Former President Barack Obama says Trump’s claims of possible widespread election fraud are baseless, as he cautioned the outgoing President of the United States of America that such allegations are a dangerous path for Democracy.
Ex-President Barack Obama had said this in a preview video of Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes.
“They appear to be motivated, in part, because the president doesn’t like to lose and never admits loss,” he said in the sneak peek, which was released on Thursday.
“I’m more troubled by the fact that other Republican officials who clearly know better are going along with this, are humouring him in this fashion,” Obama continued.
“It is one more step in delegitimizing not just the incoming Biden administration, but democracy generally. And that’s a dangerous path.”
While President Trump continues with his widespread election fraud on Twitter, results so far show that Biden, 77, defeated Trump, 74, by at least 290-217 electoral votes and more than five million more votes nationwide, according to the Associated Press.
However, Trump has refused to concede his loss, instead standing behind unfounded claims that the election was somehow “stolen” from him and he had “WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT.”
So far, there has been no evidence of illegal voting and Trump’s claims of widespread election fraud have been rejected by officials, both Democratic and Republican alike, in almost every U.S. state.
Some of the Trump campaign’s ongoing legal challenges against the election results have also already been dismissed for lacking evidence.