Biden Win Confirmed, Trump Concedes Defeat Hours After US Capitol Siege
Source: NDTV
Donald Trump immediately released a statement pledging an "orderly transition" but suggesting he would remain in frontline politics, amid speculation that he may run again in 2024
Lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives successfully beat back Republican efforts to deny Biden the electoral votes needed to win, prompting loud cheers when the certification was announced.
The affirmation of Biden's 306-232 victory over Trump in November essentially closes the door on the unparalleled and deeply controversial effort by Trump and his loyalists to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The president immediately released a statement pledging an "orderly transition" but suggesting he would remain in frontline politics, amid speculation that he may run again in 2024.
Read more: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/trump-concedes-us-election-defeat-pledges-orderly-transition-after-congress-affirms-biden-win-2349018
Screw him! Traitor!
lapfog_1
(31,777 posts)I doubt trump even read it before they released it.
And he DID NOT concede.
the title is misleading. He didn't concede anything.
mitch96
(15,719 posts)This man is a pathological liar so I don't believe a single thing he says... Watch for some shit going down when Biden is sworn in.. Another riot? no arrests? cops just allowing the traitors in? Like with investments past performance is not indication of what might happen in the future but that's all we have at this point. He will incite another insurrection attempt...YMMV
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Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Hestia
(3,818 posts)Response to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)
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sprinkleeninow
(22,191 posts)DFW
(59,877 posts)And even if they ARE crazy enough to nominate Trump again, wanna bet who is NOT going to be his VP? Its a white-haired guy, with an assistant he calls Mother, running a corner pharmacy in Indiana somewhere who tells people fifteen times a day, yeah, I know I look just like him, but no, Im not THAT Mike Pence.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Many trumpanzees will never vote RepubliCon again unless it tRump is on the ticket. In fact many won't vote unless a tRump is on the ballot.
DFW
(59,877 posts)There will be hardly a Republican left in Congress who remembers Trump's name. They will recall more about the presidency of Zachary Taylor than that of Trump, and half of the Republicans in Congress wouldn't even recognize the name of Zachary Taylor in the first place.
KPN
(17,201 posts)to their world 6 months later.
DFW
(59,877 posts)The average Americans attention span lasts until the next commercial.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)You'll see "Donnie and the Republicans" vs "The REAL Republicans, Live on Stage!"
jmowreader
(52,997 posts)As opposed to what he has been doing. Seriously though, I expect Pence to run next cycle, and to drop out of the race after Super Tuesday.
However, I expect Trump not to be able to run. Forget the tax evasion and money laundering charges I used to think theyd get him on; they now have a clean Inciting Insurrection rap to hit him with.
DFW
(59,877 posts)He isn't exactly exiting as a stellar guiding light. "The Pence Doctrine" consists of putting your water bottle on the ground in tandem with Trump. Even the deplorables will want something more inspirational than that.
RVN VET71
(3,155 posts)and McConnell lets the Senate cast a real verdict to find the president" guilty, he will be forever barred from running for office again. I think that would be the best way to go. Shouldnt take long. 50 Democrats and 16 Republican Senators are all that would be needed to keep this fungus breeding mushroom-penised loser out of political office forever. That way, even if New York State lets him walk, he wont ever be able to seek a position of power in this country -- not by election, anyway. And if he opens his fat, drooling, seditious mouth over the public airwaves after he gets thrown out of the White House, he could be arrested like any common traitor and tried for sedition.
And dont lets forget little Donnie who strode the boards in the prep for the sacking of the Capitol Building, inveighing against the American system and calling indirectly for the angry mob to take violent action.
And melting Rudy.
They and many, many others need to be arrested, indicted, tried, and sentenced as seditious traitors.
To turn a joke about lawyers to better effect: What do you call a large, shit-filled concrete room filled with Trumps loyalists, and oldest sons and daughter, all rolling around, coughing and gasping in their own filth? Thats right: A good start."
DFW
(59,877 posts)They still won't have time to hold the Senate trial before his time runs out. Plus, I STILL don't think 17 Republicans Senators will vote to convict. If Trump's mob had been able to beat Moscow Mitch within an inch of his life on camera, THEN, maybe. But they didn't, and I don't think even McTurtle would vote to remove from office. Censure--MAYBE.
jmowreader
(52,997 posts)They obviously wont be able to remove him from office - 80 million of us did that for them - but they can forbid him from ever running for office again.
RVN VET71
(3,155 posts)If it does, well, lets look into other charges, charges against which a former president cannot claim immunity. Maybe go straight for sedition and, if were too shy to take him to trial, at least force a settlement where Trump would have to agree to stay out of the publics eyes and ears.
And then let New York State take care of putting him in prison.
I am going to be very saddened by inaction against this now provably treasonous turd -- and his oldest sons, his daughter, his lawyer, Rudy and maybe a couple of dozen other people closely connected to him and his traitorous regime. Notice I said I am going to be saddened by inaction not I would be very saddened if there were inaction. Because I think the Federal Government is going, stupidly and unpatriotically, to do as little as possible here and hope that the situation will be considered satisfied with a few token arrests.
Also, I havent heard about any moves to arrest anyone. Not the big shots who incited the mob, and not the nihilist mob, itself. I know its a tired trope by now but, dammit, if 20,000 Black or Hispanic people had done what those diseased and unwashed POSs did, thered be hundreds dead and thousands in jail, beaten, hungry, and denied water. But here we have videos which can easily be used to ID a hundred or so people and nothing has happened. They were all allowed to walk away, to go home.
