The 2020 US election has been decided - Donald Trump does not want to accept that yet.
Now he is firing Secretary of Defense Mark Esper with immediate effect.
The
2020 US election will be
decided after days of waiting -
Joe Biden
becomes the 46th President of the US
Donald Trump *
is still combative and has not yet congratulated Biden.
Trump hopes for a legal path to victory - and has now apparently authorized his Justice Minister to break an unwritten rule (update from November 10, 9:36 a.m.).
This ticker is updated regularly.
Update from November 11, 6:25 p.m.:
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Last Saturday the Democratic challenger
Joe Biden was
declared the winner of the
presidential election
by the US media
.
The incumbent President
Donald Trump
refuses to acknowledge his defeat and speaks of electoral fraud - without being able to prove it.
Now the 74-year-old made his
first public appearance
since his election defeat was certain.
On Wednesday, Trump attended a
memorial service
on
Veterans Day
with Vice President Mike Pence
.
At the National Cemetery in Arlington, near Washington, they both saluted while the US national anthem was played.
Trump left the memorial after a brief ceremony.
At the same time as Trump, the
future head of state of the United States
also took part in
a veterans memorial service.
Joe Biden and
wife Jill
visited the Korean War Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"On Veterans Day, I feel the full weight of the honor and responsibility that the American people have entrusted to me as the next president," said the
Democrat
.
US President Trump continues to believe in his election victory
Update from November 10th, 4.40 p.m.:
Even several days after challenger Joe Biden's victory celebration,
Donald Trump
continues to
believe
in his whereabouts in the
White House
: “We will win,”
Trump tweeted
on Tuesday, using only capital letters.
There is "great progress", as the next week will show.
The
US President
posted three more tweets in full capitalization.
"Watch out for massive counting fraud and remember that I told you right away - just like with the early vaccination," wrote Trump among other things.
The US president had
predicted
a
corona vaccine
"by October"
in the summer
.
An optimistic assessment that, however, did not come true.
WATCH FOR MASSIVE BALLOT COUNTING ABUSE AND, JUST LIKE THE EARLY VACCINE, REMEMBER I TOLD YOU SO!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2020
Meanwhile, one of Trump's close allies,
Joe Biden, has already congratulated Joe Biden on his election victory,
but embarrassed himself on Twitter.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson
posted a congratulatory graphic to Biden on Tuesday.
In the background of the text, parts of an alternative version for the voted Donald Trump were still recognizable.
There was a "technical error," it said from Downing Street.
There was also a significant flop on Trump's house broadcaster Fox News.
Trump fires ministers after US election: explosive interview public - "God have mercy on us"
Update from November 10th, 3:10 p.m.:
On Monday evening,
Donald Trump
fired
his
Defense Secretary Mark Esper
- via tweet.
Now it is known: the head of department apparently foresaw his fate.
Shortly before, Esper had indirectly but drastically warned against Trump in an interview with a specialist magazine.
Esper told the
Military Times
that the
main achievement of his tenure was
to have protected
the
Pentagon
in addition to the
US's
new
"national defense strategy"
.
The same applies to its "integrity".
"Have you seen me on a stage and heard me say, 'Under the outstanding guidance of bla-bla-bla, we have bla-bla-bla?'" He asked rhetorically.
Esper also indicated in the interview that he had kept his post primarily out of a
sense of duty to the US soldiers
.
"You see, my soldiers can't resign either." "I've tried to do what I always do and that is to try to do the best."
Whether he struggled more than other defense ministers
to bring
Trump's ideas
into line with reality, Esper did not want to assess.
He explained that he had to think about the issues over which he wanted to risk major conflicts.
Because: “Who will come after me?
It will be a real yes-man.
And then God have mercy on us
. ”The interview was conducted on November 4th - shortly after the US election.
At this point, Trump still had a concrete chance of defeating Biden.
US election 2020: Trump wants to prevent Biden with legal remedies - that's how experts estimate the chances
Update from November 10th, 1:55 p.m.:
Now
federal
investigators
(also) should deal
with the results of the
presidential election
(see update from 9:36 a.m.) - and possibly overturn the election result by legal means.
