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There is a cost. https://twitter.com/nick_d_laughlin/status/1325921764602384385
"What Trump and his legal team are doing can nevertheless cause real harm to the country going forward, should millions of people believe Trump’s false statements that Biden won the election through fraud." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trump-needs-three-consecutive-hail-mary-passes/617063/
"The life-threatening costs of a delayed transition." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/podesta-card-bush-gore-transition-trump/2020/11/10/ae1a960a-239f-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html
This, Gienapp concluded, “is what rot looks like.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/opinion/trump-concession-transition.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur
"Still, the team’s work is likely to be slowed until the Trump administration authorizes a presidential transition — a delay that’s kept transition staff out of federal agencies and that health officials worry could set back the pandemic response." https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/11/biden-covid-transition-team-436089
"These conspiracy theories that are flying around have consequences." https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/13/politics/hovland-trump-election-claims/index.html
There is a cost. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1327964587413680129
“There are people at [the Department of Health and Human Services] making plans to implement that vaccine,” said Klain. “Our experts need to talk to those people as soon as possible, so nothing drops in this change of power we’re going to have on Jan. 20.” https://apple.news/A7tzPdlKKR5eHa4PdCbXw_Q
“What you see happening right now,” Mr. Hovland added, “is playing right into the hands of our foreign adversaries who want to see us lose faith in our democracy.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/us/politics/election-officials-contradict-trump.html?referringSource=articleShare
“Trump's transition sabotage threatens vaccine rollout” https://apple.news/A6tTaOPQuQdqLk4SnhFkvYA
There is a cost. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1328852352787484677
"His refusal to concede is more than sour grapes. It's an information-warfare tactic to leave the public bewildered and cynical." by @jon_rauch https://www.persuasion.community/p/trumps-firehose-of-falsehood
"A presidency that began with a lie — that President Barack Obama was not a citizen — is now ending with one, too." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/us/politics/trump-voter-fraud-claims.html
When you read this story you think, what if all this energy had been put toward problems facing the nation.
Some of the argumentation in these cases also reads like someone watching baseball for the first time: "The umpire made a subjective judgment about the pitches being thrown and in one case told a batter he was out when the batter didn't even swing!"
"They seem to be inspired by Trump’s incendiary rhetoric about baseless fraud and driven by Republican acquiescence to broadsides against the nation’s electoral system as state and federal courts push aside legal challenges filed by Trump and his allies." https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-local-elections-arizona-michigan-29da6aac9cc41e47f3095855e7af7031
"But the sheer nuttiness surrounding the current mess is becoming deeply destructive." @Peggynoonannyc https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-bogus-dispute-is-doing-real-damage-11605832051?mod=djemalertNEWS
I should put this here too. Writer quotes self: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/why-you-dont-mess-around-presidential-transitions/617178/
They knew better and they did nothing. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/us/politics/republicans-congress-trump.html
"In total, the president attacked the legitimacy of the election more than 400 times since Election Day, though his claims of fraud have been widely debunked." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/24/us/politics/trump-twitter-tweets-election-results.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
When evaluating this thread @dandrezner and @CoreyRobin make a key distinction about the choice being made. https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1332832819589107712
"The Trump team (and much of the GOP) is working backwards, desperately trying to find something, anything to support the president’s aggrieved feelings, rather than objectively considering the evidence and reacting as warranted." https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/trump-election-fraud-disgraceful-endgame/