The FBI is asking for information -- asking for information when the faces of the traitors can be seen clear as day on the internet, on YouTube, twitter, what have you. CNN has already identified a dozen or so -- by name, organization, and home grounds. So what the hell is the F.B.I. doing? I know, I know, the law has to proceed according to protocols that guarantee fairness -- but when? When the cops break into the wrong house and hold a woman at fucking gunpoint while they ransack her home even after being notified that they were at the wrong address? That kind of fairness? Or when they break into an apartment looking for someone who hadnt lived there in months and murder a woman in her bed? That kind of fairness? Or maybe when they bust a guy for a minor crime and murder him slowly while he pleads for mercy and bystanders beg the police to ease up because they were clearly murdering the man? That kind of fairness?
14,000 people got busted in BLM rallies and marches in D.C. to protest the killing of Black men and women -- and children if you remember (as I do) Tamir Rice who was shot dead without so much as a freeze and get on the ground from the pig who murdered him. 14,000 people versus, how many white cock-suckers got busted last night for ransacking and the Capitol Building and threatening the lives of every Senator, Representative, and staff member? Oh, 15! Wow, thats what I call fairness.
Just wondering how Putin would have handled a similar effort against the Kremlin? No, Im just kidding. Im pretty sure I know how he would have handled it -- his reaction would have been swift and final. But now, of course, old Vlad must just be rolling on the floor, laughing his commie butt off at how freaking weak American so-called justice is in the face of insurrection.
(Ill save my questions about the police and security in general for another rant.)
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)He is no doubt still sleeping off the effects of the rhino tranquilizer dart they had to shoot him with at about 3:30, when his Twitter got cut.
raccoon
(32,281 posts)JohnnyRingo
(20,636 posts)Now we'll hear years of how he was cheated, robbed, and scammed. How he won in a landslide but fraud in the middle of the night stole the election from patriots, so just send money to....
It's going to be nauseating.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,704 posts)Hes still saying he was cheated. If thats not a call for more violence by his cult, I dont know what is.
Lonestarblue
(13,341 posts)I dont trust these Trumps domestic terrorists not to try to assassinate him and Harris. Theyre stupid enough to believe that Trump would get to continue being president.
And whoever oversees the Capitol Police needs to be hauled before Congress and answers demanded. Theses terrorists had no trouble breaching our Capitol.
Mr. Sparkle
(3,657 posts)
yellowcanine
(36,744 posts)That's like the Confederates shelling Ft. Sumpter and saying "okay, let's have an orderly transition to two countries now."
Behind the Aegis
(56,018 posts)The only thing is he is claiming there will be an "orderly transition" and given he STILL believes he won, I don't know how to take this.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I guess he considers the covid-19 virus deaths an accomplishment?
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)raccoon
(32,281 posts)Whatever that might be.
marie999
(3,334 posts)showing his people attacking Congress.
quakerboy
(14,780 posts)"we go the 25th unless"
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,943 posts)Time after time he has demonstrated that. Thanks Joe. You understand what America is meant to be.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)bucolic_frolic
(54,492 posts)Hard to see how Democrats can't make hay on this going forward
twodogsbarking
(17,943 posts)is enough.
Joe Biden.
Also Donna Summer.
Roy Rolling
(7,520 posts)On Parler? InfoWars? Or did he have to beg the enemy of the people media to carry his message for him?
Sadly, too fucking late for Facebookthere isnt a sliver of light between Facebook and right-wing moron anarchists.
orangecrush
(29,363 posts)Too late.
Article 25.
Dem forever
(79 posts)Your vote will matter. We threw two senates out of the senate yesterday in Ga .Now the senate can bring a bill to the fucking floor. Get involved like we did in Ga. Not only people from Ga but help from other states. We organized and brought out the vote. Never again allow a scum bag like trump again. Lies lies and more false shit. Get involved and set up a movement in their Republican state . Texas is next my friends.
llmart
(17,460 posts)We fight like hell from here until then and make sure the public doesn't forget which party was the party of lawlessness.
marble falls
(71,398 posts)Algernon Moncrieff
(5,961 posts)He needs to go. He needs to be kept the Hell away from the nuclear codes until then.
in2herbs
(4,345 posts)like I owe her a pizza.
Yeehah
(6,245 posts)During the impeachment, the fascist republicans would not vote to remove despite overwhelming evidence of Trump's traitorous dealings with Russia. The criminal republicans still support Trump despite the violent, seditious attack on the Capitol yesterday. Democrats must say it out loud that republicans are the enemy of this democracy and act accordingly. Jail every single seditionist and conspirator. War criminals walked free after the Bush/Cheney regime. That can't happen again.
marble falls
(71,398 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,943 posts)Really.
jmowreader
(52,997 posts)And were going to stand down the Proud Boys and Boogaloo Boiz...
I suspect McConnell decided to punish Trump by shutting down the challenges after Trump decided to start a riot. McConnell had his tongue so far up Trumps ass he could tell you which fast food joint brought Trumps last three meals, but people bringing guns inside the Capitol was too much even for him.
NHvet
(293 posts)Way, way too late!
badboy67
(460 posts)Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)"Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th," he said.
"I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!"
George II
(67,782 posts)....he all but said the opposite.
The only contrition in that statement is that there would be an "orderly transition", followed by "it's only the beginning of our fight".
GentleAlien
(57 posts)I am positive he said this to borrow time (may be a couple of days) - so he can concoct the next shitstorm. The moment he gets his twitter back, he will be back to the usual conspiracy mongering. This is why it's more prudent to keep the pressure on him via impeachment and not take him on his face value.
honest.abe
(9,238 posts)I was thinking at least a day to regroup. Kudos to all involved!
