DrafterX
5 years ago
Let's just assume that's true... 👍
Smooth light
5 years ago
The ref. beats his wife 🤧
rfenst
5 years ago
Let the Transition Proceed
Trump’s legal challenges are legitimate, but the country needs to be ready if they’re unsuccessful.

The more divisive our politics, the more important it is to respect the fundamentals of constitutional democracy. Two tenets are critical: elections in which legal votes are counted honestly and the peaceful transition of power. It is appropriate to pose legal challenges to an election’s integrity, but not to impede the transition.

Two weeks after Election Day, President Trump’s team hasn’t presented compelling evidence against Joe Biden’s victory. They are assembling that evidence and Mr. Trump says he sees a path to victory, but there is no reason to delay the procedures for transferring power to a potential Biden administration.

The main reason to facilitate the transition is to show that amid deep political division, we can rely on constitutional norms, procedures and institutions. The Trump campaign has every right to litigate evidence of fraud, malfeasance or error. We should care about that evidence, even if it doesn’t change the outcome, because it undermines the honest elections on which democracy depends. Anyone who corrupts them should face serious prison time. It’s far more serious than bribing your kid’s way into college.

Mr. Trump and his supporters have every reason to ridicule the Democrats’ hypocrisy about the peaceful transition of power. The Obama administration lied to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, spied on Mr. Trump’s candidacy and transition, and desperately tried to cover its tracks. The Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign commissioned the false Steele dossier and funneled it into a receptive Federal Bureau of Investigation, launching a series of investigations that hobbled the Trump presidency. Barack Obama’s administration launched a baseless crusade against Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Flynn, for making a perfectly legitimate phone call to Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. Holdover officials from the Obama administration did all they could to impede the new administration, including leaks of classified information about its actions.

It is an outrage that, four years later, we haven’t had a full accounting of this malfeasance. This delay is all the more noxious because the party that engineered these abuses is now returning to power. It is reasonable to fear that if Democrats retake control of the Justice Department, they will be less than zealous in pursuing these crimes.

But the Democrats’ corruption of the last transition doesn’t justify the Republicans’ corrupting this one. With the country so angry, divided and suspicious, it is vital that the incumbent administration do everything it can to assist the potential winners in case they prevail, as seems likely. While the Trump campaign presents its evidence in court and watches the recount in Georgia, it should give the Biden transition team the office space it needs, begin briefing its national security team, and provide assistance to ensure a smooth handover. This demonstration of good faith is less a legal requirement than a constitutional norm. Reasserting it now would strengthen our strained public institutions. They need it more than ever.

WSJ Op-Ed
frankj1
5 years ago
a Rupert Murdoch production?
delta1
5 years ago
lol...


here are the only believable parts of that op ed...

"Let the Transition Proceed

The more divisive our politics, the more important it is to respect the fundamentals of constitutional democracy. Two tenets are critical: elections in which legal votes are counted honestly and the peaceful transition of power. It is appropriate to pose legal challenges to an election’s integrity, but not to impede the transition.

Two weeks after Election Day, President Trump’s team hasn’t presented compelling evidence against Joe Biden’s victory.

The main reason to facilitate the transition is to show that amid deep political division, we can rely on constitutional norms, procedures and institutions. The Trump campaign has every right to litigate evidence of fraud, malfeasance or error. We should care about that evidence, even if it doesn’t change the outcome, because it undermines the honest elections on which democracy depends. Anyone who corrupts them should face serious prison time. It’s far more serious than bribing your kid’s way into college.

With the country so angry, divided and suspicious, it is vital that the incumbent administration do everything it can to assist the potential winners in case they prevail, as seems likely. While the Trump campaign presents its evidence in court and watches the recount in Georgia, it should give the Biden transition team the office space it needs, begin briefing its national security team, and provide assistance to ensure a smooth handover. This demonstration of good faith is less a legal requirement than a constitutional norm. Reasserting it now would strengthen our strained public institutions. They need it more than ever."


the rest is obviously manna for hungry con subscribers to this usually centrist media with right leaning opinion editors...
BuckyB93
5 years ago
It's nice that we have you around to tell us what we should believe and what we should not.

