Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Twitter Confirms Trump Can Be Banned Come Jan. 20th

The Independent reports: Donald Trump, who currently enjoys certain exemptions from Twitter’s policies due to his status as a world leader, will likely lose the protection after 20 January when Joe Biden takes over as the US president. Mr Trump’s personal account on Twitter could be subject to a ban if he continues to spread conspiracy theories, Twitter has confirmed. …

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Trump Threatens Prosecutions Over Voting Machines

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 …

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Hair Furor Retweets Call To “Ignore The Electors”

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. …

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Biden Roasts Trump’s Attacks On Democracy [VIDEO]

CBS News reports: President-elect Joe Biden accused President Trump of an “unprecedented assault on democracy” in a speech Monday night hours after the Electoral College formalized his victory. Mr. Trump has refused to concede the election and has tried repeatedly to use the courts to challenge the results without success. Mr. Biden, speaking in Wilmington, Delaware, ran through some of …

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Politico: Trump Called Dozens Of Allies About 2024 Run

Politico reports: The president’s recent discussions with those around him reveal that he sees his White House comeback deliberations as a way to earn the commodity he needs most after leaving office: attention. The president has spent days calling a dozen or more allies to ask what they think he needs to do over the next two years to “stay …

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LIVE VIDEO: State Electors Meet To Cast Their Votes

NPR reports: On Monday, 538 electors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia will cast their votes for president, marking a key next step for Joe Biden as he gets closer to officially becoming the 46th president of the United States. The votes come 41 days after Election Day, on Nov. 3. In the race for the White …

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Threats Close MI Capitol Ahead Of Electoral Vote

The Washington Post reports: “Credible threats of violence” ahead of the state’s electoral college vote Monday — a pivotal step in cementing the swing state’s votes for President-elect Joe Biden — have forced Michigan’s top lawmakers to close all legislative offices in Lansing. Gideon D’Assandro, a spokesperson for state House Speaker Lee Chatfield (R), confirmed on Sunday to The Washington …

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Insane Trump Claim: Electors Will Be Committing Crime

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 …

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Wall Street Journal Board Calls On Trump To Concede

From the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal: There’s no predicting how Mr. Trump will behave. He rarely takes our advice—we said in January 2017 that he should fire James Comey upon taking office—and perhaps he will continue his “stolen” election claims past Jan. 20. Perhaps he can’t admit to himself that he lost. Perhaps he hopes to nurture …

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Cleveland Indians To Drop “Indians,” Trump Complains

ESPN reports: The Cleveland Indians plan to drop the nickname they have used for more than a century, becoming the latest professional sports franchise to shed its Native American imagery amid accusations that its use is racist, two sources familiar with the decision confirmed to ESPN. The organization is expected to announce the change this week, sources said, continuing a …

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Trump Refuses To Discuss Biden’s Inauguration [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: President Trump refused to rule out the possibility of skipping his successor’s inauguration in January during an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News. Speaking with “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade, the president would not answer when asked directly by Kilmeade whether he would attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next month. “So would you show up …

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Trump Retweets Call For AG Bill Barr To Be Fired

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump posted a call for Attorney General William Barr to be fired today if he knew about the Hunter Biden tax investigation in April, but failed to publicly disclose it. But word of the investigation actually did leak in October, a time so optimal for political leaks that there’s a term for it: the October surprise. …

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Trump Bailed On WH Xmas Party After SCOTUS Ruling

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump elected to skip giving remarks to his guests at the White House Christmas party Friday night, but did have a lot to say on Twitter about the Supreme Court’s rejection of the Texas lawsuit that sought to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Following the news that that the Supreme Court rejected the Trump-supported Texas lawsuit …

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Fox Poll: Majority Say Things Are Worse Under Trump

The Hill reports: A Fox News poll released Friday found mixed reviews about President Trump’s job performance over the last few years, with a majority ultimately saying they thought the United States was worse off now than it was four years ago. Fifty-five percent of voters in the the poll said they believe the U.S. is worse off now than …

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Trump Admin Offered $700M To Families Of 9/11 Victims In An Attempt To Save His Sudan-Israel Deal

ABC News reports: In a last-minute pitch to save President Donald Trump’s deal with Sudan, the Trump administration offered to pay victims of the Sept. 11 attacks $700 million of U.S. funds to drop their pursuit of claims against the African country, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations. The negotiations, which have not been previously reported and continued …

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Loeffler And Perdue Defy Trump In Defense Bill Vote

Roll Call reports: Georgia Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler joined Hill Republicans in bucking President Donald Trump on Friday, voting to pass a defense policy bill that the president has been working for weeks to scuttle. The 84-13 vote on the annual National Defense Authorization Act forced every Republican in Congress to choose between their loyalty to the president …

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Fictitious Secessionist States Of “New California” And “New Nevada” Back Trump In Brief Supporting Texas AG

Talking Points Memo reports: The GOP’s desperate attempt to have the Supreme Court overturn the results of the presidential election has attracted powerful support from … states that have yet to come into being, according to a Thursday court filing. The “states” of New California and New Nevada filed an amicus brief in support of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s …

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German Magazine Names Trump “Loser Of The Year”

The Hill reports: In an article titled “Der Verlierer des Jahres,” which translates as “The Loser of the Year,” Der Spiegel‘s Washington bureau chief Roland Nelles and Berlin-based correspondent Ralf Neukirch described Trump as “a man who … was never concerned with the common good, but always with one thing — himself.” “Nothing is normal under Trump,” the article added. …

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Axios: Trump Made Morocco Deal To Spite Inhofe

Axios reports: A fallout between President Trump and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, led to the breakthrough that resulted in the Morocco-Israel normalization deal, sources briefed on the matter told me. Inhofe is Washington’s most avid supporter of the Polisario Front — a Sahrawi rebel national liberation movement aiming to end Moroccan occupation of …

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Trump Admits That Biden Won In Bonkers Tweetstorm

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump was never going to have a normal concession speech. It is equal parts bizarre and predictable that his first explicit admission that there will be Joe Biden administration came in the middle of a Twitter meltdown that included election conspiracy theories and a demand he be given former President Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize. Now that …

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