At Wednesday night’s debate, Donald Trump refused to say that he would respect the outcome of the presidential election. It was astounding to everyone, but there’s good news this morning. Donald Trump says he will now accept exactly half the possible outcomes.
We are going to do something that has never been done before in this country. Believe me. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to make a major announcement today. I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win.
Yes, that is historic all right. Checking with the Federal Election Commission, Census Bureau, and National Weather Service, we can now confirm that Donald Trump has broken the record for divisive jackassery. It’s a record unlikely to be matched by another candidate (though Trump may break his own record at any moment).
As for the very, very good chance that Hillary Clinton will win on November 8, Donald Trump has a solution—Hillary should resign from the race.
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Why wait until the results of an election you don’t respect, when you can call on your opponent to resign from the race even before Election Day?
Trump’s justification comes down to a myth that’s sweeping the raggedy edge of the alt-right dial. According to Trump, Hillary Clinton was given the “exact wording” of debate questions by DNC interim chair, Donna Brazile, and now Brazile is under “tremendous pressure” to resign her position.
The level of pressure is so great that it is apparently undetectable to Democratic officials.
Trump then conducted a rally wide brain teaser to find the one person in his audience who could remember the name of Charles Van Doren, a game show competitor who was slipped answers to questions in the 1950s. The major take away from this: a reminder that Trump is getting up there. However, Trump suggested that Brazile’s duplicitous info should “ruin” Clinton’s life the same way Van Doren’s life was wrecked when the truth came out.
In this case, the truth is that the “questions” Brazile gave to Clinton amounted to a single topic discussed in an email. The topic was the death penalty. And, completely unshockingly, this topic later came up in a CNN debate. However, Brazile had no exactly no access to the questions for that debate.
“I never had access to questions and would never have shared them with the candidates if I did," Brazile said in a statement.
And what does CNN say?
Asked about the Brazile email hacked by WikiLeaks, a CNN spokeswoman said: "To be perfectly clear, we have never, ever given a town hall question to anyone beforehand."
So apparently in addition to summoning the ghost of Charles Van Doren, Trump also believes that Donna Brazile can channel Carnac the magnificent, allowing her to discern the contents of envelopes she’s never even touched.
In Trump’s increasingly junk-strewn mind, this single vague topic passed between Brazile and Hillary staffers (and, according to Brazile, also discussed with the Sanders’ campaign) has turned into Brazile providing “the exact questions” to a debate. And from this Earth-Moon sized logical leap, Trump isn’t just calling on Brazile to resign, he’s going all the way …
Trump: Why shouldn’t Hillary Clinton resign from the race?
Well, let’s see.
- She did nothing wrong
- She kicked your butt at the debate
- She’s less than 20 days from becoming president-elect
Those seem like pretty good reasons.