Kevyn wrote:
Donald Trump was on Friday making a futile but dangerous last stand, without precedent in modern American history, to overturn the result of the presidential election so he can remain in power.
Even as Joe Biden’s victory in the state of Georgia was confirmed, the president met with Republican leaders from Michigan at the White House in an increasingly desperate bid to subvert democracy after a series of courtroom defeats over his false allegations of voter fraud.
The Trump campaign’s apparent strategy is to persuade Republican-controlled legislatures in Michigan and other battleground states in the electoral college to set aside the will of the people and declare Trump the winner, despite officials declaring it the most secure election in American history.
Most experts have dismissed Trump’s efforts as unlawful political fantasy. But they warn that an American president trying to reverse a free and fair election could poison millions of feeble minds, conditioning his base to lose faith in democracy and regard Biden as an illegitimate president, when in reality more Americans voted for him than anyone in America’s history.
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