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11/30/20

National Review: Trump’s Disgraceful Endgame
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National Review là một cơ quan ngôn luận lâu đời với truyền thống Bảo Thủ. Ngày hôm nay đã nhận xét về Tổng Thống Trump như sau:

Trump’s Disgraceful Endgame

Trump đã nói rằng ông sẽ rời nhiệm sở nếu mất phiếu bầu của Cử tri đoàn vào ngày 14 tháng 12.

Đây không phải là kiểu chấp nhận mà các tổng thống Hoa Kỳ thường cần thực hiện, nhưng điều đáng chú ý là do hành vi đáng xấu hổ của Trump kể từ khi thua cuộc tranh cử trước Joe Biden vào ngày 3 tháng 11.

Sau khi tuyên bố mạnh mẽ trong các lần tranh cữ nhưng tổng thống không thể thừa nhận rằng ông đã thua và vì vậy đã khẳng định kể từ vài giờ sau "Đêm Bầu Cử "rằng ông thực sự đã thắng - và đã thắng “rất nhiều”.

Những khẳng định sai trái và không trung thực như thế này làm ô nhiễm dư luận và đánh lừa những người tốt, những người mắc sai lầm tin những điều một tổng thống Hoa Kỳ nói.

Trump said the other day that he’d leave office if he loses the vote of the Electoral College on December 14.

This is not the kind of assurance presidents of the United States typically need to make, but it was noteworthy given Trump’s disgraceful conduct since losing his bid for reelection to Joe Biden on November 3.

Behind in almost all the major polls, Trump stormed within a hair’s breadth in the key battlegrounds of winning reelection, and his unexpectedly robust performance helped put Republicans in a strong position for the post-Trump-presidency era. This is not nothing. But the president can’t stand to admit that he lost and so has insisted since the wee hours of Election Night that he really won — and won “by a lot.”

There are legitimate issues to consider after the 2020 vote about the security of mail-in ballots and the process of counting votes (some jurisdictions, bizarrely, take weeks to complete their initial count), but make no mistake: The chief driver of the post-election contention of the past several weeks is the petulant refusal of one man to accept the verdict of the American people. The Trump team (and much of the GOP) is working backwards, desperately trying to find something, anything to support the president’s aggrieved feelings, rather than objectively considering the evidence and reacting as warranted.

Almost nothing that the Trump team has alleged has withstood the slightest scrutiny. In particular, it’s hard to find much that is remotely true in the president’s Twitter feed these days. It is full of already-debunked claims and crackpot conspiracy theories about Dominion voting systems. Over the weekend, he repeated the charge that 1.8 million mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania were mailed out, yet 2.6 million were ultimately tallied. In a rather elementary error, this compares the number of mail-ballots requested in the primary to the number of ballots counted in the general. A straight apples-to-apples comparison finds that 1.8 million mail-in ballots were requested in the primary and 1.5 million returned, while 3.1 million ballots were requested in the general and 2.6 million returned.

Flawed and dishonest assertions like this pollute the public discourse and mislead good people who make the mistake of believing things said by the president of the United States.

Read More:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/trump-election-fraud-disgraceful-endgame/