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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 Lawyer Says Krebs Should Be ‘Taken Out at Dawn and Shot’ for Defending Election
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Joe Walsh / Forbes:
Trump Campaign Lawyer Suggested Executing Ex-DHS Staffer Chris Krebs
Trump Campaign Lawyer Suggested Executing Ex-DHS Staffer Chris Krebs
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump campaign lawyer says former cybersecurity chief should be ‘shot’
Trump campaign lawyer says former cybersecurity chief should be ‘shot’
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New York Times:
Trump Raises $170 Million as He Denies His Loss and Eyes the Future — The president's campaign has ratcheted up its appeals for cash, but the first 75 percent of every contribution is going to a new political action committee that could fund his next political move.
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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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Washington Post:
Bipartisan group of Senators prepares $908 billion stimulus plan, aiming to break partisan logjam — Package comes amid signs economy is weakening but so far does not have buy in from White House, congressional leaders — A bipartisan group of senators is expected to unveil …
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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New York Times:
As Trump Attacks Georgia Republicans, Party Worries About Senate Races — Some Republicans in the state fear that the doubt President Trump is sowing about the fairness of the election could depress turnout for the crucial Senate runoff races. — President Trump's sustained assault …
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Yashar Ali / Yashar's Newsletter:
Scoop: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to Name Tina Flournoy as Chief of Staff — Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is set to name Tina Flournoy, who currently serves as chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton, as her chief of staff, according to two sources involved in transition planning.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump campaign to file Wisconsin lawsuit, claiming ‘abuse’ of absentee voting affected 220K ballots — Campaign alleges tens of thousands of votes were cast ‘well outside of the bounds of Wisconsin law’ — Trump slams judges' election decisions — EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign is filing …
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Trump's latest Fox News rant was one of his most dangerous. Republicans can't ignore it.
Trump's latest Fox News rant was one of his most dangerous. Republicans can't ignore it.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Maria Bartiromo's phenomenal flop
Maria Bartiromo's phenomenal flop
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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 …
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Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Ohio GOP lawmakers are trying to impeach Gov. Mike DeWine over his covid-19 rules. He says they're ignoring reality. — While trying to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) has faced throngs of armed protesters at the statehouse and crowds outside his own home.
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Tricia Ennis / WTVG:
Articles of Impeachment officially filed against Gov. DeWine
Articles of Impeachment officially filed against Gov. DeWine
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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 …
Graeme Massie / The Independent:
Ivanka Trump ‘Not Wanted’ posters appear across New York City — Frontier-style placards appear weeks before president leaves White House — Ivanka Trump should not expect a warm welcome back in New York after a string of “Not Wanted” posters appeared across Manhattan.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: FDA chief called to West Wing — White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has summoned FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn to the West Wing for a 9:30am meeting Tuesday to explain why he hasn't moved faster to approve the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, two senior administration officials told Axios.
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Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Kristi Noem's Grandmother Died in Nursing Home Ravaged by COVID — 'IT'S EVERYWHERE' … And yet the South Dakota governor continues to downplay the virus, refuse a mask mandate, and ignore the terrible price her state is paying. — On Monday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem buried her grandmother …
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The Daily Beast:
Neera Tanden Mean-Tweeted GOP Lawmakers—Until She Needed Their Votes — More than 1,000 tweets have disappeared from Biden OMB nominee Neera Tanden's Twitter feed in the last month - including many that were critical of Republican senators. — President-elect Joe Biden's choice for budget chief does not pull punches online.
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Bernieworld seethes over Tanden as OMB nominee
Bernieworld seethes over Tanden as OMB nominee
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
A Question for Donald Trump: What Do You Call Someone Who Loses to ‘a Loser’? — The exiting POTUS has been engaged in some odd word play these last two weeks. If Joe Biden is pathetic, what does that make him? — BEAST INSIDE … Riddle me this, Donald: What does losing to a loser make you?
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
GOP silence on Trump's false election claims recalls McCarthy era — (CNN)The silence of congressional Republican leaders as President Donald Trump's unfounded claims of election fraud grow wilder and more venomous increasingly resembles the party's deference to Sen. Joe McCarthy during …
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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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
The MAGA Coalition Rallying Behind Trump's Post-Election Mischief Is Already Cracking — The Million MAGA March was supposed to be a sign of strength for the defeated president. But leaders quickly began feuding over direction and credit. — BEAST INSIDE
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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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David Armstrong / ProPublica:
States With Few Coronavirus Restrictions Are Spreading the Virus Beyond Their Borders — Lax states are attracting shoppers and students from stricter neighbors — and sending back COVID-19 cases. The imbalance underscores the lack of a national policy.
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Supreme Court weighs child-slavery case against Nestlé USA, Cargill — Despite years of promises by the chocolate industry, child labor remains widespread on cocoa farms — An effort to hold U.S. chocolate companies responsible for child labor on farms supplying their cocoa goes …
Matt Grossman / Wall Street Journal:
Nasdaq Proposes Board-Diversity Rule for Listed Companies — Exchange operator seeks to require companies to have at least one female board member, plus one from an underrepresented minority — Nasdaq Inc. aims to require listed companies to include women and people of diverse racial identities …
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Jordan Pascale / DCist:
WMATA Proposes Reducing Service, Cutting Weekend Trains In 2021 — Facing the grimmest budget projections in its 50-year history, Metro is proposing the complete elimination of weekend service. — It is one of a series of staggering cuts the transit agency may need to make in the next fiscal year …
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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