Former first lady Michelle Obama on Monday urged “all Americans, especially all nation’s leaders, regardless of party” to “do your part to encourage a smooth transition of power” and said that playing along with “groundless conspiracy theories” is putting our “health and security in danger.”
“This isn’t a game,” Obama took to instagram to explain why there should be peaceful transfer of power.
This came after President Donald Trump and his allies in the White House and Congress have continued to challenge the election results.
Obama wrote: our love of country requires us to respect the results of an election even when we don’t like them or wish it had gone differently — the presidency doesn’t belong to any one individual or any one party. To pretend that it does, to play along with these groundless conspiracy theories — whether for personal or political gain is to put our country’s health and security in danger”.