Posted on 11/04/2020 4:56:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In a stunning scene in the middle of the night, news organizations rebuked President Donald Trump after he falsely said on live television that he had won reelection even as votes were still being counted.
With reporters and supporters gathered at the White House at 2:20 a.m. Eastern, the president said it was “a major fraud on our nation” that he hadn’t been declared the winner. “As far as I’m concerned, we already have won this,” he said.
The words were barely out of his mouth before television anchors rushed to refute him.
CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell said Trump was “castrating the facts” by “falsely claiming that he has won the election and disenfranchising millions of voters whose ballots have not been counted.”
“Donald Trump is losing right now both in the popular vote and the electoral vote and there are many states left to be called,” ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos said.
Said NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie, “The fact of the matter is we don’t know who won the election.” Guthrie had interrupted Trump’s speech to tell viewers that several of Trump’s statements were not true.
The president’s address, after he was ushered to a podium to the sound of “Hail to the Chief,” received criticism in what are normally friendlier outlets.
“This is an extremely flammable situation and the president just threw a match into it,” said Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace.
His Fox colleague, former George W. Bush administration aide Dana Perino, said, “he just went a step too far.” Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro tweeted that it was “deeply irresponsible” for Trump to claim victory.
The president’s team was angry at Fox News Channel for striking out ahead of other news organizations in declaring that Biden had defeated Trump in the battleground state of Arizona.
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Mail-in voting. That was the plan all along.
Yep. In 2016 PA reported a final tally around 10pm at night. Now look at them, they stopped the count when Trump pulled ahead using the excuse “we are waiting for mail in ballots”. What the hell is that? So now they have an excuse to fix the election and use all that bullcrap laws they set up months before like a ballot without postage must be counted, ballots with no signature must be counted, ballots with mismatching signatures must be counted, ballots that come in 9 days late must be counted and the Republican led legislature did NOTHING about it. Thanks alot Republican party for doing absolute DICK about this!!
What was "deeply irresponsible" was for precincts to just up and stop counting because PDJT was ahead.
What was "deeply irresponsible" was for the DNC Media to lie about Hunter Biden's laptop and its revelations, for the FBI to never investigate, though it held that computer for a year, for the DNC to spy on and impeach our president and then for their propaganda arm to cover for them, for the DNC Media to cover for and enable the campaign of a man with full blown dementia...
CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell said Trump was “castrating the facts”
Interesting way to put it Norah.
Marko
How dare the winner declare himself the winner... Too funny.
The Donald abides... The liberal press contrives, and the hopeful Biden supporters are suckered for the umpteenth time into thinking that this is the end of their nightmare. CNN and MSNBC should be ashamed of their foolishness.
CBS is absolutely awful.
Whaddya expect from Commies. I watch Newsmax now.
We watched NEWSMAX and LS online at https://www.decisionusaonline.com/.
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