I wonder what your stance would be had Biden requested investigations into voting irregularities (fraud)?
He wouldn't have. He would have accepted the results and conceded...just like Clinton did when the vote margin was 77,000 votes across three states.
Trump has been telegraphing the whole "rigged" thing for months. His behavior was both predictable and inevitable.
My only surprise is at the number of willing sheep and Republican party officials that are playing along with it.
We assumed that he would make a mockery of the election, as he did with his presidency.
I don't think we've talked much about how the rest of the GOP would act, though. I guess if we had thought more about it, we may have concluded that they're rather save their political necks than do what's best for the country.
Kind of like proceeding with impeachment proceedings during the preliminary phases of a Pandemic?
Sure. I don't have a tribe to protect.
But what Trump is doing is far worse and far more dangerous, and any honest person can admit that.
He hasn't done anything in a legal sense yet. There is no such thing as a president-elect until the EC votes and Congress certifies it. Anything before that is courtesy and if you really expect any courtesy from Trump after how he has been treated for the past 4 years then I have a nice stone bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
And that goes for Trumps supporters as well, why should we concede to people that spent the past 4 years howling about how evil we all are?
You don't have to do anything.
And neither does Trump until Biden is selected by the EC and that is certified by congress.
everything before that is courtesy.
And for the first time, we can't expect common courtesy from a President. What a shame. But not a shock in this particular case.
I think all the other Presidents knew that the incoming President had to have as much access to critical intelligence as quickly as possible, but we can't expect that here. They knew that, in the highly improbable case that he ended up NOT being President, there would be no harm, no foul. ESPECIALLY in this case, where the incoming President is familiar with the basics. But this is a big and critical process, and Trump is being a CHILD. AGAIN.
My goodness. I don't know how this awful, damaged man can be defended, but hopefully soon that won't matter. What an ugly period this has been.