Joy Reid: Trump ‘doesn’t have any intention of committing to a peaceful transition of power’ if beaten in 2020
MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Sunday accused President Trump of not having “any intention of committing to a peaceful transition of power” if he is defeated in the 2020 presidential election.
She also described congressional Republicans as “monarchists” who would give up their authority as members of Congress to be obedient to Trump.
{mosads}”He doesn’t have any intention of committing to a peaceful transition of power, and he’s got monarchists in his party who are willing to give up their authority, as Congress, they’re willing to give up all their authority in order to be obedient to him,” Reid said.
The liberal pundit and host made the remarks after The New York Times published a report on Saturday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has told associates she does not trust that Trump will respect the results of an election he loses unless he is overwhelmingly defeated.
Reid said such concerns were not unprecedented since there had been speculation that President Nixon would not leave office if impeached.
“How much of a threat do you think there is of that now with this President?” asked her guest, Jill Wine-Banks, a former prosecutor at the Department of Justice during the Watergate years when Nixon was nearly impeached.
“I think it’s a much bigger threat now for several reasons,” Wine-Banks said. “One is the media has multiplied in a way that didn’t exist during Watergate. In Watergate, we had basically three networks and they all had the same facts. Now you have this awful thing where we have a bubble of people who believe facts that are totally made up.”
Pelosi said she had been worried that Trump would not respect the results of the 2018 midterm elections unless Democrats won handily.
“If we win by four seats, by a thousand votes each, he’s not going to respect the election,” she told the Times, saying she contemplated this before the election. “He would poison the public mind. He would challenge each of the races; he would say ‘you can’t seat these people.”
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