Trump's call for 'end' of constitution condemned by Democrats - BBC

The White House has condemned erstwhile President Donald Trump aft helium called for the "termination" of the US constitution.

Mr Trump made the comments successful a station to his Truth societal web connected Saturday portion repeating his mendacious assertion that helium won the 2020 statesmanlike election.

He besides accused "Big Tech Companies" of colluding against him with Democrats.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said Mr Trump's comments were "anathema to the psyche of our nation".

"You cannot lone emotion America erstwhile you win," Mr Bates said successful a statement.

He added that Mr Trump's comments should beryllium "universally condemned" - seemingly a pointed jab astatine elder Republicans who person truthful acold avoided criticising the erstwhile president's outburst.

Other elder Democrats besides challenged Republicans - including Rep Eric Swalwell who questioned however the party's members could proceed to notation to themselves arsenic "Constitutional conservatives" if they didn't condemn the comments.

In the post, Mr Trump referred to vague allegations of "massive & wide fraud and deception" and asked whether helium should beryllium instantly returned to power.

"A Massive Fraud of this benignant and magnitude allows for the termination of each rules, regulations, and articles, adjacent those recovered successful the Constitution. Our large 'Founders' did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!" helium said.

The station came conscionable hours aft Twitter's interior deliberations astir limiting a 2020 communicative astir Hunter Biden were revealed.

The story, which came weeks up of the 2020 statesmanlike election, was published by the New York Post and revealed the chaotic idiosyncratic beingness and concern dealings of President Joe Biden's youngest son.

Twitter initially blocked the communicative due to the fact that of a institution argumentation connected hacked and stolen materials, and the leaked emails showed disorder and disagreements among unit arsenic they scrambled to respond.

The files - which the BBC cannot verify - were published connected Twitter by Substack writer Matt Taibbi connected Friday night.

But past week, Twitter proprietor Elon Musk hinted that helium would merchandise the information, penning connected the platform: "This is indispensable to reconstruct nationalist trust."

The billionaire defended the determination successful a Twitter spaces unrecorded watercourse connected Saturday, but helium accepted determination whitethorn beryllium a "legal risk" to his decision.

"We're conscionable going to enactment each the accusation retired determination effort to get a cleanable slate," Mr Musk said. He added that ineligible risks were "less of a interest than conscionable clearing the aerial and making definite that radical cognize what truly happened".

Mr Trump announced his 3rd statesmanlike bid past period and remains the favourite to seal the Republican information successful 2024.

But helium has travel nether occurrence this week aft eating with a known achromatic nationalist and Holocaust denier astatine his Florida home.

Mr Trump said helium was not alert that the antheral would beryllium contiguous and said helium had accompanied the rapper Kanye West - who earlier this week expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and has been accused of a big of anti-semitic comments.