“If you count the legal votes, I easily win.”

A Panicked Trump falsely claims he’s winning as Biden’s lead expands in nail-biter election.

It is a sad time for the American democracy. Of course we don’t know who will win the election but I can’t recall any one term president claim there were illegal votes and that was the reason he lost re-election.

Donald Trump’s claims of fraud started at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday November 4 in an appearance at the White House, Trump falsely asserted the pending outcome was “a fraud on the American public” and an “embarrassment on our country.”

Then Trump followed up with these were the words were spoken at about 7 p.m. eastern time yesterday by the president in the press room at the White House. “If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.”

The Los Angeles Times reported some Republicans joined other officials in swiftly condemning President Trump’s latest false claims late Thursday that he is being robbed of a reelection victory by fraudulent votes in decisive states where Joe Biden appears to be winning.

“There is no defense for the President’s comments tonight undermining our Democratic process,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, tweeted shortly after Trump spoke from the White House briefing room. “America is counting the votes, and we must respect the results as we always have before. No election or person is more important than our Democracy.”

Ellen Weintraub, chair of the Federal Election Commission and a Democrat, urged the president to stop making false claims.  “Enough, Mr. President. Enough. Spewing conspiracy theories regarding this election will not change the results,” she tweeted. “Your lies undermine our democracy and harm our country. Just stop.”

The sad reality is that we elected a person to be president who believes he is above the law and has the right to a second term in office no matter what the vote count results.  The cartoon above says it all.