But does
Donald Trump's
proposal even have a chance?
Experts say no.
"Trump's trial strategy leads nowhere," says
electoral law expert Richard Hasen
from the University of California at Irvine.
“It will not affect the outcome of the election.”
According to the
AFP
news
agency
, the
electoral law
expert Steven Huefner
from Ohio State University emphasizes
that the fraud allegations are “vague”.
“You need facts to back up allegations.” And even if misconduct should be uncovered in individual cases,
lawsuits
should only have a chance of success if these cases could change the election result.
Because of the
very close election results
,
recounts
are
expected
in the states of
Georgia
and
Wisconsin
.
However, according to experts, that should change little.
“In recent US elections, recounts have almost never changed more than a few hundred votes,” says electoral law expert Huefner.
The outcome in
Pennsylvania
could be decisive
- here Joe Biden has a lead of more than 45,000 votes.
US election 2020: Trump wants an investigation - and lets ministers break unwritten rules
Update from November 10th, 9:36 a.m.:
US Attorney General
Bill Barr
has basically
authorized the
prosecutors under him to investigate possible irregularities in the
presidential election
.
At the same time, Barr stressed on Monday that this does not mean that the authorities currently have evidence of possible election fraud.
US media had
proclaimed
opposition candidate
Joe Biden
to be the election winner against incumbent
Donald Trump
on Saturday
.
However, Trump denounces alleged massive electoral fraud without presenting any evidence and does not acknowledge his defeat.
His electoral team has opposed the counts in several states, but some of the lawsuits have since been dismissed.
US Election: Attorney General Barr wants to investigate "voting and counting irregularities"
Barr now wrote to federal prosecutors to investigate possible "substantive allegations of
irregularities in voting and counting
".
Such inquiries and reviews are likely to be conducted when there are "clear and overtly credible allegations" which, if proven, "potentially affect" the election results in individual states.
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US Attorney General William "Bill" Barr.
© AFP / Nicholas Kamm
Investigating possible pollutants in elections is usually the responsibility of the state authorities.
Barr
now
pointed
out, however, that it was never a "fixed rule".
The minister wrote that federal prosecutors should investigate
"serious accusations"
for election "with great care", while "flimsy, speculative, absurd or far-fetched" accusations should not give them any reason to investigate.
Barr
is an extremely controversial minister.
Critics accuse him of
exercising
his office as a kind of
trump cleaner
and of not adequately
safeguarding
the independence of the judiciary.
Trump rages over corona vaccine - "didn't want me to be successful"
Update from November 10, 6:37 a.m
.: The incumbent President
Donald Trump
presented the announcement of promising results by the manufacturers of a
corona vaccine
a few days after the US election as
politically motivated
.
The pharmaceutical company Pfizer "did not have the courage" to announce the good news before the election, criticized Trump on Twitter.
The US company is working on the vaccine with the
German company Biontech
.
Trump also criticized the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of
his government
in his tweet
.
The FDA should have announced the results earlier, he complained.
"Not for political reasons, but to save lives," wrote Trump.
During the election campaign he had repeatedly promised that there would be good news on vaccines before the vote - and apparently hoped for a political tailwind from it.
As I have long said, @Pfizer and the others would only announce a Vaccine after the Election, because they didn't have the courage to do it before.
Likewise, the @US_FDA should have announced it earlier, not for political purposes, but for saving lives!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2020
Trump after US election in 2020: "... that's why it came out five days later"
"The FDA and the Democrats didn't want me to have a vaccine success before the election, so it came out five days later," Trump wrote on Twitter.
His administration's FDA is headed by Stephen Hahn, whom Republican Trump himself appointed.
The @US_FDA and the Democrats didn't want to have me get a Vaccine WIN, prior to the election, so instead it came out five days later - As I've said all along!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2020
Biontech and Pfizer were the first western manufacturers to publish promising - but limited in the scope of the details - results on Monday.
Accordingly, your vaccine offers more than 90 percent protection against Covid-19.
The companies want to apply for emergency approval from the FDA starting next week.
