President Trump is reportedly considering a new but familiar place to bunker down in for the holidays as aides speculate whether the sitting president will leave the White House for the holidays — and never come back, according to CNN and the New York Times on Monday. Continue reading “A New Bunker? Reports Hint Trump May Just Stay In FL For Holidays And Never Return”
Pentagon Adviser Resigns In Protest Over Lewandowski And Bossie Appointments
A member of the Pentagon’s Defense Business Board quit in protest on Monday after Trump loyalists Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie were appointed to the board last week.
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Thanks, COVID: Gallup Survey Shows Americans’ Mental Health Taking A Hit
We can blame COVID for that.
A Gallup survey published Monday shows that Americans’ assessment of their mental health has plummeted to its lowest point in the last two decades.
According to Gallup, a Nov. 5-19 showed that 76% of adults rate their mental health positively, a nine-point decline from last year. Continue reading “Thanks, COVID: Gallup Survey Shows Americans’ Mental Health Taking A Hit”
As Trump’s Election Fraud Charade Falters, GOP States Turn To Restricting Voter Access
With just a week to go before the electoral college formally declares Joe Biden the next president and the so-called “safe harbor” deadline coming on Tuesday, more and more of President Trump’s allies are admitting that his floundering attempts to overturn the election results have no chance of success. Republicans are also previewing the new voting restrictions they’ll try to pass next year, with many GOPers using Trump’s bogus claims as a pretext for doing so:
Giuliani’s Travel Blitz To Peddle Bogus Claims May Be Trumpworld’s Latest Superspreader Event
In the weeks leading up to the announcement of his COVID-19 diagnosis on Sunday, Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani crisscrossed the country as the face of the sitting president’s fruitless legal attempts to overturn election results — and potentially exposed dozens of people while doing so as the country reels from more than 280,000 deaths from COVID-19 thus far.
Where Things Stand: Flynn’s Descent Into Q Continues
Since he’s been pardoned from various crimes related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, Michael Flynn has embarked on a concerning descent into the swamps of QAnon.
Azar Lays Out Timeline For COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution For Healthy Adults
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said on Monday that the general adult population in the U.S. will have access to the COVID-19 vaccine by mid-2021.
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Disbar’Em Up
Let me share a few more thoughts on the topic of election crimes, and the fact that we are seeing numerous instances of things that are presented as farfetched strategies but are in fact crimes. As noted last week, if a public official pressures an election official to change the results of an election that is a crime. We’ve seen numerous instances of it, most recently from the President himself.
We enforce laws and punish crimes in a number of different ways and with a number of theories underlying the punishment. One reason is to publicly demarcate acceptable and unacceptable behavior. But a key goal is always deterrence. And election crimes are a domain of law in which deterrence is most salient.
These are not crimes of passion. The important ones are not committed by people whose lives are so disordered or tenuous that they’re not thinking of what happens in a week or a decade. These are crimes of strategy and advantage.
The Latest Snafus In Trump’s Hijacking Of The Census Were Entirely Predictable
President Trump should not be surprised that his anti-immigrant apportionment gambit is on the brink of collapse because of logistical issues with the census. The risks of rushing the census so the data could be produced before he left office were laid out by the bureau itself earlier this year. Continue reading “The Latest Snafus In Trump’s Hijacking Of The Census Were Entirely Predictable”
The Push for 35,000
At TPM we have a lot to be grateful for this year. I set forth a few of them here. So hopefully not to be wishing for too much but I did want to let you know about something we’re trying to get done before the end of this calendar year. Our goal this year was to get to 35,000 TPM members this year. And we are pretty close. As I write we are at 34,496 subscribers. Can we get to 35,000 in one month?
Well, it’s a tall order. But not impossible. We signed up 418 new members in October and 478 in June. These are net added subscribers. Every publication has ‘churn’, a certain number of people always in the process of unsubscribing or subscribing. So this is about how many more you have at the end of the month. So it’s doable and boy would we like to do it.
So if you’ve never become a subscriber or lapsed and are considering rejoining, now is a great time. Join us. Maybe encourage your TPM-reading friends to do the same. Or maybe you just want to support our independent journalism. These are all really good reasons to sign up. So join us! And thank you to everyone who already has.