“When only legal votes are counted, I clearly win, Democrats are trying to steal our elections,” Donald Trump said in a post-election speech on Thursday at US time (just one Central European night) at the White House. “Unfortunately, money hit some companies and the media,” whose goal, according to the current president of the United States, was to “suppress his votes.” He also added a mention of a corrupt system.
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The reactions to his speech were very harsh. The largest American newspaper, USA Today, even interrupted a live broadcast of the president’s speech on its website.
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Editor-in-chief Nicole Caroll wrote: “President Trump said without any evidence that the presidential election was corrupt and fraudulent. We stopped the broadcast and downloaded the video from our site. “She added:” Our job is to spread the truth, not unsubstantiated conspiracies. “
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Donald Trump then earned a harsh condemnation from the respected CNN moderator Anderson Cooper live. After the speech, Cooper said directly into the camera, “He was the President of the United States, the most powerful person on the planet. And we saw him as an obese turtle lying on its back and baking in the sun, which does not want to admit that its time is up. “
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However, the media, which was still in his favor, was also harsh on Trump. Fox News has repeatedly stressed that the president talks about fraud without any evidence.
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The New York Post from the stables of media mogul Rupert Murdoch then tweeted that “the depressed Donald Trump completely unsubstantially declares that the election is fraudulent.”
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Other media, such as the BBC, reacted similarly.
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But the president’s speech was not only condemned by the media. Critical voices are heard from his own Republican party. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, for example, said there was no excuse for the president’s comments undermining the democratic process. “We must respect the election results. “No election or person is more important than democracy,” he added.
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There is no defense for the President’s comments tonight undermining our Democratic process. America is counting the votes, and we must respect the results as we always have before. No election or person is more important than our Democracy. https://t.co/BOO2iaTsEf
— Larry Hogan (@LarryHogan) November 6, 2020
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Slightly and without a specific mention of Trump, his opponent Joe Biden also reacted. “It simply came to our notice then. Not now, never again. “
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No one is going to take our democracy away from us. Not now, not ever.
America has come too far, fought too many battles, and endured too much to let that happen.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 6, 2020
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