"Absolutely shocking things": Trump's fraud allegations continue to gain momentum - ministers fired by tweet
Update from November 9th:
Donald Trump
shoots one tweet after the other on Monday evening.
Hardly any of them are not
flagged
as
possible false reports
by the Twitter platform
.
The updates on the alleged election events are debatable, the statement about the
state of Nevada
stands out in particular.
Nevada is turning out to be a pool of fake votes.
@mschlapp & @AdamLaxalt are finding things that, when released, will be absolutely shocking!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020
“
Nevada turns out to be a cesspool of wrong voices,
” fires Trump, “
Matt Schlapp (political activist, dR) and Adam Laxalt (lawyer, dR) find out things that, if published, will be absolutely shocking.
"
In
Wisconsin
, meanwhile, things are looking good, Trump continues, legally it still needs some time, "will happen soon".
His words on Pennsylvania are more violent.
"
Pennsylvania prevented us from watching the count,
" he complains, "
unthinkable and illegal in this country
." In
Georgia
, Trump is certain, he will celebrate a "
great, presidential victory
".
Update from November 9th:
After the announcement that he has replaced his Secretary of Defense,
Donald Trump
takes on
the
US election
again
and intensifies his
allegations of fraud.
“The detection limit of the ballot papers has turned out to be
even greater than initially assumed
,” he tweeted, “
a large number of ballot papers are affected
.
Stay tuned!"
The threshold identification of Ballots is turning out to be even bigger than originally anticipated.
A very large number of ballots are impacted.
Stay tuned!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020
Some
lawsuits by the Trump team
had already been dismissed in the past few days.
But the incumbent US president will apparently not give up anytime soon.
US election: Trump continues to resist defeat - and fires Pentagon boss
Update from November 9, 7:06 p.m.:
Donald Trump
is still resisting the
election defeat
and does not want to accept the result.
He will probably have to do that in January at the latest and hand over his office to Joe Biden.
Until then, however,
Donald Trump
will remain
head of state
.
Donald Trump is
now
proving that he is still in power
with a very surprising and grand decision.
"
I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, has become Secretary of Defense with immediate effect,
" Trump tweeted Monday night.
... Chris wants to do a GREAT job!
Mark Esper has been terminated.
I would like to thank him for his service.
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020
Former
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has to go with it
.
“Chris will do a great job,” continues Donald Trump, “
Mark Esper has been fired.
I want to thank him for his work.
"
US media have been reporting for a long time that there is rumbling between Esper and Trump.
There have already been
rumors of a dismissal
, but it is now out of the blue, after all, it was
expected
more
if Donald Trump won an election
.
Donald Trump is replacing the Secretary of Defense "with immediate effect," without prior notice.
US election 2020: Trump does not want to admit defeat - Putin's spokesman comments
Update from November 9th, 12:57 p.m.:
Some
world leaders
have already congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their victory in the US election.
So far there have been no congratulations
from
Russia
, but a statement: "We think it is right to wait until the results of the election are officially announced," said
Vladimir Putin's
spokesman Dmitry Peskov in Moscow on Monday, according to several media reports.
Putin is ready to work with any president and respects the choice of the
American people
, the
German press agency
quotes him
.
Shortly before the election, wrong information kept coming up that Russia was trying to interfere in the election *.
Several major TV stations announced
Biden as the winner
on Saturday
.
Nevertheless, votes will continue to be counted, and incumbent President Donald Trump announced several lawsuits against the vote count.
The Russian opposition leader
Alexei Navalny
had already congratulated on Sunday.
He wrote on Twitter: "I am looking forward to the new level of cooperation between Russia and the US."
Update from November 9, 8:38 a.m.:
The first Trump authority hinders the peaceful transfer of power to the election winner
Joe Biden
.
US President
Donald Trump
now wants to stay in office by recounting the postal votes.
He wants to prove that invalid ballot papers were also included in the result - for example, the votes of US citizens who have already died.
Meanwhile, the US General Services Administration apparently denied the Biden team a necessary signature.
The managing authority is responsible for clearing the new government team to have access to office space, equipment and officials.
To do this, the authority would have to sign a corresponding paper.
