Wednesday 12 January 2022

Donald Trump still banging on about the "fraudulent" 2020 election

You have to give it to Donald Trump. More than a year later and he is still haranguing crowds of supporters with his view that Joe Biden is president only as a result of a giant fraud. Judges up and down the country and polling experts have unanimously said there was no evidence of any fraud in the election process. Even some sensible Republicans agree the election result was numerically correct. But no, Trump bangs on and on about his right still to be president. When US National Public Radio asked him in an interview about his fraud claims and his personal involvement in the January 6 riotous assault on the Capitol, Trump took the easy option. He switched off his mic and walked away from the interview. He surely knows by now that all his huffing and puffing isn't going to change anything. But by now it's really the only subject he can talk about. He is obsessed with it. Unfortunately millions of his supporters feel the same way. It does seem extraordinary that with so much going on in the world Trump doesn't just drop his obsession and get on with making comments about the world at large. If he has anything interesting to say. Like, for example, what does he think his old friend Vladimir Putin is trying to do. Trump once used to go about saying Nato was finished as an organisation. He never actually carried out his threat to withdraw the US from the alliance but he was clearly tempted. This is of course what Putin wants. All his troops-on-the-border stuff with Ukraine is about just that, forcing Nato to pull back from eastern Europe and basically pack up its bags. Does Trump have a view about this or is he so one-subject minded - fraud election - that he can't think straight about anything else? The trouble is, because he goes on and on about how he was defrauded from the office of the president, radio, TV and newspaper interviewers only seek to ask the same old questions about the 2020 election and January 6. It would be interesting to know what he really thinks about Putin these days, and Kim Jong-un. And Boris Johnson.

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