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Donald Trump’s US election chaos is a gift to enemies of America and a threat to democracy
- As the outgoing US president tries to discredit the results without evidence of wrongdoing, most Republicans either agree or stay silent
- Their party’s confusion is a condition America’s enemies should be optimistic about, and one more dangerous than the surge in Covid-19 infections across the US
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“I think it just adds to the confusion and chaos,” John Cornyn, a Texas Republican re-elected to the US Senate for a fourth term this month, said last week about US President Donald Trump’s firing of Christopher Krebs.
Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, lost his job for countering Trump’s claims of widespread election fraud.
The “chaos” of the 2020 US election arises from Trump’s efforts to discredit the results without any evidence of wrongdoing, as well as most of the Republican Party either agreeing with the president or remaining silent on what is possibly his most headline-grabbing act yet.
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Trump, who leads a government that portrays itself as a beacon of democracy and whose top diplomat Mike Pompeo lectures countless others about the importance of free and fair elections, is exploring every conceivable route to the invalidation of ballots cast in key Democratic strongholds.
The president’s strategy of intransigence, which should surprise no one who has been at least half-conscious during the past four years, is a parting gift to the autocrats he adores so much. It will continue to benefit the strongmen of the world who see no greater prize than the tarnishing of the American brand.
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