Trump Says He'll Give Up Power if Electoral College Backs Biden

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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Source: Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he’ll relinquish power if the Electoral College affirms Democrat Joe Biden’s win, but he signaled he may never formally concede defeat, and may skip the Democrat’s inauguration.

Trump fielded questions from reporters on Thursday for the first time since his election defeat, speaking at the White House after a Thanksgiving teleconference with members of the military.

He rehashed for about 25 minutes a series of allegations his legal team has so far made but provided little or no evidence for -- and thus hasn’t raised in court appearances -- while saying flatly that Biden couldn’t have received 80 million votes from the American people.

The defiant and occasionally conspiratorial exchange in the White House’s diplomatic room included a brief acknowledgement of the reality facing him. When Trump was asked if he’d physically leave the building if the Electoral College affirms Biden’s victory, he replied, “certainly I will, and you know that.”

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Excellent. We don't want to see your ugly grifting face at Joe Biden's inauguration.

[Squinch]

1. Blah, blah, blah. His words are unimportant and irrelevant. Just like the rest of him.

[LakeArenal]

4. That's exactly what I hear. Word salad. Speaking in tongues, what that spew is.

[Roy Rolling]

41. WTF? Again?

Who keeps asking him that question?

[lastlib]

42. King Ancient Babble-On didn't do himself any favors with that word-vomit session.

Why would anybody even ask the question whether he would relinquish power?? The US Constitution says that on Inauguration Day, his power is gone, PERIOD. New guy gets the job--PERIOD. If Shitgibbon is still in the White House at 12:01 pm 1/20/21, he is an unwelcome guest, so we drag his lard-ass out--PERIOD.

[certainot]

46. yeah but the orange shoitwad piggybacks rw media and it worked to get him into the WH

[33taw]

2. He would have no choice but to relinquish power. Why even interview the guy?

[BlueMTexpat]

3. Exactly!

[cstanleytech]

36. Its not even a relinquish because as soon as the new President is sworn in his ass is out.

Of course what I really expect is that he will be on a flight out of the country on his last official day in office because he and his children will be facing a number of potential legal problems that could very well see them wearing orange.

[SharonAnn]

43. Power will be taken from him on Jan 20th at noon.

[roamer65]

5. I would prefer he not be at the inauguration.

Let President Obama take his place.

[captain queeg]

6. "IF?" It's a done deal asshole. You've no say in it.

[ResistantAmerican17]

7. He'll give up power by gawd on January 20 at 12:01. Then he's just an orange skidmark in history.

[elleng]

8. Fine, that's all we need, Electoral College, never formally concede, and

skip the Democrat’s inauguration.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

53. That sort of pettyness is a Trump tradition.

Like insulting people who disagree with him.

[Progressive dog]

9. I'll believe he doesn't have to be dragged out

when it happens.
I sure as hell hope that he doesn't show his face at the inauguration.

[rickyhall]

10. 54 more days and we'll have a real president, not a malignant narcissist psychopath.

[underpants]

11. He held a press conference on Thanksgiving? Wanted to make the reporters come in?

Nothing better to do, like with the family?

[rso]

12. Trump

That’s mighty generous of him.

[PlanetBev]

13. How insane is it to allow a lame duck President to have this much power?

This can’t stand. This stupidity just screams “Reform!”

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

32. It's never be a problem before. The lame duck president holds back and makes no major decisions

so his successor will have the opportunity to put together his government unencumbered.

Trump is a traitor who is destroying the country and democracy. He is not a patriot. Neither are his followers.

[raccoon]

49. Exactly. As one article said the next authoritarian will be smarter. Nt

[torius]

14. He graduated from the Electoral College

Phi Beta Kappa. Not many people know that.

[First Speaker]

15. Let's hope the Electoral College isn't a branch of Trump University...

[AllaN01Bear]

16. will you shut the heck up and or take his guldurn phone away from him please.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

17. Trumpl will hold his own "real inauguration" at a huge superspreader event at the same time

as the legal one is going on. He'll then proclaim that he's the "real president," and be a thorn in Biden's side -- enabled by the traitors in the Senate -- for the next four years. He'll throw a monkey wrench into every program Biden is pursuing, using the same army of lawyers and specious lawsuits he has used post-election.

Trump is going to be the cockroach of democracy until he dies.

[Initech]

21. No way he lives to 2024. I'm calling it now.

[Ishoutandscream2]

27. Yep, either dead

or very incapacitated, ie dementia, stroke, etc.

