Trump implies he won't leave the White House unless Biden 'can prove' he won | 2020-11-27 23:43:23 (Visits: 589 Times) |  | | AP Photo/Patrick Semansky President Donald Trump. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
Trump implies he won't leave the White House unless Biden 'can prove' he won 80 million votes, as the president continues to tweet lies and conspiracy theories about the election.
2020-11-27
In a Friday tweet filled with lies, President Donald Trump implied he wouldn't leave the White House or let President-elect Joe Biden "enter" unless Biden can prove his election win was not fraudulent.
A day earlier, Trump told reporters at the White House that would he would not concede the election but would voluntarily leave if the Electoral College voted in December to make Biden president.
Biden does not have to disprove mass fraud in order to take office.
Trump and his allies have failed to prove the existence of such fraud or malfeasance in dozens of lawsuits filed since Election Day.
Trump also does not have the authority or ability to determine whether Biden can take office.
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In a Friday tweet filled with conspiracy theories and lies, President Donald Trump implied he would not allow President-elect Joe Biden to take office — which he does not have the power to do — unless Biden proves his election win was not fraudulent."Biden can only enter the White House as President if he can prove that his ridiculous '80,000,000 votes' were not fraudulently or illegally obtained. When you see what happened in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia & Milwaukee, massive voter fraud, he's got a big unsolvable problem!" Trump tweeted, baselessly alleging election fraud and malfeasance in four heavily Black cities in states that voted for Biden.
Biden does not have to disprove mass fraud to become president, and there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Biden won 306 electoral votes compared with Trump's 232, and Biden won the popular vote by a margin of 4 percentage points, 51% to 47%, according to Insider and Decision Desk HQ. He is the first presidential candidate in history to win over 80 million votes.
Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania certified their election results after a statewide risk-limiting audit in Georgia and multiple failed legal challenges from the Trump campaign in Michigan and Pennsylvania. The Trump campaign requested recounts in Georgia and in two Wisconsin counties; both are expected to affirm Biden's victories in the states......... |
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