Sixteen federal prosecutors tasked with monitoring the 2020 elections told Attorney General Bill Barr that his policy allowing them to look into “vote tabulation irregularities” before results are certified was blatantly political and not based in facts.
Trump Camp Forced To Shut Down Absurd Voter Fraud Hotline Due To Ceaseless Prank Calls
This is how the Trump campaign’s voter fraud hotline ends: not with a bang, but with harrowing reports of the Hamburglar terrorizing American patriots at the poll sites.
The Biden Transition Isn’t Freaking Out About Trump Admin Obstruction… Yet
Nearly a week after all major media networks projected that Joe Biden was the President-elect, Biden’s transition team is not sweating the Trump administration’s continued refusal to begin the official transition process — mostly.
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Trump’s Vaccine Chief Wants To Be Allowed To Brief The Biden Team
The official in charge of the Trump administration’s bid to speed up vaccine development wants permission from the White House to begin briefing the Biden transition, the Financial Times reported.
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Trump Pumps Up His Most Hardcore Supporters Ahead Of Weekend Protest In DC
President Donald Trump on Friday lent his support to a demonstration planned for Washington, D.C. Saturday in support of his baseless claims that the election had been “rigged” against him.
Networks Finally Project Biden As Winner In Georgia
President-elect Joe Biden is projected to win Georgia — adding 16 electoral votes to his lead over President Donald Trump, according to reports from multiple networks on Friday.
Both CNN and NBC made the call on Friday afternoon, marking a surprising flip of the traditionally ruby red state which came into play as a battleground state in the 2020 presidential election.
Georgia was among the last states to be called, more than one week after Election Day, bringing Biden’s tally to 306 electoral votes nationwide — far surpassing the 270 baseline that he crossed on Saturday when he became the President-elect. President Trump, who was projected to win North Carolina, has 232 electoral votes.
Although the votes do not affect the election’s overall outcome, Biden’s feat in Georgia means that he flipped five states won by Trump in 2016.
White House Aides Dutifully Keep Up Fantasy About Trump Victory
In a wildly distorted view of what abiding by the will of the people means in a democracy, a number of White House officials are still refusing to come down from the fantasy that President Donald Trump will remain at his perch in the West Wing on Inauguration Day, when President-elect Joe Biden formally takes his place as the nation’s leader.
When asked by Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney on Friday whether or not Trump would attend the inauguration of his successor, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany offered the head-in-the-sand response that she thinks “the president will attend his own inauguration.”
"I think the president will attend his own inauguration" — Kayleigh McEnany still hasn't acknowledged the reality that Trump lost to Biden and it wasn't particularly close pic.twitter.com/ErAvGsRVgT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 13, 2020
“We are going to show the nation that we absolutely believe when every legal vote is counted, President Trump will win,” McEnany said, urging Americans to watch a recount in Georgia.
But even if the Trump campaign were to make inroads to subtract a small batch of votes in Georgia, Biden won by margins too large for Trump to overturn the Democrat’s win nationwide.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro seemed to echo a similarly distorted belief on the same network.
Nearly a week after Trump lost the election, he told Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo on Friday of plans to move forward with a second term for the man who fell short of the electoral votes needed to clinch the White House for another four years.
“We’re moving forward here at the White House under the assumption that there will be a second Trump term,” Navarro said, apparently refusing to answer a question about whether a forthcoming Biden administration was likely to undo an executive order signed by Trump on Thursday to ban Americans from investing in a group of Chinese companies.
Navarro then pushed the a baseless vote-counting conspiracy that Biden’s win was all part of “an immaculate deception.”
White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro: “We’re moving forward here at the White House under the assumption that there will be a second Trump term … We have, what appears in some sense to be, an immaculate deception."
(FWIW, there will not be a second Trump term.) pic.twitter.com/qiVfAyZ5G9
— The Recount (@therecount) November 13, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made similar comments on Tuesday when he called for “a second Trump administration,” in a contradictory effort to undermine democratic institutions in the United States as he leads efforts abroad to advance democracy.
The refusal of Trump loyalists in the White House to accept his defeat, and continue to kick and scream of a stolen election, comes as government officials directly involved in securing the elections and monitoring cybersecurity as votes rolled in on Nov. 3, issued a statement late Thursday lauding last week’s election for being the “most secure in American history.”
Trump Campaign Bails On Its Arizona ‘SharpieGate’-Lite Lawsuit
The second Arizona SharpieGate lawsuit shall meet a similar fate as the first one.
The Trump campaign said Friday in a court filing that it was backing away from a lawsuit filed in recent days that alleged that scores of voters may have been disenfranchised by how Maricopa County election workers were handling an issue with tabulators reading their ballots.
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Where Things Stand: The Stowaway Chief
It’s been rumored for years that President Trump doesn’t actually enjoy being president. And that’s never been more clear than the last week.
130+ Secret Service Officers Temporarily Off The Job Amid Growing COVID Outbreak
More than 130 Secret Service officers involved in White House security and protecting President Trump when he travels are under orders to isolate or quarantine after testing positive for coronavirus or having close contact with an infected co-worker, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
The order to isolate or quarantine effectively benches roughly 10 percent of the agency’s core security team, according to the Post.
The outbreak may be linked to a flurry of campaign rallies that Trump held in the weeks before the Nov. 3 election when Trump made five campaign stops on each of the last two days at events where a majority of his supporters did not wear masks, three people familiar with agency staffing told the Post.
Secret service officers took on the role of screening attendees and securing the perimeter around those events.
The absence of the officers amid the outbreak shows just how coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the security unit surrounding Trump. The limited numbers of officers adds stress to remaining officers to make up for missing co-workers.
The report is the latest example of Trump’s cavalier attitude toward risking the health of those in his orbit. The President was widely criticized last month when he put agents at risk after insisting on taking a ride outside Walter Reed hospital accompanied by Secret Service to wave to supporters when he was fighting his own COVID-19 infection.
The news of the quarantined security officers follows another cluster of infections reported earlier this week that included, among others, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, outside political advisers Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, as well as HUD Secretary Ben Carson and White House political director Brian Jack.
White House spokesman Judd Deere said the administration takes “every case seriously,” referring questions about the Secret Service outbreak to agency officials.
But several staffers told the Post that they had concerns about returning to work at the White House amid news of the outbreak.
“I’m trying to work from home,” one senior administration official told the Post on Wednesday. “It’s not really safe to be in there right now.”