Former US President Barack Obama accused his successor, the 45th US President Donald Trump, in violating the basic principle of democracy, when he refused to recognize his defeat last year’s election. This is reported by Edition The Guardian.
Speaking at the virtual assembly of funds, Obama stated that Trump’s statements undermined the legitimacy of elections in the United States and led to anti-democratic actions – attempts to suppress voting.
“What we saw: My successor, former president, violated the basic principle, according to which voices are calculated, and then the winner is declared – he invented and distributed nonsense,” Democrat said.
Obama warned that the challenge of the results of American elections could lead to “delegitimation of democracy”.
Earlier in June Trump called the election of the President of 2020 “Crime of Century”. “In my opinion, it was a crime of age – what happened in November. Because now we have a crisis on the border, because all these things happen to our country. On November 3, there was a shame, on November 3, the elections ended, and then it became Something happened, “the ex-leader added.
Trump and his supporters repeatedly stated falsifications in the presidential elections, but about fifty American courts, including the US Supreme Court, rejected their arguments.