It was in 2013 while reading the Supreme Court judgment validating Uhuru Kenyatta’s election as President that I came across this legal principle for the first time. I was reminded of the same principle when watching the US media’s reaction to President Donald Trump’s allegations of fraud and rigging in the recent election. Journalists and news networks appear to have taken the dictum to heart, demanding that Trump provide evidence for his allegations. Yet very little of this is reflected in US media coverage that seems more concerned with maintaining Americans’ faith in a fraudulent election system rather than with encouraging them to question whether the system is deserving of such faith. Trump may be wrong in how he going about his seemingly futile attempt to overturn the election but he is not wrong to question it.

Source: The Star December 12, 2020 06:00 UTC