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Most of them will likely believe it’s real: Thousands of Trump supporters are planning a virtual “second inauguration” for President Trump on Jan. 20, the same day of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. More than 60,000 people have indicated on Facebook that they plan to attend the event being billed as “Donald J. Trump 2nd Presidential Inauguration Ceremony.” “Disclaimer: We are …

Axios reports: President Trump’s closest confidants no longer expect him to imminently announce he’s running in 2024, three sources who’ve recently discussed the matter with the president tell Axios. Trump doesn’t want to announce a run before Jan. 20 — an idea he had initially toyed with — because it would show his base he’s given up his fight to …

ABC News reports: President Trump in an early morning tweet dismissed a New York Times report that he had entertained a proposal from former national security adviser Michael Flynn to declare martial law. The Times reported Saturday that Trump asked during a White House meeting that also involved Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, about a recommendation his former aide had made …

Axios reports: Senior Trump administration officials are increasingly alarmed that President Trump might unleash — and abuse — the power of government in an effort to overturn the clear result of the election. These officials tell me that Trump is spending too much time with people they consider crackpots or conspiracy theorists and flirting with blatant abuses of power. Their …

The New York Times reports: President Trump on Friday discussed making Sidney Powell, who as a lawyer for his campaign team unleashed a series of conspiracy theories about a Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States, a special counsel investigating voter fraud, according to two people briefed on the discussion. Most of his advisers opposed the idea, …

The Washington Post reports: “From Steve Bannon’s War Room Pandemic and John Solomon’s Just the News to Raheem Kassam’s National Pulse, to Newsmax, and One America News Network,” Peter Navarro writes, “Americans hungry for facts and breaking developments have been able to find such critical information only by following this alternative coverage.” Put another way, Americans seeking dubious or debunked …

Forbes reports: White House trade advisor Peter Navarro is the latest Trump administration staffer to publicly back up the president’s baseless voter fraud claims, publishing a report Thursday that claims widespread irregularities may have stolen last month’s election from President Trump. Many of Navarro’s claims are either anecdotal or widely debunked: He pointed to Trump’s early election-night leads in several …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump is going in for the kill shot against his one-time favorite network. In a Wednesday morning tweet, the president bashed Fox News — going so far as to pronounce its demise. The tweet is the latest example of Trump trying to siphon away viewers from Fox, and push them towards fringe, far-right outlets such as …

“Hey, remember Joe Biden’s speech yesterday when purportedly, he clinched the Electoral College? He didn’t do too much talking. He did more coughing, it seemed like. “A small sample of the coughs, and I’m concerned because the way it’s looking for Joe, his health, I don’t think he’s gonna make it for Donald Trump’s second inauguration. “Yes, on January 20th, …

The Daily Mail reports: Hours after the Electoral College met to make President-elect Joe Biden’s win official, President Donald Trump was reviving claims of election fraud and forwarding a call to jail Georgia officials. Trump also continued to tweet conspiracy theories about voting machines flipping votes from Trump to Biden, even after the Supreme Court Friday refused to take up …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump has defended his retweeting of specious, outlandish and controversial tweets before, simply by saying that he was putting it out there. He didn’t necessarily agree with the “white power” chant in a video he promoted, for instance. He just thought it was worth seeing by his 80+ million Twitter followers. Nonetheless, the outgoing president still …

Newsweek reports: President Donald Trump welcomed a supporter’s call for people to “ignore the electors” after Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election was affirmed by those casting Electoral College votes. On Monday, the Electoral College’s 538 members met to cast their ballots for president and vice president, with 306 going to Biden—surpassing the 270 needed to take the presidency. …

Mediaite reports: The Electoral College is scheduled to cast their votes Monday, in state-by-state meetings across the country, and President Donald Trump is very unhappy about it, tweeting renewed attacks on the election he lost to President-elect Joe Biden, but this time with a new twist: declaring that certifying the votes will be “committing a severely punishable crime.” It’s one …

Reuters reports: U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his threat to veto a massive defense spending bill, setting the stage for a major battle with U.S. lawmakers at a time when they are racing to hammer out a compromise on more coronavirus relief. Passage by the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Friday sent the measure to Trump, giving him 10 …

Reuters reports: Micro-blogging site Twitter on Saturday flagged a series of tweets posted by US President Donald Trump, who still disputes the outcome of the November 3 election that has projected his Democratic rival Joe Biden as the winner, within a span of an hour. Twitter is not allowing likes, retweets, or replies for many of Hair Furor’s rage-tweets this …

“The case wasn’t rejected on the merits, the case was rejected on standing. So the answer to that is to bring the case now to the district court by the president, by some of the electors, alleging some of the same facts where there would be standing. “There’s nothing that prevents us from filing these cases immediately in the district …

The Washington Post reports: Trump claimed Thursday that Biden would be an “illegitimate president” as he continued to push baseless claims that he, and not Biden, had prevailed in key swing states. His tweet came ahead of a planned lunch meeting at the White House with Republican state attorneys general who are supporting a lawsuit led by Texas that seeks …

Mediaite reports: As the president and his allies continue to make unsubstantiated claims that the election was corrupted by mass fraud, Trump’s legal team witnessed a new setback this week when the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit meant to block the certification for Pennsylvania’s vote results. Trump seemed to hedge his political bets on the case the last time he …

The Associated Press reports: President Trump on Saturday demanded to know who the congressional Republicans were that acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. The president continues to promote claims, without evidence, that the election was rampant with voter fraud. However, Trump is growing isolated in his claims, and he has targeted Republicans that break from …

The Washington Post reports: When five patients died of the coronavirus in a 32-hour span at Renown Regional Medical Center, Jacob Keeperman turned to Twitter on Sunday to thank his colleagues in Reno, Nev., for all their support, tweeting out a recent selfie of him on the day the alternate care site had opened. “Everyone is struggling to keep their …