Murdoch turns on Trump

The Post says: Give it up, Mr. President — for your sake and the nation’s

 

Mr. President, it’s time to end this dark charade.

We’re one week away from an enormously important moment for the next four years of our country.

On Jan. 5, two runoff races in Georgia will determine which party will control the Senate — whether Joe Biden will have a rubber stamp or a much-needed check on his agenda.

Unfortunately, you’re obsessed with the next day, Jan. 6, when Congress will, in a pro forma action, certify the Electoral College vote. You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have “courage,” they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office.

In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.

You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing. To take just two examples: Your campaign paid $3 million for a recount in two Wisconsin counties, and you lost by 87 more votes. Georgia did two recounts of the state, each time affirming Biden’s win. These ballots were counted by hand, which alone debunks the claims of a Venezuelan vote-manipulating Kraken conspiracy.

Sidney Powell is a crazy person. Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful.

We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost. But to continue down this road is ruinous. We offer this as a newspaper that endorsed you, that supported you: If you want to cement your influence, even set the stage for a future return, you must channel your fury into something more productive.

Stop thinking about Jan. 6. Start thinking about Jan. 5.

If Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler win, they will prevent Biden from rolling back what you have accomplished. A Republican Senate can pressure Biden against returning to the old, failed Iran deal, can stop him from throwing open our southern border, will prevent him from packing the Supreme Court.

Now imagine a government controlled by your nemeses — Nancy Pelosi in the House, Chuck Schumer in the Senate, Biden in the White House. How high will taxes go? How many of your initiatives will be strangled? And, on a personal note, do you think they won’t spend the next four years torturing you with baseless hearings and investigations?

Consider this. You came out of nowhere to win the presidency. Not an elected official, not a lawyer, not beholden to any particular faction of the swamp. You took on the elites and the media who had long lost touch with average working people. You changed politics, which is something few in American history can say.

If Georgia falls, all that is threatened. You will leave your party out of power, less likely to listen to what you have to say or to capitalize on your successes, such as expanding the Hispanic voting bloc for the GOP.

Democrats will try to write you off as a one-term aberration and, frankly, you’re helping them do it. The King Lear of Mar-a-Lago, ranting about the corruption of the world.

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Securing the Senate means securing your legacy. You should use your considerable charm and influence to support the Georgia candidates, mobilizing your voters for them. Focus on their success, not your own grievances, as we head into the final week.

If you insist on spending your final days in office threatening to burn it all down, that will be how you are remembered. Not as a revolutionary, but as the anarchist holding the match.

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  • Murdoch isn't an idiot. He knows when to cash out. 

    Trump has permanently damaged the GOP in the states, and unless he does or starts singing from Murdoch's sheet music, he'll siphon votes to the point where they will need to move policy leftward, or never win an election again.

    He has invigorated the right, but has inflamed the left as much, if not more so. As many prominent republicans said before 2016, trump will be the end of the GOP.

  • Pity the COVID didn't knock him off 

  • Biden is a total puppet/nutjob. The USA election wasnt won by the leftist democratic party but was clearly decided ( still not yet) by fraudulent and corrupted means which is blatantly obvious that 'blind Freddy' can see it! You dont have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. If Bumbling Biden does actually become the next President of the USA then God help us all because the next 4 years will the beginning of the end of the true meaning of Democracy.

    • lol, have you even read the article you fcuken idiot.

      • Such nice language 'El Patron' another fly by nighter with a limited vocabularly, I see! Oh by the way if your going to call someone a 'F' idiot perhaps you should learn to spell the 'F' word correctly otherwise you make yourself look like a real life jerk!

        • well you haven't read the article dipshit

           

          • Language slightly improved buy some definite needed improvement. 

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            • I  will give him about the same respect I give you Mick/Saddam

               

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                • that looks as weird as you Mick Morsi

                   

          • Steady son.  Find a hobby

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