Trump News Live: The Latest Updates As President Leans To Texas Demand As Last Election Hope

Donald Trump was mocked after he complained about how the country is run, even though he runs it.

The outgoing president took to Twitter and continued to complain about his electoral loss to Joe Biden more than a month after being defeated.

“If someone cheated in the election, which the Democrats did, why wouldn’t the election be immediately annulled? How can you manage such a country? ” he wrote.

The independent Graeme Massie has the reaction on Twitter, which is exactly as expected.

The US government has sued Facebook and demanded that it be dismantled for “unfairly” crushing its competition.

The Federal Trade Commission and 48 states accused the social media giant of being a monopoly that has illegally eliminated competition by buying from rivals.

The separate lawsuits claim that the company’s purchases, particularly Instagram for $ 1 billion in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 for $ 19 billion, destroyed competition that could have challenged its dominance of the industry.

With the purchases, Facebook, now worth more than $ 800 billion, controlled three of the most popular messaging and social media apps.

The antitrust legal action was announced by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Kim Kardashian West has urged Donald Trump to pardon a death row inmate on the eve of his scheduled execution date.

The former candidate for First Lady pleaded guilty to Bernard, who was convicted in 2000 of participating in a robbery scheme that ended with the murder of two people when he was 18 years old.

She could be in a fight, and Trump is reportedly handing out pardons like candy.

SpaceX has conducted the first major flight test of its Starship spacecraft, reaching a height of 12.5 km before ending in a massive fireball explosion.

Despite the failure, the test flight marks an important milestone in sending humans to Mars.

The Starship SN8 failed in a similar attempt of the 12.5 km suborbital flight on Tuesday with just 1.3 seconds to take off.

Before the test, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had predicted that there was only a one in three chance that the launch and landing would be successful.

Anthony Cuthbertson follows the story as it unfolds.

Senate Republicans rejected an attempt to block Donald Trump’s intention to sell advanced fighter jets and other weapons to a long-time Middle Eastern ally, as some lawmakers raised concerns about regional instability.

The vote is perhaps the latest legislative foreign policy victory for the outgoing president, and it comes after this week the White House pressured senators to vote against the resolution. Forty-nine senators voted against the measure, with 47 in favor.

The Trump administration is planning a $ 23 billion sale of F-35 fighter jets, Reaper armed drones and ammunition to the United Arab Emirates. Senate Foreign Relations Senior Robert Menendez joined Democratic Senator Chris Murphy and Republican Senator Rand Paul in defending the “insider resolution.”

But, breaking with tradition, the Trump White House did not report that the proposed transaction was in process. Administrations often inform members of Congressional committees that focus on national security and foreign affairs when they are even considering such a sale.

John T Bennett follows the story as it unfolds.

The Maga faithful will no longer make Donald Trump’s childhood home their own.

A GoFundMe campaign was launched to raise $ 3 million to buy the president’s former home in New York at auction on January 20, the day he is scheduled to leave the White House.

But only $ 125 has been raised from 10 donations after more than two weeks of campaigning, and some of those small donations come from users called “Shame On You Trump,” “TrumpUF * ck” and other less publishable names.

Apparently, no one wants to donate more cash than they already sent to the Trump campaign to pay off debts, launch a litany of legal challenges to election results or fill their coffers for another presidential race in 2024.

The GoFundMe page of property owner Paramount Realty USA listing agent says they are raising funds for Trump’s home, either for him or for a charity of his choice “as a token of appreciation.”

Trump’s father, real estate developer Fred Trump, built the house in 1940 and the president lived there for up to four years.

Watch Trump strolling down memory lane over the house in an episode of Jimmy Fallon.

The Michigan House of Representatives on Wednesday removed Democrat Cynthia Johnson from her committee duties after she posted a video on Facebook warning Trumpers and asking soldiers to “make them pay.”

“So this is just a warning to you Trumpers. Be careful. Walk carefully. We are not playing with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough,” Johnson states in the video.

“And for those of you who are soldiers, you know how to do it. Get it right. Be in order. Make them pay. I love you all.”

Republicans Lee Chatfield, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Jason Wentworth, the president-elect issued a joint announcement saying that Johnson has been removed from her assignments and that they are investigating new disciplinary measures while authorities investigate the video, which was referred to the police.

“Threats to Democrats or Republicans are unacceptable and un-American. They are even more unfit for an elected official, ”the ad read.

“We have been consistent in our position on this: violence and intimidation are never appropriate in politics. We’ve said this about the threats against Governor Whitmer, Secretary (of State Jocelyn) Benson, Rep. Johnson herself, and others. That applies to threats directed at public officials, and should also apply when the threats come from public officials. Behavior like this will not be tolerated this term or the next. ”

Rudy Giuliani’s so-called star witness, Melissa Carone, is making headlines again for failing to quarantine or get tested for Covid-19, which she says was created by Barack Obama in a Wuhan virus lab.

Ms. Carone’s testimony delivered with Giuliani in Michigan went viral after she alleged that Detroit poll workers smuggled “tens of thousands” of ballots that were scanned twice.

He received millions of views, his own Saturday Night Live parody and most likely a high dose of Covid-19 after giving his testimony for 30 minutes alongside Mr. Giuliani, who has since tested positive for the virus.

In a series of interviews this week, Ms Carone said she’s not worried about contracting the virus and made bizarre and unsubstantiated claims that it was created at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with funding from the Obama administration.

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President-elect’s son says fiscal matters are handled ‘legally and properly’

Texas has joined 17 other red states in their long lawsuit before the Supreme Court to try to reverse the electoral defeat of Donald Trump.