MoBettle wrote:JFLNYC wrote:thephan wrote:pacino wrote:yes, it needs to be convincing.
The table is set. If T loses, he puts on his purple heart and drops a lawsuit. You just know it. Calling it rigged less then a week after the DNC nomination of a candidate. I just pray we all survive.
That said, what happens with Obama? Does he just hang out until its sorted out?
I'm sure the results will be certified and Hillary will be the President-elect and then, barring court intervention, sworn in as President. It will be up to Trump to prove his claims in a court of law and overturn the election results just as Gore had to sue to try to continue the vote counting in Florida.
Still worried about the broader implications of the republican nominee claiming an election was rigged.
No question. When Ford pardoned Nixon many people were understandably outraged. But he did it for a good reason: To avoid putting the country through the spectacle of watching our country tear itself apart over questions concerning the very legitimacy of our government. Nixon had aready effectively been tried anyway, so there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by putting Nixon on trial.
Unfortunately for all of us, the Republicans have spent the last three decades undermining the legitimacy of our government for craven political purposes. Trump is the bastard child of those efforts and there's no question in my mind he will do everything in his power to challenge the,election results if and when he loses even if it risks burning down the house around him.
