Two days ago President Trump called on the idiot Playboy reporter in his daily news conference, who essentially asked if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses:
Q Mr. President, real quickly: Win, lose, or draw in this election, will you commit here, today, for a peaceful transferal of power after the election? And there has been rioting in Louisville. There’s been rioting in many cities across this country — red and — your so-called red and blue states. Will you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transferal of power after the election?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we’re going to have to see what happens. You know that. I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster. And — and —
Q I understand that, but people are rioting. Do you commit to making sure that —
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, I know. I know. Yeah, no, we want —
Q — there’s a peaceful transferal of power?
THE PRESIDENT: We want to have — get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very trans- — we’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer, frankly; there’ll be a continuation.
The ballots are out of control. You know it. And you know who knows it better than —
Because of this exchange the media has gone into overdrive pushing Trump’s response as an “unprecedented attack on America’s election.” Seriously. Just watch the first 20 seconds of this NBC Nightly News intro from last night:
Lester Holt introduces the nightly news show saying “Tonight President Trump’s unprecedented attack on America’s election. The president again today casting doubt on the legitimacy of the upcoming vote after refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he lose to Joe Biden.”
He then goes on to breathlessly introduce their segment on this, which of course was at the very top of the show, by saying:
“In a year and a season where shock is hardly in short supply, what may be among the most stunning words spoken by an American president are loudly resonating tonight. President Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election. The President dangling doubt over one of the most powerful rights of American democracy.”
And this way overhyped reporting was after White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany addressed this yesterday afternoon, saying “The President will accept the results of a free and fair election. He will accept the will of the American people.”
I was at my mom’s when I heard Lester Holt say this yesterday and I just couldn’t believe how grave they were making this sound. I had a visceral reaction to it and couldn’t contain my objection to Holt’s panicked reporting as my mom patiently tolerated my outburst.
I can’t speak for what exactly Trump was thinking when he answered the question the way he did, but I can tell you exactly what I was thinking. THE QUESTION WAS OFFENSIVE! The question presupposes that Trump is some wannabe evil dictator who will try and hold on to power at all costs. It comes from the demented minds of people who virulently hate Trump and come up with the worst conspiracy theories about him, and it couldn’t be further from the truth.
Trump is not a lawless president and never has been. I know that’s what Democrats and their kin were worried about in 2016, but it never came to fruition. Every time Trump has received a negative court ruling, stopping him from doing something he wants to do, he lawfully fights it with an appeal. If there’s an injunction involved, Trump complies with it until he can get it overturned. This is the opposite of what Obama did, who was held in contempt of court for violating a judge’s order. Now he was a lawless president!
So when Trump answered the question the other day, I was more offended at the question than I was at his answer. Reporters have been trying for months to get Trump to commit to conceding the election in, one way or another, so they can pressure him with his own words after the results come in, assuming it’s close or he’s behind. That’s what this is really about. Well, that and the fact that they want him out so bad they are already dreaming about it.
But as Kayleigh pointed out yesterday, questions like this are really more fitting for Joe Biden and Democrats who have told him not to concede the election under any circumstance, because they plan to litigate the hell out of it to try and legally push Slow Joe over the finish line. But don’t hold your breath for reporters to ask him about this. The last tough questions he got from the press was during the primary. Now that he’s their candidate to go against Trump, they won’t do anything to make him look bad. He’s untouchable.