President Trump is into all kinds of things to game Biden’s inauguration, writes Tiko Okoye
The fact of the matter is that Trump has not only been spending too much time with, but also providing a listening ear to, conspiracy theorists pushing him, like the biblical King Rehoboam, to abuse the power of his office.
While appearing on a Fox News live programme on December 17, White House adviser Peter Navarro urged President Donald Trump to appoint a special prosecutor to smoke out details of how Democrats stole his election victory before inauguration day, in order to stop Biden from taking the oath of office as “an illegal and illegitimate president.” Note that Trump has asked Attorney-General William Barr to resign from his post by December 23 for contradicting his stance on the credibility of the November 3 elections.
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Published 16 December 2020
Expecting Donald Trump to stop junking the recently concluded US presidential poll is akin to hoping for snowfall in the Equatorial region in summer! Not even a litany of his courtroom losses has stopped millions of his “Stop the Steal”-chanting supporters from quipping that he actually won the election, as his pushy and bombastic manner continues to bewitch them.
But such an incongruity shouldn’t really surprise any student of history. “The great masses of the people,” bellowed Adolf Hitler, “will more easily fall victims of a great lie than to a small one,” implying that the more bizarre and outlandish the propagandist pitch is, the redder the meat becomes to the Trump support base!
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Published 15 December 2020
Expecting Donald Trump to stop junking the recently concluded US presidential poll is akin to hoping for snowfall in the Equatorial region in summer! Not even a litany of his courtroom losses has stopped millions of his “Stop the Steal”-chanting supporters from quipping that he actually won the election, as his pushy and bombastic manner continues to bewitch them.
But such an incongruity shouldn’t really surprise any student of history. “The great masses of the people,” bellowed Adolf Hitler, “will more easily fall victims of a great lie than to a small one,” implying that the more bizarre and outlandish the propagandist pitch is, the redder the meat becomes to the Trump support base!