https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/donald-trump-transition/index.html
Trump wrote that he terminated Chris Krebs,
a senior Department of Homeland Security official, for contradicting
his own baseless allegations of irregularities. The President, his
campaign and political allies have made multiple efforts, which started
well before the election, to falsely argue that he was cheated out of a
second term. His effort appears motivated by a desire to explain away
his clear defeat by the former vice president but is also part of a
pattern of behavior designed to discredit Biden's presidency and to
enshrine national divides that he consciously widened as a tool of
power.
In other apparent attempts to cast doubt on the integrity of the election -- unprecedented in modern history -- Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham
was embroiled in a controversy after calling election officials in
Nevada, Arizona and Georgia -- three key states won by Biden -- to
question them on procedures for mail-in ballots, which generally favored
Biden. And two Republicans broke with tradition in Michigan,
another state where the Democratic nominee triumphed, in temporarily
blocking the certification of the election in Wayne County, where Biden
beat the President. Michigan's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a
Democrat, later told CNN's Chris Cuomo that the officials relented and
agreed to certify the vote.
The latest maneuvers by Trump and his
allies came as more of the President's long-shot legal challenges and
threadbare cases alleging election fraud were exposed in the courts.
The
President's latest Hail Mary attempt to overturn the election result in
one of the multiple states won by Biden came unstuck, this time in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
