Trump sets up tilt at tyranny

Monday, 20 July 2020

Via the AFR:

Donald Trump may not accept the results of the forthcoming presidential election, he has said, setting the stage for an epic showdown in November.

In a wild and contentious interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, broadcast on Sunday (AEST), the President said he was “not a good loser” and was fully prepared to challenge the results, if he lost to Joe Biden, his Democratic rival.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.