It’s not a matter of Trump losing all sense of reality by holing up in the White House and launching court actions to try to overturn election results.
This is, in fact, the reality which he has carefully built for himself for at least seven months.
It is clear he has been planning to try to cheat his way to a second presidential term since at least March.
All polls showed then that he was so unpopular he would lose in November. Internal Republican voting would have driven this message home.
But that did not matter to him. As his niece, Mary Trump, has said, Donald Trump embraces “cheating as a way of life”.
He has known the reality that without cheating he would lose and so has consistently alleged that electoral votes would be open to large-scale fraud by Democrats and that he would, therefore, be launching court actions to overturn results unfavourable to him.
It was in March that Biden became the Democratic front runner.
On April 9 Vox reported: “Biden has led Trump in every national poll taken in the past month and a half.”
In that time Trump had admitted that making it easier to vote in America would hurt the Republican party.
He dismissed a Democratic-led push for reforms such as vote-by-mail, same-day registration and early voting.
“The things they had in there were crazy,” he said. “They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox and Friends.
Another early April comment: “Mail ballots — they cheat. OK? People cheat. There's a lot of dishonesty going along with mail-in voting.”
In May Trump appointed one of his major sponsors, Louis DeJoy, to run the US Post Office.
DeJoy immediately began cutting back on services and deliveries.
Democrats wanted to give the Post Office up to $25bn as part of a coronavirus relief package, but Trump refused, saying it would help the handling mail-in ballots, which would lead to voter fraud.
“They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all these millions and millions of ballots,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo. “If they don’t get [funding], that means they can’t have universal mail-in voting.”
By July, in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, he refused to say that he would accept the result of the election due to mail-in fraud.
TRUMP: “I think mail-in voting is going to rig the election. I really do.”
WALLACE: “Are you suggesting that you might not accept the results of the election?”
TRUMP: “What I'm saying is that I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense. OK?”
WALLACE: “But can you give a, can you give a direct answer you will accept the election?”
TRUMP: “I have to see. Look, you – I have to see. No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no, and I didn’t last time either.”
So the present court action and refusal to accept the verdict of the people have been long planned.
It just may be, though, that the scale of the defeat is beyond Trump’s comprehension.
This is, in fact, the reality which he has carefully built for himself for at least seven months.
It is clear he has been planning to try to cheat his way to a second presidential term since at least March.
All polls showed then that he was so unpopular he would lose in November. Internal Republican voting would have driven this message home.
But that did not matter to him. As his niece, Mary Trump, has said, Donald Trump embraces “cheating as a way of life”.
He has known the reality that without cheating he would lose and so has consistently alleged that electoral votes would be open to large-scale fraud by Democrats and that he would, therefore, be launching court actions to overturn results unfavourable to him.
It was in March that Biden became the Democratic front runner.
On April 9 Vox reported: “Biden has led Trump in every national poll taken in the past month and a half.”
In that time Trump had admitted that making it easier to vote in America would hurt the Republican party.
He dismissed a Democratic-led push for reforms such as vote-by-mail, same-day registration and early voting.
“The things they had in there were crazy,” he said. “They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox and Friends.
Another early April comment: “Mail ballots — they cheat. OK? People cheat. There's a lot of dishonesty going along with mail-in voting.”
In May Trump appointed one of his major sponsors, Louis DeJoy, to run the US Post Office.
DeJoy immediately began cutting back on services and deliveries.
Democrats wanted to give the Post Office up to $25bn as part of a coronavirus relief package, but Trump refused, saying it would help the handling mail-in ballots, which would lead to voter fraud.
“They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all these millions and millions of ballots,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo. “If they don’t get [funding], that means they can’t have universal mail-in voting.”
By July, in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, he refused to say that he would accept the result of the election due to mail-in fraud.
TRUMP: “I think mail-in voting is going to rig the election. I really do.”
WALLACE: “Are you suggesting that you might not accept the results of the election?”
TRUMP: “What I'm saying is that I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense. OK?”
WALLACE: “But can you give a, can you give a direct answer you will accept the election?”
TRUMP: “I have to see. Look, you – I have to see. No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no, and I didn’t last time either.”
So the present court action and refusal to accept the verdict of the people have been long planned.
It just may be, though, that the scale of the defeat is beyond Trump’s comprehension.
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