Former U.S. President Barack Obama has told his successor
Donald Trump that Joe Biden is unstoppable as the next president, despite
Trump’s legal shenanigans.
Obama said that he believes the results of the 2020 election
— which Trump continues to rail against, citing unfounded claims of voter fraud
— are just.
“Look, Joe Biden will be the next President of the United
States; Kamala Harris will be the next vice president,” he said.
Obama spoke on a CBS Sunday Morning’s Gayle King show, hours
before Trump announced he is filing ‘big cases’ to challenge the election
result.
The former president had previously warned Donald Trump in a
60 Minutes interview that his attempt to delegitimise the election, by making
wild allegations, is dangerous to US democracy.
“They appear to be motivated, in part, because the president
doesn’t like to lose and never admits loss,” he said.
“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.
“It is one more step in delegitimising not just the incoming
Biden administration, but democracy generally. And that’s a dangerous path.”
In late October, Obama, 59, joined Biden on the campaign
trail for the first time, praising his former vice president while also
slamming Trump, 74, for failing to focus on the nation, particularly during the
ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“It wasn’t personal,”
Obama told King of his remarks against Trump. “The truth is everything I said,
I was just stating facts.”
“It is not my preference to be out there,” he added. “I
think we were in a circumstance in this election in which certain norms,
certain institutional values that are so extraordinarily important, had been
breached – that it was important for me, as somebody who had served in that
office, to simply let people know, ‘This is not normal.’ ”
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