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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Do Trump's Lawyers Know What They Are Doing? — Today several of President Trump's lawyers, including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, held a press conference in which they alleged that they have convincing if not conclusive evidence that the presidential election was rigged …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Americans Deserve the Truth, Even If It's Unpleasant — On the menu today: a blunt message about who is conning whom in the aftermath of the 2020 elections. — You Are Being Conned — Rudy Giuliani, yesterday: … Sidney Powell, yesterday, in the same press conference:
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Axios:
Trump is on an island — Most of President Trump's closest advisers have completely distanced themselves from his legal effort and are avoiding his lawyers to avoid being swept into their courtroom dramas. — Why it matters: Some of the president's advisers act like they think he can still overturn …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump's Attempts to Overturn the Election Are Unparalleled in U.S. History — The president's push to prevent states from certifying electors and get legislators to override voters' will eclipses even the bitter 1876 election as an audacious use of brute political force.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: Growing concern about Trump legal fight — Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter. — Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to receive the newsletter. — GROWING CONCERN ABOUT TRUMP LEGAL FIGHT: Thursday's news conference by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani …
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Washington Post:
Trump uses power of presidency to try to overturn the election and stay in office — President Trump is using the power of his office to try to reverse the results of the election, orchestrating a far-reaching pressure campaign to persuade Republican officials in Michigan …
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Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Time for Sidney Powell to show us her evidence — We asked the Trump campaign attorney for proof of her bombshell claims. She gave us nothing — Tucker: If Trump campaign has voter fraud proof, we need to see it — On Thursday, Rudy Giuliani and a number of President Trump's …
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Sidney Powell fires back: Tucker Carlson was ‘insulting, demanding, and rude’
Sidney Powell fires back: Tucker Carlson was ‘insulting, demanding, and rude’
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New York Times:
Trump Tax Write-Offs Are Ensnared in 2 New York Fraud Investigations — Inquiries into the president and his businesses, one criminal and one civil, are now looking at tax deductions taken on consulting fees. Some of the payments appear to have gone to Ivanka Trump.
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Ivanka Trump calls legal inquiries into Trump business political ‘harassment’
Ivanka Trump calls legal inquiries into Trump business political ‘harassment’
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Reuters:
Why Republican voters say there's ‘no way in hell’ Trump lost — SUNDOWN, Texas (Reuters) - Brett Fryar is like many mainstream Republicans. A 50-year-old chiropractor in this west Texas town, he owns a small business. He has two undergraduate degrees and a master's degree, in organic chemistry.
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Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Mnuchin to End Some Fed Emergency Programs, Limiting Biden — The Treasury Department asked the Federal Reserve to return unused funds, which could prevent a new secretary from restarting key loan programs. — WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he does not plan …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republican Senate signals it will confirm Biden Cabinet — Senate Republicans are signaling they will confirm most of President-elect Joe Biden's Cabinet picks in January — a rare bright spot for a White House that may clash with a GOP majority for years to come.
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Sanders, Warren under scrutiny as Biden weighs Cabinet picks
Sanders, Warren under scrutiny as Biden weighs Cabinet picks
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Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Blunt 2020 lessons for media, America — All of us — and the media, in particular — need some clear-eyed, humble self-reflection as the dust settles on the 2020 election results. — Here are a few preliminary Axios learnings. — The media remains fairly clueless about the America …
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Richard Fausset / New York Times:
Transition Live Updates: 'Numbers Don't Lie,' Says Republican Official Who Will Certify Biden's Georgia Win — Georgia's secretary of state will formally declare President-elect Joe Biden the winner of the state's 16 electoral votes, dealing a blow to President Trump's effort to overturn the national election.
