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Trump Stays At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
How the unthinkable could so easily happen
Even though some votes remain to be counted, by any rational dispassionate analysis Joe Biden has won the 2020 US presidential election and Donald Trump has decisively lost. So in theory Trump should have conceded and Biden’s transition team should already be receiving the usual assistance from the government.
This is not, however, what is actually happening.
What’s actually happening is the infantile orange serial bankrupt is telling everyone who’ll listen that he “really” won. He’s filing lawsuits everywhere he can in the hope that ultimately the Supreme Court will enable him to remain in place for another four years. He’s pretending that imaginary voter fraud occurred, reminiscent of the imaginary bone spurs that permitted him to dodge the draft as a young man. As a compulsive liar, Trump has never hesitated to lie blatantly even when truth would have served him better. He’s throwing the world’s most public tantrum and like many other spoiled and stupid children he has learned that tantrums often succeed.
After the initial shock, Republican politicians across the nation are rallying behind their delusional leader and supporting his baseless claims of fraud. States in which Republicans hold the Governor’s office are backing…