Looking for a job as the Minister of Information?
Speyside
5 years ago
Hey, that's mine. A hell of a lot of you are scheduled for retraining camps. Don't worry, lobotomies have greatly improved since the 50's. You won't remember anything.

Delta, you get Minister of education.
RayR
5 years ago
Another day in the banana 🍌 republic, more election fraud discovered, more malfunctioning ballot machines, more missing ballots discovered, more general election irregularities. Biden says he can't cure the COVID cooties unless he is crowned King which means hundreds of thousands will needlessly die because Trump won't concede.☠️
That's all folks!🐏🐑🐏
bgz
  • bgz
  • Herf-A-Holic
5 years ago
Conspiracy theories are fun!

You still haven't ever said which country you would rather live in than here... you obviously hate it here, you should move.
RayR
5 years ago

Conspiracy theories are fun!

You still haven't ever said which country you would rather live in than here... you obviously hate it here, you should move.

bgz wrote:



Why do I have to go anywhere? :-s
You progressives sure have weird ways of thinking. [hitting]
Did the American colonists leave because they didn't like the tyranny of British rule under King George?:-k

Speyside
5 years ago
Are you advocating a civil war or a coup?
Smooth light
5 years ago
You never know who you run into on this 'ship of stools'. Jump ship no way, it's to entertaining here. Most don't know how to swim anyhow 🤣
Their brain-dead natives.
RayR
5 years ago

Are you advocating a civil war or a coup?

Speyside wrote:



Where ya been? The Commie Progressives declared war on Western civilization a long time ago.
frankj1
5 years ago
if Trump maintains the vote was rigged, how do his enablers explain all the votes for Biden that voted for GOP senators and House members down ballot?
GOP held serve in the senate and actually gained ground in the House.
Clearly many illegal voters for Biden must have voted for the others too!

My ballot was legal and was split between the parties as my way of saying Trump must go but I don't want one party domination.

Weird, huh? Yet popular.

It's over.


HockeyDad
5 years ago
It would be easier to rig a presidential election for a democrat. All you need is a few large counties in key states to have an extra 100,000 or so votes which would just look like really high turnout. Rigging other elections would be more difficult.

But yeah, if i were to rig it I would have rigged everything, won everything, and then began the process of eliminating the need for free elections.
frankj1
5 years ago

It would be easier to rig a presidential election for a democrat. All you need is a few large counties in key states to have an extra 100,000 or so votes which would just look like really high turnout. Rigging other elections would be more difficult.

But yeah, if i were to rig it I would have rigged everything, won everything, and then began the process of eliminating the need for free elections.

HockeyDad wrote:


ah. so the riggers forgot to tell the idiots to vote Dem all down the line...now the total election results make sense.
Conspiracy perps voted Biden and GOP for senate and the house.
Brilliant!
I should have asked you before arguing with the knuckle draggers.
frankj1
5 years ago

It would be easier to rig a presidential election for a democrat. All you need is a few large counties in key states to have an extra 100,000 or so votes which would just look like really high turnout. Rigging other elections would be more difficult.

But yeah, if i were to rig it I would have rigged everything, won everything, and then began the process of eliminating the need for free elections.

HockeyDad wrote:


Trump is trying to get that for you...or us I guess.
HockeyDad
5 years ago
I’m not worried about free elections being eliminated by the Republicans.
frankj1
5 years ago

I’m not worried about free elections being eliminated by the Republicans.

HockeyDad wrote:


me either.
And I don't believe the Republicans when they level allegations, sometimes years before an election, that the Dems are eliminating free elections either.

Under extreme difficulty presented by this virus and the efforts to make it questionable by a lunatic fringe, the latest election was a testament to American's determination on all sides to get it done correctly.
Smooth light
5 years ago
Hate finally got a date,
JOE and the Ho ...
now for the walk of shame.
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