In the face of a supposedly outrageous election fraud, Donald Trump’s closest circle demands absolute loyalty to the president. A lack of enthusiasm is chalked up, paranoia is rampant.
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The President spoke of election fraud: A Trump supporter at a protest on Friday in Los Angeles.
Foto: Ringo H.W. Chiu (Keystone)
On Thursday evening, when the sky began to collapse and Donald Trump launched an all-out attack on alleged election fraud in a live televised fraud that was unique in the history of the American presidency, nothing was safe from his suspicions. The enemy even used broken water pipes to fumble with the urns.
“A water pipe burst somewhere in Georgia, and then the counting of votes was paused for hours far from where it happened – and then a lot of things happened,” said Trump in his marveled declaration of war on American rules Democracy.
Since then, Tuesday’s election has continued to be counted without anything having changed: Democrat Joe Biden is slowly pulling away from the president, officially Biden is not yet president, but he doesn’t lack much anymore. Trump, on the other hand, does not want to accept it because nothing damaged his psyche more than the label of being a loser.
That’s why Joe Biden wins by means of an epoch-making election fraud: If water pipes burst anywhere, the count is stopped – and then there is cheating. Trump mobilizes against this, which is why he is suing various courts, and that is why his followers demand unconditional loyalty from the Republican entourage.
When his former UN ambassador Nikki Haley says that the laws have to be “obeyed”, it sounds super lame and almost as bad as the insubordination of Republican Senator Mitt Romney, who has been chalking up Trump’s capers and the fraudulent fantasies of the for some time top Republican immediately criticized. After all, Trump’s TV freakout was so embarrassing on Thursday evening that a number of well-known Republicans remained silent because silence is known to be gold.
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The silence was very badly received by the president. The behavior of future Republican presidential candidates was “unbelievable,” complained son Donald Trump junior. ‘Where are the Republicans? Show your backbone! Fight the fraud! ”Tweeted his brother Eric. Trump’s busy lawyer Rudy Giuliani also called for absolute mobilization: “Where is the Republican Party ?! Our voters will not forget anything ».
Alleged fraud, especially in African American cities
The kick-off helped to gather the troops, many on Friday parroted what their leader had figured out the previous evening: Joe Biden was trying to get the crooked tour into the White House. And cheating was reportedly mainly in places where black hands were busy counting – in African-American metropolises such as Detroit, Atlanta and Philadelphia.
Defeatism was not tolerated, and no one was allowed to pretend that the leader’s cause was lost. When Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy commando and tough guy, tweeted on Friday that investigations into possible electoral fraud were okay, but that Republicans would have to accept the result of a “fair election,” he fell into the barrage of the House-elected QAnon – Queen Marjorie Taylor Greene.
«NOW is the moment to FIGHT for Donald Trump! Republicans must not give in. The Democrats win because of this loser mentality. President Trump fought for us, now we have to fight for him ”, the conspiracy theorist exploded – to which Crenshaw replied coolly:“ Marjorie, you are now a member of Congress, act accordingly ”.
The admonition will not be of much use, in 2017 it was of no use telling Trump that he is now president and should behave like a president. Absolute allegiance is required in these dark days, as the caudillo may be faced with nothing. How did Kellyanne Conway, one of the president’s most loyal fans, put it in 2017? There were “alternative facts,” she had said, facts that turn black into white and three into five.
That’s what it’s about now. A victory should be made out of a defeat. But lo and behold: The president suddenly seemed to be plagued by doubts on Friday evening. Perhaps he actually missed a second term, Trump told several employees, according to CNN. If that were the case, of course there would be no need to fight for the last vote and to the last Republican.
Then even Trump’s former proconsul in Berlin, Richard Grenell, who is always ready to fight, should stop strolling through Las Vegas as a security guard for the president and denouncing alleged electoral fraud in the state of Nevada. Even Grenell could then quietly pack up instead of making a fool of himself.
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