Election 2020

National Review Slams Trump’s ‘Disgraceful’ Post-Election Conduct: A ‘Petulant Refusal to Accept’ America’s Verdict

The National Review’s editorial board has sparked a media firestorm after sharply rebuking President Trump’s seemingly endless actions refuting the results of the presidential election, which he clearly and definitively lost to President-elect Joe Biden.

In an early Monday editorial titled “Trump’s Disgraceful Endgame,” the senior editorial staff of the conservative publication called Trump’s efforts to discredit the results “disgraceful” and said “almost nothing that the Trump team has alleged has withstood the slightest scrutiny,” The Hill reports.

Trump and his team have repeatedly challenged the election results in multiple courts after news outlets called the race in favor of Biden on the Saturday following the election. A battery of legal efforts pushed by his team and other Republicans have been tossed as Trump continues to claim without credible evidence that the election was “rigged.”

“In particular, it’s hard to find much that is remotely true in the president’s Twitter feed these days,” the editorial noted. “It is full of already debunked claims and crackpot conspiracy theories about Dominion voting systems.”

Trump has continually attacked mail-in ballots as promoting voter fraud, and his claims are baseless and absurd, and the editors of this conservative publication assail Trump’s continual claims of voter fraud.

“Over the weekend, he repeated the charge that 1.8 million mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania were mailed out, yet 2.6 million were ultimately tallied. In a rather elementary error, this compares the number of mail-in ballots requested in the primary to the number of ballots counted in the general,” the editorial stated.

“A straight apples-to-apples comparison finds that 1.8 million mail-in ballots were requested in the primary and 1.5 million returned, while 3.1 million ballots were requested in the general and 2.6 million returned.”

“Flawed and dishonest assertions like this pollute the public discourse and mislead good people who make the mistake of believing things said by the president of the United States.”

But people who believe Trump aren’t necessarily “good people.” Many of them are racist xenophobes encouraged by Trump’s own racism and xenophobia. Quite frankly, if they continue to believe Trump after everything that’s happened they are either ignorant or mentally unstable.

The Review couldn’t help but note the loss dented Trump’s rather considerable ego and added he’d better man up, noting “getting defeated in a national election is a blow to the ego of even the most thick-skinned politicians and inevitably engenders personal feelings of bitterness and anger.”

“What America has long expected is that losing candidates swallow those feelings and at least pretend to be gracious,” the editors noted. “If Trump’s not capable of it, he should at least stop waging war on the outcome.”

But Trump isn’t capable of being gracious. He’s a man who thinks if he complains loudly and long enough he’ll get what he wants. That’s how he’s always been. This time around, however, he’s simply not going to get what he wants no matter how hard he tries.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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