Новости за 13.11.2020

For the third time in a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. The case of California v. Texas, heard on Nov. 10, is its most recent major legal challenge. Taking place eight days after Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first Supreme Court case and seven […]

A change in administration in January will bring a new pandemic strategy for the United States. President-elect Joe Biden has announced his transition COVID-19 advisory council, and there are high expectations that its recommendations to combat the pandemic will be backed by science and reflect public health best practices. As an infectious disease epidemiologist, I’m […]

It was infamous as the site of the vast marching grounds and torch-lit parades of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, but now many of the vast structures built by the Nazis at Nuremberg are crumbling. Following decades of debate, the city of Nuremberg has decided to preserve the buildings, a vast conservation effort set to cost […]

As President Trump continues his push to overturn the results of the 2020 election, he’s turned sour on his once-favorite news network, Fox News, thanks to their willingness to call states, correctly, for Joe Biden. Now he’s calling on his followers to switch over to more militantly pro-Trump networks like One America News Network and Newsmax. […]

In a series of tweets on Friday morning, former GOP campaign adviser and current Lincoln Project founder Steve Schmidt rained hell on the Republican leadership for putting Donald Trump before their country and not insisting that he concede defeat instead of throwing a “temper tantrum” because he lost by over five million votes to former […]

Peter Navarro is the latest White House official to suggest President Donald Trump would serve a second term, and “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg wondered if they were on drugs. The White House trade adviser told Fox Business the administration had frozen out president-elect Joe Biden in transition preparations because those efforts were unnecessary. “We […]

President Donald Trump still believes he’s going to win the 2020 presidential election, despite the fact that he has lost it decisively to President-elect Joe Biden. In an interview with Byron York of the Washington Examiner, the president makes a series of baseless assertions for how he’ll overturn the results in multiple swing states in […]

President Donald Trump demanded credit for “the most secure election ever,” and in the very next sentence accused Democrats of rigging it. The president’s lawyers have been trying to prove claims of voter fraud in states he lost to Joe Biden, but so far courts have remained unconvinced and Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security […]

Appearing on CNN on Friday morning, the ghostwriter behind Donald Trump’s bestselling “Art of the Deal” said he wasn’t taking the president’s boasts that he would run again in 2024 too seriously, saying a lot can happen in four years. Using reports that Trump would announce a bid for the GOP presidential nomination immediately after […]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaves Friday for a seven-nation trip that includes France, where his meetings will be held in “complete transparency towards the team of president-elect Joe Biden”, according to a statement by French President Emmanuel Macron’s office. The visit comes days after the top US diplomat raised eyebrows by insisting the […]

A lawsuit filed by Trump voters in Pennsylvania has taken a novel approach by asking the courts to delay certification of the state’s election results — and then promising to deliver evidence that would justify that decision in a future lawsuit. Election law attorney Marc Elias on Friday flagged what he believes is an unprecedented […]

According to a new report from the Washington Post, over 130 Secret Service officers have been infected with coronavirus in the wake of President Trump’s campaign travels. “The spread of the coronavirus — which has sidelined roughly 10 percent of the agency’s core security team — is believed to be partly linked to a series […]

In a report for CNN, Arizona Republic columnist Jon Talton cautioned Republicans believing Donald Trump’s loss of normally GOP-friendly Arizona to President-elect Joe Biden was not the result of the President disparaging the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) but also a sign that the state has changed. With the major news networks calling Arizona for […]

All but one of the Republicans running statewide campaigns in Texas this year beat their opponents by 8 to 11 percentage points. The one? President Donald Trump, who beat Joe Biden by 5.8 percentage points. Statewide, Texas Republicans outperformed the leader of their ticket. In several places along the Texas border, the opposite happened. Much […]

Despite his refusal to concede the 2020 election, most observers agree that eventually President Trump will be forced to leave the White House and return to civilian life. But so will Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Speaking to The Daily Mail, Ivanka’s “best friend” Georgina Bloomberg says their social lives might take a hit. If the […]

Republican governors are already pushing back on president-elect Joe Biden’s plans to help bring the coronavirus pandemic under control. The Democratic president-elect says he’ll personally call GOP governors in hopes of persuading them to impose mask mandates to slow the spread of the deadly virus, but Politico reports those efforts are probably doomed to fail. […]

CNN White House correspondent John Harwood on Friday said that President Donald Trump has not spoken in public for the past eight days because he’s simply too embarrassed about his defeat at the hands of President-elect Joe Biden. While talking with CNN host Jim Sciutto, Harwood explained why the president has completely disappeared from the […]

One of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers seems to be having difficulty with basic arithmetic. During an interview on Fox Business Friday, Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro said that the White House believed Trump had won the election and that it didn’t need to do anything to accommodate President-elect Joe Biden during the transition […]

According to a report at the Daily Beast, Democratic lawmakers are growing increasingly suspicious that the administration of Donald Trump is delaying turning over transition information to staffers working for President-elect Joe Biden not so much out of fury that Trump lost but because they may be trying to bury information that could lead to […]

One of the many overlooked stories during the run-up to this election was the New York Times series based upon Trump’s tax documents. Sure, we heard about it, but I don’t think the full scope of it sunk in. Trump didn’t pay federal income taxes for years, he got a multi-million dollar lifeline from “The Apprentice,” he owes vast sums to banks — which he […]

Since the day after Election Day, President Donald Trump has falsely accused larger urban cities like Philadelphia and Detroit of stealing the election from him, but details actually suggest otherwise. On Wednesday, Trump released a lashing campaign email claiming: “Democrat-run cities, like Detroit and Philadelphia, two of the most politically corrupt places in America, cannot […]

President Donald Trump’s legal claims about election fraud may seem like a joke, but they’re working. The lawsuits and legal challenges have offered a startling lack of specifics, and even Trump’s own lawyers admit they lack evidence, but that vagueness actually makes them more successful in the court of public opinion, reported Politico. “The shocking […]

During a panel discussion on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on the Republicans’ reluctance to tell Donald Trump to move on and allow the peaceful transition of power to commence, Republican consultant Susan Del Percio stopped the conversation to pay particular attention to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) calling him “disgraceful.” Speaking with host Joe Scarborough, Del Percio […]

The law firm representing President Donald Trump’s in Pennsylvania has withdrawn itself from an election lawsuit. The New York Times reports that the law firm of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur said it was withdrawing from representing the Trump campaign in a lawsuit that it had filed mere days earlier. “Plaintiffs and Porter Wright have […]

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s firing did not come as a surprise but that does not mean it was not a disturbing development in the last days of the Trump administration. Now, his interview following his departure signals a very big problem and warning alarm about what is to come as President Donald Trump begrudgingly […]