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10:20 PM ET, January 4, 2021

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Dan Primack / Axios:
Dominion plans to sue Sidney Powell, doesn't rule out Trump  —  Dominion Voting Systems plans to sue attorney Sidney Powell “imminently” for defamation, and is continuing to explore similar suits against President Trump and others, company founder and CEO John Poulos told the Axios Re:Cap podcast on Monday.
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Rudy Takala / Mediaite:
Martha MacCallum Grills Brad Raffensperger on Leaking Trump Call: ‘It Feels Like This is Very Much About a Grudge’  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) sparred with Fox News' Martha MacCallum over the details of who recorded his phone call with President Donald Trump …
Washington Post:
Trump sabotaging GOP on his way out of office with push to overturn election  —  President Trump is effectively sabotaging the Republican Party on his way out of office, obsessed with overturning his election loss and nursing pangs of betrayal from allies whom he had expected to bend the instruments of democracy to his will.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs Asks Why It Has Been So Hard ‘Finding Actual Proof’ of Trump's Baseless Election Claims  —  Fox Business' Lou Dobbs is continuing to side with President Donald Trump's baseless claims about the election being “stolen” from him.  —  On Monday, Dobbs said the following:
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Bice: Milwaukee law firm ‘concerned’ by attorney's role in Trump call trying to upend Georgia election results  —  A Milwaukee-based law firm is distancing itself from one of the attorneys involved in President Donald Trump's disturbing call trying to overturn the results of the Georgia election.
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Atlanta-Based U.S. Attorney Abruptly Departs Office Sooner Than Expected  —  The U.S. attorney in Atlanta departed his post Monday, TPM has learned, after previously indicating that he would not leave until Inauguration Day.  —  The reason for U.S. Attorney Byung “BJay” Pak's change of plans are not clear.
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Donald Trump Should Be Prosecuted for His Shakedown of Georgia's Brad Raffensperger  —  President Donald Trump likely broke both federal and state law in a Saturday phone call during which he encouraged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the state's election results.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Loeffler to object to certification of presidential election results  —  Source says she will likely object to certification of Georgia's presidential election results  —  Sen. Loeffler: Warnock's values are ‘out of step with Georgia’  —  EXCLUSIVE: Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
An Insurgency From Inside the Oval Office  —  President Trump's effort to overturn the election he lost has gone beyond mere venting of grievances at the risk of damaging the very American democracy he is charged with defending.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's relentless effort to overturn …
Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Tried 18 Times To Get Ahold Of GA Sec Of State Before Bullying Him In Irate Call
NBC News:
Trump pushed QAnon and 4chan-created conspiracy theories in Georgia call
Discussion: Washington Post and Slate
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Trump's Call Leaves Allies Fearful for American Democracy
Discussion: DNyuz and The Daily Caller
Marc Caputo / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The backstory of Trump's Georgia call
NBC News:
Democrats ask FBI Director Wray to open criminal probe into Trump after leaked phone call
Rep. Jamie Raskin / Medium:
Statement of Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin on the Remarkable Life of Tommy Raskin  —  TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin:  —  “On January 30, 1995 …
Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News and KDFX-TV
Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader arrested in the burning of Black Lives Matter banner, D.C. police say  —  The leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, was arrested by D.C. police late Monday afternoon on a warrant charging him with burning a Black Lives Matter banner taken from a historic Black church during …
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Will Carless / USA Today:
Proud Boys leader arrested for destruction of property ahead of DC protests against election results  —  Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was arrested Monday afternoon in Washington, D.C., shortly after landing in the nation's capital to attend rallies protesting President Donald Trump's loss in November's election.
New York Times:
Live Updates: Georgia Official Blasts Trump for Repeating Falsehoods on Eve of Two Critical Senate Runoffs
New York Times:
Pharmacist Accused of Tampering With Vaccine Was Conspiracy Theorist, Police Say  —  The police say a Wisconsin pharmacist believed the Moderna vaccine would harm people and tried to sabotage the effort to vaccinate frontline workers.  —  A pharmacist who was arrested on charges …
Discussion: The Daily Beast, KDFX-TV and Raw Story
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Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Prosecutor: Wisconsin pharmacist thought vaccine was unsafe  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin pharmacist convinced the world was “crashing down” told police he tried to ruin hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine because he believed the shots would mutate people's DNA, according to court documents released Monday.
Washington Post:
Cleta Mitchell, a key figure in president's phone call, was an early backer of Trump's election fraud claims  —  On Nov. 7, the day that major media organizations projected Joe Biden had won the presidency, Republican attorney Cleta Mitchell appeared on Fox News with her own projection: The election was far from over.
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Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
Scottish airport sets off speculation that Trump may flee the country  —  A news report in Scotland is touching off rampant speculation on Twitter that Donald Trump may flee the country before President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated and he becomes subject to arrest for the many crimes he's been accused of committing.
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Scott Carroll / KATV-TV:
Arkansas governor: ‘Joe Biden is our president-elect and he will be confirmed’
Discussion: Washington Times
Alexis Stevens / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: U.S. Attorney for North Georgia resigns, effective immediately  —  U.S. Attorney Byung J.  “BJay” Pak resigned his position Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia.In October 2017, Pak was sworn into office after being appointed …
TMZ.com:
Tanya Roberts' Partner Explains Why He Thought She Had Died  —  4:25 PM PT — We just spoke with Lance, Tanya's long-term partner.  He tells us he went to the hospital Sunday after getting a call from doctors saying Tanya was fading fast, and it was going to end in her death.
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Associated Press:
Urging calm, DC mayor calls in National Guard for protests
New York Times:
Pence's Choice: Side With the Constitution or His Boss  —  The vice president will preside on Wednesday when Congress convenes to ratify Joe Biden's victory.  President Trump still seems to hold out hope that his loyal No. 2 could change the outcome.  —  WASHINGTON — Speaking to supporters …
Yuval Levin / National Review:
Failures of Leadership in a Populist Age  —  For many years now, an important segment of the Republican electorate has been increasingly frustrated with the elites who lead our core institutions.  The political outlook of these voters has come to be defined by that frustration …
George Will / Washington Post:
Hawley, Cruz and their Senate cohort are the Constitution's most dangerous domestic enemies  —  On a conference call last Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his caucus that, in his 36 Senate years, he has twice cast votes to take the nation to war and once to remove a president …
Discussion: The Atlantic, DNyuz and FiveThirtyEight
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
D.C. Police to contact GOP Rep. Boebert about plans to bring Glock to work  —  “That Congresswoman will be subjected to the same penalties as anyone else that's caught on the D.C. streets carrying a firearm,” said police chief Robert Contee III.  —  GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert smiles …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Trump Era Could Only End in a Final Attack on Democracy  —  On November 7, former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined, “If He Loses, Trump Will Concede Gracefully.”  The very question, Mulvaney insisted, insulted the president and his supporters.
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Devin Nunes Tells The Truth Until It Hurts  —  The more Rep. Devin Nunes was attacked, the more he wanted to understand what was behind the Russia collusion narrative.  His opponents couldn't have been more wrong in how to contain him.  —  In early December 2016, Devin Nunes was growing suspicious.
 
 
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Marc Kovac / The Columbus Dispatch:
Gun rights groups happy as Gov. Mike DeWine signs ‘stand your ground’ legislation into law
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Adam Hoffman / National Review:
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New York Times:
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Howard Stern rips Trump over Georgia call: 'This is criminal. It's gangster'
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Business leaders urge Congress to certify Biden win
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