One day after Pennsylvania certified its election results, formalizing President-elect Joe Biden’s win over President Trump in the state’s presidential race, Mr. Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is attending a public hearing in Gettysburg on election “issues” and alleged “irregularities.” President Trump, unable to attend in person, phoned in his false claims that he won swing states like Pennsylvania and the entire election.
Mr. Trump stated his goal in no uncertain terms: “We have to turn the election over,” the president said as he called into the meeting on speakerphone. The outgoing president claimed that what happened was not the United States of America, insisting without evidence there are “many, many cases” of fraud.
“This election was rigged and we can’t let that happen. We can’t let it happen for our country. And this election has to be turned around, because we won Pennsylvania by a lot and we won all these swing states by a lot,” the president said inaccurately and without stating proof.
All of the president’s false and unfounded statements will not be repeated in this article.
That’s bad syntax, because the meaning is ambiguous. It should be either “Not all of the president’s false and unfounded statements will be repeated” or “This article will not repeat all of the president’s false and unfounded statements.” Anyway, the point is, CBS has reported only some of his lies, and we should understand that there were more. Trump is copious that way.
Mr. Trump was previously expected to join Giuliani at the hearing at 12:30 p.m. ET but the trip was canceled. The change in plans came after Boris Epshteyn, an adviser to the Trump campaign, revealed he tested positive for COVID-19. Epshteyn attended a press conference at the Republican National Committee last week alongside Giuliani, and participated in a radio interview with the former mayor Sunday.
Thus demonstrating that the whole thing is a communist anarchist BLM plot!
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12 responses to “No YOU turn around”
It must be the rural Colorado childhood that I enjoyed that I cannot see “BLM” without thinking “what does the Bureau of Land Management have to do with this?”
James Garnett, I have the same phenomenon. Growing up in Oklahoma in part, but also my training as an environmental scientist.
Don’t sweat it, I’ve lived my life almost entirely east of the Susquehanna* and still see “Bureau…” first.
* River in Pennsylvania
Yeah, BLM reads Bureau of Land Management to me as well and I’m near the NW corner of the lower 48.
I totally meant the Bureau!
But even “This article will not repeat all of the president’s false and unfounded statements” is ambiguous—it could repeat some. You (or they) need to replace “all” with “any”.
That’s what they meant, though – they’d already repeated some and then said we’re not going to repeat all of them.
Bureau of Land Management in CA as well.
Although I can learn the new one pretty easily.
I would have phrased it differently. “These are just a representative sample of the president’s many false and unfounded statements, and we shall not be repeating any more of them.”
The loser has stuck to the script he invented for 2016, when he expected to lose and use the loss as a publicity booster. It would have been obnoxious then, but in an outgoing president it is anti-democratic.
I’d have phrased it “We shan’t be repeating all of the president’s false statements owing to limitation of space on the internet”.
AoS you have topped my comment by a mile.
Please accept this internet.
Why, thank you. I promise not to use it all up :-)