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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Trump Lawyer: Former DHS Senior Official Should Be Executed — On Monday President Trump's campaign lawyer and former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova said that fired Trump cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs should be executed for saying that the election was the “most secure in United States history.”
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Mairead McArdle / National Review:
Trump Lawyer Says Krebs Should Be ‘Taken Out at Dawn and Shot’ for Defending Election — Trump campaign lawyer Joe diGenova declared Monday that the Trump administration's former cybersecurity chief deserves to be put to death for claiming that the presidential election was the “most secure” in the country's history.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Dr. Scott Atlas resigns as special adviser to Trump on coronavirus — Atlas was considered a Special Government Employee (SGE) serving a 130-day detail, which expires this week — Dr. Scott Atlas slams Dr. Anthony Fauci over newfound COVID optimism — EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Scott Atlas …
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Scott Atlas resigns as Trump's coronavirus adviser
Scott Atlas resigns as Trump's coronavirus adviser
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: : One measure of Trump fatigue in Georgia — among Republicans — By Jim Galloway - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tia Mitchell - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Patricia Murphy - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Politico:
Republicans to Trump: Georgia fraud claims could cost us the Senate — Donald Trump's sustained attacks on the integrity of Georgia's presidential election tally are threatening the Republican Senate majority — and GOP senators are starting to fret. — Even as the key battleground states …
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Barnini Chakraborty / Washington Examiner:
Georgia ordered to file brief in voting machine rigging lawsuit
Georgia ordered to file brief in voting machine rigging lawsuit
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp to Trump: Georgia law blocks him from ‘interfering’ with elections
Kemp to Trump: Georgia law blocks him from ‘interfering’ with elections
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Donald Trump Jr. aides launch super PAC as Georgia worries mount
Donald Trump Jr. aides launch super PAC as Georgia worries mount
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Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Georgia official announces investigations, defends election
Georgia official announces investigations, defends election
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Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Everything we needed to know about Melania Trump is in those bewildering Christmas decorations — It's our final Christmas with Melania Trump, and we shall celebrate in the usual way: by accompanying FLOTUS on an annual tour of her White House decor, a one-minute video that also appears …
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The White House:
First Lady Melania Trump Unveils the 2020 White House Christmas Décor
First Lady Melania Trump Unveils the 2020 White House Christmas Décor
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Washington Post:
Trump raises more than $150 million appealing to false election claims — President Trump's political operation has raised more than $150 million since Election Day, using a blizzard of misleading appeals about the election to shatter fundraising records set during the campaign, according to people with knowledge of the contributions.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Fox News Anchor Maria Bartiromo's Farcical Interview With Trump Marks the End of Her Days as a Journalist — Do you believe in magic? — Maria Bartiromo seems to. During her interview with President Donald Trump on Sunday, the Fox News and Fox Business anchor promoted a Federalist article titled …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Fox News needs to reinvent itself for the post-Trump era. Here's one radical idea.
Fox News needs to reinvent itself for the post-Trump era. Here's one radical idea.
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The GOP Is a Propaganda Party
The GOP Is a Propaganda Party
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Washington Post:
Biden's pick to lead White House budget office emerges as lightning rod for GOP — Neera Tanden, who served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, would face Senate confirmation early next year — President-Elect Joe Biden's pick to lead the powerful White House budget office …
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Nick Paton Walsh / CNN:
The Wuhan files — London — A group of frontline medical workers, likely exhausted, stand huddled together on a video-conference call as China's most powerful man raises his hand in greeting. It is February 10 in Beijing and President Xi Jinping, who for weeks has been absent from public view …
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National Review:
Trump's Disgraceful Endgame — President Trump said the other day that he'd leave office if he loses the vote of the Electoral College on December 14. This is not the kind of assurance presidents of the United States typically need to make, but it was noteworthy given Trump's disgraceful …
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Betsy McKay / Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Likely in U.S. in Mid-December 2019, CDC Scientists Report — New analysis of blood donations finds virus was present on West Coast earlier than previously believed — The new coronavirus infected people in the U.S. in mid-December 2019, a few weeks before it was officially identified …
Politico:
‘Any and all possible offenses’: Trump pardon grants Flynn a sweeping reprieve — President Donald Trump's pardon of his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, includes an extremely broad reprieve from any possible crimes he might have committed connected to special counsel Robert Mueller's …
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Jonathan H. Adler / Reason:
The Pardon Power May Be Broad, But that Does Not Mean a Self-Pardon Would Be Legit
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Vaccines Are Coming, but Pandemic Experts Expect a ‘Horrible’ Winter — With vaccines and a new administration, the pandemic will be tamed. But experts say the coming months “are going to be just horrible.” — Each week, good news about vaccines or antibody treatments surfaces, offering hope that an end to the pandemic is at hand.
