Posted on 11/11/2020 6:02:54 PM PST by buckalfa
Republican Sen. James Lankford (OK) promised that he would “step in” to the dispute if the President-Elect Joe Biden was not given access to U.S. intelligence briefings by Friday.
In a long interview with host Russell Mills for Tulsa radio station KRMG, Lankford discussed the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 election. Near the end of the 35-minute discussion, the host pushed Lankford on Trump’s refusal to accept the called race in Biden’s favor. (The relevant portion begins at the 22:45 mark.)
“I gotta tell you, national security is a concern,” Mills said. “Because Mr. Biden is not getting the briefings that he would normally be getting at this stage of the process.”
Earlier in the interview, the Oklahoma senator acknowledged that Biden had been called the victor by all the news networks, but said President Donald Trump was within his rights to mount legal challenges against any voting irregularities. (However, there is no evidence of the kind of widespread voter fraud necessary to overturn the result in any of the swing states.)
“That should be resolved by Friday,” Lankford said, of Biden’s lack of intelligence access. “[General Services Administration] has to certify that election to start turning it around. The first day they can do that on the calendar is Friday. And when that occurs, they should actually step in and, I will tell you, I’m on the committee of oversight, I’ve already started engaging in this area.”
Lankford then noted that during the protracted legal recount fight over the 2000 election, then-President Bill Clinton granted then-Texas Governor George W. Bush intelligence briefing access weeks before the Supreme Court ultimately ruled in his favor.
“There’s nothing wrong with Vice President Biden getting the briefings to be able to prepare himself and so that he can be ready,” Lankford explained. “There is no loss from him getting the briefings to be able to do that and if that’s not occurring by Friday, I will step in as well and to be able to push to say ‘This needs to occur,’ so that, regardless of the outcome of the election, whichever way that it goes, people can be ready for that actual task.”
Shame on you Oklahoma vote him out
Don’t think it will occur.
You turncoat bastard Biden is so senile and demented he doesn’t know left from right black from white his wife from his sister
Vote him out Oklahoma
Swampster.
Shame on you Oklahoma vote him out
Just elect Perdue and Loeffler in GA Senate runoffs. That will fix everything.
Uh, no.
What kind of a Republican says that a person not elected president should be treated with the intelligence briefings the real president gets?
Oklahoma, please make your fury known to this impostor.
Is it really up to him to make that decision?
How about Trump launches several investigations of the Bidens, eh?
States that....”Mr. Biden is not getting the (national security) briefings that he would normally be getting at this stage of the process”....
OOOOOh......they want ‘IN’... sooooo bad!
Let’s not forget this blithering idiot when the next primaries come around.
Let sleepy Joe get his National Security briefings from Facebook, CNN and Fox News.
Loser. Until winner certified, no valid reason to give Biden any info, especially as his family is under investigation.
Lankford would be one of those republicans who will go down the drain with the rest of the swamp.
Maybe they should just give the briefings to the Chinese ambassador directly?
I don’t know of any reason to join the deep state on this other than you’ve taken bribes or you’ve committed crimes.
I just don’t see this guy standing up to President Trump.
Step in and do what?
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