While Trump sulks, Americans get sick and die

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Analysis by Stephen Collinson and Maeve Reston, CNN

Updated 5:48 AM ET, Thu November 19, 2020

President Donald Trump is fixated on his failing, threadbare challenges to the election and is tweet-spreading lies about vote fraud, instead of using his platform and power to confront a once-in-a-century health emergency he falsely assured the nation was all but over.

He hasn’t appeared at a public event for days and has forbidden any members of his administration to talk to Biden’s team. Also, as part of the President’s evidence-free quest to challenge the election, his administration is holding up millions of dollars in funding and access mandated by transition laws.

Trump’s outrageous presidency has conditioned the world to his incessant flouting of the duties of the office and indifference to the national interest. But it is an extraordinary and unprecedented scenario that in the world’s oldest democracy, a President is refusing to admit the clear result of an election in which Americans voted to eject him from office.

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Carl Sagan

Article URL : https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-joe-biden/index.html