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December 22, 2020, 12:44 pm
When you’re a sitting Republican president and you’ve lost longtime televangelist Pat Robertson, you know things are dire. That’s what President Trump faced Monday as the longtime ally of Republican politicians told his TV viewers that we’re about to see President Biden in the White House.
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A portion of the address, on Robertson’s longtime news and opinion TV program The 700 Club, was shared by the Right Wing Watch Twitter account.
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Robertson began this clip by asserting the Electoral College “has spoken,” and that the “Biden corruption” (or allegations thereof, to be more accurate) hasn’t “come to fruition.”
“It doesn’t seem to be affecting the Electoral College, and I don’t think the Supreme Court is going to move in to do anything.”
That’s when Robertson predicted that we’d soon see President Biden inaugurated, and then to sprinkle in some wild speculation, that we’d see “President Kamala Harris not too long after the inauguration of President Biden.”
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Robertson then said that even with Trump’s ability to raise money and draw crowds, that Trump is living in “an alternate reality.”
He even called Trump out on some of the fanciful things he’s said in the past — picking out saving NBC with The Apprentice, noting that people have gone along with it “because they loved him so much, and he was so strong for the evangelicals.”
“Evangelicals are with him all the way,” added Robertson.
The media mogul then said that despite all the good Trump’s done for the economy, “he’s very erratic and he’s fired people, he’s fought people and assaulted people and it keeps going down the line, so it’s it’s a mixed bag. And I think it would be well to say, ‘You’ve had your day, and it’s time to move on.'”
The comments drew notable reactions on Twitter. Actor and Jedi Mark Hamill, who has been outspoken in his criticisms of Trump in the lead-up to the election, marveled at the statement.
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George Takei couldn’t resist the Star Wars/Star Trek tag team, making a dad joke from Hamill’s statement.
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A self-declared “angry Canadian” weighed in, tying Robertson’s “it’s over” statement to recent, similar statements from TV personality Geraldo Rivera and recently-departed Attorney General William Barr.
Though Takei had an observation of his own, reacting by saying, “When even Pat Robertson has had it with Donald’s delusions.”
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Brian Karem, White House reporter for Playboy, presumed that as a result, the Robertson household might be a little different for Christmas.
*First Published: December 22, 2020, 12:44 pm
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