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Biden's win over Trump in Wisconsin set to be certified — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Joe Biden's victory in battleground Wisconsin is scheduled to be certified Monday following a partial recount that only added to his 20,600-vote margin over President Donald Trump.
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Grace Panetta / Business Insider:
All major battleground states in the 2020 election officially certify their results, cementing Biden's victory in the presidential race
All major battleground states in the 2020 election officially certify their results, cementing Biden's victory in the presidential race
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Josh Hawley's Populist Shtick Is Undermined By One Glaring Weakness — Josh Hawley has had a pretty good year. The Republican senator from Missouri has carved out a national profile with his smooth blend of theocratic quasi-authoritarianism combined with populist-inflected rhetoric that's …
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The Week
Tricia Ennis / WTVG:
Articles of Impeachment officially filed against Gov. DeWine — The representatives argue that the governor has abused his power during the coronavirus pandemic. — COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVG) - A total of 12 Articles of Impeachment have officially been filed against Gov. Mike DeWine.
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New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: Wisconsin and Arizona Certify Biden's Victory — President-elect Joe Biden formally announced his economic team and received his first full presidential daily briefing. — RIGHT NOW Iowa officials certify a Republican's House victory by six votes.
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Bill Melugin / FOX 11 Los Angeles:
LA County Supervisor dines at restaurant hours after voting to ban outdoor dining — (Photo by Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Pres — SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Just hours after Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl voted to ban outdoor dining at L.A. County's 31,000 restaurants …
Harriet Alexander / Yahoo Finance:
Trump was 'muttering, I won, I won, like ‘Mad King George’ after election defeat, report says — Donald Trump on election night was like “Mad King George, muttering, ‘I won. I won. I won,’ ” according to one close adviser, — who spoke to The Washington Post for a remarkable recap of the 20 days since the election.
Justin George / Washington Post:
Metro budget cuts weekend service, half of bus routes and closes 19 stations amid dire financial forecast — Metro is proposing the elimination of weekend rail service in its budget for the first time as the transit agency's financial struggles deepen amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
How to protect our democracy from a future Donald Trump — American democracy has spent the past four years under attack — from the White House itself. President Trump's authoritarian populism has damaged the foundations of the republic. — Yet Trump's efforts to undermine the system have an unintended benefit.
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Advances Lawsuit Accusing Felix Sater of Laundering Loot Through Trump Properties — A federal judge on Monday partially advanced a lawsuit accusing Russian mafia-tied businessman Felix Sater of laundering millions stolen from Kazakhstan's BTA Bank through Trump Organization properties.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Liberal Hyperbole About Trump's Authoritarianism Was Never the Problem — As Donald Trump started shambling toward the exit of the U.S. presidency last week, the U.S. left confronted the pivotal question hanging over our newfound interregnum: Who gets to say, I told you so?
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Power Line
Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Harris County GOP chair Keith Nielsen resigns after racist post, fundraising struggles — Harris County Republican Party Chairman Keith Nielsen resigned Monday, the party's secretary confirmed, ending a brief tenure dogged by his social media post that displayed a Martin Luther King Jr. quote next to a banana.
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Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
There Aren't Serious-Enough Consequences for Those Trying to Break American Democracy — What the president and his lawyers have been attempting to do deserves punishment that will likely never come. — Donald Trump will not serve a second term. The litigation launched by his campaign …
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