With less than a month to go before the Joe Biden inauguration, the Donald Trump exit strategy appears to be growing more dangerous and destructive by the minute.
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Holed up inside The White House with blinders on, Donald Trump has completely given up on even appearing to act as the sitting president. Instead of taking action against the growing number of COVID cases or the Russian hacking scheme, Trump has chosen to spend his every waking moment obsessing over an election that has long since been over and results that he is repeatedly reminded he’s powerless to change.
His only acts of late as president have been defiant ones: on Tuesday, he issued a dozen unwarranted presidential pardons then refused to sign the congressional approved COVID relief bill.
He lost the election. He lost every legal challenge in the federal courts. The US Supreme Court slammed the door in his face. The Electoral College certified Joe Biden as the winner. Additionally, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Russian President Vladimir Putin each offered a formal congratulations to Joe Biden as the president-elect. McConnell warned his GOP constituents in the Senate not to stage an election challenge on January 6th. One-time Trump flunkie and soon-to-be-former Attorney General William Barr announced on national television that there was no election fraud or irregularities and that the election is over. Even conservative elder and noted televangelist Pat Robertson said on Tuesday that Trump “lives in an alternate reality” and suggested it’s time for him to concede and retire from politics.
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Televangelist Pat Robertson declares that Biden will be president and that Trump “lives in an alternate reality,” “is very erratic,” and should not run again in 2024: “You’ve had your day and it’s time to move on.” pic.twitter.com/2WYCZOSNTO
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 21, 2020
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As if that wasn’t enough, Newsmax, the conservative alternative to Fox News, recently began broadcasting a surprise disclaimer which goes counter to Trump’s claims: That Newsmax has no evidence Dominion or Smartmatic manipulated votes in the 2020 election; that Newsmax has no evidence Dominion or Smartmatic has any relationship with George Soros; that Newsmax has no evidence Dominion uses Smartmatic’s software or vice versa; and that Smartmatic is a US company and not owned by the Venezuelan government.
Despite all odds stacked completely against him, the narcissistic Donald Trump doesn’t appear any closer to facing facts and accepting the truth. As of Thursday, he’ll be armed with a brand new Attorney General who will follow Trump’s marching orders to the letter for the next 30 days. He’s also surrounded himself with such crackpots as attorney Sidney Powell and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who are each helping him devise a devious Trump exit strategy: concoct a way to impose martial law and order the US military to conduct a “do-over” election, seize voting machines, and stage an intervention in Congress on January 6th in order to steal the election from Joe Biden.
However, worried White House staffers and administration officials have gone to the media to express concern that Trump may be preparing to use his powers of the presidency for much worse.
According to CNN, executive office staff and US military leaders fear Trump might attempt to wield his power as commander in chief in the last days of his term for some sort of vengeful military act.
“We don’t know what he might do,” said one officer in the Pentagon. “We are in strange times,” added another.
“There is no role for the US military in determining the outcome of an American election” Gen. James McConville, the Army chief of staff, and Ryan McCarthy, the Army secretary said in a joint statement.
Donald Trump wanted to be an autocrat. A dictator. His goal upon taking office was to destroy democratic traditions and the way that government works. However, what the shrewd but fake-alpha man never anticipated was that he’d run into a brick wall and get turned back by those he put in place solely to do his bidding.
So, what’s the Donald Trump exit strategy? He’ll NEVER admit he lost. Instead, he’ll likely spend his post-presidential days continuing to rile up his millions of MAGA fanatics into the conditioned belief that elections are rigged and democracy is a fraud.
Or, in other words, he’s primed to burn democracy to the ground and sell out America’s institutions just for the sake of never having to admit he’s a loser.
They all are turning on Trump left and right. The Pat Robertson thing was big. When the radical Christians tell you let it go you know it is time.