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LINK Report: Trump Thought He Could Stop Biden’s Presidency by Literally Refusing to Leave the White House | Vanity Fair

Think back to mid-November 2020. Do you recall Donald Trump taking his election loss well? That he seemed of sound mind and body? That he was not going to shred whatever last ounce of dignity he had in an absurd effort to hold on to power? No, of course you don’t. The man was acting crazier than he had at any point in the last four years, which is obviously saying something, given that the last four years had seen him advise people to inject bleach into their veins. He had, quite clearly, completely lost it, and if you need any more convincing, perhaps a new anecdote about him thinking he could stop Joe Biden from becoming president by simply refusing to vacate the White House will do it.

Yes, in her forthcoming Trump tome, set for release on October 4, New York Times scribe Maggie Haberman reports Trump spent the days following his loss telling aides that, despite a long-respected custom to do otherwise, he would not be leaving the White House on January 20. “I’m just not going to leave,” Trump told one aide, according to Haberman. “We’re never leaving,” the then president told another person. “How can you leave when you won an election?” If you’re wondering whether there’s some kind of precedent for a POTUS losing an election and then crossing his arms and telling people, “I’m not going,” Haberman informs us in her book, Confidence Man, that there is not. The closest historical parallel, she reports, would probably be when Mary Todd Lincoln refused to leave the White House for almost a month after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. (Incidentally, Todd Lincoln was subsequently declared insane and committed to a mental institution.) ...

snytiger6 9 Sep 13
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Let's declare Trump insane and commit him to a mental institution. He might go if they had golf.

Well, thanks to Ronald Reagan, the definition of what constitutes being mentally ill enough to be institutionalized was changed to "a person must be an immediate danger either to themselves or somebody else". And, you can't get Trump committed under that definition.

BTW, Reagan literally emptied out mental health facilities and put the mentally ill out onto the streets, causing a huge homelessness population explosion, and also increasing prison populations, as a lot of the mentally ill ended up in prisons as they committed crimes in order to survive. It really helped build the "for profit" prison system though, which might have been, and probably was, the point.

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Trump needs to be put in the cell block where they put the crazies and never let him out.

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The Framers probably never envisioned what occurred in 2020. Namely, that an incumbent who clearly lost an election and had exhausted all legal challenges would obstinately refuse to concede and would threaten to squat in the office. There should be an amendment to the Constitution requiring all candidates for higher office to issue a concession speech or statement and congratulate the winner. The failure to do so would immediately ban any challenger or incumbent from any future political office, and provide the mechanism for forcible removal should an incumbent refuse to vacate.

Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose, and there really is no place for sore losers in politics. Candidates should take their queue from the world of sport and agree to meet on center ice (or center pitch) to shake hands.

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Nothing is too insane or can be dismissed as unbelievable when it comes to the crazy circus of the Trump White House years!

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