President Donald Trump's demand for vote counting to stop in an election that is still undecided may have been his most extreme and dangerous assault on the institutions of democracy yet in a presidency replete with them.
Trump
appeared in the East Room of the White House early on Wednesday morning and lied about beating Joe Biden, and falsely claimed the
election was being stolen from him in a massive act of fraud. He vowed
to mount a challenge in the Supreme Court and lied yet again that he had
already won states that were still counting votes, including Georgia,
North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
The election has not yet been won, and the President and the former vice president are still locked in a
tight battle for the decisive states with millions of votes still being
counted. Trump's remarks
essentially amounted to a demand for the legally cast votes of American
citizens not to be recorded in a historic act of disenfranchisement.
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