Newsmax on Monday became the second television operation to air a lengthy fact-check-style segment rebutting the conspiracy theories it’s aired for weeks about the 2020 election, after a voting machine manufacturer threatened them with legal consequences.
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“I saw the power of one senator when John McCain took to that floor and said ‘no you don’t.’ He said ‘no you don’t.'”
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More than 300,000 Americans killed in the raging coronavirus pandemic. Hospital systems buckling and overwhelmed. Widespread economic devastation. And what is President Trump focused on this week? An executive order “promoting beautiful federal civic architecture.”
He’s a builder, after all.
The President just can’t let go.
Quarantine has forced some of us to spend quite a lot of time in isolation with some … unique characters to say the least.
But President Trump — who, unlike the rest of us, has spent little time actually quarantining since COVID-19 first hit the U.S. — is actively choosing to keep the company of out-there characters.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals denied Republicans’ attempt to resurrect a lawsuit targeting Georgia’s signature-matching process days after a federal judge shot it down initially.
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After their parent company received a lengthy, angry letter from a voting machine manufacturer at the center of multiple election conspiracy theories, three separate programs on Fox News and Fox Business aired an identical interview fact-checking some of their hosts’ own claims this weekend, enraging viewers and surprising the fact-based community.
When I landed in New York City in June 2008, it was heady times for TPM. I arrived from Belgrade, where I had accepted an international press freedom award for TPM’s work on the U.S. attorneys scandal. While there, I had been approached by a representative of the Pulitzer Prize, inquiring about how the eligibility rules for the award could be expanded to include digital native news outlets like TPM.
Attorney General Bill Barr said Monday that he saw “no basis” for the federal government to seize voting machines, responding to a reporter’s question geared at the recent news that President Trump’s allies have floated such a gambit.
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Jim Clyburn (D-SC), chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus, announced Monday that he is issuing subpoenas to force the Department of Health and Human Services to cooperate with his probe into political interference in the Centers for Disease Control’s COVID-19 work.
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