National Security adviser Robert O’Brien said Wednesday that “of course” President Donald Trump would settle for the effects of a presidential election in less than two weeks, even though Trump has pointed out differently in recent months.
“If he loses the election, I’m the president who will move power,” O’Brien told Politico in an interview, when asked about Trump’s refusal in a briefing with reporters at the White House last month to pursue a nonviolent exit from the White House in the event of an election defeat.
He added as a warning that it was imperative to ensure that “there was no fraud in the election” and that it was “free and fair,” even when the president has made efforts in court in recent months to eliminate mail expansion, which has an essential way for the electorate to vote more safely amid the coronavirus pandemic.
O’Brien less confident about President Trump’s chances of winning the election, suggesting that when asked if he predicted a Trump victory, he “expected” a victory.
“What I do is that he deserves to win, ” said O’Brien.
“We are a democracy, we will have to see what happens,” he added, suggesting that he witnessed the excitement of the rallies, Trump’s favorite crusade center.
“I have seen the rallies and other people are quite enthusiastic, but I am not commenting from a political point of view, however I think he has a lot and we actually hope for the best. “
O’Brien, whose role in government is not meant to be political, has been criticized for traveling to states on the battlefield, adding New Hampshire, Iowa and Wisconsin.
He joins a developing list of Trump administration officials who have blurred the lines between government paintings and political activity after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the impression in a video clip that aired at the National Convention. Republican in August and then made a pretty egregious crusade argument. Lawmakers in a speech on Chinese politics last month when they said Trump’s leadership “fights to protect our wallets, our hearts, our minds and our freedoms. “
Last month, O’Brien talked about Trump’s foreign policy in comments that took a policy at Drake University in Iowa, a key state for Trump to win on November 3. The president’s policy, ” he said, adding, “There is more to come. a moment from Trump. “
The comments are consistent with federal law – because the Hatch Act strictly limits government personnel to having interaction in political activities – however, O’Brien argued Wednesday that his travels outside Washington were justified because others beyond the nation’s capital “deserve to listen to the president’s national security policies and our foreign policy successes as much as the class of the Washington expert group.
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