red marker on Trump’s exam.
The final stanza of a very unpoetic closing of the presidency.
Whatever the president’s public pronouncements about continuing a legal fight, he seems to know that the writing is on the wall. And the timing gives us a good indication of that.
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He decided to publicly state that he would cooperate with Biden’s team on the same day Michigan became the last state to certify its results.
And the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected the latest move by Trump’s legal team.
Over the weekend, trouble was clearly brewing in Trump’s conspiracy-laden legal team.
They distanced themselves from Sidney Powell, who participated in their press conference days before and accused China, Venezuela and Biden of being part of an international plot to steal the elections.
Apparently Powell was too much, even for Rudy Giuliani and Trump. But in the end, it was mounting legal defeats, insurmountable margins, not contentious defenders that sealed Trump’s fate.
By continuing to subvert the vote and delay the delivery, Trump risked being isolated within his own party as more and more Republicans recognized Biden as president-elect. Yes, it will continue to fight some legal battles, but to what end?
Now, Trump has launched a peaceful transfer of power, paving the way for Biden to tap into public funds, receive security briefings and gain access to federal agencies.
It’s a bit of superficial normality after weeks, even years, of the unorthodox. But the fraud may well remain forever on the lips of Trump and many of his supporters. You have sown the seeds of skepticism and the tree of doubt will take years to be uprooted.
Trump won’t make it easy. It will not be a smooth handover of the baton. It’s likely going to be ugly all the way with a lot of bumps along the way for Biden’s team to navigate.
They will not have unrestricted access or help. This was not an absolute concession. It is not a red carpet. It is not the end of the war. It’s just a small acknowledgment of the inevitable.
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