This is a national emergency: Trump’s refusal to accept the election results could have profound consequences

November 12, 2020

The Trump administration is expiring the same way it began: with a string of shabby lies. The president’s false and flimsy claims of voter fraud — some of which have already been tossed out of court — will serve as bookends to Trump’s birtherism and his comical assertions of having drawn the largest inauguration crowd of all time.