11/07/2020 19:01
Clarín.com
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Updated 11/07/2020 8:32 PM
The president of the United States,
Donald Trump,
ignored the electoral victory of Democrat Joe Biden and reinforced his fraud complaint:
"WIN THE ELECTIONS", he
sentenced in another provocative message that he spread on Twitter.
"OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED IN THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, I GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED THAT OUR OBSERVERS COULD NOT SEE. IT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. THEY REQUESTED THEM! ", He wrote in capital letters, almost shouting in that social network.
Immediately afterwards, the Republican Party leader wrote: "71,000,000 legal votes. The most for a sitting president!"
THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS.
I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES.
BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE.
NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.
MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020
Trump spread those messages shortly after returning to the White House after playing golf in Virginia, outside Washington.
Earlier, through a statement, he proclaimed that "this election is far from over."
"Starting Monday, our campaign will begin to defend our case in court to ensure that electoral laws are fully enforced and the proper winner is proclaimed," the president stressed.
Trump thus closed his eyes to the reality that his path to re-election had closed at the moment in which the media projected that Biden
would take the 20 delegates from Pennsylvania, a state that he necessarily needed to have any chance of winning. .
"Winning is easy. Losing is never easy. For me it is not," Trump had acknowledged on the day of the elections, during a visit to his campaign headquarters.
Most of the president's advisers began to privately acknowledge at the end of the week that they had lost, but Trump himself still had no plans to give a concession speech, a tradition in the country.
"Obviously he is not going to concede" the defeat, said his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in a press conference this Saturday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
And he maintained that "50 and 60 observers trained to testify that they were denied the right to monitor mail ballots," the votes that Trump has criticized so much for their alleged unreliability during the campaign.
Another Trump adviser, Corey Lewandowski, denounced the existence of
votes cast on behalf of deceased people in the state of Pennsylvania
, an accusation similar to that made by Trump supporters in the state of Michigan, whose authorities said they had eliminated the ballots. suspicious after careful scrutiny.
Experts from the Politifact website also attribute this discrepancy to the fact that the affected voter could share a name and surname with the deceased person, since he / she is a relative.
Noise in the Senate
More institutionally, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Lindsey Graham, has announced that he will investigate "all credible allegations of electoral malpractice and irregularities" in response to receiving an affidavit from a Pennsylvania postal worker about a plan to backdate votes by mail.
"It is imperative that all credible allegations of voting irregularities are investigated to ensure the integrity of the 2020 elections," Graham said in a statement.
Graham has explained that the affidavit is from the Donald Trump campaign, but is in the name of postal worker Richard Hopkins of Erie, Pennsylvania.
Hopkins says in the document that Erie Post Office Director Robert Weisenbach told his subordinates that he was "backdating the ballots to make it look like they were collected before November 3, 2020 even though they were of November 4 and later dates ".