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   The tyrant's tantrum, continued: Trump refuses to accept the election   
   results, and most of his party bends to his will   
   By Daily News Editorial Board   
   New York Daily News |   
   Nov 09, 2020 at 8:03 PM   
      
   Refusing to concede, firing the secretary of defense, having the White House   
   press secretary hold a fact-free news conference about imagined voting   
   shenanigans, keeping the General Services Administration chief from okaying   
   government funding for the next administration: all part of the first working   
   day of the Donald Trump transition.   
      
   And with precious few exceptions, fellow Republicans are going along, holding   
   up middle fingers in the face of American democracy.   
      
   Trump’s sacking of Mark Esper from the Pentagon was pure vengeance for the   
   West Pointer standing up to the bully in June by refusing to deploy troops to   
   put down Americans who protested in the streets. While it’s the president’s   
   right, it was flat wrong.   
      
   Sending Kayleigh McEnany, who is still on the federal payroll, to spread   
   disinformation on behalf of the Trump campaign probably violates some   
   statute, but is of no lasting damage.   
   President Donald Trump folds his arms in the State Dining Room of the White   
   House, Friday, May 29, in Washington.   
   President Donald Trump folds his arms in the State Dining Room of the White   
   House, Friday, May 29, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)   
      
   However, the refusal of the GSA’s Emily Murphy to sign the paperwork allowing   
   the transition to proceed is serious. Under the Presidential Transition Act   
   of 1963, Biden’s transition aides can only get millions in funding for staff   
   and the all-clear to engage with federal personnel once “the Administrator is   
   able to determine the apparent successful candidates for the office of   
   President and Vice President.” Every day Murphy, doing her boss’ bidding,   
   stalls is a day she undermines the next president.   
      
   So too, every day that Mitch McConnell uses weasel words instead of accepting   
   that Joe Biden won is a day the foundation of American democracy gets another   
   crack.   
      
   Thursday, Georgia’s two senators even called on their own Republican   
   secretary of state to resign for the sin of overseeing a count that now has   
   Biden up by more than 10,000 votes statewide.   
      
   The Republican Party is free to commit political suicide. It has no right to   
   assassinate the integrity of an American election.   
      
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