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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
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
The Insanity Oath  —  Conservatives sense that social progressives have achieved a critical level of consolidation in key institutions: the Democratic Party, the university, and the prestige media.  The occasional purges of old-school liberals from these institutions testify to that fact.
Discussion: HotAir, The Stream and Raw Story
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.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Trump campaign's much-hyped affidavit features a big, glaring error  —  In its wild news conference Thursday, President Trump's legal team promoted a very simple-sounding theory that seems likely to be central to its voter fraud allegations: that many precincts in the key states had more votes …
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Time for Sidney Powell to show us her evidence
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.
Richard Fausset / New York Times:
Top Georgia Election Official Certifies Biden's Win: 'Numbers Don't Lie'
Washington Post:
Trump uses power of presidency to try to overturn the election and stay in office
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Ezra Klein and Lauren Williams are leaving Vox  —  Ezra Klein, co-founder and editor-at-large of Vox.com, the political news website owned by Vox Media, and Lauren Williams, editor-in-chief and senior vice president of Vox.com, are leaving the company, executives tell Axios.
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Yashar Ali / Yashar's Newsletter:
Scoop: Ezra Klein Is Leaving Vox  —  Ezra Klein, the co-founder of Vox who currently serves as editor-at-large, is leaving the publication per three sources familiar with his plans.  —  Three sources familiar with his plans tell me he is likely to join the New York Times under their opinion section.
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Georgia certifies Biden's victory  —  The state of Georgia certified its election results on Friday, officially declaring President-elect Joe Biden the winner.  —  Biden won the state by more than 12,000 votes.  President Donald Trump's campaign is still entitled to request a recount, because of the narrowness of the result.
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Matt Towery / Real Clear Politics:
A Realistic Primer on Georgia's Senate Runoffs
Discussion: Power Line
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.
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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New York Times:   Could Limiting Corporate Candidates Hurt Biden's Diversity Push?
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Mnuchin to End Some Fed Emergency Programs, Limiting Biden
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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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.
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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
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Keith E. Whittington / Washington Post:
Trump's scheme for state legislatures to overturn the election won't work  —  It's a doomed idea, and a bad one  —  President Trump has refused to accept the obvious — that he lost his bid for reelection.  His campaign has pursued increasingly desperate gambits in a bid to flip …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 Law & Crime
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 …
 
 
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David French / The French Press:
Let's Talk About Fear
Roxane Gay / New York Times:
Is This Where We Are, America?  —  Some people oppose students loan forgiveness because they want others to suffer.
Tyler Whetstone / USA Today:
Sen. Lamar Alexander says no evidence of voter fraud, Biden should receive briefings
Discussion: The Hill, Reuters and NBC News
Rebecca Solnit / Literary Hub:
On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
Steve Thompson / Washington Post:
Hogan's first batch of coronavirus tests from South Korea were flawed, never used
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Derek Hunter / Washington Examiner:
Trump fans, Fox News is not the problem
Helen Raleigh / The Federalist:
Insider Tells What It's Really Like In The Trump White House: Cordial And Efficient
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
The Certification of the 2020 US Election Results is on Schedule. Here's a Timeline.
New York Times:
100 Notable Books of 2020  —  The year's notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction …
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Your Political Leaders Hate You And Think You're Stupid
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and Breitbart
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
A Bogus Dispute Is Doing Real Damage
Richard Primus / Politico:
Why Michigan's Top Legislators Should Cancel that Meeting with Trump
 

 
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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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