Trump U-Turns On Day-Old Promise To Leave White House, Insists Biden ‘Prove’ His Votes Were Legal

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Lower than a day after saying he would go away the White Home ought to President-elect Joe Biden be voted in by the electoral school, President Donald Trump backtracked, baselessly insisting Friday that Biden “can solely enter the White Home as President if he can show” his 80 million votes weren’t “fraudulently or illegally obtained,” and successfully recanting his closest admission to electoral defeat.

President Trump Participates In Thanksgiving Video Teleconference With Military Members — Donald Trump has mentioned President-elect Joe Biden could solely enter the White Home if he can show the … [+] legality of his election votes.

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Within the tweet, Trump continued to make baseless claims of voter fraud that one way or the other denied him the election, singling out Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Milwaukee as significantly troublesome.

His insistence that Biden could solely enter the White Home if he can show the votes for him have been unlawful backtracks on a pledge he made on Thanksgiving, the place he mentioned he would “definitely” go away the White Home if Biden was elected by the electoral school.

Trump claimed Biden would have a tricky time proving the legality of his record-breaking 80 million votes, describing it as a “massive unsolvable downside.”

Twitter, which has flagged dozens of his tweets claiming voter fraud since Nov. 3, promptly added below the submit: “This declare about election fraud is disputed.”

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Members of the electoral school formally convene on December 14 to forged votes for president and vice-president. Weeks later, these votes are counted and authorized in a joint session of congress on January 6. This session is presided over by the incumbent vp, who, on this occasion, is Mike Pence.

Key Background

Since earlier than the election, Trump has made baseless claims of widespread voter fraud and unlawful voting. He has ramped up the accusations within the weeks after, refusing to concede and launching a barrage of largely meritless authorized assaults in more and more determined bids to overturn the outcome, with one member of his authorized staff being ousted from the marketing campaign after pushing an outlandish conspiracy idea one way or the other implicating a deceased Hugo Chavez in a plot to rig voting machines.