Новости за 08.12.2020

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing four battleground states — Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — whose election results handed the White House to President-elect Joe Biden. In the suit, he claims that pandemic-era changes to election procedures in those states violated federal law, and asks the U.S. Supreme Court to block the states from voting in the Electoral […]

Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, who once described herself as a member of an “elite strike force,” has reportedly come down with the novel coronavirus. Sources tell Axios reporter Jonathan Swan that Ellis ” has informed associates she has coronavirus,” which is “stirring West Wing fears after she attended a senior staff Christmas party on […]

The brother of a 33-year-old mother of two who passed away from COVID-19 less than a month after giving birth to a baby boy broke down in tears on CNN on Tuesday morning, pushing host Poppy Harlow to the edge of tears herself before her producers cut away. Speaking with Harlow, Michael Avilez explained how […]

China on Tuesday blasted new US sanctions against officials involved in the clampdown on Hong Kong, calling the move “crazy and vile”, a further worsening of relations between the world’s superpowers. President Donald Trump’s administration has been using its waning days to ramp up pressure on China, and on Monday froze any US assets and […]

Newly leaked phone call recordings show that a former attorney for the far-right Proud Boys gang tried to join a neo-Nazi gang but got turned down for being a “huge liability.” Vice News reports that Texas-based attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke last year contacted the leaders of a white nationalist gang called The Base and […]

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) on Tuesday unleashed a torrent of lies about the election in a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. “Congress is the judge, jury and final arbiter of the 2020 presidential election contest,” Brooks announced. “Further, America’s election system in plagued by systemic flaws that promote voter fraud […]

Chris Krebs, the former cybersecurity chief who declared – against President Donald Trump’s wishes – that the 2020 election was the most secure ever, is filing a lawsuit against one of the President’s attorneys who called for his execution, New York Times staff writer Alan Feuer reports. “Anybody who thinks that this election went well, like […]

According to a report from the Guardian, residents in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin are furious that they were forced from their homes to make way for a planned Foxconn factory that was touted by Donald Trump and former GOP Gov. Scott Walker — but never materialized. In 2017, the then-Republican governor and the president announced with […]

An awkward moment came about during the Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House for legendary wrestler Dan Gable. According to NJ.com, after the medal was awarded to Gable by Trump, Gable gave a speech followed by the press questioning Trump if he’ll attend the inauguration of Joe Biden. “Trump wanted nothing to do […]

CNN White House correspondent John Harwood on Tuesday bluntly talked about President Donald Trump’s efforts to wreck American democracy by pressuring state lawmakers to appoint their own electors to overturn the results of the 2020 election. While speaking with host Jim Sciutto, Harwood minced no words when describing Trump’s efforts. “He is pressing states that […]

Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb confirmed the Trump administration turned down Pfizer’s offer for 100 million more coronavirus vaccine doses months ago. Gottlieb, who’s currently a Pfizer board member, told CNBC that the New York Times report about the refused offer was accurate, and he suspects the administration gambled that more companies would develop a […]

On Tuesday, writing for The Washington Post, columnist Michael Gerson excoriated the role of the evangelical movement in propping up outgoing President Donald Trump’s delusions about overturning the election — and the danger it poses to the long-term legitimacy and viability of their cultural power. “President Trump’s naked attempt to overturn a fair election — […]

Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the federal government’s chief science adviser for Operation Warp Speed, said on Tuesday that he had not been consulted about President Donald Trump’s executive order concerning vaccines. Fox News reported this week that the president intends to sign an executive order to emphasize an “America First” approach to vaccine distribution. But Slaoui […]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has volunteered to argue a lawsuit brought by some Pennsylvania Republicans challenging President Donald Trump’s election loss, and one legal scholar was appalled. The Texas Republican said he would be willing to challenge the election results in oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court if the justices agreed to take up […]

It’s pretty damn obvious what’s going on with Donald Trump and the election, and it’s probably not an attempted coup. At least, that’s not necessarily Trump’s primary intention with his laughably unserious procession of 50-some failed legal challenges to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. This article was originally published at Salon Trump and […]

Kayleigh McEnany, in her role as White House Press Secretary, claimed on Tuesday that “Democrats are anti-science” because they support COVID-19 safety measures. During an appearance on Fox & Friends, McEnany railed at Democratic leaders who she blamed for restaurant dining restrictions in California. “Here’s what’s truthful,” McEnany asserted. “Democrats are anti-science. Democrats are anti-Constitution. […]

Lawmakers Will Override Any Trump Veto President Donald Trump is threatening to veto the nation’s massive defense spending bill after spending weeks randomly insisting on Twitter it include nonsense amendments. On Tuesday, in a typo-troubled tweet, Trump laid out his latest demands. Presidents actually have legislative directors who work with Congress to help the White […]

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) on Tuesday tore into fellow South Carolina native Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for helping President Donald Trump push the false claim that he actually won the 2020 presidential election. While appearing on CNN, Clyburn expressed outrage that Graham was going along with Trump’s scheme to pressure lawmakers in the state of […]

Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday morning, Russian dissident Garry Kasparov ripped into Donald Trump for the damage he has done to the U.S., saying the president is nothing more than an unrepentant liar. Speaking with co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the former world chess champion cited a column he wrote for the […]

‘No Calls’ to Families of Coronavirus Victims CNN’s John Berman blasted President Donald Trump’s lack of leadership Tuesday morning, slamming the lame duck in the White House for “literally trying to undermine democracy to overturn an election in public,” and playing the victim while showing no interest for actual victims of coronavirus. “This morning, 102,000 […]

The civil war inside Georgia’s Republican Party exploded out into the open. The state’s GOP chairman David Shafer accused secretary of state Brad Raffensperger of breaking his promise to allow Republicans to observe ballot signature verification and complained that he won’t order an impossible-to-perform audit. “We must restore confidence in the integrity of our elections,” […]

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson on Tuesday threw down the gauntlet to Republicans who are still indulging President Donald Trump’s false claims that he won the 2020 presidential election. While discussing the massive damage the president and his party are doing to democracy by lying about the results of the 2020 election, and he had […]

As his legal team’s court losses continued to mount, President Donald Trump reportedly resorted to calling Pennsylvania’s Republican House Speaker twice in the past week to pressure the GOP leader to take action to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the key battleground state, a move observers described as alarming despite its virtually non-existent chances […]

According to a report from Politico, Donald Trump’s attempts to stay in the Oval Office by disputing the election results in states with GOP leadership is ripping the party apart as Republicans turn on each other with some choosing the president over the future of the party. Under a headline reading, “Trump blows a hole […]

The group that terrorized Michigan’s secretary of state at her home appears to have ties to a local Republican Party. About 20 demonstrators affiliated with “Stop The Steal MI” shouted obscenities Saturday night outside Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s house, and that right-wing group claims to share its headquarters with the Macomb County Republican Party, […]