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President Obama was not kind to Donald Trump as he made him look like a petulant spoiled kid claiming election rigging.
Obama slaps down Donald Trump with a dismissive retort
President Obama slammed Donald Trump for whining about the vote rigging fallacy before the election is even over. He called him out as defying our values. Following is President Obama’s response to a reporter at his press conference with the Italian Prime Minister.
One of the great things about America’s democracy is we have a vigorous, sometimes bitter political contest. And when it is done historically, regardless of party, the person who loses the election, congratulates the winner, reaffirms our democracy and we move forward. That is how democracy survives. Because we recognize that there is something more important than any individual campaign and that is making sure that the integrity and trust in our institutions sustain itself. Because democracy by definition works by consent. Not by force.
I have never seen in my lifetime, or in modern political history, any presidential candidate trying to discredit the election and the election process before votes have even taken place. It’s unprecedented. It happens to be based on no facts. Every expert regardless of political party, regardless of ideology, conservative or liberal, who has ever examined these issues in a serious way will tell you that instances of significant voter fraud are not to be found, that elections are run by state and local officials which means that places like Florida for example where you have a Republican governor, whose Republican appointees are going to be running and monitoring a whole bunch of these election sites.
The notion that somehow if Mr. Trump loses Florida it’s because of those you have to watch out for? That is both irresponsible and by the way ,it doesn’t really show the kind of leadership and toughness that you would want out of a president, he starts whining before the game is even over?
Whenever things are going badly for you and you lose you start blaming somebody else? So then you don’t have what it takes to be in this job. Because there are a lot of times things doesn’t go our way or my way. That’s okay. You fight through it. You work through it. You try to accomplish your goals.
The larger point that I want to emphasize here is that there is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America’s elections. In part, because they are so decentralized. And the number of votes involved. There is no evidence that that has happened in the past. Or that there are instances in which that would happen this time.
And so I would advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes. And if he got the most votes, then it would be my expectation of Hillary Clinton to offer a gracious concession speech and pledge to work with him in order to make sure that the American people benefit from an effective government.
And it would be my job to welcome Mr. Trump regardless of what he said about me or my differences with him on my opinions and escort him over to the Capitol in which there would be a peaceful transfer of power.
That’s what Americans do. That’s why America us already great. One way of weakening America making less great if you start betraying those basic American traditions that have been bipartisan and help to hold this American democracy together for well over two centuries.
The President could not be clearer. He portrayed Donald Trump appropriately as a whiner that is easily frazzled. If he cannot handle an election, how can he run the country?
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