The moment was at once shocking and entirely foreseeable. With millions of votes uncounted, Donald Trump all but claimed victory against Joe Biden in the US presidential election on Wednesday. He also promised legal action to stop the count and called the normal workings of the electoral system a “fraud”. His intention was not just to prejudge the result but to taint a President Biden (if the Democrat is elected as such) as illegitimate.
這一刻既令人震驚,又完全可以預(yù)見。在仍有數(shù)百萬張選票有待點(diǎn)算的情況下,唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)周三近乎宣稱他已在美國總統(tǒng)大選中擊敗喬?拜登(Joe Biden)。他還承諾采取法律行動(dòng)制止繼續(xù)點(diǎn)票,并將選舉制度的正常運(yùn)作稱為“舞弊”。他的用意不只是預(yù)斷結(jié)果,也是在民主黨人拜登當(dāng)選的情況下抹黑拜登,稱其非法當(dāng)選。