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Trump Disqualifies Himself

GOP nominee threatens to reject the legitimacy of the election. Yes, he really said that
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This is it. This is the election, right here:

Republican candidate Donald Trump refused to say on Wednesday that he would accept the outcome of the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election, leaving open the possibility he would challenge the ultimate outcome.

In the third and final presidential debate with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, Trump said he would wait to decide whether the outcome was legitimate.

“I will tell you at the time, I will keep you in suspense,” Trump said.

The Republican Party’s nominee for the US presidency said on national television, three weeks before the election, that he might not accept its legitimacy.

On no grounds whatsoever. 

Every horrible thing Hillary said tonight, every horrible thing she stands for, every horrible thing her presidency is going to mean for the country and the causes most important to me — all of it is obviated by this statement. A man so vain and so unspeakably reckless cannot be trusted in the White House.

This country is in a hell of a place.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKHUGvde7KU&w=525&h=300]

UPDATE: Just FYI, I am traveling this morning, and will only be able to approve comments sporadically.

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