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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has said that company executives will not “cut the line” for vaccination, but said he will soon be injecting to help “build trust in the company.”

In an interview with CNBC on Monday, Mr. Bourla said he had not yet received the vaccine for ethical reasons, as there are very strict allocation rules.

“I am 59 years old, in good health, I am not working on the front line. Therefore, it is not recommended that my type be vaccinated,” he said.

The independent Louise Hall reports.

Joe Biden, addressing the country shortly after state voters declared him president-elect, criticized Donald Trump for mounting an “extreme” and “unprecedented attack on our democracy.”

A sometimes emotional and energetic incoming president called Trump’s claims a “rigged election” nothing less than “unconscionable,” and said in a short speech from Wilmington, Delaware that Monday’s Electoral College vote that made him the winner showed that the 2020 elections were “Honest, and it was free and fair.”

He commended state and local officials who endured the death and other threats of violence from Trump supporters. And they wouldn’t be intimidated. It was really extraordinary. ”Mr. Biden said.

In particular, the president-elect and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee – himself a lawyer by training – noted that the outgoing president was allowed “all legal avenues” to pursue his allegations of fraud.

John T Bennett takes a closer look at Biden’s speech.

After his first speech as president-elect confirmed by the Electoral College, Joe Biden ignored questions from the media about the FBI investigation into his son Hunter Biden.

As Biden left the podium, a reporter can be heard asking, “Mr. President-elect, when did you learn that your son is being investigated?”

After hugging his wife, Biden turned to the reporter and ignored the question.

“Thanks for the congratulations, I appreciate it,” said Biden.

And it turns out that Trump was no evil genius after all, writes Nathan Place to Independent voices.

“Do you remember all those terrible things Donald Trump was going to do? On November 3, he was going to foment violence at the polls; he was going to get Russia and China to launch cyberattacks on his behalf; he was going to get rogue state legislators.” To sabotage the electoral college, he was going to take his electoral fraud case to the Supreme Court and he was going to win.

“And then he didn’t.”

“The Trump campaign brought dozens and dozens and dozens of legal challenges to prove the result. They were heard over and over again. And each time they were heard, they were found to have no merit, “says Biden.

He added that the legal challenges against the electoral results “refused to respect the will of the people, they refused to respect the rule of law and they refused to respect our constitution.”

“In America, politicians don’t take power, people give them power,” says Biden.

“The flame of democracy was lit in this nation long ago, and now we know that nothing, not even a pandemic or an abuse of power, can extinguish that flame.”

“Once again in America, the rule of law, the Constitution and the will of the people prevail,” says Biden.

Donald Trump has appointed Jeffrey Rosen, Bill Barr’s current Deputy Attorney General, as Acting Attorney General.

Rosen, whom the president called “an outstanding person,” had previously served under Elaine Chao as an undersecretary for transportation prior to his appointment to the Justice Department, replacing Rod Rosenstein as then deputy attorney general.

Before taking up his role in the Trump administration, Rosen joined the Office of Management and Budget as a general counsel and senior policy adviser under former President George W. Bush. He remained in office until 2009.

Mr. Rosen is also a partner in one of the world’s most profitable law firms, Kirkland & Ellis, which has represented a wide range of controversial clients, including Bain Capital, BP, and Jeffrey Epstein.

The independent Alex Woodward takes a closer look at the person in the Attorney General’s chair during the final weeks of the Trump administration.

Michael Cohen wants to see Donald Trump in court after he left office to testify as part of a lawsuit he filed against the Trump Organization in 2019.

The president’s former personal attorney and “fixer” is suing his former boss for nearly $ 2 million in legal bills he racked up through his involvement in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigations and Congressional investigations into Trump.

Court documents seen by The New York Post show that the president will be deposed as a witness in the case in which Cohen claims that Trump’s company agreed to indemnify him for all legal costs.

The independent Oliver O’Connell Reports.

William Barr, Donald Trump’s handpicked attorney general, had followed the line before. But he finally crossed it when he essentially said his boss lost his re-election bid fairly, writes John T Bennett.

“By essentially ousting Mr. Barr, the president demonstrated once again that loyalty, for him, is a one-way street. The attorney general told an interviewer late last month that the Justice Department had not found any evidence of the widespread voter fraud alleged by Trump and his campaign attorneys.

“At Trump World, that is a cardinal sin.”