{"id":45427,"date":"2020-12-06T17:23:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T17:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45427"},"modified":"2020-12-06T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T17:23:49","slug":"trump-may-invoke-his-m-o-and-actually-concede-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45427","title":{"rendered":"Trump may invoke his M.O. and actually ‘concede,’ sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s flash back for a moment.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump spent about five years fomenting the lie that Barack Obama was born overseas and was not a U.S. citizen, meaning he couldn’t run for president of the United States. It was a blatantly racist attack on someone who was born in Hawaii to an American woman; thus, he was a citizen by birth.<\/p>\n

Then came a one-sentence admission in 2016 that Obama “is a U.S. citizen.” That was it. End of discussion, more or less. Trump demonstrated his shameless modus operandi.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now he is continuing to challenge the results of an election he clearly lost to President-elect Joe Biden. He is ranting. He is riffing. He is bitching about all the grievances over alleged “corruption” in the electoral process which he continues to label as “rigged.”<\/p>\n

Hmm. How might this play out? Here’s a thought.<\/p>\n

The Electoral College is meeting in about nine days to certify Joe Biden’s victory. He has accrued 306 electoral votes; he needs just 270 of them.<\/p>\n

When the Electoral College certifies Biden’s victory, I believe it is entirely possible that Trump could issue a terse statement that declares Biden is the duly elected president of the United States. He won’t concede in the traditional sense.<\/p>\n

There likely won’t be a phone call to the winner, congratulating him and pledging his support for the remainder of the time he is president. He won’t say a word about the rigorous campaign that Biden waged.<\/p>\n

He’ll just say that Biden won. Then he’ll be done.<\/p>\n

Trump might not show up for President Biden’s inaugural. Indeed, I do not expect him to be there. Trump will get on Air Force One and jet off to Mar-a-Lago to play some golf and schmooze with his cronies.<\/p>\n

Is that out of the question? I don’t think so. Nothing this guy Trump does should surprise anyone on Earth.<\/p>\n

Just be gone … Donald.<\/p>\n\n

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