Trump News Live: Latest Twitter Updates As President Again Says ‘We Will Win’

The United States begins its long Thanksgiving weekend today in a state of political suspense.

Just a week ago, President Trump’s motley legal team, consisting mostly of a copiously sweaty Rudy Giuliani and a conspiracy theory-spreading Sidney Powell, held a news conference that left many onlookers speechless. writes Holly baxter.

As the hair dye trickled down his forehead, Giuliani claimed that the United States had experienced the greatest assault on democracy of all time; Meanwhile, Powell went on to say that Communist voting machines manufactured under the stern gaze of (the late) Hugo Chávez in Venezuela were responsible for favoring Biden over Trump.

Michael Flynn’s Donald Trump pardon had an almost nostalgic tinge: the president uses the powers of office to reward loyalty and pet his own ego in a show act, while refusing to let official / legal mechanisms play out, writes Chris Stevenson.

Is there a man who encapsulates the Trump presidency like Michael Flynn? Given a role in the Trump administration as a military man who had clashed with Barack Obama-era officials in his previous job as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Flynn offered two things Trump wanted: a show of admiration for the military and a feeling that he was an outsider seeking to change Washington. The fact that Flynn became a fervent Trump supporter having been a Democrat only added to his appeal.

Edward Snowden says he has experienced more people asking him to be forgiven than ever.

It comes after Donald Trump forgave Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser who admitted to lying to the FBI and Mike Pence during the Russia investigation.

Trump previously said he would “take a look” at pardoning Snowden “very strongly.”

Perhaps the former NSA employee imagines his possibilities …

A senior prosecutor who worked on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigations into Russia and Donald Trump says the US president should be investigated and potentially prosecuted when he leaves the White House. writes Gino Spocchia.

Andrew Weissmann, a lawyer who led Mueller’s two-year investigation into Russian-American ties, wrote in an op-ed that “Trump’s criminal exposure is clear.”

Republican allies of Donald Trump are allowing his “zombie” campaign of false claims of voter fraud to continue because they are terrified of alienating his political base, experts say.

Despite dozens of legal and procedural setbacks, the Trump team continues to present new challenges that have no hope of success and to make new and baseless claims of fraud.

The president’s ghostly claims are infecting the nation with doubts, even though the winner was clear and there has been no evidence of massive voter fraud.

“Zombies are dead people walking alongside the living; this litigation is the same thing,” said Franita Tolson, a professor at the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California. “In terms of litigation that could change the elections, all of these cases are basically dead men walking.”

Thomas Mann, Senior Resident Scholar at the University of California Berkeley Institute for Government Studies, added: “This is really our version of an educated coup.

“It could end quickly if the Republican Party acknowledges what is happening. But they cower at Trump’s connection to the rank and file.”

Former President Barack Obama has attributed Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election to a sense of insecurity, instilled by Republicans, that white men in America were “under attack.” writes Stuti mishra.

Speaking of his new book A Promised Land, the former president said that the stories that reached American white men in the last presidential campaign were that “Democrats don’t believe in Christmas, you know, they only care about minorities and minorities. black people and they are trying to take off their things and their weapons.

Donald Trump told Mike Pompeo and Mike Pence that he plans to run again for president in 2024, according to a report.

Bloomberg quoted “two people briefed on the conversation” as saying that the president informed his secretary of state and vice president of his plan in the Oval Office 10 days after the election.

Also in the room, reportedly, was national security adviser Robert O’Brien, who, according to Bloomberg, told his boss in response: “If you do that, and I think I speak for everyone in the room, we are with you. 100 percent. . “

However, Pompeo and Pence said nothing, according to the Bloomberg report.

Pompeo is widely reported to have presidential ambitions, while Pence may also be a frontrunner for the GOP nomination in 2024.

Joe Biden has appealed to Americans separated from their families during the coronavirus pandemic, reflecting on the losses to their own family, to turn to “faith, courage and sacrifice” during the Thanksgiving holiday. writes Alex woodward.

“Service to the country, service to others and gratitude in the face of suffering have long been part of what Thanksgiving means in America,” he said in remarks from Delaware on Wednesday.

Donald Trump’s decision to pardon his former national security adviser Michael Flynn is a “blatant abuse of power,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

In a statement issued on Thanksgiving Eve, President Pelosi said Trump had only used forgiveness to protect those who “lie to cover up their wrongdoing.” writes Matt mathers.

Kamala Harris has revealed that she has yet to speak with her counterpart and current Vice President Mike Pence since the presidential election was called. writes Gino Spocchia.

Harris, who became vice president-elect nearly three weeks ago, told reporters Wednesday that she had not spoken with Pence or Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, The Hill reported.