Trump attacks US electoral process and is criticized even by the...

It was 16 minutes and 42 seconds that shocked the country. In the White House press room, President Trump, without providing any evidence, said: “If you count the legal votes, I won with ease. If you count the illegal votes, they can steal this election from us. If you count the votes that were late, we are seeing this, but many votes were late, ”said Trump.

And he accused the campaign of Biden, governors and mayors of the Democratic Party of devising a scheme to defraud the American election.

The main television channels in the country started to broadcast the president’s speech live, but were interrupting the broadcast. An unprecedented attitude.

The chief presenter of the NBC network said he would have to interrupt because the president had made false statements, including voting fraud, and said there was no evidence of this. “We have to interrupt here, because the president made a series of false statements, including the notion that there was a fraudulent vote. There is no evidence of these allegations from his campaign, “said the presenter.

The CBS presenter also interrupted Trump’s speech and passed the word on to a colleague who proceeded to check every false claim made by the president: “Nancy Cordes is here with us. There are some statements from the president … Do you have a fact check? ”Said the presenter. “Yes, on several issues, Norah,” said Nancy Cordes, who added: “First of all, there is no indication of a substantial number of illegal votes out there.”

The cable channel presenter MSNBC regretted having to interrupt and correct the president: “Here we are again in the unusual position of not only having to interrupt the president of the United States, but having to correct the president of the United States”.

Donald Trump’s claims may have been revolting, but they were neither improvised nor surprising. For months, he has been preparing for the case of losing tight at the polls. Knowing that millions of Americans – many of them Democrats – would face the danger of the pandemic by voting in advance by mail, he said it would lead to fraud, even without concrete facts.

Trump supporters have not risked disagreeing with him. Senator Lindsey Graham said, “I am here to support the president.” But it was an exception. The tone of the reactions of members of the president’s party was one of apprehension and condemnation.

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie said, “I want to know what supports what he said.” Senator Mitt Romney said, “Counting each vote is the essence of democracy.”

On Friday (6), the Organization of American States released a preliminary report from the commission accompanying the election in the United States. The commission concluded that the elections were historic in several ways, including efforts to expand voter options and allow a record number of voters to vote safely, despite a global pandemic. The document asks the rest of the process to proceed as required by law.

Early in the afternoon, the Trump campaign issued a statement from the president: “What is at stake is the integrity of the entire electoral process. We will use all legal means. I will never give up fighting for you and our nation “, states the president’s note.

Steven Levitsky, who is a political scientist and professor at Harvard University, said: “They will probably report that there was a coup and it is possible that this will trigger some type of violence by some of his supporters. But I don’t see a legal or even political strategy that Trump can adopt. They just look like words “.

But those words can have consequences for years. “There is a terrible corrosive effect on democratic institutions when 40%, 50% of citizens believe that the election was stolen,” concluded the professor. “This is not a healthy democracy,” he added.