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no bull and the aftermath.

What this press conference shows is that somewhat predictably but still horrifyingly, Trump

is psychologically incapable of accepting defeat and that the only way he can process defeat

is by thinking truly believing and I suspect he really truly believes that somehow he has

been cheated.

And if he believes that he has been cheated, then he will spend the next two months while

he is still in office and still has the full powers of the presidency, taking it out on

his enemies and a president can do an enormous amount of damage in two months, even a lame

duck president.

I'm Benjamin Woodess and this is the LawFair podcast November 6th, 2020.

This election day, day three, the votes are almost all counted but they're not quite

all counted.

We kind of know where the electoral votes are going but some of them haven't gone there

yet.

We think we know the outcome.

We think it's inevitable but we don't announce things before they're called so we're going

to try to talk through the next several days without ever saying what is clearly the

elephant in the room joining me in the virtual jungle studio at 9.33 in the evening which

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