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Donald Trump ended Veterans Day as he began Wednesday, with unsubstantiated claims of “election fraud”, “bogus” polls, “lame” media and even attacks on Dominion, the company whose software powers voting machines in the US. USA
So far, the president’s campaign has filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania in an attempt to delay the certification of election results from those states until its web of unsubstantiated allegations is answered. Trump has yet to come forward with any significant evidence of voter fraud, as the incoming Joe Biden administration calmly engages in planning cabinet appointments and preparing for power.
Following President Trump’s first public appearance in a week on Wednesday to lay a wreath for the lost military men and women at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, the United States once again broke its record for new coronavirus cases, with at least 140,543 registered in one day, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Biden appoints Ron Klain as White House chief of staff
As the indignity continues in the Oval Office, Joe Biden has calmly gone about his business, planning cabinet appointments and preparing for power.
Last night, he announced that seasoned Washington insider and former Barack Obama Ebola czar Ron Klain will be his chief of staff.
Klain, 59, worked as Biden’s senior aide while he was still a senator from Delaware and ran his office when he first became vice president, so the development comes as no surprise.
Incidentally, the current occupant of the post under Trump, Mark Meadows, was recently affected by the coronavirus.
Graeme Massie has this on Klain.
Joe sommerlad12 November 2020 09:47
Trump wins Alaska
It’s not that surprising that Don hasn’t contested this one.
Does that mean that Alaska’s electoral process is impeccably airtight compared to its corrupt and leaking counterparts in Michigan and Pennsylvania, or is it just a red state that won because the Republican nominee always wins and is therefore of no interest ?
Whatever is. Enjoy those three full voting champions from the Electoral College.
James Crump has the details.
Joe sommerlad12 November 2020 09:42
The United States again breaks the daily record for coronavirus and new cases exceed 140,000
While Trump doled out election lies and made his first public appearance in a week on Wednesday to lay a wreath for the lost military men and women at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, not as grand a gesture as it might have been had it not been I would have referred to those who were prepared. to die for their country as “fools” and “losers” – the United States once again broke its record for new coronavirus cases, with at least 140,543 recorded in one day, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Joe sommerlad12 November 2020 09:21
The White House ‘requests the names of those who applauded the retiring Pentagon official
The Trump administration reportedly demanded a list of the names of the people who applauded as a Pentagon official left the building, having resigned after the president fired their boss.
James Anderson, the acting undersecretary of defense for policy, was a key adviser to Mark Esper, the defense secretary whom Trump announced via tweet Monday that he had been “fired.”
Anderson, a former Marine who taught at the Marine Corps War College before joining the Department of Defense (DOD), resigned Tuesday.
Bill Kristol, a “Never Trump” Republican and former newspaper editor who now runs the advocacy organization Defending Democracy Together, said there was an “oath of allegiance” atmosphere within the Pentagon.
“A sign of the loyalty oath atmosphere now at the Defense Department: When Jim Anderson was fired yesterday as Acting Under Secretary for Policy, he received ‘applause’ as he left the building,” Kristol tweeted.
“The WH called to request the names of the political appointees who joined so they could be fired.”
Harriet Alexander has more on this.
Joe sommerlad12 November 2020 08:58
‘Maths don’t care’ about Donald Trump’s feelings
Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman had harsh words for Donald Trump, who claimed the mail-in ballots were “illegal votes” and that he “won” the Rust Belt status, despite losing it and the presidency to Joe Biden.
The Democrat’s advantage in the state is nearly 50,000 votes, making it nearly impossible for a recount to overturn the result in Pennsylvania, which came out in favor of Biden on Saturday.
“Mathematics doesn’t care about your feelings, it doesn’t care about anyone’s feelings!” said the lieutenant governor. “The math in Pennsylvania is damning for the president.”
And on the contested ballots, Fetterman told the president to “take it to the Supreme Court, for what I care, the vice president is going to raise 50-60,000 votes when the full recount is done, if not more.”
“The bottom line is that there is nothing true in all this, and at some point we all have to collectively accept that yelling electoral fraud, when there is no evidence of it, is yelling ‘fire’ in a theater full of people, and it’s damaging the democratic suffrage of our country and the peaceful transition of power, and that we cannot accept ”.
The president continued to push unsubstantiated allegations on Twitter Wednesday night, suggesting that Republican election watchers had been blocked from watching the vote count.
Those claims are not supported by any evidence.
Gino Spocchia12 November 2020 08:21
Election party at the White House is a ‘super spreader’ event
Healy Baumgardner, a former Trump campaign aide and private equity adviser, has become the latest to test positive for Covid-19 after attending a White House election party on Nov. 3, a Bloomberg reporter revealed.
Mark Meadows, White House Chief of Staff; Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and David Bossie, Advisor to the President, also tested positive after the event.
Danielle Zoellner reports:
Gino Spocchia12 November 2020 07:58
Almost half of Republican voters believe in the inauguration of Donald Trump
Among Republicans, only 27 percent of Republicans believe Joe Biden is more likely to be sworn in as President on Inaugural Day, according to a new YouGov poll.
The same poll found that Republicans believed, 47 percent, that Donald Trump was more likely to remain in office, despite his electoral loss to the Democrat last week.
Trump, of course, has yet to give in.
Gino Spocchia12 November 2020 07:26
Trump prepares to execute more prisoners than any other president
Three death row inmates will be executed by the federal government in the time window before Joe Biden takes office, as Donald Trump continues his unprecedented and enthusiastic embrace of capital punishment.
Trump ordered federal executions to resume in July 2019 and this year, on July 14, the first prisoner was killed, ending a 17-year hiatus.
His administration has executed seven people so far this year and expects to execute three more before Christmas, which means it will have executed more people in a single year than any other president.
Furthermore, no president before him has executed prisoners sentenced to death in the “lame duck” period.
The independent Harriet Alexander reports.
Justin vallejoNovember 12, 2020 12:03 AM
Opinion: ‘You are psychologically unable to process this loss’
by Independent voice, Andrew Feinberg writes that government experts are concerned about the ‘crush and grab’ of Donald Trump when he leaves office.
More than 72 hours after statisticians examining the election results independently reported that there is no mathematical route by which he could retain the presidency, Donald Trump continues to deny it. The president appears to have largely abandoned his day-to-day responsibilities, while at the same time deploying governmental authority to prevent Biden from preparing to take office. The 45th president has not had an intelligence briefing on his public agenda since October 1; You haven’t attended a White House Coronavirus Task Force meeting in months; and his aides say that he has spent the days since he lost the election vacillating between discouragement and anger.
Justin vallejoNovember 12, 2020 12:02 AM
CNN team leaves Georgia Republican rally for fear of becoming a coronavirus super-spreading event
A team of CNN journalists walked out of a rally hosted by Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler for fear it would become a coronavirus super-spread event.
CNN correspondent Kyung Lah and her team walked out of the rally on Wednesday citing a lack of security precautions.
Lah explained in a tweet that the rally, which was intended to increase support for Senator David Perdue in his upcoming runoff election against Democrat John Ossoff, was held in a windowless room and many of the attendees were not wearing masks. , despite the recent spikes of infectious Covid-19 across the country.
The tweet contains a photo showing rows of people standing shoulder to shoulder. Few faces are visible, but those that are, appear without a mask.
The independent Graig Graceful reports.
Justin vallejo11 November 2020 23:32
