Steve Schmidt: It is unforgivable and dangerous. It is UNAMERICAN and disloyal.

[Nevilledog]

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Steve Schmidt
@SteveSchmidtSES
Let’s be clear. Joe Biden is the President-Elect of the United States. The refusal of Republicans to acknowledge this are poisoning American democracy. They are breaking faith with our history, ideals and ideas. It is unforgivable and dangerous. It is UNAMERICAN and disloyal.
8:35 AM · Nov 13, 2020

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Let’s be clear. Joe Biden is the President-Elect of the United States. The refusal of Republicans to acknowledge this are poisoning American democracy. They are breaking faith with our history, ideals and ideas. It is unforgivable and dangerous. It is UNAMERICAN and disloyal.

It is outrageous that Mitch McConnell has not congratulated the President-Elect and Kevin McCarthy’s comments intimating that Trump may yet win are even worse. Trump’s delusional temper tantrum is proof of his manifest unfitness and insanity.

The corruption of this process, the peaceful transition of power, by the cowardly, sniveling GOP Congress is the gravest vandalism of our system yet. We will live with the consequences of their cynicism and illiberalism for a long time. For the first time in our history the

Losing side of a Presidential election is refusing, en masse, to recognize the clear winner of a legitimate, free and fair Presidential election. Instead they are weaving conspiracy theories about fraud that doesn’t exist and drop by drop they are strangling faith and belief

In American democracy for tens of millions of people. Shame on them for the damage they have all done and continue to do to this country. Eventually this will trigger violence and when it does Trump, his family, his staff and his GOP enablers will own it. They have incited it.

[Greybnk48]

1. I hope the violence reaches the Trump family

so they reap what they sow.

[dubyadiprecession]

2. Joseph McCarthy's legacy is tarnished in the history books.

Why should trump and MCConnell be any different?

[BusyBeingBest]

3. Don't really know how we come back from this.

Is this going to be every Presidential election for the foreseeable future? If Republicans don't win, they scream fraud and refuse to cede power? I mean, really...that means civil war.

[TDale313]

6. That's my concern.

Not that we won’t get Trump himself out, but that we are seeing a major erosion in faith in our electoral system and belief in the peaceful transfer of power.

[Maven]

10. The only way to stop this from happening again is to prosecute those responsible.

No more "looking forward". We need accountability and deterrence. Otherwise, you're right, this will be every election moving forward and our country will cease to function. What we are experiencing now is already something on the order of a cold civil war.

[CatMor]

4. The appalling part of this is McConnell was reelected by a huge margin ..

and will continue to handcuff the new President the same as he did to President Obama. He's every bit as evil as trump.

[Greybnk48]

11. Do we know that for certain?

I don't trust some of these Rethuglican wins, and no-one ever checks.

[MontanaMama]

5. I would like Steve Schmidt to call

Emily Murphy and give her what for until she sends the letter acknowledging the results of the election. Once the Biden team gains access to the facilities, computers and funds for the transition, there is no looking back. We can put these assholes on ignore and take our country back.

[BComplex]

8. Murphy is a QAnon proponent. She thinks she's all that is standing between djt "the one god chose

to get us through these times", and a takeover by "demons who eat babies and sexually abuse children" (which is supposedly democrats, in case nobody pays attention to Qanon).

[MontanaMama]

13. I figured she was a RWNJ

but I didn’t know she was a Q Anon.

[mr_lebowski]

7. Great. Now I'd very much like to hear something like this from Joe Biden himself, personally (nt)

[panader0]

9. "The refusal.....are"? Refusal is, refusals are. Sorry, but that bugs me.

[Blecht]

14. Yeah, it bugs me, too, but remember, it's a Tweet

There is no way to edit a Tweet.

[BlueNProud]

12. This should be the only thing the networks are discussing regarding this election

we can do a deep dive into the numbers later. For now we are dealing with traitors.

[crickets]

15. It is UNAMERICAN and disloyal.

This point needs to be repeated again and again. It cannot be emphasized enough.