To behave like an dictator, refusing to accept that the voters have spoken, erroneously declaring victory, bulldozing over our democracy and hunkering down in the white house, refusing to relinquish the reins of government or even to admit hes been fired by the American People. Trump is no longer an autocrat in the making, hes already there. In an election one has lost, an election that has zero evidence of fraud, thats what autocrats do. Trumps focus is on his power and his ego, and perhaps on that orange jumpsuit that may be waiting once he leaves office. His focus is nowhere near his duty to protect the American People from a raging pandemic which has now taken more than 251,000 lives. And behind every strongman is his supine party, the fixers and the kingmakers and the thugs who enable him. Trumpian mascots like mitch mcconnell, william barr and Lindsey Graham, seen here fist bumping Vice President elect Kamala Harris on the senate floor, despite his claims of voter fraud in the election and his suspicion of votes cast in blue cities where the black people live. Its why youre seeing secretaries of state in georgia and arizona receiving Death Threats for overseeing elections that did not serve trump, and now electors are getting sued for doing their sworn duty. The Trump Campaign filed a lawsuit challenging nevadas election results, including targeting a president ial elector who happens to be a homeless veteran. This is what we typically see in banana republics, in mafia states, but here we are seeing it unfurl in a country that used to pride itself as a beacon of democracy, where now a u. S. President can casually fire an official who pointed out the truth about the absence of Election Fraud. Or he can stack every corner of government with lackeys who will do his bidding, from the Supreme Court to the defense department, to the General Services administration where the one official who can hand over the keys to the transitioning president elect is refusing to do so. With sources telling cnn that she is basing her decision on what she sees as the precedent set by the 2000 election, where there was not a clear winner for more than a month. Each day that the Republican Party does not condemn this behavior is another day the party normalizes antidemocratic actions, actions that will get further baked into our government and our institutions and our belief systems. And if these schemes dont succeed for trump, they will one day for someone else. The atlantic describes as the next racist demagogue who may not be as clownish or as incompetent. Joining me now is former cia director john brennan, author of undaunted my fight against americas enemies at home and abroad, patrick gaspard, and maya wiley, former assistant u. S. Attorney and new york marital candidate. Thank you for being here. Mr. Brennan, i want to go to you on this. In the washington post, written, how western media would cover the u. S. Election if it happened in another country. Im just going to read a little bit of it. The United States, the former british colony, already rocked this year by ethnic conflict and mass protest by extrajudicial killings by police may finally have a new leader following a disputed president ial election. Trump, however, is refusing to leave power and there are fears the fractured nation may be pushed over the edge, destabilizing the western hemisphere. Thats how it would sound if we were covering an election in a foreign country, but now we are that country. What do you make of this dissent . Well, obviously what donald trump is engaged in is the behavior weve seen in many authoritarian countries around the globe where individuals try to retain power by all means necessary and donald trump, i think, has demonstrated time and time again that hes not going to adhere to not only the norms and standards that are expected in the office of the presidency, but also the requirements that really have the United StatesNational Security hanging in the balance. The fact that hes acting as a spoiled juvenile, and thats an insult to spoiled juveniles, quite frankly, that he is not facilitating the transfer of power of the executive branch to joe biden and his Incoming Administration, i think is outrageous. Because whether were dealing with covid or whether were dealing with international issues, that transition, which has been honored by every president certainly during my career and has allowed the Incoming Administration to be able to get up to speed quickly on these very, very challenging issues, this is something that must happen. And the fact that the members of the Republican Party are still allowing donald trump to continue with this tantrum, i think, is despicable. Yeah, and, you know, patrick, you and i share both family connections to the congo. What donald trump is doing is something we saw from the south African Nationalist party until they were finally toppled and Nelson Mandela became president and was released from president in the 1990s. We are the type of country that maybe the Carter Country needed to oversee our election. Joy, thanks for having me on. You know, i served with john brennan and he does not get that heat about anything in public, he keeps his cool. It gives you an idea the extent of the crisis were in right now. Youre absolutely right. This is the type of behavior we see from authoritarians in instances that we condemn. The secretary of state mike pompeo recently put out statements of concerns about violence and clashes following the elections in belarus and tanzania. Two years ago the Trump Administration was making all kind office declarations about the corruption, the fraud and the challenges in the transition of power in the drc. So youre right that traditionally the United States is the broker of Election Integrity in places all around the world, and its astonishing to see this being played out here in the u. S. , but i have to say, joy, there isnt a single thing that donald trump is doing right now that any of us could not have anticipated. Those of us who invested in planning scenarios about this expected this. The problem isnt donald trump. The problem is the Republican Leadership in the senate, in the house, in the states where they have authority over election outcomes. Theyre not doing what some extraordinary secretaries of states are doing, calling out the lies, calling out the danger and the damage to democracy and educating their constituents and voters about what