It was the first time that Donald Trump had spoken – and not tweeted – to the nation since his communication in the early hours of Wednesday morning. But the speech had changed little or nothing: the president of the United States insisted that he had been re-elected, at least if “legal votes” were taken into account, and that the ballot counting system had been sabotaged by Democrats.
If we count the legal votes, I win easily. If we count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. I have already decisively won some important states, including overwhelming victories in Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, for example, ”said Donald Trump.
The problem is that there are no indications or any evidence of fraud in the vote count: this is a narrative that the Republican has defended since the moment the projections were indicating Joe Biden as the most likely winner of these elections and that motivated a series of processes to suspend the counting of votes or to complain about the supposed lack of Republican observers at the counting tables.
These statements were enough to three North American open channel televisions – ABC, CBS and MSNBC – have stopped broadcasting of Donald Trump’s press conference, a conference where journalists were not entitled to ask questions.
On the first channel, the pivot fired: “We were listening to President Trump addressing the nation for the first time since the early hours of Wednesday. He was making several, frankly, false accusations, meaningless statements. And this is not me being partial, they are facts ”.
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At MSNBC, the interruption was as follows: “Well, here we are again in the unusual position of not only interrupting the President of the United States, but correcting the President of the United States“, The journalist started by saying:” There are no illegal votes that are known, there is no Trump victory that is known. ” Ari Melber, a journalist specializing in law, confirmed that the president’s words “are false”.
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But Donald Trump continued to speak. Polls have now been launched, saying that were used to prevent Republican voters from voting at all. “There was no blue wave, as they predicted, but rather a red wave,” he said, speaking of “electoral interference” by Democrats: “Democrats never thought they could win these elections.”
“On election night, we were winning in North Carolina, by many votes, and we are still ahead by much, but not so much,” he points out. Trump attributed this loss to postal votes, which he accuses of being biased. “They are finding votes by correspondence. It’s amazing how biased these postal votes are“.
In Pennsylvania, the Republican says he got ahead by 700,000 votes. Now it is 90 thousand different and the postal votes, which tend to the Democrats, “continue to arrive, they are everywhere”, he criticizes. In Georgia, he says he won “for a long, long time”: “It was close to 300,000 on election night”.
Our objective is to defend the integrity of the elections, we will not allow corruption to steal ”the elections, he declared. “They are trying to steal an election,” he continued: “Democrats say they won the election. I wouldn’t believe that ”.
“I think we are going to win the elections easily and I think there are going to be a lot of lawsuits because we can’t have stolen elections like these. I had said many times that postal votes were going to end in disaster. This is a large-scale fraud and is increasing every day, ”continues Trump.
We cannot let this happen, we cannot have the misfortune of this happening in our country. I hope it clears up quickly, but it should give rise to a legal process. There was a lot of confusion and we cannot admit it in our country. This must end at the highest court in the country, ”he finished.
On CNN, Donald Trump’s speech was never interrupted. But neither journalists, commentators or analysts spared criticism of the US president’s claims. The speech was “pathetic” and the moment was “sad”, they concluded. “It looks like an obese turtle turned on its back, flapping in the hot sun, realizing its time is running out“Compared Anderson Cooper.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper:
“That is the president of the United States. That is the most powerful person in the world, and we see him like an obese turtle on his back, flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over.” pic.twitter.com/OW1bbFq6bK
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Not even Rick Santorum, a former United States senator from Pennsylvania and of the same political color as Donald Trump, agreed with the Republican’s words: “No elected Republican official will support these statements“, He said, saying that the accusations of the American president” are almost incendiary “.
For Santorum, who became a candidate for president, Trump’s stance is “dangerous”.
I sat there listening to him talking about the votes that were being taken from him, then he started talking about Arizona and said: ‘I win this if they count the votes’. How can you say that in Arizona, but if you count the votes in Philadelphia you are already being robbed? ”He asked. “The reality is that in Pennsylvania, Democrats voted in the mail and Republicans voted in person, but because he asked them to do so,” he explained.
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