Donald Trump marched into the White House press room and promptly tried to trample on democracy. Trump accused his rivals of “stealing” the election. The New York Times writes:
President Trump broke a two-day silence with reporters to deliver a brief statement filled with egregious falsehoods and smears about the election process as workers in a handful of states continued to tabulate votes.
The president painted the election results so far as part of a broad conspiracy to deprive him of a second term by Democrats, election officials in various cities and the news media.
Trump said that if the “legal” votes are counted, he wins.
That is a lie. Much of what he said was a lie. Donald Trump is headed for defeat, a loss he cannot accept. So, he throws wild accusations around that will never damage him but are horrible for our country.
Someone in the GOP leadership needs to stand up and say “enough is enough.” Trump needs to be told the damage he’s doing to the integrity of our most sacred tenets, free and fair elections.
Real votes are still being counted.