Mike Pompeo and the rest of Trump’s political circus are holding America’s China diplomacy hostage
- Weeks before the inauguration of a new US president, we’d normally be focusing on the incoming administration’s priorities
- Instead, as Covid-19 continues its rampage and Pompeo issues numerous edicts against China, the deranged Trump show goes on
The Trump administration isn’t sitting still on other matters, though, particularly on the China front, which might get more domestic attention were it not for the three-ring circus of his campaign’s efforts to invalidate hundreds of thousands of votes.
Lacking support from the US judiciary, governors and lawmakers of his own party in his effort to force the election in his favour, Trump has only dug in deeper, going as far as to use a weekend rally in support of two Republican senators facing key run-off elections next month to amplify his charges of election malfeasance.
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Biden says Trump challenge to his election victory is ‘totally irresponsible’
Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue didn’t get enough votes on Election Day to avoid a run-off. Wouldn’t Trump’s election fraud assertions mean that the two senators shouldn’t have found themselves in run-off territory in the first place? And if so, why would he even show up to campaign for their second round?