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That's not entirely true. President Elect Trump himself spent the greater part of a month prior to the election claiming repeatedly that the election was "abso
by zuminator 10y ago
That's not entirely true. President Elect Trump himself spent the greater part of a month prior to the election claiming repeatedly that the election was "absolutely" rigged and, if you remember, predicated his unconditional acceptance of the results on his victory. People of a conspiratorial bent were already primed by his muddying of the waters so it shouldn't be a surprise that his own upset victory would be met with challenge.
Not to mention that this entire election cycle was one where bad actors from all directions took advantage of the poor discernment of the American electorate to the point where truth, innuendo, dubious claims and outright lies were given equal weight in the decision making process of many. Informational chaos has now been proven to be a winning strategy (and not just because Trump won) so why wouldn't that carry on post-election?
- JadeNB 10y ago> President Elect Trump … predicated his unconditional acceptance of the results on his victory. While I am no fan of the man, and have no doubt that he would fiercely have contested a loss, I don't think that it is quite as you have described it. What I remember is that he said that he would "keep you in suspense", and that he would accept the election results "if he was satisfied", never explicitly that he would only accept a victory for himself.
- GeorgeDewar 10y agoA very strange thing to write as my first post, but in one of the debates Trump did indeed say he would respect the results "if I win" [1]. I think the "I'll look at it on the day" comments came a bit later. [1] http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/20/politics/donald-trump-i-will-totally-accept-election-results-if-i-win/ http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/20/politics/donald-trump-i-wi...
- Freestyler_3 10y agoTaken out of context thats easy to conclude, but putten in context then it remains unclear. Because even then he said, that he is not going to say that he wil accept a loss, no matter what happened.