It is time for Trump to accept Biden’s victory: Obama

The former US president Barack Obama suggested that It’s time for US president Donald Trump to concede to president-elect Joe Biden. For the betterment of the country and people , the former president urged the current president to hand over the power.

Trump, who is refusing to concede, has 232 electoral college votes. He has challenged the election results in various states including Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan, Georgia and Arizona. He had demanded a recount in Wisconsin.

In all these states, he alleged there were massive voters’ fraud and electoral malpractice.

Biden has 306 of the 538 electoral college votes, well above the halfway mark of 270.

Absolutely, Obama told 60 Minutes of the CBNS News in an interview aired Sunday when asked if in his view, it is time for Trump to concede.

Well, I mean, I think it was time for him to concede probably — the day after the election — or at the latest, two days after the election. When you look at the numbers objectively, Joe Biden will have won handily. There is no scenario in which any of those states would turn the other way, and certainly not enough to reverse the outcome of the election, Obama said.

More than the courtesy of a concession, the Trump White House is declining to free up the usual funds and facilities for the incoming administration. President-elect Biden is not receiving secret national security briefings as Trump did when he was president-elect, Obama alleged.

Asserting that a president is a public servant, Obama said that they are temporary occupants of the office, by design.

And when your time is up then it is your job to put the country first and think beyond your own ego, and your own interests, and your own disappointments. My advice to president Trump is, if you want at this late stage in the game to be remembered as somebody who put country first, it’s time for you to do the same thing, he said.

Responding to a question, Obama said that America’s adversaries have seen the country weakened, not just as a consequence of this election, but over the last several years.

We have these cleavages in the body politic that they’re convinced they can exploit. There’s an old adage that partisan politics should stop at the water’s edge, right? That, when it comes to our foreign policy, that it is the United States of America, not the divided states of America, Obama, whose latest book ‘The Promised Land’ hits the market later this week, said.

We have gone through a presidency that disregarded a whole host of basic institutional norms, expectations we had for a president that had been observed by Republicans and Democrats previously. And maybe most importantly, and most disconcertingly, what we’ve seen is what some people call truth decay, something that’s been accelerated by outgoing president Trump, the sense that not only do we not have to tell the truth, but the truth doesn’t even matter, he said.