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11:15 AM ET, January 4, 2021

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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Crosses a Bright-Red Line  —  In a bombshell conversation with Georgia's secretary of state yesterday, President Donald Trump made monkeys of every Republican official and every conservative talking head who professed to believe Trump's allegations of voter fraud.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The backstory of Trump's Georgia call  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Good morning from Atlanta, Gateway to the South and the pulsing center of Tuesday's two U.S. Senate runoffs that will determine partisan control of the upper chamber and the success of Joe Biden's first term as president.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump Call to Georgia Official Might Violate State and Federal Law  —  The president's demand for action to overturn the result of the election in the state raised questions about whether he violated election fraud statutes, lawyers said, though a charge is unlikely.
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.
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Raffensperger: Trump could face investigation over election call  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that it was unlikely his office would open an investigation into his weekend phone call with President Donald Trump, but suggested a criminal probe could still be launched by an Atlanta-area district attorney.
Washington Post:
Here's the full transcript and audio of the call between Trump and Raffensperger
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Brad Raffensperger Opens Up About Pressure From Trump in Leaked Call: I ‘Never Believed it Was Appropriate’ to Talk to Him, But He ‘Pushed’
Discussion: Washington Post and Law & Crime
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Trump ‘just plain wrong’ on fraud claims: Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
The GOP Can't Stop Biden but They'll Murder Democracy Trying
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Democrats denounce Trump's call to Raffensperger as criminal, GOP mostly silent
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez says Trump's Georgia call is an impeachable offense
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Begin New Congress Feuding Over Bid to Overturn Election
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas:
Cotton Statement on Joint Session of Congress  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 734-0430  —  Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement on the joint session of Congress later this week:
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Mike Allen / Axios:
The GOP battle lines drawn by Trump and McConnell will shape the next four years  —  The Republican battle lines being formed in President Trump's final days — his loyalists vs. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's establishment — will shape American politics for the next four years.
Talia Kaplan / Fox News:
Reps. Brooks and Jordan on GOP group challenging Electoral College results
Discussion: Washington Post and HotAir
Maria Hardiman / Voter Protection Program:   Guide to January 6th Joint Session of Congress Released by Voter Protection Program
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism  —  The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers.  Executives have struggled to handle the change.  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 225 Google engineers …
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Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Google Workers Publicly Launch Union
Washington Post:
All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory  —  Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld are the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense.
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Worse Than Treason  —  “We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night, “and so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”  Republicans in Congress are pretending to be seditionists—and so they have become, in fact, seditionists.
Newsmax:
Trump Ga. Transcript Shows Case for Vote Fraud, President Acted Properly  —  The Washington Post on Sunday released audio of a Saturday phone call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the two can be heard discussing election results.
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding and The Week
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Plane Sightings Fuel Rumors Trump Planning Escape to Scotland on Day Before Biden Inauguration  —  GOLF WAR  —  Something strange is happening on the west coast of Scotland.  According to a report from the Sunday Post, a lot of unusual U.S. military activity has been recorded at one airport …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Peter Swindon / The Sunday Post:
Donald Trump could be planning Turnberry trip as Scots airport told to expect a high-flyer the day before Joe Biden's inauguration
Washington Post:
Audio: Trump's full Jan. 2 call with Ga. secretary of state  —  As Georgia runoff looms, Republicans stick to election fraud claims  —  Audio: Trump berates Ga. secretary of state, urges him to ‘find’ votes  —  Republicans previously promised Trump would accept the election results
Jessica Yun / Yahoo Finance:
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma suspected missing  —  Speculation has swirled around Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's whereabouts after reports surfaced that the high-profile businessman has not made a public appearance in more than two months.  —  The Alibaba founder also failed to appear …
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
U.K. judge rules Julian Assange should not be extradited to the U.S.  —  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must not be extradited to the U.S., where he's wanted on charges of violating the Espionage Act and hacking government computers, because of the high risk of suicide in U.S. custody, a British judge in London ruled Monday.
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BBC:
Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder extradition to US blocked by UK judge
Marco Rubio / Fox News:
Georgia Senate runoffs — The fate of our nation is in Georgia's hands  —  If Georgians believe in our democracy and our nation's institutions, they will reject Warnock and Ossoff  —  Sen. Perdue says he and Sen. Loeffler are ‘last line of defense’ against socialist agenda
Discussion: DNyuz
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump to give ally Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom  —  Congressman from California has accused FBI and Justice Department of bias against Trump during Russia probe.  —  President Trump on Monday is expected to give Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) the Presidential Medal of Freedom …
 
 
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