{"id":112223,"date":"2020-11-15T05:39:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T02:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/for-trump-a-larger-fight-endures-after-2020-election-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2020-11-15T05:39:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T02:39:54","slug":"for-trump-a-larger-fight-endures-after-2020-election-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/for-trump-a-larger-fight-endures-after-2020-election-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#For Trump, a larger fight endures after 2020 election: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#For Trump, a larger fight endures after 2020 election: Goodwin<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n It will take a miracle now, actually several of them, but President Trump is not ready to throw in the towel. Publicly at least, he\u2019s still full of fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis election was stolen,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was a rigged election, 100 percent, and everyone knows it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be that I got about 74 million votes, and I lost?\u201d he adds. \u201cIt\u2019s not possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was nearly 6 p.m. Friday and I had reached the president after his late-afternoon update on Operation Warp Speed, the successful race to produce a coronavirus vaccine. The Rose Garden presentation had been smooth and effective, yet he seemed resigned to never getting credit for pushing government and industry to rapidly finish a process that usually takes years.<\/p>\n

\u201cSix months to produce a vaccine,\u201d he said. \u201cJoe Biden couldn\u2019t have done that but you get no credit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Except for his silent Veterans Day app<\/a>earance at Arlington National Cemetery, the vaccine update was his first time on camera since the election, an absence that seemed like a lifetime given his omnipresence for four years. He took no questions and had not given any interviews.<\/p>\n

Earlier Friday, he spoke to Geraldo Rivera<\/a> of Fox News<\/a>, a longtime friend, with Rivera saying on Twitter<\/a> that the president admitted that winning was a \u201clong shot\u201d and that he would ultimately do \u201cthe right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

I got a similar sense of the president\u2019s mood, even as he resisted saying anything definitive. In our 10-minute phone interview, he spoke evenly, displaying no anger or even agitation. There was a matter-of-fact tone that suggested an understanding of the inevi\u00adtable.<\/p>\n

In different ways, I asked if he would accept the results if his court challenges fail.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see how it turns out,\u201d he said at one point.<\/p>\n

When I asked if he could come to terms with defeat, he responded only that \u201cit\u2019s hard to come to terms when they won\u2019t let your poll watchers in to observe\u201d the counting.<\/p>\n

A third time, he said, \u201cAgain, I can\u2019t tell you what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

He seems genuinely convinced that victory was stolen and pointed repeatedly to Dominion Voting Systems, a technology<\/a> used by most states, including Michigan and Georgia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was turned down by the state of Texas because it is insecure,\u201d Trump said. He also repeated claims that some of the private company\u2019s owners and investors have ties to Democrats, and it is true the firm made a contribution and worked with the Clinton Family Foundation during the Obama-Biden administration.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/a> confirms that a former top aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is one of the company\u2019s lobbyists. The AP said the firm also employs a lobbyist who worked for Republicans Dick Cheney and John Boehner.<\/p>\n

Those bipartisan connections are not positives in Trump World. Instead, they paint Dominion as a creature of the swamp that Trump came to Washington to drain.<\/p>\n

Although Biden holds a decisive lead in the Electoral College and gained a history-making 78 million popular votes, Trump cannot reconcile his standing with the campaign and the successful performance of the GOP as a whole.<\/p>\n

He cited the massive, enthusiastic crowds at his rallies as evidence. \u201cA small rally was 25,000 people and Biden had tiny crowds, nobody came,\u201d he said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t losing those states.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also noted that the GOP apparently held the Senate, depending on the two Georgia runoffs, and is picking up perhaps 12 seats in the House and flipping state legislative chambers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing great,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

My hunch is that, when there are no avenues of appeal left, the president will acknowledge defeat while holding to his claims of fraud. Whether he will do that in a speech or a statement or just a tweet is part of the drama he \u00adexcels at creating.<\/p>\n

Soon, however, custom requires that he invite Biden to the White House for a photo op and order his team to cooperate with the incoming administration. Barack Obama bit his lip and did it with Trump in 2016, and Trump should graciously pass the baton to Biden.<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t be pleasant, but the president would be doing no \u00adfavors to himself, his supporters and his future if he lets resentment rule his final actions as president. An election is supposed to give the country a needed respite from the hostilities of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Of course, when Trump was elected, that respite was shorter than the blink of an eye. His many grievances against Democrats, Big Media and Big Tech are valid and a fair history must reflect that his enormous policy successes came despite unfair and un-American assaults on his legitimacy.<\/p>\n

In that regard, he sees the election results as just the concluding act of a confederacy against him that began with the Obama-Biden administration\u2019s corrupting of the FBI and CIA to spy on him in 2016 and tip the election to Hillary Clinton. That effort gave birth to the Russia, Russia, Russia narrative that wasn\u2019t fully revealed as false until the probe of Special Counsel Robert Mueller finally concluded in 2019.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s amazing but nothing happened to [Jim] Comey and [Andrew] McCabe, even though they were caught cold,\u201d he said of the disgraced former FBI leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen this, the greatest theft in the history of America. And \u00adeverybody knows it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He complained about polls that had him losing battleground states by big margins, calling them \u201csuppression polls\u201d because they discouraged donors as well as voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese weren\u2019t accidents or bad pollsters,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThese are corrupt institutions,\u201d and he singled out ABC and The Washington Post.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t even mention the partisan impeachment, making him just the third president to face such infamy. At the time it seemed the most outrageous act of all, but in the end it was just part of a reprehensible pattern of dirty tricks.<\/p>\n

Almost as an afterthought, Trump brought up the way most of the media ignored The Post\u2019s exclusive reporting on the bombshell e-mails on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop that implicate Joe Biden in his son\u2019s business schemes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t even report all the crimes of the Biden family,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIf I did any of that .\u2009.\u2009.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assessing the full impact of his presidency will be the work of future historians, but there is no doubt that Trump, warts and all, was a smashing success in fulfilling the fundamental purpose of his election.<\/p>\n

He brought a much-needed course correction to Washington and remade the Republican Party. His economic populism is turning the GOP into a multiracial, multiethnic party of working-class strivers and America Firsters while forcing Dems to choose between the radical far left and the remnants of traditional liberals.<\/p>\n

Whatever the president decides about his personal future, Trumpism lives. That alone is conclusive proof that Donald Trump was a hugely consequential president whose policies made life better for millions and millions of \u00adAmericans.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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