Donald Trump called on his Pravda social media site on Saturday, Dec. 3 to “repeal the Constitution” and reconsider the results of the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden after exposing certain actions on Twitter that he believes have disadvantaged position. His remarks were condemned by parts of the American political class and embarrassed his own camp, most of whose officials remained silent.
“You are going to scrap the results of the 2020 presidential election and announce the real winner, are you going to hold a new election? Fraud of this kind and on this scale makes it possible to overturn all rules, regulations and articles, including the constitution, ”the ex-president said on Saturday, quoted by the CNN news channel. He also accused “big tech companies” of colluding against him in the interests of the Democrats.
Trump reacted to posting Saturday about internal Twitter discussions that culminated in 2020 in “a decision to block online links to a New York Post article that described emails found on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son,” contextualizes New York Times.
A report tweeted by freelance journalist Matt Taibbi based on information leaked by Elon Musk accuses employees of employees at the time, including head of the legal department Vijay Gadde, who was fired on the day of the platform’s rebrand, are accused of being that they succumbed to the dictates of the Biden campaign team. The revelations, called “Twitter Files” by their promoter, were described as “very disappointing” and even as a “siestaval” (or siesta festival) by the Rolling Stones cultural magazine (where Matt Taibbi was once a journalist).
Ordinary Beliefs
“The Constitution of the United States is a sacred document that for 200 years has guaranteed that freedom and the rule of law reign in our beautiful country,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates, quoted by Axios, said Saturday. “The attack on the Constitution and all that it means is anathema to the soul of our country and must be condemned,” he added. “You can’t love America only when you win.”
“Last week he (Trump) dined with anti-Semites. Now he is calling for an end to constitutional democracy in America,” wrote Chuck Schumer, Senate Democratic Leader. He was referring to last week’s Mar-a-Lago dinner, which was attended by rapper Kanye West, now a Hitler apologist, and neo-Nazi and notorious Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.
Liz Cheney, one of Trump’s “violent opponents” in the Republican Party, unequivocally condemned the statement, according to political news website Politico. “No honest person can now deny that Trump is an enemy of the Constitution,” wrote the representative, elected for another month to the House of Representatives, where she served as Vice Chair of the Commission of Inquiry until January 6.
His colleague Adam Kinzinger, also a dissident Republican and a member of the same commission of inquiry, followed suit. “Since the former president is calling for the rejection of the Constitution, no conservative can legitimately support him, and none of his supporters can be called a conservative,” he said on Twitter.
An awkward silence
Although Trump has looked weakened in recent weeks, after his foals’ poor performance in the midterm elections, few Republicans still dare to attack him head-on. Caution remains in order.
Asked by conservative Fox News, Mike Pence, who nonetheless distanced himself from the billionaire to the point of asking him for an explanation after dinner with West and Fuentes, refrained on Sunday from condemning his remarks about the Constitution. “Candidates who focused on the past, especially those who focused on questioning the last election, did not do well in the midterms,” he said, remember, very soberly.
In fact, most elected Republicans remain silent, the Washington Post notes. Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, the two Republican leaders in the House and Senate respectively, thus “did not respond to requests for comment Sunday.” However, the daily newspaper brutally recalls: “Last month, McCarthy announced that Republicans would read every word of the Constitution aloud in the chamber of the House when the Grand Old Party (Republican) took control of the House in January.”
Asked by The Post, Lawrence Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School, said Trump’s statement, which seems to be just one of many, “should not be ignored,” especially in the wake of the attack on the Capitol. Because it is tantamount to saying, “Do you want to see an uprising? I will show you rebellion. I’ll tear everything up.”