Biden Win Confirmed, Trump Concedes Defeat Hours After US Capitol Siege

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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

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Screw him! Traitor!

[lapfog_1]

1. there was a statement issued

I doubt trump even read it before they released it.

And he DID NOT concede.

[mdbl]

14. no he didn't

the title is misleading. He didn't concede anything.

[mitch96]

30. "released a statement pledging an "orderly transition". and And AND...

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]

34. He's had two months for that and nothing orderly yet. . . . nt

[Hestia]

45. A white Ford Bronco chase on the freeway?

[sprinkleeninow]

2. * still sayin' stuff? 🤔

[DFW]

3. I think I know who will NOT be the Republican nominee in 2024

And even if they ARE crazy enough to nominate Trump again, wanna bet who is NOT going to be his VP? It‘s 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, I‘m not THAT Mike Pence.“

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. The Republicons will have split by 2024. Which half gets the R name is unknown.

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]

48. I think that within 6 months

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]

53. Lol. Right -- it'll be ancient history! Not relevant

to their world 6 months later.

[DFW]

56. I'm in the States often enough

The average American‘s attention span lasts until the next commercial.

[lagomorph777]

54. Like a has-been hair-band from the 80s.

You'll see "Donnie and the Republicans" vs "The REAL Republicans, Live on Stage!"

[jmowreader]

37. "Running a corner pharmacy" is a reputable job

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 they’d get him on; they now have a clean Inciting Insurrection rap to hit him with.

[DFW]

44. Pence may have had enough of the limelight

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]

41. If they impeach him again

and McConnell let’s 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. Shouldn’t 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 let’s him walk, he won’t 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 don’t let’s 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 Trump’s loyalists, and oldest sons and daughter, all rolling around, coughing and gasping in their own filth? That’s right: “A good start."

[DFW]

46. If they impeach him again

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]

50. The Senate trial can be after the 20th

They obviously won’t 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]

55. I don't know whether the passing of January 20th would stop an impeachment proceeding.

If it does, well, let’s look into other charges, charges against which a former president cannot claim immunity. Maybe go straight for sedition and, if we’re too shy to take him to trial, at least force a settlement where Trump would have to agree to stay out of the public’s 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 haven’t heard about any moves to arrest anyone. Not the big shots who incited the mob, and not the nihilist mob, itself. I know it’s a tired trope by now but, dammit, if 20,000 Black or Hispanic people had done what those diseased and unwashed POS’s did, there’d 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 hadn’t 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, that’s what I call fairness.


Just wondering how Putin would have handled a similar effort against the Kremlin? No, I’m just kidding. I’m 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.

(I’ll save my questions about the police and security in general for another rant.)

[Dave Starsky]

4. That was not a concession. And he didn't write it.

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]

10. I like the way you think! Nt

[JohnnyRingo]

38. That's right. He never said he conceded or lost.

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]

5. He didn't concede.

He’s still saying he was cheated. If that’s not a call for more violence by his cult, I don’t know what is.

[Lonestarblue]

33. If Biden's inauguration still takes place outside, he needs to be in a bullet-proof bubble.

I don’t trust these Trump’s domestic terrorists not to try to assassinate him and Harris. They’re 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]

6. pledging an "orderly transition"

[yellowcanine]

22. Yeah, no, too late for an "orderly transition."

That's like the Confederates shelling Ft. Sumpter and saying "okay, let's have an orderly transition to two countries now."

[Behind the Aegis]

7. He did NOT concede!

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]

8. "the greatest first term in presidential history"

I guess he considers the covid-19 virus deaths an accomplishment?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. Daily 9/11s worth of deaths on his watch. . . . nt

[raccoon]

9. Hopefully by 2024, he'll have gone to his reward.

Whatever that might be.

[marie999]

11. If he runs for office, the Democrats should keep running an ad

showing his people attacking Congress.

[quakerboy]

12. Im betting that was ok'd in direct response to a

"we go the 25th unless"

[nitpicker]

15. +1

[soothsayer]

13. Impeach him to keep him out of office in case he's not in jail yet

[twodogsbarking]

16. Biden is the right person for President.

Time after time he has demonstrated that. Thanks Joe. You understand what America is meant to be.

[beachbumbob]

17. Trump will be in prison.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Republicans have surrendered the issue of patriotism

Hard to see how Democrats can't make hay on this going forward

[twodogsbarking]

19. Enough is enough

is enough.
Joe Biden.

Also Donna Summer.

[Roy Rolling]

20. Where Did He Release a Statement?

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 Facebook—there isn’t a sliver of light between Facebook and right-wing moron anarchists.

[orangecrush]

21. Bullshit.

Too late.


Article 25.

[Dem forever]

23. Remember those senators. Right down their names.

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]

24. We should be able to greatly expand our majority in 2022.

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]

29. Georgia is the battle plan. And I strongly support Texas as the next battleground.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

25. How did neither Congress nor the Cabinet not invoke 25A last night

He needs to go. He needs to be kept the Hell away from the nuclear codes until then.

[in2herbs]

26. That's what I'd like to know, too I had a bet with a friend that he'd be out by this AM. It looks

like I owe her a pizza.

[Yeehah]

27. Because of the depravity and corruption of the republican party

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]

28. I never realized that doing time in prison would be considered "remaining in frontline politics".

[twodogsbarking]

32. How do all those old white guys stay awake all night?

Really.

[jmowreader]

39. Translation: we're getting him out of Washington tomorrow morning

And we’re 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 Trump’s ass he could tell you which fast food joint brought Trump’s last three meals, but people bringing guns inside the Capitol was too much even for him.

[NHvet]

40. Way too little...

Way, way too late!

[badboy67]

42. Headline is BS, Trump didn't "concede," and he never will!

[Mrs. Overall]

43. TRUMP HAS NOT CONCEDED. This is a false headline.

[packman]

47. His "concession" tweet - Don't throw up

"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]

49. Not yours, but that headline is false an annoying. He did NOT concede defeat, in fact....

....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]

51. It's a temporary thing for him..

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]

52. Im amazed Congress was able to return to EC vote count process so quickly.

I was thinking at least a day to regroup. Kudos to all involved!