In the dispute over the outcome of the US election, President’s son Donald Trump Jr. has called on his father to start an “all-out war”. “It would be best for America’s future if Donald Trump goes to all-out war over this election,” the 42-year-old tweeted. The president must “expose all the fraud and cheating”. This included the votes of voters who were dead or no longer lived in the respective state, claimed the eldest Trump son. It is time to “clean up and no longer look like a banana republic”. He also accused his father’s party colleagues of “not doing anything”, that is, not sufficiently behind the president. Twitter hid the short message behind the warning that the content was “controversial and possibly misleading”.
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So far, no significant cases of election fraud have been reported in the USA. For months, Trump had been claiming without evidence that postal votes would increase the risk of fraud and refused to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power. Trump has his back to the wall: In the states of Pennsylvania and Georgia, his initial lead is currently shrinking the more ballots received by post are evaluated. He currently has only 213 of the 270 electors necessary to win. As things stand, his challenger Joe Biden has at least 253 voters. Adding the state of Arizona, where some media outlets have already proclaimed Biden the winner, adds up to 264.