In addition to access to the necessary administrative units, the Biden team would thus be awarded millions of dollars in one administrative act.
So far the signature has been refused, reports
Focus.de
, citing the
Washington Post
.
2020 US election: Trump does not want to admit defeat to Biden - and tweets into the night
Update from November 9, 6.54 a.m.:
The still incumbent US President
Donald Trump
would now be called to initiate his successor
Joe Biden
in the business of government.
But Trump
still does not want to recognize
the
election in the US
- that apparently robs him of sleep.
Up until about 0.40 a.m. Washington time, the US president tweeted media reports that seemingly support his claim to the office.
"The requirement to count every vote is a crime," accuses the former lawyer Ken Starr in an interview with the Fox News broadcaster against the newly elected President Biden.
Even the Trump-related TV broadcaster Fox News has repeatedly
accused
Trump of misconduct in the
Corona crisis
in the past few months
.
pic.twitter.com/qsFn1Ee6B0
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020
However, the TV report in Trump's post does not deny Biden the election victory.
Only Biden's statement that every vote should be counted is interpreted as if Biden also related this to invalid votes.
In other words, ballot papers that wives would give for their deceased husband.
Biden's appeal, however, is unlikely to have much to do with such a scenario.
Under the motto "Every vote counts", thousands of Americans took to the streets in the past few days and weeks trying to defend their postal votes.
Donald Trump had previously tried to prevent the postal ballot from being counted.
US election 2020: Trump does not want to admit defeat against Biden - now Melania Trump speaks up
Update from November 8, 9:21 p.m.:
After his defeat,
US President Donald Trump
complained about the system that had been established in the US since the 19th century that large media companies were proclaiming an election winner.
"Since when does the Lamestream media determine who our next president will be?" Wrote Trump on Twitter on Sunday.
“We have all learned a lot in the past two weeks.”
“Lamestream media”
is an art term from Trump that is
intended to amalgamate the
mainstream media that he criticized and “lame”.
US election 2020 in the ticker: Kamala Harris reminds of corona rules
Update from November 8, 9:16 p.m.:
Corona
is not over yet.
The newly elected
Vice President Kamala Harris
wants to
remember this.
So she asks everyone on Twitter to keep thinking about their masks: “Covid-19 is still here.
Please keep wearing a mask and keep your distance. "
COVID-19 is still here.
Please continue to wear a mask and practice social distancing.
- Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 8, 2020
Trump's spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany called
a victory celebration by Biden's supporters as a corona infection risk on Saturday.
On her private account, she posted a video of the cheering crowd in front of the White House in Washington on Twitter and wrote, “Where is Joe Biden calling for an end to the massive super-spreader events that are being held on his behalf? "
US election 2020 in the ticker: Trump does not want to accept defeat against Biden - Melania Trump is now reporting for the first time
Update from November 8, 8:22 p.m.: Melania Trump
is now
officially
speaking on Twitter for
the first time
.
Similar to Ivanka Trump two days ago, she posts something general that can also be understood as support for Donald Trump.
“The American people deserve fair elections.
Every legal - not illegal - vote should be counted.
We have to protect our democracy through complete transparency. ”There is no mention of fraud or corruption in any way.
The American people deserve fair elections.
Every legal - not illegal - vote should be counted.
We must protect our democracy with complete transparency.
- Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) November 8, 2020
US election live: Joe Biden visits cemetery near Wilmington
Update from November 8, 7:25 p.m.: Trump tweets
and what does
Joe Biden
do
after the US election, which he found successful?
He attends
church services and family graves
near his home in Wilmington.
Biden's son Beau, first wife Neilia, and daughter Naomi are buried in the Greenville cemetery.
Beau died in 2015 of complications from a brain tumor.
Neilia and Naomi Biden were killed in a car accident in 1972.
Biden (77) was 30 years old at the time.
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After the 2020 US election, Joe Biden visits St. Joseph on the Brandywine Church in Greenville near Wilmington.
His first wife Neilia and daughter Naomi and son Beau are buried there.
