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5:45 PM ET, December 23, 2020

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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Trump vetoes defense bill, teeing up holiday override votes in Congress  —  President Trump made good Wednesday on his repeated threats to veto a $741 billion defense spending bill, setting up what is expected to be the first successful veto override of his presidency during his last weeks in office.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump detonates a truth bomb in the Georgia Senate races  —  President Trump might not realize it, but he just handed Democrats a big weapon to wield against the two Republican senators running in the Georgia runoffs.  —  By abruptly calling for $2,000 stimulus checks on Tuesday night …
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Trump vetoes defense bill, setting up showdown with Congress  —  President Donald Trump vetoed major defense policy legislation Wednesday, sending the measure back to Congress for what could be the first successful override of his presidency if enough Republicans are willing to defy the commander in chief.
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
GOP Voters Say They'd Back Trump Over Congressional Republicans
Discussion: Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and IJR
CNN:
Trump vetoes massive defense bill despite overwhelming GOP support
Discussion: Florida Politics and Mother Jones
Claudia Grisales / NPR:
Trump Vetoes Defense Bill, Setting Up Congressional Vote To Potentially Override Him
Axios:
Trump unleashes signature chaos with stimulus threat and wave of controversial pardons
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Giuliani told to preserve all records as lawyers for Dominion warn legal action is ‘imminent’  —  (CNN)A defamation law firm representing Dominion Voting Systems has sent letters to White House counsel Pat Cipollone and President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani instructing …
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New York Times:
A President Unhappy, Unleashed and Unpredictable  —  President Trump remains the most powerful man in the world, but powerless to achieve what he most wants: to avoid leaving office as a loser.  —  With four weeks left in President Trump's term, he is at perhaps his most unleashed — and …
The Daily Beast:
‘This Is Just What Jared Does’: Kushner Bails on Trump's Mission to Destroy the 2020 Election  —  The president's son-in-law has developed a reputation in Trumpland for being conspicuously absent when things turn rocky.  —  As President Donald Trump tries to nullify the 2020 election …
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Politico:
Trump White House staffers receive conflicting messages about their departure  —  Conflicting internal memos created confusion inside the White House on Wednesday about when staffers in the Executive Office of the President should begin preparing to leave work ahead of the transition next month.
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
What happened to Maria Bartiromo?  The Trump election fraud story has the TV news biz asking  —  When a public company makes news, a chief executive can expect a text or call from Maria Bartiromo.  —  The veteran business journalist, now an anchor at Fox News, made her bones by getting sit-downs …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Maria Bartiromo Duped Into On-Air Interview With Animal Rights Activist Posing as CEO of Pork Giant  —  Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo interviewed an animal rights activist posing as the CEO of food processing company Smithfield for an entire segment on Wednesday morning.
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
What happened to Maria Bartiromo?
more at Mediagazer »
NBC New York:
Andrew Yang Files Paperwork to Run for New York City Mayor  —  Businessman and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has filed paperwork to run for mayor of New York City, the city's Campaign Finance Board confirmed on Wednesday.  —  Yang's filing has the potential to immediately upend …
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Andrew Yang plans run for NYC mayor, files paperwork
Discussion: Politico
Business Insider:
EXCLUSIVE: A deputy to Eric Trump helped build a campaign shell company to protect the president from grift.  But the secretive operation morphed into a mystery — even for top Trump campaign staffers. … - One of Eric Trump's top deputies played an important role overseeing …
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Business Insider:   Democratic lawmaker says Trump campaign shell company was a campaign committee, likely broke law by not reporting or filing with the FEC
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: No one knows how this ends  —  SO HOW DOES THIS END?  That's a damn good question.  —  NO ONE KNOWS.  Some say President DONALD TRUMP is in burn-it-down mode and is more than willing to veto the Covid relief/funding package, ending his presidency in a lengthy shutdown, with bluster and crisis.
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Kadia Goba / Axios:
Scoop: Pistol-packing freshmen prompt Congress gun review  —  Several incoming House freshmen have inquired about carrying guns into the Capitol, leading a board overseeing congressional security to rethink a regulation banning members from packing heat under the dome, a House aide with direct knowledge of the board review told Axios.
Brad Polumbo / Washington Examiner:
Trump is totally right to call the stimulus deal a ‘disgrace’  —  Never averse to drama, President Trump castigated the $900 billion stimulus package Congress passed earlier this week as a “disgrace” in a fiery speech on Tuesday.  —  “Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries …
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Stop lying about the relief bill
Discussion: TIME and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Stalling recovery raises stakes for Trump's new demands on economic relief bill
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
The U.S. has vaccinated just 1 million people out of a goal of 20 million for December  — The CDC said just 1,008,025 shots had been administered as of Wednesday at 9 a.m. ET.  — That's roughly 19 million doses shy of earlier projections for December.
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Voting machine company executive sues Trump allies for defamation  —  Dominion CEO debunks ‘bizarre allegations’ pushed by Trump team  —  Washington (CNN)An executive for a voting machine company that has been the target of conspiracy theories in the aftermath of Donald Trump's 2020 election loss …
Tom Knowles / The Times:
Octopuses are ocean thugs that punch fish  —  Despite its extraordinary intelligence, the life of an octopus is a solitary one.  So perhaps it is no wonder that the mighty brained cephalopod engages in a little thuggery to relieve the boredom.  —  Scientists have discovered that, on occasions …
David Tarrant / Dallas Morning News:
Fort Worth pastor who urged ‘faith over fear’ in the pandemic mourns parents who died of COVID complications  —  The pastor of 2nd Mile Church in north Fort Worth, where his parents were members, said he was surprised by the sudden surge in COVID cases in recent weeks in Tarrant County.
Marc Ambinder / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Secret Service Has No Plan if Trump Refuses to Go  —  But they do have procedures for handling trespassers.  —  If there are any checklists or plans, procedures or guidelines for the Secret Service to follow in the event of an autogolpe—a Latin American-style crisis …
Davey Alba / New York Times:
Pennsylvania man is accused of casting Trump vote for his dead mother.  —  Shortly after the November election, the Trump campaign circulated on its Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as its website, the names of seven dead Americans in the battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Discussion: Business Insider
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
Public Statement  —  Statement of SEC Chairman Jay Clayton  —  I recently submitted a letter to President Donald J. Trump informing him that today, December 23, 2020, will be my last day as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.  The text of the letter is included below.
Discussion: Bloomberg
 
 
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Trump's Very Swampy Pardon of a Ben Carson Crony
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Lawsuit tries to block effort to disqualify Georgia voters
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Axios:
U.S. considering closing Iraqi embassy after rocket attack
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Lev Parnas argues timing of his arrest was orchestrated to protect Trump
Discussion: Salon and The Intellectualist
CNN:
Tensions intensify between Biden and Pentagon over stalled transition briefings
Discussion: Raw Story
Tessa Duvall / Courier-Journal:
Challenge coin for Louisville officers, meant to depict protests, shows city on fire
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Israel tries to use Milley as conduit to Biden on Iran
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$600 checks are a “crime,” says the pope's favorite economist
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