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The Washington Post: What if Trump loses but insists he won?
07
Jul
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The Washington Post: What if Trump loses but insists he won?

PEJOURNAL - On his present trajectory, President Trump is heading for a whopping defeat in November. The Economist says there’s nearly a 99 percent chance that Joe Biden will win more popular votes and around a 90 percent chance that he will win more electoral college votes. But what if Trump won’t concede defeat? That is a nightmare scenario for our democracy that could make the 2000 showdown over Florida’s hanging chads seem like a grade-school dispute by comparison. Trump is already laying the foundation to dispute the election outcome with his incessant claims that “Mail-In Ballots will lead to…
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Maximum Pressure on Iran and Venezuela has Brought Them Together to Embarrass the U.S.
09
Jun
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Maximum Pressure on Iran and Venezuela has Brought Them Together to Embarrass the U.S.

THROUGHOUT THE covid-19 pandemic, the Trump administration has relentlessly pursued its “maximum pressure” campaigns against Iran and Venezuela, heaping on more sanctions in the apparent hope that one or both regimes would crack under the combined strain of the virus and economic strangulation. Yet the most visible result of the policy to date has been to bring the two nations together to orchestrate an embarrassing display of U.S. impotence. PEJOURNAL - Last Tuesday, the last of five Iranian tankers arrived in Venezuela, sailing past U.S. warships deployed in the Caribbean. They were delivering an estimated 60 million gallons of gasoline…
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