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Tweeting, hallucinating and invisible: Trump's last days of rage

In the Washington Post, dozens of advisers described Trump's conduct since the election: his advisers tell him what he wants to hear and fuel his refusal to acknowledge the loss to Biden, and he abandons the Corona fight and settles for golf and conspiracy theories.

"As an outsider, he is convinced there is a conspiracy against him"

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Friday, 04 December 2020, 14:53 Updated: Saturday, 05 December 2020, 11:33

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In the video: Trump continues to claim that the results of the US presidential election were falsified (Photo: Reuters, edited by: Assaf Drori)

"Like the crazy King George, he mumbles I won, I won, I won."

Nearly a month has passed since the US presidential election was decided against him, but Donald Trump remains isolated in the White House as he refuses to acknowledge his loss to Joe Biden.

The Washington Post described the conduct of the Republican president in recent weeks, in which, according to his advisers, he was furious and even sometimes in private conversations.

Despite this, many of them continued to flatter him and encouraged him to continue his legal battles, which suffered continuous defeats.

One of the advisers said they were "happy to refuel him. If he thinks he won, then we did as if 'shhh, we won't tell him'".

According to two people quoted anonymously in a Washington Post article, Trump's reviewer John McClellin presented him with a post-election poll that showed he enjoyed a high percentage of support, which most states think the media was "unfair and biased" against and that most voters believe their lives Better than they were four years ago.

Trump, as expected, swallowed it.

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Abandon the treatment of the corona plague.

Trump (Photo: GettyImages)

The Republican president's unprecedented onslaught against the election led millions to believe that Biden was illegally elected, and put tremendous pressure on local Republican elected officials to help him reverse the results.

When some refused, they were given close security due to threats they received.

"It was like a rumor mill," said Georgia Secretary of State Brad Reppensperger - a Republican who voted for Trump but rejected attempts by the president's supporters to get him to cross the ethical lines.

"I do not think I had a choice. My job is to fulfill the law. Integrity still has meaning."

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At the same time, Trump has abandoned most of the responsibilities of his role, for which he is fighting so hard, and especially the fight against the corona plague that is raging in the United States.

Ironically, David Bossy, whom Trump appointed to lead the legal and media campaign after the election, has been stuck in Corona for days after taking office and has since been pushed aside.

It was only on November 23, 20 days after the election, that Trump said reluctantly that he would agree to transfer power to Biden, though he did not stop for a moment to claim, without any basis, that the election was falsified and stolen from him.

Those 20 days reflected his tenure: a government paralyzed by the president's fragile emotional state, advisers telling him what he wanted to hear, clashes between different factions in the government and a blurring between truth and fantasy.

Most of the time that has passed since the election is spent by Trump playing golf and tweeting detached from reality.

The Washington Post spoke with 32 senior government officials, campaigners and other advisers to the president, as well as with other senior figures on his legal team.

Many of them did not identify themselves by name to openly discuss the situation.

The process of transferring power has already begun.

Works ahead of Biden's inauguration (Photo: Reuters)

In his attempt to steal the election, Trump ignored his campaign people and his lawyer who accompanied him during the Russian intervention investigation and an army of lawyers who were willing to wage legitimate legal battles in the courts, instead adopting imitating his loyalists who told him he would win overwhelmingly. .

These were willing to sacrifice their image, and the climax came when Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Sydney Powell convened a press conference at Republican Party headquarters on November 19th.

They talked about a bizarre conspiracy theory in which the Democrats joined the Communists in Venezuela under the leadership of Hugh Juvez, who died seven years ago.

They failed to substantiate their claims.

Even for Trump, a conspiracy theorist, it was too much, especially after Giuliani's hair color dripped down his face during that press conference.

One of Trump's campaigners, who spoke with him on the issue, said the president claimed it made him "look like a joke."

One Republican source said he saw no basis for Trump's claims and the campaign.

"It's a crazy story," he said of the same Chavez and Democrat conspiracy.

This show was too much for Trump too.

Giuliani at a press conference last month (Photo: Reuters)

People close to the president said he was particularly disappointed after Tucker Carlson, Fox's most-watched show host, attacked Powell's credibility after she showed no basis for her allegations of fraud.

The president fired Powell, and finally obeyed the advice of his advisers when he approved the General Services Administration to begin the transfer of power to Biden.

His associates said it was probably the closest he would come to admitting he lost the election.

That quiet surrender did not last long, and Trump continues to claim that he is the winner and that the election was stolen from him while he collects legal discriminations one after another and when the key states ratify Biden's victory.

He spent Thanksgiving in telephone conversations with his advisers, in which he asked them if they believed he had really lost the election.

"Do you think they were stolen?" Trump asked during the holiday, according to one person involved in the content of the talks.

Said what his advisers told him, the courts, including those with judges appointed by Trump himself, did not hide their opinions.

Free and fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy, "Judge Stefanos Bibbs of the Court of Appeals wrote last week outright rejecting the petition to overturn Biden's victory in Pennsylvania.

" The allegations of unfairness are serious.

But to say that elections were not fair does not make them so.

Charges require specific allegations and then evidence.

We have neither this nor that. "

"What the hell? We're supposed to win in Arizona"

Trump's lack of faith began on the night of the election results at the White House, where they joined those campaign manager Bill Stepien, his senior advisers Jared Kushner and Jason Miller, and other senior makeshift war room set up to track the numbers.

Trump did say during the campaign that "it would be "It's embarrassing to lose to this man," but in recent news almost everyone, including himself, was convinced of his victory, as they surprised in 2016. The turning point came when Fox announced that Biden had won in Arizona.

"He shouted at everyone," said a senior administration official recalling Trump's response. "He said, 'What the hell?

We're supposed to win in Arizona.

What's going on?'

He told Jared to call Murdoch. "Kushner's and others' efforts to persuade Fox to return to her failed.

Adopted conspiracy theories.

Trump's chair in the Oval Office (Photo: Reuters)

The outrage stemmed in part from the fact that the loss of Arizona disrupted Trump’s plan to declare victory on election night if he had a well-established advantage in enough states.

Before the race was decided in Biden's favor, the president decided to advance allegations of forgery, which he had already laid the groundwork for throughout the campaign in which he warned, without justification, against voting by mail.

It has been more extensive than usual this year due to the corona epidemic.

According to a person who heard the remarks, John Kelly, the former chief of staff of Trump, said in closed-door talks that Trump was "preparing the excuses" for his election loss.

The president was told by insiders and advisers that he should encourage his constituents, especially the elderly, to vote by mail to close the gap with his opponents, but he refused.

"It was a kind of madness," a former senior official in the campaign said.

In the end, it was these same postal votes that erased the president's initial gap in some key countries.

The gaps began to narrow to the point of overthrowing the lead, and Trump's rage translated into conspiracy theories.

"Trump's psychology needs to be understood," said Anthony Scaramucci, who was close to the president and his communications director for a short time, until he became one of his most prominent critics today.

"The classic symptoms of an outsider are that there must be a conspiracy. It is not his failures, but a conspiracy. That is why he is inclined to these conspiracy theories."

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