Trump wants to be forced out

It would give him a sturdy foundation of grievance for whatever comes next

President Trump.
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Exactly four years ago today, then-outgoing President Obama and then-President-elect Donald Trump sat down in the White House for a long conversation Obama said focused on "organizational issues." The waning administration would "do everything we can to help you succeed," Obama told Trump, describing a smooth transition as his "number one priority" in the lame-duck period.

Whatever President Trump and President-elect Joe Biden get up to today, it won't be that. Trump has refused to concede the election, and his teams have matched deeds to words. The campaign is launching various lawsuits, while the administration has declined to participate in the presidential transition process required by law.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.