When Ted Cruz won the Republican Iowa caucuses in 2016, Donald Trump declared the result was a fraud.
When Fox News called Arizona’s win for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, Trump stated that conclusion “a fraud on the American people” and that he’d won the vote.
He demanded that all remaining votes coming in from around the country not be counted.
Then he mobilized an anti-democracy coup attempt.
This inability to accept defeat with grace, to lie without shame, has been a characteristic of Trump all his life.
When he didn’t get what he wanted, he insisted that he was cheated, that success was stolen from him.
Way back when he didn’t win an Emmy Award for his hit show, “The Apprentice,” with very sour grapes he whined that the Emmy’s were rigged against him.
In the 2008 election, when George W. Bush conceded, declaring Barack Obama as the next president of the United States, Trump went straight to Twitter, lying to the public that the election was a fraud.
His aggravation grew deeper roots when he planted a racist seed that Obama didn’t have a U.S. birth certificate, thus unqualified to run for POTUS.
Using subterfuge is a constant in Trump’s life, especially in this year’s presidential election.
As Liz Cheney recently said, “If you don’t trust someone to take care of your kids … then he shouldn’t be President.”
Vote for opportunity, fairness and joy.
Vote for Kamala Harris.
Gayle Brauner
Port Angeles