Adelson's Las Vegas Review-Journal cuts Trump loose in brutal editorial

[highplainsdem]

Jon Ralston Twitter thread, several tweets starting here:

Link to tweet

Here's the editorial:


https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-president-donald-trump-seeks-to-delay-the-inevitable-2181720/

It is too fitting that the Trump presidency concludes amid a babel of bluster and bravado. But the president does a disservice to his more rabid supporters by insisting that he would have won the Nov. 3 election absent voter fraud. That’s simply false.

Amid a flurry of lawsuits in battleground states — including Nevada — Mr. Trump has yet to admit defeat. It’s possible that he’ll never offer an official concession to Joe Biden. The president’s campaign is certainly within its rights to request recounts or challenge what it believes are improprieties. If GOP legal efforts are successful at identifying instances of voter irregularities or highlighting election procedures that invite abuse, they will not be for naught.

There is no evidence, however, that fraud cost Mr. Trump the election, no matter how much the president tweets the opposite and his supporters wish it so. Mr. Trump would still trail in Pennsylvania even if mail-in ballots received after Election Day were discarded. He would remain well behind Mr. Biden in Nevada even if unverified GOP claims of thousands of illegal votes were dropped from the tally.

-snip-

Occam’s razor applies here. The simplest explanation is typically the correct one. Mr. Trump indeed faced an overtly hostile press, a political establishment that treated him as an enemy occupier and an opposition party that took leave of its senses at the mere thought of his existence. But Mr. Trump lost this election because he ultimately didn’t attract enough votes and failed to win a handful of swing states that broke his way in 2016.

-snip-

And they tell him to start cooperating with the transition.

[highplainsdem]

1. Hoarse Whisperer tweet:

Link to tweet

[JHB]

2. They don't seem to have the sharpest Occam's razor in the drawer

That's not the simplest explanation, it's the simpletonist.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. I agree

It seems like they're throwing Trump a bone(s) before saying the truth; Trump won by the slimmest of margins in swing states in 2016 and those same swing states simply went a step to the left and elected Biden.

It's worth noting that Republicans maintained control of the Senate (for the time being), picked up a few seats in the House and maintained majorities in state legislatures. Trump lost because his base is not big enough to sustain him (thank God) and some of the swing voters leaned left this time ONLY for the presidential race.

[herding cats]

3. Here's the unroll for those interested who can't see tweets.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326902743362121731.html

[VA_Jill]

4. Simple question

and only slightly OT--why isn't Sheldon Adelson dead yet?

[robbob]

6. Because Satan is real?

[klook]

11. Yes he is.

[Progressive Jones]

12. ROFLMAO !!! nt

[Grins]

7. They were too kind... NM

[Hekate]

8. KnR

[NNadir]

9. The hostility came from the Press?

Pussy grabber has no culpability for a climate of contempt.

Throw him some paper towels to dry his adolescent tears, and by all means give him a full supply in prison.

[smb]

13. Presidential Sportsmanship

[NNadir]

14. That about sums it up. George W. Bush...

...James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce and fellows can thank Donald Trump for pushing them up one rung from the absolute bottom of historians of lists of Presidential rankings.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. I think different explanations applied to different places which means that in GA Senate

We had best get LIBERAL REDNECK and BEAU OF THE FIFTH ESTATE cranking out some daily videos!!

I mean did these guys speak to Georgia or no?

[UTUSN]

15. K&R