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Newsweek reports: With the Electoral College expected to meet on December 14, Trump has intensified his claims of widespread election fraud. Democrat President-elect Joe Biden was widely projected to be the winner of the election despite Trump’s protestations. During an interview on The Alex Jones Show, Stone said he had received further proof of election fraud. “I just learned of …

The Daily Beast reports: One of the witnesses the Trump legal team presented on Wednesday night—the second day of hearings—was Melissa Carone, who claims she worked as a contractor for Dominion Voting Systems. Despite struggling to coherently explain her job duties during her first day of testimony, Carone was brought back by the Trump team—and again had trouble articulating what …

The Wrap reports: The Michigan state legislature held a wild hearing on Wednesday evening as Trump campaign lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis continued their crusade to defy the will of the American people by overturning Joe Biden’s election victory over Trump. One of the witnesses, a naturalized American citizen from India, served as a Republican poll watcher at the …

Atlanta’s NBC News affiliate reports: A Florida attorney is at the center of a new state investigation after elections officials say he recently attempted to register to vote in Georgia and instructed other Florida Republicans on how to do it. Bill Price is seen in a now-deleted Facebook Live video, speaking to the Bay County GOP members in Florida on …

The Trump campaign has tweeted out this Breitbart article: Georgia-based attorney Lin Wood is getting lots of attention for urging supporters of President Donald Trump to break with the president and not vote for GOP Sens. David Perdue (R-GA) and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) in the upcoming January 5 runoff elections. Wood’s public comments run counter to President Trump’s own public …

Right wing columnist Erick Erickson writes: Standing on stage at a stop the steal rally, Attorney Lin Wood, urged Georgia Republican voters to stay home and refrain from supporting the GOP in the special election runoffs that will decide control of the United States Senate. Wood has a history of helping the Democrats. He funded John Edwards’s presidential campaign. He …

Media Matters reports: On the December 3 edition of his Fox Business show, Lou Dobbs will interview disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn. On Monday, Flynn tweeted a call for President Donald Trump to declare martial law and suspend the Constitution until a new election is held. Calls for Trump to fascistically overthrow the will of the American people …

The Economist reports: The latest Economist/YouGov Poll reflects the slow pace of the transition: like their President, most of those who voted for him reject the election results and the transition. Only 15% of Trump voters view Biden as being legitimately elected. The rest, 85%, claim he did not legitimately win. Most Trump voters don’t want to see the Administration …

The Birmingham News reports: Rep. Mo Brooks says he plans to challenge the Electoral College vote when Congress is expected to officially certify President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6. The Alabama Republican says he is also looking for a GOP senator to join him in the effort, though he said he has had no direct communication with any senator …

Mediaite reports: Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, two prominent Trump-allied lawyers, went on the attack against Georgia’s Republican governor as part of a “Stop the Steal” rally, with Wood even saying Brian Kemp should be locked up. Just this week Powell, Wood, and Michael Flynn shared an ad that called on President Donald Trump to “declare a limited form of …

The Washington Post reports: Anyone following the #sexytrumpgirl hashtag on Parler, a social media site increasingly popular with conservatives, got an eyeful one recent Thursday evening as images of topless women and links to hardcore pornography websites appeared at a rapid-fire rate, often more than one per minute. The surge of #sexytrumpgirl posts highlighted a broader dilemma for Parler: The …

Media Matters reports: Owens attacked the prospect of a vaccine against COVID-19 with the confounding claim that a vaccine against the disease — which has killed more than 270,000 Americans so far — “makes no sense” because there is a “99% chance that you’re going to survive if you get COVID-19,” so “why the hell would you take a vaccine …

The Daily Mail reports: On Sunday a group of about 50 protesters gathered outside the Echo Park home of Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer to denounce the county’s latest coronavirus restrictions, and neighbors came out to defy them. At the demonstration a woman named Gina Michelle Bisignano, who was wearing a Trump-supporting sweater, got into …

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump will award the nation’s highest civilian honor to former Notre Dame football coach and political supporter Lou Holtz in a ceremony Thursday at the White House. Trump announced he would award Holtz the Presidential Medal of Freedom, when the national championship-winning coach joined him in October in Pennsylvania for a campaign event. Holtz has …

Law & Crime reports: Recently pardoned former National Security Advisor and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Atlanta-based attorney L. Lin Wood joined a growing list of President Donald Trump’s devotees calling for martial law ­and having the military oversee a new presidential election. Both Flynn and Wood tweeted their support for the effort to undermine the will of the …

The Associated Press reports: Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman, is launching her bid for a third two-year term heading the GOP’s governing organization after the party’s stronger-than-anticipated showing in November’s election, even though President Donald Trump lost. In a letter Wednesday to the 168 members of the RNC announcing her candidacy, McDaniel said she has the support of …

Military.com reports: A retired Air Force three-star general reignited baseless conspiratorial claims about U.S. troops’ involvement in clandestine missions in the wake of the presidential election — claims an Army official said are 100% false. No Special Forces soldiers were killed while seizing computer servers in Germany as part of a CIA operation after the presidential election. There was, in …

The Daily Beast reports: Remember in February when Attorney General Bill Barr trashed his department’s reputation to override the recommended prison term for Roger Stone and push for a much shorter sentence? Because, apparently, Stone has forgotten—and has gone on the attack against the AG. Trumpworld has reacted with fury to Barr’s statement Tuesday that there’s no evidence of voter …

Via press release from Sen. Ted Cruz: Today, an emergency appeal was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the election results in Pennsylvania. This appeal raises serious legal issues, and I believe the Court should hear the case on an expedited basis. The Pennsylvania Constitution requires in-person voting, except in narrow and defined circumstances. Late last year, the Pennsylvania …

The Military Times reports: It is a scenario that makes the antics of animated spy Archer seem plausible by comparison, spun by the former assistant vice chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force. In his unfounded version of events, U.S. special operations forces died in an attack on a CIA computer facility in Germany that was hiding information about …