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CNN:
Trump told ally he's trying to get back at Democrats for questioning legitimacy of his own election — (CNN)President Donald Trump told an ally that he knows he lost, but that he is delaying the transition process and is aggressively trying to sow doubt about the election results in order …
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Matt Towery / Real Clear Politics:
A Realistic Primer on Georgia's Senate Runoffs — COMMENTARY — In the classic movie “The Godfather,” Michael Corleone travels to a small restaurant in the Bronx to meet with a rival Mafia boss. At the table the boss tells a corrupt policeman who is there to serve as a third-party witness …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A GOP civil war rattles Georgia Republicans at inconvenient time
A GOP civil war rattles Georgia Republicans at inconvenient time
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Steve Thompson / Washington Post:
Hogan's first batch of coronavirus tests from South Korea were flawed, never used — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) spent $9.46 million in state funding to import 500,000 coronavirus tests from South Korea that turned out to be flawed and weren't used, emails, documents and interviews show.
Robert Faturechi / Georgia Public Broadcasting:
Georgia Senator David Perdue Privately Pushed For Tax Break For Rich Sports Team Owners — Robert Faturechi and - Justin Elliott — It's unclear why Senator Perdue was interested in tax regulation that would impact only a tiny set of the richest Americans.
Chuck Goudie / ABC7:
Disturbing new details in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer — CHICAGO (WLS) — There is new and disturbing information in the alleged militia plot against the governor of Michigan. — The 14 men charged had far more violent plans than just a kidnapping, according to federal and state authorities.
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Detroit News:
It's time to stand behind election results and move on — The two of us, Republican and Democrat, disagree on many issues. But we agree — and we think most Americans agree — on a bedrock principle of democracy: that in our system, the will of the people prevails.
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Derek Hunter / Washington Examiner:
Trump fans, Fox News is not the problem — I'm all for competition, especially on the battlefield of ideas. It makes all involved better. Without competition, no records would be broken, no championships would be won — life would be boring. That's why I support the idea of a competitor …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Clown Coup Crisis — On another terrible week for American democracy. — In a way, we are ending the week where we began it: Donald Trump still did not win the 2020 Presidential election, and he is still, on Friday as he was on Monday, holed up in the White House, challenging Joe Biden's victory.
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
Hospitals Know What's Coming — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — Perhaps no hospital in the United States was better-prepared for a pandemic than the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
A Bogus Dispute Is Doing Real Damage — Conspiracy theories are damaging the country today and will hurt Republicans tomorrow. — No hard evidence of widespread fraud, no success in the courts or prospect of it. You can have a theory that a bad thing was done, but only facts will establish it.
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New York Times:
How Steve Bannon and a Chinese Billionaire Created a Right-Wing Coronavirus Media Sensation — Increasingly allied, the American far right and members of the Chinese diaspora tapped into social media to give a Hong Kong researcher a vast audience for peddling unsubstantiated pandemic claims.
Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wages, new study finds — Official government figures show that unemployment around the U.S. has fallen sharply since peaking at nearly 15% in April as the coronavirus was shuttering businesses left and right.
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
The Trump Campaign's Lack of Evidence in the Pennsylvania Case Dooms It to Failure (On Top of Everything Else): What GOP Senators (And Everyone Else) Need to Know Today — Yesterday Jenna Ellis of the Trump campaign (who had comically attacked me for noting that one of campaign's proposed orders erred …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rick Scott tests positive for coronavirus — Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said on Friday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, roughly a week after he started self-quarantining. — Scott, in a statement, said that after getting multiple negative results, a test that he took on Tuesday came back positive on Friday morning.
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NBC News:
Trump is trying to overturn an election he didn't win. We didn't get here by accident — WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Georgia officials confirmed through a hand count that Joe Biden had won the state in the presidential election. — Today, on Friday, President Trump meets with top GOP lawmakers …
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Alex Yablon / New Republic:
Why Police Back Gun Guys … Three years since Charlottesville, armed clashes at street protests over racial justice are still a defining feature of American politics, but the constellation of participants has changed. The white supremacists who paraded in fascist sword-and-sandals kitsch …
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Your Political Leaders Hate You And Think You're Stupid — Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. — One thing should be abundantly clear by now, after ten months of this pandemic: our political leaders hate us and they think we're stupid. Nothing else can explain the blatant hypocrisy we've seen …
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New York Times:
100 Notable Books of 2020 — The year's notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review … The Aosawa Murders — BY RIKU ONDA. Translated by Alison Watts. $14.95. Paperback. Bitter Lemon. — Onda's strange, engrossing novel …
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