Trump at last says he'll leave......

Trump at last says he'll leave the White House if the Electoral College seats Biden

 

President Donald Trump finally said that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-elect Joe Biden’s victory even as he insisted such a decision would be a “mistake."

 

Trump spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states caused his election defeat even though there is no evidence to support his claims.

 

The fact that a sitting American president even had to address whether or not he would leave office after losing reelection underscores the extent to which Trump has smashed democratic conventions and undermined the process over the past three weeks, Jill Colvin reports.

 

VIDEO: Trump says he'll go if he loses Electoral College. 

 

Zombie Election: Monday seemed like the end of Trump's relentless challenges to the election, after the federal government acknowledged Biden was the “apparent winner” and Trump cleared the way for cooperation on a transition of power. But his baseless claims have a way of coming back. And back. And back. Colleen Long, Alanna Durkin Richer and Zeke Miller report.

 

Despite dozens of legal and procedural setbacks, his campaign keeps filing new challenges that have no hope of succeeding and making fresh, unfounded claims of fraud. But that’s the point. Trump’s strategy wasn’t to change the outcome, but to create a host of phantom claims that would infect the nation with doubt, even though the winner was clear and there has been no evidence of mass voter fraud.

 

“Zombies are dead people walking among the living — this litigation is the same thing,” says a professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. “In terms of litigation that could change the election, all these cases are basically dead men walking.”