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Tries to destroy America's faith in democracy
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 12:40 AM ET, Tue January 5, 2021
... The President spewed lies, conspiracy theories and nonsensically false claims of vote fraud before an angry crowd ...
... as usual .. the .. primary concern was himself ...
Though he .. wove .. Loeffler and .. Perdue into his remarks .. the .. appearance was essentially a wild, on stage, prime time TV version of Saturday's call ...
Trump created a nightmarish picture of a ranting, demagogic commander-in-chief, wallowing in fantasies of the political fringe -- a frightening prospect since he retains the awesome powers of the presidency for another 15 days ...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/politics/donald-trump-georgia-election/index.html