Trump’s stain on the office of the president will be hard to scrub out

There are political neophytes growing up now who will see Trump’s political success even in defeat and look to copy it. What a rotten legacy with real potential impacts for us all.

By refusing to accept defeat and peddling extreme propaganda about the election process, U.S. President Donald Trump continues to demonstrate he is a self-centred phoney, writes Tim Powers. Flickr photograph by Vinnie Langdon III

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

November 11, 2020

OTTAWA—The United States presidential election is sort of over. By now, readers will know Joe Biden is the president-elect and Donald Trump is on his way to being ejected from the White House. He, however, refuses to accept he lost or concede to Biden, and has embarked on populating the airwaves w...

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