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As we await final results and @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris 's remarks -- remember a few things amid all of this Trump noise:
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1. Our entire intelligence community had consistently said that for years, Russia has tried to degrade confidence in our democracy. More recently our top counterintelligence expert warned that adversaries are amplifying trump's lies about election fraud (for their own advantage)
3. Our Intelligence community has specifically warned about the dangers of misinformation about this normal, legal process of counting votes.
4. Our intelligence community and law enforcement personnel have flagged the risks of violence during this period.
5. So all of these Trump domestic influence operations are expected but they're also dangerous both near and longer term.
6. Once we have final results, remember that the Presidential Transition Act notes that “Any disruption occasioned by the transfer of the executive power could produce results detrimental to the safety and well-being of the United States and its people.” https://presidentialtransition.org/publications/presidential-transition-act-summary/
7. We don't have final results yet, but once we do a narcissistic, unfounded refusal to accept them could harm the transition process.
8. Despite all of that, transition efforts are underway https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/04/election-fight-biden-transition-434104
9. "Biden’s team is preparing for the possibility that Trump, should he lose, would block hundreds of Biden officials from gaining access to government resources as required by law" and
10. "The Biden campaign has already spent months working closely with career civil servants in a process that happens every four years." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-chaos-post-election/2020/11/02/77610ae6-1d27-11eb-ba21-f2f001f0554b_story.html
11. Biden's transition team is led by professionals with years of experience.
12. A few days ago, @JuddPDeere45 said : “The president will accept the results of a free and fair election. The Trump administration is following all statutory requirements.”
13. NOTE: "Free and fair elections" isn't a phrase defined by one man - even if he's the current President.
14. Spurious litigation aside, results are results. (12th amendment / US constitution https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xii )
15. 20th Amendment/ US constitution: "The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January."