[Grokenstein]

18. Loser will be making demands and setting conditions right up to the point

the Secret Service dumps him and his box of stuff on the curb.

[Initech]

20. Either way, he becomes an unwelcome house guest on 1/21/21.

[Oscarthegreat]

22. Worse than my dog

When my dog makes the sounds indicating he wants his treat he is more coherent than the infantile nonsense that comes out of this moron's mouth. Listening to him is as incomprehensible and experience as listening to some lunatic speaking in tongues.

[disalitervisum]

23. Baby t**** still isn't quite clear on the concept

The occupant doesn't leave the office. The office leaves the occupant. There's nothing for the occupant to relinquish.

And rest assured, the unspoken part of the sentence, "certainly I will and you know that," is -- "...I will behave like the most monstrous spoiled six-year old brat who has ever lived, the likes of which nobody has ever seen."

[Tiger8]

24. Trump is a graduate of the Limbaugh School of Trolling

Trump will show up at the Inauguration if Limbaugh thinks of something hurtful or diminishing for the Bidens......anything to give the MAGAts a good laugh at the expense of America.

[Iggo]

25. Yeah, he will.

Everybody else says it, too.

Because that's how it works.

[LisaL]

26. Is anybody giving him a choice?

NT

[marble falls]

28. See ya', Donnie. Do not let the WH front door smack your fat ass.

[djacq]

29. Can't find the word "relinquish" or "give up" in the 12th Amd to the U.S. Const

"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate."

Not Trump's choice, it's the choice of 80 million American Voters

[dawg day]

30. "If?" What does he think he's planning?

He thinks he'll get the electors to vote for him?

[EndlessWire]

47. That's exactly it.

He still thinks he has a pathway through the EC.

If we watch the EC reelect Trump, we will have Civil War 2.0. Bank on it. Someone is whispering in his ear.

[Richard D]

31. awww, too bad . . .

. . . a part of me was hoping to see him dragged out.

[shrike3]

33. Um, you don't decide whether or not to relinquish power.

You do it when you lose an election. And if you don't do it voluntarily, it'll be done for you.

[Throckmorton]

34. Well, isn't that special. N/T

[bringthePaine]

35. delusional fuck has NO SAY - ignore him personally, assault his bullshit, and throw his ass out

[OnlinePoker]

37. How magnanimous of him.

[iluvtennis]

38. So happy I missed the shitshow - it's Thanksgiving Day after all. nt

[Ford_Prefect]

39. NOTHING he says is the truth...Nothing he says he will do will happen as he tells it.

He is a waste of oxygen and water. He is at all times an ongoing virulent threat to anyone and anything living on this planet. Toxic Waste has more soul and Garbage more appeal.

[Lock him up.]

40. Yep. Like it's only 15 and pretty soon it will go down to zero.

[cayugafalls]

44. Fuck him...leave already you twit. nt

[Warpy]

45. Let the bribery begin, I guess

I hope state AGs are on the lookout for a lot of new accounts being opened in tax havens. The information isn't easy to trace but it is possible.

[C Moon]

48. He's a lame duck, media. Why bother asking him anything?

[Sherman A1]

50. Well,

That’s just darn decent of him..........

Did a light bulb 💡 go off somewhere?

[twodogsbarking]

51. Sometimes

you have to flush more than once.

[Maxheader]

52. It will reject the ec votes..

As a fraud if they go Biden.....

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

54. Trump's power was taken away by the People of the United States.

He has no say in the matter. He can't give up what he doesn't have.

Wannabe King Donald thinks he is sole owner of the Presidency, and is just doing us a personal favor by leaving, after we righteously kicked him to the curb at the polls.

[twodogsbarking]

55. Seventy Four years old

and never grew up. Stop catering to him.

[bucolic_frolic]

56. Wave your Bible at it Donnie

maybe a little tear gas will improve your disposition

[Martin Eden]

57. Donald Trump is a pathological liar with zero credibility.

Watch what he does more than what he says.

[Edwcraig]

58. Change of Plans. Now saying only if Biden "Proves" the election was not fraudulent.

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[Yeehah]

59. Infantile Trump doesn't relinquish a goddamned thing

His power is vacated on January 20 no matter what he does.

[Aussie105]

60. Trump is still trying to control the narrative.

Suggesting he has powers he actually doesn't have.

And the MSM are still giving him oxygen. Why?

Anyhow, how much power does the Electoral College have to say voters got it wrong, and Trump stays in the White House?