The Pentagon on Monday reportedly approved the deployment of D.C. National Guard forces to the nation’s capital this week for pro-Trump protests centered around the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
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President-Elect Joe Biden made his last push in Georgia Monday evening, speaking to a sea of cars in Atlanta on behalf of Democratic Senate hopefuls Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock hours before polls open on Tuesday.
The Trump administration’s botched COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort means more people will die and the dislocation caused by the pandemic will be prolonged, public health experts told TPM — and it may even put some doses at risk of expiration.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Monday said that the release of the now-infamous unhinged call he had with President Trump, who berated the battleground state’s top elections official in his attempt to bully him into overturning election results, was spurred by Trump airing his grievances about the private call in a tweet. Continue reading “GA Sec Of State: Irate Trump Call Leaked Because He Complained About It On Twitter”
In a heated Monday press conference, a beleaguered Gabe Sterling, Georgia’s election implementation manager, debunked the many conspiracy theories President Donald Trump raised during his bombshell Saturday phone call with Sterling’s boss, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
As President Trump’s congressional allies prepare their latest round of shenanigans to symbolically protest Joe Biden’s win, Trump’s efforts to stave off his defeat hit a new level of desperation. An hour-long call in which he asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes that would overcome Biden’s margin of victory highlighted just how bonkers Trump’s beliefs about the election are.
The law firm of Cleta Mitchell, the conservative lawyer who took part in President Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday, distanced itself from the attorney on Monday.
Never mind the threat of undermining democracy.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was swiftly roasted by Twitter users on Monday after his statement the day before, which opposes the GOP pressure campaign led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to delegitimize President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, offered a frank admission of his party’s worst fears: slimmer odds of another GOP presidency. Continue reading “GOP Rep. Dragged For Fearing His Party Can’t Win Presidency If Anti-Democracy Scheme Succeeds”
It’s becoming increasingly clear that it will be many months until the U.S.’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign reaches the general public, as government data shows severe delays in the effort amid a lack of planning by the Trump administration.
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President Donald Trump’s attempt to pressure Georgia’s top elections official into stealing the state for him also served as a helpful illustration of the sort of disinformation that the President regularly consumes — and creates.
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