Barack Obama hoped that the new president could set a new tone.
Washington:
It is time for US President Donald Trump to concede to President-elect Joe Biden because there is no scenario to reverse the election result, his predecessor Barack Obama said.
Trump, who refuses to concede, has 232 votes in the electoral college. He contested election results in various states, including Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan, Georgia and Arizona. He had called for a recount in Wisconsin.
In all of these states, he alleged that there had been massive electoral fraud and electoral abuse.
Biden has 306 of 538 constituency votes, well above the midpoint of 270.
“Absolutely,” Barack Obama told CBNS News 60 Minutes in an interview that aired Sunday when asked if he thought it was time for Trump to concede.
“Well, I mean, I think it was time for him to probably concede – the day after the election – or at the latest, two days after the election. When you look at the numbers objectively, Joe Biden will have won easily. There is no scenario in which neither of these states would turn the other way, and certainly not enough to reverse the election result, ”said Barack Obama.
More than the courtesy of a concession, Trump’s White House refuses to release usual funds and facilities for the incoming administration. President-elect Biden does not receive secret national security briefings like Trump did when he was president-elect, Barack Obama has alleged.
Claiming that a president is a public servant, Barack Obama said they were temporary occupants of the office, by design.
“And when your time is up, it’s your job to put the country first and think beyond your own ego, your own interests, and your own disappointments. My advice to President Trump is, if you will at this late stage in the game that is remembered as someone who put country first, it’s time for you to do the same, ”he said.
Responding to a question, Barack Obama said America’s adversaries have seen the country weaken, not only as a result of this election, but in recent years.
“We have these cleavages in the body politic that they believe they can exploit. There’s an old adage that partisan politics should end at the water’s edge, right? What, when this is our foreign policy, it is the United States of America, not the divided states of America, “said Barack Obama, whose latest book” The Promised Land “hits the market later this year. week.
“We went through a presidency that ignored a whole host of basic institutional standards, the expectations we had for a president that had been observed by Republicans and Democrats before. And perhaps most important, and most baffling, what we’ve seen is what some people call the breaking down of truth, something that has been hastened by incumbent President Trump, the feeling that not only are we not “We don’t have to tell the truth, but the truth doesn’t even matter,” he said.
When asked about Trump’s allegations of widespread electoral fraud, Barack Obama said the president doesn’t like to lose and never admits to losing.
“I’m more troubled that other Republican officials, who clearly know better, are accepting it, are making him happy that way. It’s one more step in delegitimizing not only the new Joe Biden administration, but democracy in general, and that’s a dangerous path, ”he said.
“We would never allow our own kids to behave this way if they lost, would we? I mean, if my daughters, in some kind of competition, pouted and then blamed the other party to cheat when they lost when there was no evidence of I think there has been this feeling over the last few years that literally anything is allowed and justified to get power, ”he said declared.
“And that’s not unique to the United States. There are strong men and dictators around the world who think ‘I can do anything to stay in power. I can kill people. I can throw them in jail. I can organize bogus elections. . I can suppress the journalists. But that’s not what we’re supposed to be. And one of the signals that I think Joe Biden needs to send out to the world is, ‘No, these values that we preached, and we believed in, and subscribed to – we still believe,’ ‘the former said. President.
Barack Obama hoped that the new president could set a new tone.
“It will not solve all the dead ends in Washington. I think we’re going to have to work with the media and with tech companies to find ways to better educate the public about the issues and to – strengthen the standards that ensure we can separate truth from fiction. I think we have to work at the local level, ”he said.
Observing that there is a set of traditions that the United States has followed in the peaceful transfer of power, Barack Obama said the outgoing president congratulated the new president, instructed the government and agencies to cooperate with the arrival of the new government.
“You invite the president-elect to the Oval Office. And then on inauguration day, the president invites the president-elect to the White House and there is a small reception. And then you walk over to the inauguration site, and the outgoing president sits there and is part of the audience as the new president is sworn in, ”he said.
“And at that point, the outgoing president is a citizen like everyone else and owes the new president the chance to do his best on behalf of the American people. We’ll have to see if Donald Trump does the same. , this is not his approach. But you know that hope is eternal. There is a promised land somewhere, ”said Barack Obama.
