MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin was among the very first world leaders to praise Donald Trump for winning the 2016 U.S. governmental election. Yet on Monday, days after Joe Biden was forecasted to have actually won the presidency, Putin stayed quiet as other world leaders transferred to praise Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris.
Speaking to press reporters Monday in Moscow, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov discussed the silence in diplomatic terms: Russia does not think it would be proper to praise a winner prior to a main judgment has actually been made, and he kept in mind that Trump is moving on with legal difficulties to the outcomes.
“The incumbent president has announced certain legal procedures, so this situation is different, and we consider it correct to wait for an official announcement,” Peskov stated, including that “the differences are quite obvious” in between the 2016 election and the 2020 election. “There were no announcements of legal challenges” last time.
In taking that position, the Kremlin seems locking on to Trump’s unproven claims of citizen scams. Trump has actually up until now declined to yield defeat, appealing Saturday to push forward with legal difficulties, stating — without offering any proof — that unlawful tallies were counted in numerous states.
Neither Trump nor his project have actually had the ability to produce any proof to support their claims.
Republicans in Congress have actually mainly prevented the problem, although some in Trump’s orbit have actually motivated him to keep combating and others have actually prompted him to tone down his rhetoric.
None of that has actually stopped Russian state media and numerous federal government authorities listed below Putin from taking the claims and keeping up them. The message being pressed to Russian audiences is this: U.S. declares to running a design democratic system are lies; there is no totally free and reasonable electoral procedure in America.
On Sunday night, among the Kremlin’s most popular mouth pieces, Dmitry Kiselyov, duplicated Trump stories about mail-in tallies on his flagship “News of the Week” program on state tv — that a frustrating bulk of them were cast for Biden which “voting by mail allows for cheating.”
There is no proof to corroborate the claim that ballot by mail permitted more unfaithful than other techniques of ballot.
In lots of methods, the Russian state tv story simulated not just Trump’s allegations of improprieties, however likewise the allegations of scams and adjustment that Russia typically deals with from Western media and observers.
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Trump’s rejection to yield and his claims of scams have actually offered state media space to identify American democracy as a sham. The reports, focused on Russian audiences, are eventually meant to weaken any appreciation Russians might have for the U.S. as a design democracy.
But some in Russia see the fiercely objected to result as proof that the U.S. is a design.
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who remains in Germany recuperating from a tried poisoning in Russia with a lethal nerve representative, composed recently on Twitter: “Woke up, went on Twitter to see who won. At the moment, it isn’t clear. Now that is election.”
Navalny was the very first popular Russian political figure to praise Biden on his triumph in what he composed was a “free and fair election.”
“This is a privilege which is not available to all countries,” Navalny composed Sunday on Twitter.
