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Spox: Trump Is The “Most Masculine” President Ever

Mediaite reports: Trump campaign national press secretary Hogan Gidley made a rather odd point of defending President Donald Trump’s manliness during a discussion about crackdowns from Twitter and other platforms. After Gidley previewed Trump’s final few days in office, Bill Hemmer directly asked, “With the social media crackdown, does he feel emasculated? Especially as he heads out of office?” Gidley …

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Bloomberg: Trump Planning “Defiant” Final Week

Bloomberg News reports: Banned from social media and abandoned by some staff after inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump and a dwindling circle of advisers plan a defiant final week in office, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump plans to run out the clock on his four years in office by highlighting what he …

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NYT: Trump Regrets Committing To Peaceful Transfer

The New York Times reports: At the White House, Mr. Trump struck a defiant tone, insisting that he would remain a potent force in American politics as aides and allies abandoned him and his post-presidential prospects turned increasingly bleak. Behind closed doors, he made clear that he would not resign and expressed regret about releasing a video on Thursday committing …

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Furious Trump Tries Tweeting From Other Accounts

TechCrunch reports: After Twitter took the major step Friday of permanently banning President Trump’s @realdonaldtrump Twitter account, the President aimed to get the last word in through his government account @POTUS which has a fraction of the Twitter followers but still offered the President a megaphone on the service to send out a few last tweets. The tweets were deleted …

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Pelosi Speaks To Pentagon About Keeping “Unstable President” From Accessing US Nuclear Launch Codes

The Washington Post reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told her House colleagues Friday that she had spoken to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, about keeping an “unstable president” from accessing the nuclear codes. “The situation of this unhinged President could not be more dangerous, and we must do everything that we can to …

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Trump Pledges “Orderly Transition On January 20th”

The Washington Post reports: President Trump early Thursday pledged “an orderly transition on January 20,” acknowledging for the first time that he will be leaving office in less than two weeks but stopping short of conceding to President-elect Joe Biden. The pledge for an orderly passage of power came just one day after a pro-Trump mob, incited by the president, …

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Trump Defends Extremists: You Made Them Do This

CBS News reports: A woman died from injuries after she was shot inside the US Capitol Building as pro-Trump supporters tried to break into the House Chamber, according to the Associated Press. It is not known yet what exactly led to the woman being shot, but a photo from CBS News’ Zak Hudak shows law enforcement with guns drawn inside …

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Trump Loses Suit To Decertify Georgia Election Result

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump failed again to invalidate his election loss in Georgia and allow the state’s Republican-led legislature to declare him the winner — his latest courtroom defeat in a quixotic effort to remain in office despite losing the Nov. 3 vote. U.S. District Judge Mark H. Cohen in Atlanta on Tuesday ruled that Georgia’s certification of …

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GA Sec Of State: Trump Is Lying About His Call To Me

The Washington Post reports: President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that election experts said raised legal questions. The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to …

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Trump Rages That COVID Death Toll Is “Fake News”

This is likely what has Trump screaming this morning: Last week saw two new record daily totals of conformed Covid deaths of over 3,700, and as of Friday, the official U.S. death toll was 347,870. That’s according to the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard, which is generally regarded as the official source for confirmed coronavirus figures. But according to the …

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Gohmert: Rejecting My Lawsuit Is A Call To Violence

“With regard to the standing issue, if a member of Congress who is going to object to electors that were fraudulently sit there, and a state has sent two sets, and I don’t have standing, to go to court and say the electors act, it has got an unconstitutional provision, if I don’t have standing to do that, nobody does. …

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Trump: The GA Senate Runoffs Are “Illegal And Invalid”

The Hill reports: President Trump on Friday evening tweeted that next week’s Georgia Senate runoff elections are “both illegal and invalid,” even as he has been seeking to convince voters to throw their support behind the GOP senators seeking reelection. Trump began his series of tweets by reiterating his unsubstantiated claims of “massive corruption which took place in the 2020 …

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Trump Calls For Unseating “RINO” Republican Senator

From the right wing Washington Times: President Trump on Friday encouraged South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to launch a primary challenge in 2022 against Sen. John Thune, the No. 2-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate. Mr. Trump said last month that Mr. Thune – who the president called “Mitch’s boy” – will be primaried in 2022, though he didn’t offer …

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Trump: “Everybody’s Calling To Thank Me” [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: Less than three weeks before his departure from the White House, President Donald Trump is taking one more victory lap for what he views as his accomplishments during 2020. “Over and over again, we were told it would be impossible to deliver a vaccine by the end of the year,” Trump said. “All of the experts said, ‘Absolutely …

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Kraken Lawyer Accuses SCOTUS Justice Of Pedophilia

The Daily Beast reports: Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood ramped up the crazy on Wednesday night by suggesting Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was somehow involved in Justice Antonin Scalia’s death and part of a child-sex cult. Wood, alongside on-again-off-again Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, has been at the forefront of President Donald Trump’s hopeless attempt to overturn President-elect Joe …

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Trump To Skip Mar-A-Lago NYE Party, Return To DC

CNN reports: President Donald Trump is expected to return to Washington earlier than anticipated ahead of a planned disruption by Republicans when Congress meets next week to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Trump is now slated to leave Palm Beach before his annual New Year’s Eve party, even though guests had already gathered at his south Florida club and were …

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Hair Furor Demands Resignation Of Georgia Governor

The Savannah Morning News reports: In a tweet sent from the president’s personal account on Wednesday, President Donald Trump asked Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to resign from his post over the president’s disagreement with the handling of the Nov. 3 election in Georgia. The president’s claims that he won the election have been proven false. The Georgia governor, along with …

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Trump Spreads Batshit Claim About GA Sec Of State

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump complains a lot about “fake news,” but on Tuesday night he shared some of his own. Trump continued to attack Governor Brian Kemp and Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger as he said they “are a complete disaster and don’t have a clue, or worse.” And then he went on to weave some kind of conspiracy …

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Trump Predictably Deflects Blame For Slow Vax Rollout

The Daily Mail reports: President Donald Trump lashed out at President-elect Joe Biden after Biden raised concerns that COVID-19 vaccines weren’t being given to Americans fast enough. Trump, who throughout the pandemic has pushed responsibilites off to the states to spare his administration any blame, pointed a finger at them again. On Tuesday afternoon, Biden said at Wilmington’s Queen theater …

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CNN: Trump Screamed About Mar-A-Lago Renovations

CNN reports: His mood darkened as soon as he walked into his members-only club Mar-a-Lago, three days before Christmas, according to multiple sources. The changes to his private quarters, many of which were overseen by his wife, first lady Melania Trump, were not to President Donald Trump’s liking, and he was mad about it. Several weeks in the works, the …

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