Through this corrupt era one of the common refrains has been, “that’s why or how we got Trump.” Usually it is whatever it is the person didn’t like before Trump rebranded as the bad thing that got us Trump. But on display today is one of the real reasons ‘we got Trump.’ It’s not the deepest reason but it is a critical, critical part of the equation. It’s also why Donald Trump was able to careen through the leading candidates of the Republican party so easily in 2016.
As Trump Eyes The Door, Executive Branch Rushes Last-Minute Changes
While the President continues denying reality about his loss in the 2020 election, his administration is not.
Key Dem: Census Bureau Refusing To Brief House On New Hiccup In Count
The Census Bureau is refusing to brief the House committee with oversight over the 2020 census on the hiccups that that have arisen in the final phases of the survey, according to a Thursday letter Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) sent Census Director Steve Dillingham.
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Pence Takes No Questions In WH COVID Briefing After Painting Rosy Picture During COVID-19 Surge
Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday evening sang a happy tune while leading the White House coronavirus task force’s first briefing since late April, which came a day after the country passed the grim milestone of more than 250,000 fatalities from COVID-19 and amid surging cases nationwide.
Familiar task force faces such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, CDC Director Robert Redfield and HHS Secretary Alex Azar appeared by Pence’s side. However, President Trump was nowhere in insight and neither was Scott Atlas, the contrarian doctor who has become Trump’s favorite adviser on COVID-19 due to the doctor’s push to reopen the country, after a week full of incendiary comments.
While Birx sounded the alarm by warning of “a lot of asymptomatic cases” contributing to COVID-19 surges and issuing a stern warning ahead of the holiday season — which doubles down on the CDC advising against Thanksgiving-related travel earlier Thursday — Pence and Azar struck an entirely different tone.
After Azar concluded his remarks by saying his “message is hope and help is on the way,” in light of recent announcements from both Pfizer and Moderna that its vaccine trials have preliminarily proven 95% efficacy, Pence repeated Trump’s misleading assessment of the country’s surging COVID-19 rates.
Pence concluded his remarks by saying that the task force sees “the light at the end of the tunnel” before repeating Trump’s unfounded assertion that the country is “rounding the corner.”
The VP ended the briefing by leaving the podium without taking any questions from reporters.
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Biden: Give Me Access To The Vaccine Data
The incoming Biden administration needs information on the COVID-19 pandemic, including the “all-important issue of vaccine distribution,” from federal agencies in order to prepare to take office, President-elect Joe Biden told reporters on Thursday.
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Giuliani Presser Was ‘Most Dangerous’ TV In US History, Says Security Expert Trump Fired
The recently canned director of a federal agency charged with election security said that Thursday’s Trump campaign press conference was “the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in American history.
Former Spy Chief Ric Grenell Resurfaces As Foot Soldier In Trump’s War On Reality
Six months ago, Ric Grenell was the nation’s top intelligence official and had access to some of the most highly sensitive information on the planet.
Now, he’s wailing on Twitter about President Donald Trump’s loss in Nevada, alleging electoral fraud on a scale so widespread that it would flip the state to Trump — just without any evidence whatsoever to back up the claim.
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Trump Lawyers Flood Zone With Increasingly Bizarre Conspiracy Theories About Election
They’re not sending their best.
In a 90-minute, off-the-walls press conference Thursday, three attorneys for the Trump campaign used a tactic that former Trump campaign chairman Steve Bannon once called “flooding the zone with shit,” throwing wild accusations at the wall and hectoring the media for not amplifying their nonsense even more.
Trump Invites MI GOP Leaders To White House Amid Desperate Efforts To Overturn Biden Win
President Donald Trump has invited Michigan’s top Republican lawmakers to the White House on Friday as he furiously works to steal President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state, according to multiple reports.
Here’s One Way Biden Is Trying To Circumvent Transition Roadblock
As the Trump administration continues standing in the way of the Biden transition team, aides to the president-elect will be meeting with congressional committee staffers in an effort to get up to speed on important issues, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The news of the planned meetings is the latest example of how the Biden team is finding ways around a stumbling block put forward by the Trump administration to bar administration officials from cooperating with Biden’s team and providing much needed transition information and resources to the incoming administration as Trump continues to fume over his loss.
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