this does to our norms in the future. Incredibly dangerous. Yeah, indeed. Theyre sort of acting more like a douma than an american political party. A russian douma. Maya, were going to have to talk at some point about your run for mayor. Youre running for an executive position in which, you know, you run and you try to win your base, but then you actually have to govern those who voted for you and those who didnt. Republicans seem to be trying to siphon out only republicans and say were going to directly govern for this sort of white, christian minority, emerging minority, and everyone else can go to hell. Even other republicans are being targeted by these sort of campaigns against any dissent against trumpism. Propublica reports, republicans began pressuring georgias republican secretary of state even before the election. Mr. Rasenberger to serve as honorary cochair of the Trump Campaign in georgia. He rejected to support trump publicly. They wanted this man who is supposed to be the guy counting the votes to basically behave like the governor. When he was secretary of state and was fixing the election so he could win it, theyre like this guy needs to do it not for himself, but for trump. Yeah, this is not democracy. This is hypocrisy. Because this is also the same party that claims that its so important for the federal government to defer to the powers of state. And we saw that hypocrisy as we saw states in some instances working so hard to ensure that voters could vote despite covid and spreading lies and disinformation about mailin voting, something to enable democracy in a way that would also protect Public Health. And yet folks then came to the polls. And now we see the efforts to suggest that that, too, was fraudulent. Which essentially means theres no means of voting where you cant claim fraud, even in the absence of evidence. And, you know, one thing that we have to remember here that has been so damaging to this democracy is that the attack on peoples ability to vote, particularly black and latino voters, really started in 2010. So as patrick said, you know, trump is a symptom of a Republican Party that has refused to Pay Attention to winning votes rather than making it more difficult. Rather, making it more difficult for people to vote who may not vote for them. And that, that is ultimately what is endangering our democracy. And patrick, your name was called. I mean, this is were at a point now where half of republicans believe that the election was rigged, right . So biden will have to govern in a country where a lot of republicans just think his election was ill legitimate. So you have that. You are also developing this narrative that votes cast by nonwhite people are in and of itself ill ledgegitimate, so wh does that mean going forward. Some of us remember serving in a white house where people like donald trump and others lifted up birtherism and all kinds of other claims to try to delegitimize the presidency of barack obama. But lets be clear that this goes back decades. When we talk about Voter Suppression today in this election cycle, we need to appreciate that going back through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, there are clear intercedan intercedeeintercede intercedents to this moment. In milwaukee, in atlanta, and so many other urban centers where clearly republicans are concerned that the more people who participate the less likely it is they are to succeed in their effort. So this is not a new thing. And i want to say, joy, shame on all of us, and this is not just republicans shame on all of us in this democracy that we dont make voting access a regular issue in our policy work beyond election cycles. So thats not something that we can hang exclusively on the Republican Party. Well, and but mr. Brennan, you know, the challenge that will be hung directly on the Republican Party will be that joe biden now going to have to govern a country and try to get a virus under control that doesnt care what party you are that is relentless and vengeful and murderous, and hes going to have to do that where youve got people on the right, you know, going after the governor of michigan, threatening to kidnap her and put her on trial, trying to impeach her for having mask mandates. Weve got republican governors who say freedom equals you dont have to wear a mask. I dont care what anybody says, what the science says. Hes going to be facing a country where a substantial minority dont believe covid is even real and its a National Security issue and a security issue for governors. What should he do . Well, i think hes going to have to try to restore the trust and faith in the administration, both domestically as well as internationally. Donald trump will soon be out of the white house. He was pass from the political scene, but the damage he has done to our standing, reputation in the world as far as being that beacon of democracy that really represents those democratic principles upon which our country was founded and which other countries are struggling through. The same thing here in the United States. As donald trump has fueled this polarization, he has sown great distrust within the american electorate, the american population. Therefore, joe biden is going to have to work really hard to highlight the fact that donald trump was an aberration, he was abnormal president. But, really, its going to be up to the members of the Republican Party to, quite frankly, repudiate the things that donald trump was standing for and doing. Until we have that broader repudiation, i think as people have said, he is symptomatic of a broader problem and challenge we have in this country, but what he has done over the last four years has accelerated and intensified some of these very, very disturbing trending. John i wish we had more time. His lies cant survive the 250,000 empty chairs that are going to be at thanksgiving tables two weeks from now. Indeed. Thats something we should all think about. Absolutely. Absolutely. Maya wiley, john brennan, patrick gaspard, thank you all very much. Up next on the reidout, the republicans deadly covid obstruction. Refusing to cooperate with joe bidens transition while redstate governors still dont take the virus seriously even with, as we said, 250,000 americans dead. And our Front Line Health Care workers are caught in the middle. Kplus. Were seeing the heartbreak that this virus causes. 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