© Carolyn Kaster / AP / dpa
Update November 8, 19:12:
The
victory of Joe Biden in the US presidential election
allows the view of Nobel Peace Prize winner
Mikhail Gorbachev
the rescue of the last major
disarmament treaty between Moscow and Washington.
Biden is a sincere person who goes a sensible way, said the former Soviet president of the Interfax agency on Sunday.
"Now it will be easier," said the 89-year-old in view of the so far hardly successful attempts to extend the New Start Treaty to limit nuclear weapons.
Under US President Donald Trump, Russia had recently seen little chance for the agreement, which ends at the beginning of February.
US election 2020 in the ticker: Lindsey Graham stands behind Donald Trump
Update from November 8, 7:09 p.m.:
In contrast to Senator Mitt Romeny,
Senator Lindsey Graham
positions himself
very differently.
This encourages the incumbent president to take legal action after the supposedly lost US election.
"President Trump should not give up," said Graham on Sunday in an interview with
Fox News
.
“This is a controversial choice.
The media doesn't decide who becomes president.
If they did that, there would never be a Republican president, ”said Graham.
Trump must go to court.
The senator, who is considered a Trump confidante, cited the case of people who allegedly voted in the key state of Pennsylvania even though they were already dead.
Biden leads the state by 40,000 votes before the count ends.
US election 2020 in the ticker: Senator Mitt Romney stands behind Joe Biden as president
Update from November 8th, 6.47pm:
Other Republicans are also trying to get Donald Trump to do the “right thing” and to vote Trump voters “conciliatory”, as Biden would like himself to do.
One of them is
Mitt Romney
.
He calls for people to stand behind Joe Biden as president.
The re-elected Senator from Utah did not notice any signs of electoral fraud, as he
reports to
CNN
.
“However, I believe that it damages the cause of our democracy when we talk about widespread fraud and corruption.
There is simply no evidence at this point, ”said the Senator.
US election in the ticker: Melania tries to appease Donald Trump
Update from November 8th, 5:46 p.m.:
Even if some Republicans
adopt
a conciliatory tone, Trump's tweets, it still does not suggest that he will admit his defeat so quickly.
He quotes supporters on Twitter who also suspect election fraud.
His son Donald Trump Jr. also continues to stir up suspicions and in many ways adds fuel to the fire.
He tweeted that there were no violent riots, even though so many Republicans were angry.
And son Eric Trump also diligently retweeted views about election fraud.
After a peaceful agreement and the departure of Trump and his family, that does not currently look like
.
However, there are said to be two people from Trump's inner circle who want to get him to accept the defeat.
One of them is son-in-law
Jared Kushner
, as previously reported (see below).
But
Melania Trump is also said to have turned to her husband
after
CNN information
and asked him to accept the defeat.
A
CNN source
is said to have heard the conversation between the two.
Melania Trump
is said to have "offered" her opinion, as she is said to have done many times before.
US election 2020: Suddenly there are conciliatory tones from Trump camp - will it come to a "peaceful transfer of power"?
First report from November 8th
: Munich - In the history of America there has probably never been a president who
has shown himself so unreasonable
despite an official
election defeat
.
Trump is
still fighting
by all means - be it tirades on
or lawsuits - to avoid
having to admit
bankruptcy.
Some TV shows have already discussed how to proceed if Trump refuses
to leave
the
White House
even after January 20
.
But with all the lack of insight that the 74-year-old is attested to,
conciliatory tones
can now also
be heard from the Trump camp.
.... Where it mattered, they stole what they had to steal.
@newtgingrich
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2020
US election 2020: Ironically, "Fox" reports about peace plans
The reports from the
USA are
piling up
, according to which the still incumbent
US president
might eventually show insight.
For example,
Fox News
, known for its proximity to the Trump camp,
reports
that the president wants to "guarantee a peaceful transfer of power" "if the lawsuits do not open up any prospect of another term".
It should be said that
Trump
has filed numerous lawsuits in contested states and is also willing to file more.
According to
CNN
, son-in-law
Jared Kushner should
stand
behind the idea of a “peaceful transfer of power”
.
The broadcaster also reports that there has not yet been any contact between
Trump
and his successor
Joe Biden
.
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.
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