by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election more than two months ago, yet he is still struggling to convince people that he won - and those traitorous numbers be damned! In a rare moment of honesty, Trump said before the election that he was a person who has trouble losing, and that certainly proved to be the case.
Trump assembled an odd team of lawyers who, without evidence, proceeded to raise legal challenges to voting results in a handful of "swing states," or states that if their outcomes changed could "swing" the election to Trump. Of sixty-one cases filed, only one was ruled in Trump's favor, a minor victory that was later overturned by that state's Supreme Court. The other sixty were either bounced out of court due to a lack of evidence, or the courts wound up ruling against the interests of Donald Trump.
The 2020 presidential election is over because the voters said so by giving Joe Biden a win by over 7 million votes. The election is over because the Electoral College said so by giving Joe Biden a victory of 306 electoral votes to 232 for Trump. And the election is over because sixty of sixty-one judges have said it's over! The people, the Electoral College, and the courts are all in agreement: Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
Yet two months later Donald Trump is still being a sore loser. Last night he was in Georgia, ostensibly campaigning for the two incumbent Republican US Senators there who are both facing re-election challenges today. And yet, while he was there, Trump spent much more time whining about his own situation - and claiming that he was cheated out of a victory in Georgia and in the United States - again without evidence - than he did in promoting the election of the two struggling senators from his own party.
With Trump it's always about Trump.
This past weekend Trump made news after it was revealed that he had telephoned Georgia's Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, and tried to get the state voting official to "recalculate" the state's votes to give Trump a victory. Raffensperger, who was well aware of Trump's propensity for lying, took the precaution of having his lawyer sit in and listen to the call - and he took the extraordinary precaution of taping his conversation with Trump. When Trump began lying about his conversation with the Georgia official, Raffensperger released the taped conversation of more than one hour to the press.
Whoops!
Carl Bernstein, a former journalist with TheWashington Post who was instrumental (along with Bob Woodward) in bringing down Richard Nixon, said that Trump's phone call to Brad Raffensperger this past Saturday night was more serious than anything that occurred in the Watergate era.
But Donald John Trump, a man with no shame, is unbowed. Last night in Georgia he was still on the rampage claiming that the election had been stolen from him. His political minions are reluctant to move on into the realm of reality out of a fear that he will wreck their political careers on his way out the door.
And wreck them he will. Trump views the Constitution of the United States as little more than a bothersome pre-nup that he has to work around, and the whole of government as just one more casino that went belly-up under his watch. Office holders and government workers, just like blackjack dealers, are little people of no consequence, and their problems are their own.
Donald John Trump floats above all of the problems of common people, completely untethered from the reality that envelopes the rest of us lesser beings.
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