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The Byron York Show

Dangerous Talk About The Election And The Military

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

There's been a lot of commentary in recent days about President Trump, the election, and martial law. It is unclear what the president himself thinks about it β€” he tweeted that reports were "fake news" and "knowingly bad reporting" β€” but it is clear that his former national security adviser, retired General Michael Flynn, is […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron New York show the no chit chat

0:12.4

podcast we're going to get right into it and what we're going to get

0:15.9

into today is a sensitive topic for some listeners no doubt about it.

0:23.9

And it's about President Trump's post-election strategy,

0:27.6

the things that President Trump has done

0:30.4

to challenge the election results since the election on

0:33.4

uh... november third

0:35.5

and i've written about this before and when i have

0:39.4

uh... it has gotten a good deal of angry reaction uh some people. A few weeks after the election

0:46.5

I wrote that President Trump's legal challenges were winding down and that the press conference you may remember it from

1:00.6

from Sydney Powell the president's lawyer at the time, talking about the Venezuelan angle,

1:08.0

was actually harming the president more than it was helping him.

1:12.0

So I wrote that and then basically my position was the

1:18.0

president has the right to make legal challenges to the elections, to the result in some states that he wants to overturn or that he thought were unfair.

1:29.0

He has a right to do that.

1:31.0

And all of these people on the left and in the press who were saying he

1:36.2

was attacking democracy, he was mounting an assault on democracy. Well, going to court is not mounting an assault on democracy. It's actually playing by the rules.

1:48.0

But on the other hand, the court challenges have not worked out.

1:54.0

So on the Friday that the Supreme Court denied the Texas case,

2:00.0

the Texas case against Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.

2:07.4

And on the Monday following that, December 14th, that the Electoral College met and elected Joe Biden president. I said it was

2:19.8

time for Trump to stop, that there were no legal challenges that could overturn the results.

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