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Welcome to Talking Feds. A roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials

and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the

day. I'm Harry Littman. It's a measure of the degradation of our democracy during the Trump years

that notwithstanding a decisive Biden victory, a large percentage of the electorate feels uncertain

about who will be president come January. President Trump has launched a litigation campaign that for

the most part doesn't even allege and in no way begins to demonstrate the sort of irregularities

that would call Biden's election into question. That part is common ground. Yet somehow there are

nagging doubts that he can pull off what in essence would be a coup and the end of American democracy.

Quite apart from his quicksotic efforts to overturn the election, Trump's signal that he will go

out and Trumpine style firing his defense attorney Mark Espert in a tweet for questioning his

use of active duty troops to quell street protests and then replacing top Pentagon officials with more

Trump loyalists. He seems tall but have abandoned his public duties. He stayed mostly out of sight

this week behind a wall of tweets even as the country was breaking records in new virus cases and

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