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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:
National Review:
Trump's Disgraceful Gambit  —  Americans Deserve the Truth, Even If It's Unpleasant  —  Trump's Election Disinformation: Three 'Don't's  —  Georgia Recount Confirms Biden Win in State  —  Memo to Raphael Warnock: Hundreds of U.S. Chaplains Have Been Killed in the Line of Duty
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 …
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Sidney Powell fires back: Tucker Carlson was ‘insulting, demanding, and rude’  —  Sidney Powell, an attorney on President Trump's election legal team, shot back at Fox News host Tucker Carlson the morning after he said she “got angry” and refused to provide evidence on his show for her claims of voting software flipping votes.
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 …
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Time for Sidney Powell to show us her evidence
Washington Post:
Trump uses power of presidency to try to overturn the election and stay in office
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   The Trump campaign's much-hyped affidavit features a big, glaring error
Politico:
Yellen (seems) headed to Treasury  —  PROGRAMMING NOTE: Morning Money will not publish on Thursday, Nov. 26 and Friday, Nov. 27.  We'll be back on our normal schedule on Monday, Nov. 30.  —  Editor's Note: Morning Money is a free version of POLITICO Pro Financial Services' morning newsletter …
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Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Mnuchin to End Some Fed Emergency Programs, Limiting Biden
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.
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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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 …
Discussion: Power Line
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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 …
Discussion: Washingtonian and New York Times
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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Richard Primus / Politico:
Why Michigan's Top Legislators Should Cancel that Meeting with Trump
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Vox, Snopes.com and Truthout
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.
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.
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
I Traced My Covid-19 Bubble and It's Enormous  —  And if you have kids, yours probably is, too.  —  Experts and officials are unequivocal: Stay home for the holidays.  Getting together with family for Thanksgiving without quarantining beforehand is like “bringing a loaded pistol for Grandma's head …
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Team Lacks Full U.S. Cybersecurity Support in Transition Fracas  —  The incoming administration is working remotely, operating on a standard, paid Google network  —  WASHINGTON—When it comes to protecting sensitive information from foreign hackers, President-elect Joe Biden's team is largely on its own.
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.
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Merrick Garland Among Biden Candidates For Attorney General, Sources Say  —  Federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland is under consideration to serve as attorney general in the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, NPR has learned from two people closely following the process.
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.
Bart Jansen / USA Today:
President-elect Biden names four White House staffers, including directors for legislative affairs and personnel  —  President-elect Joe Biden named four more officials Friday to White House posts - including directors overseeing congressional lobbying and personnel - as he prepares to take office Jan. 20.
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and Breitbart
 
 
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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: The evidence doesn't support closing schools to stop the coronavirus
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Rebecca Solnit / Literary Hub:
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Derek Hunter / Washington Examiner:
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
The Certification of the 2020 US Election Results is on Schedule. Here's a Timeline.
Tim Teeman / The Daily Beast:
Hairstylists Say Rudy Giuliani's TV Disaster Should Be a Lesson to Us All
Discussion: Alternet.org
New York Times:
100 Notable Books of 2020  —  The year's notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction …
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Shant Shahrigian / New York Daily News:
COVID-19 rules appear ignored at birthday party featuring Brooklyn political players
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Hear It for Yourself: Rudy Giuliani Flubs Law and Facts in Federal Court as Pa. Counties Skewer ‘Disgraceful’ Performance
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Financial Times:
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Reporters Without Borders:
Investigation: how hack-for-hire Appin tried silencing 15+ outlets since 2022 over articles, newsletters, and podcasts covering Appin's “ethical hacking”

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: CNN is considering making network anchor Kaitlan Collins its chief White House correspondent and relocating her show from New York to DC

 
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