Trump vows to continue to fight election results in loony, defiant Fox News interview
You would think that by this point Donald Trump would be embarrassed, chastised, and trying to keep a low profile after his humiliating defeats, first at the ballot box and then in nearly every courtroom where his ludicrous proclamations of massive election fraud were uniformly dismissed for lack of the slightest shred of evidence.
Yet, despite having been cajoled by the more level-headed of his advisors into allowing the Biden transition to begin, the roundly-defeated president had himself booked as a guest on the friendly media territory of Maria Bartiromo’s Fox News Sunday Morning Futures program this morning to continue his quixotic campaign to reverse the results of an election that his brittle ego simply cannot withstand losing so decisively.
Vox‘s Aaron Rupar, always at the ready to post excerpts of Trump’s TV appearances to social media, provided a running commentary on the lame-duck’s quack-pot conspiracy theories as he continued to refuse to believe that the nation’s voters could have rejected him without an array of malevolent forces lined-up against him to steal the election by nefarious means.
Trump began the interview with an unfortunate choice of words to describe the tactics used in his theory of how his victory was buried by unlawful votes.
Maria Bartiromo's facial expressions as Trump pushes obscene lies about election fraud are priceless pic.twitter.com/xdt5aflm2W
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 29, 2020
The only massive dumps taken in this election were the ones that produced the B.S. that Trump is trying to peddle in this interview, as his narrative goes beyond what even his own motley legal team is willing to admit in open court.
"Look at the election you have coming up [in Georgia] right now. You're using the same garbage machinery, Dominion" — Trump demoralizes Republicans by suggesting their votes don't matter because the upcoming Senate runoffs in Georgia are rigged pic.twitter.com/aYM6KcGaos
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 29, 2020
Add your name to tell Trump: You Lost! Concede!
Let’s all hope that Trump’s attacks on the fairness of the Georgia electoral process can keep enough Republican voters at home in the upcoming runoff for the last two open Senate seats to deliver the Democrats a majority in that legislative chamber.
Targeting Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp is a good start to achieving that result.
"Joe Biden did not get 16 million more votes than Barack Hussein Obama," Trump says, before adding in the next breath that he doesn't believe Biden did better than Obama with black voters pic.twitter.com/pbPzkStFvy
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 29, 2020
Trump seems unwilling to believe that opposition to his dangerously unmoored administration was so robust that it motivated previously uninvolved citizens to rise from their stupor and exercise their voting franchises.
Bartiromo undermined any journalistic credibility she may have maintained despite four years of cheering for Trump from the sidelines by humoring the deluded president.
"We actually have thousands of votes, in some cases hundreds of thousands of votes, more than we need in every swing state that we're talking about" — delusional stuff from Trump, who decisively lost the election pic.twitter.com/dOjTHBPXEc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 29, 2020
While Trump’s actions during his term have demonstrated that he considers the Justice Department to be a tool to be exploited for his personal agendas, it is still shocking to see him complain that they aren’t being more helpful in his quest to destroy America’s democratic institutions.
Maria Bartiromo is basically a North Korean news anchor now pic.twitter.com/iDLwJOM1gk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 29, 2020
Trump’s obsession with the legitimate investigations of his ties to Russia continues to haunt him, judging from his inability to cease discussing it.
"If I got in or get in, we will very quickly have deals with Iran" — Trump still hasn't accepted that the campaign is over and he lost pic.twitter.com/viRiKePlHn
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 29, 2020
Fox News may be reported to be inching away from the president after his loss, but one would hardly be able to tell from the sycophantic coverage afforded Trump by Bartiromo and her producers.
Nobody:
Not a single soul:
Trump: pic.twitter.com/NRL6ESj6uL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 29, 2020
For those who may have thought that Trump would eventually come to his senses and rejoin reality, this morning’s interview offered little hope.
Bartiromo's interview with Trump ends with him lying that his loss was "statistically impossible." Bartiromo responds by saying, "it's all quite extraordinary, Mr. President." pic.twitter.com/C4wTHkUeyc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 29, 2020
While his multiple bankruptcies show that Trump has never been good with numbers, the future of our nation is now at stake as the math-challenged soon-to-be-ex-president fails to grasp that the impossible calculations he needs to reverse his defeat will simply never materialize.
The nation is still reeling from an uncontrolled COVID-19 pandemic that is largely the fault of this administration’s incompetent failures, and we have a president who is so delusionally obsessed with his electoral loss that he has abdicated his duties while he works full-time to retreat into pitiful denialism.
With the nation in crisis, the swift implementation of the 25th amendment would be the best solution in the short term.
It’s too bad that Trump’s Republican enablers are too afraid to put their country over their partisan concerns to actually take the measures that are so sorely needed right now to protect our nation from the consequences of the toppled president’s obvious madness.
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Original reporting by Aaron Rupar at Vox.
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Vinnie Longobardo is the Managing Editor of Occupy Democrats. He's a 35-year veteran of the TV, mobile & internet industries, specializing in start-ups and the international media business. His passions are politics, music, and art.