Trump pledges orderly transition after Congress affirms Biden's win and Capitol riot

edition.cnn.com ^ | January 7, 2021 | Allie Malloy

[Berlin_Freeper]

President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that he would leave office on January 20 for the first time Thursday, pledging an orderly transfer of power after Congress affirmed President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win.

"Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th," Trump said in the statement, repeating false claims he has made throughout the last two months. "I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again."

[xzins]

Excellent!

He didn’t concede.

[StAnDeliver]

Trump shat in Nancy's nest. It was glorious. I will never forget the day he won, and I will never forget the day he left.

Now he has every right to wash his hands of 'history'.

[a fool in paradise]

President Trump promised this when he took the oath of office.

Let’s count how many times BiteMe violates his oath while in office, Xi-nn

[fireman15]

The last time we know for sure a presidential election was stolen it did not end so well for the “victor”. Karma is a bitch.

[ScottinVA]

WTH more do you expect at this point? The cards have been played. This is called putting country above self.

[romanesq]

What do you eat to go this manic?

[Coronal]

Its corpse washed up on the shore.

[madison10]

Nothing left to do except bow out gracefully and try something new.

Not his fault, we know he did not lose. Yesterday’s storm of the capitol, also not his fault. IMO, it was a false flag, with a few patriots whose emotions got them to go along with the mob. They used antifa AGAIN, and put us in the hot seat when we were not really there.

[lgjhn23]

That pic right there more than exemplifies why the Founding Fathers excluded women from politics/govt....nough said.

[Tuxedo]

I agree. Suckerberg placed those ballot boxes. Next time, we stuff them!

[RummyChick]

I refuse to believe Trump wanted the mess that happened yesterday to happen despite people here continuing to advocate for it.

I will always believe he wanted a sea of his supporters standing on the steps showing support to those that were going through the political process set forth by the US Constitution. He wanted a compare and contrast.

Unfortunately, what he wanted got hijacked. Yes, Antifa was involved. But so were Trump supporters for whatever reason

It’s not his fault..but he will most certainly get the blame.

[SecondAmendment]

> This isn’t the same President who addressed the rally yesterday.

IMHO Trump was ordered to stand down or they would remove him via the 25th Amendment that afternoon.

[FlyingEagle]

While being certain that agents provocateurs (probably antifa) led the violence and breakin at the Capitol, the Trump protestors fell for it and were sucked in by the craziness. Bottom line is there is now an illegitimate government in Washington and an illegal deep state of cunning plotters all of whom seek to enrich themselves and crush the governed. For government to be fair and effective, the governed must consent. That requirement is no longer met in America. The destruction of our elections was so complete America will never recover. There will never be credibilty in elections again. The American republic has been overthrown and the Constitution, courts, legislature and executive branch all subverted.

Know that the powers of darkness and communist anarchy will not be satisfied with this subversion. They are well funded and will persevere with a genuine revolution. That is the pattern of history.

[UnwashedPeasant]

The Republic has fallen.

This is only phase one. The radical Left has big plans, and they are no longer restrained by elections or law.

[Arones]

...just like with the couple in Minnesota...

I'm not familiar with them. What's the story?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I keep thinking of the Boston Massacre in 1700. John Adams defended the British troops and commander charged with murder. Two of the soldiers were convicted of manslaughter and “branded on the thumbs” because it was their first offence.

[Amish with an attitude]

With history as a guide, their first order of business will be to confiscate our firearms.

[100%FEDUP]

Live to fight another day!
How many decades has that been our rallying cry?

[Reynoldo]

“ ... if he starts a mass exodus from the gop where everybody registered independent that’s a good start... “

^^^^^^ this ^^^^^^

[Dr. Franklin]

I don’t think anyone, including DJT, could have known how comprehensive and deeply embedded the deep state was and is. He didn’t know who to trust and trusted those he couldn’t have known where so compromised.

It is certainly a system of government that doesn't work as advertised. He wasn't in politics long enough to develop a sense of who was loyal to him. Naming Sessions AG was his biggest mistake. After that he named Barr, who was a Bush man. The FBI did nothing but undermine and obstruct Trump's agenda, and enabled the Dems to steal elections.

I would have lost a lot of wagers defending the pseudo integrity of the likes if Cavanaugh or ACB only to discover they were corrupt. It’s eye opening but the horse is out of the barn. It’s easy to curse the darkness. Blessed are those who thirst for justice.

Cavanaugh, and Barrett were unable to rule in Trump's favor because CJ Roberts won't schedule the cases for a timely hearing. It would require more than two justices to force that issue. The irony is that Trump named all of these "conservative" judges to the courts, appeasing people like McConnell and the Federalist Society. The lot of them have general contempt for ideas like individual and free and fair elections. Too many take the attitude in civil rights cases that "the peasants are revolting". Trump learned that too late as well.