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REPORT: Kushner Created Campaign Shell Company That Paid Trump Family Members And Trump Advisors

Business Insider reports: President Donald Trump’s most powerful advisor, Jared Kushner, approved the creation of a campaign shell company that secretly paid the president’s family members and spent almost half of the campaign’s $1.26 billion war chest, a person familiar with the operation told Insider. The operation acted almost like a campaign within a campaign. It paid some of Trump’s …

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Hand Tally Confirms MI Dominion Machine Count

The Detroit Free Press reports: An audit conducted Thursday of the votes cast in the November presidential election in Antrim County, the heart of a conspiracy theory about Dominion Voting Systems, affirmed the outcome with a net gain of 12 votes for Republican President Donald Trump, out of 15,962 votes cast, officials said. The hand tally of every vote cast …

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Trump Loses WI Appeal As State’s Electors Ready Vote

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld Democrat Joe Biden’s Wisconsin win Monday, handing President Donald Trump a defeat less than an hour before the Electoral College was to meet. The 4-3 ruling was the latest in a string of dozens of losses for the president across the country as Republicans pursue last-gasp efforts to give Trump a …

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Trump Campaign Finally Pays One City’s Security Bill

Business Insider reports: President Donald Trump usually makes headlines for the numerous police bills his presidential campaign committee won’t pay. Which is why it’s notable that the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin, recently received a check from the Trump campaign for $5,574, according to copies of the invoice and check obtained by Insider. The Trump campaign’s check arrived a couple …

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Giuliani Released From Hospital: “I’m Better Than Ever”

Fox News reports: President Trump’s personal attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Thursday morning that he was out of the hospital and feeling “better than ever” after being admitted earlier this week following a coronavirus diagnosis. Giuliani, on his own WABC show earlier this week, said that he took the same remdesivir and dexamethasone combination …

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Trump Flack Tells Court He’ll Be Unemployed Dec. 15

Salon reports: Jason Miller, the chief strategist for outgoing President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, told a Florida family court judge in a sworn affidavit filed last Friday that he expects to be unemployed beginning Dec. 15 — which is next Tuesday, the day after the Electoral College meets to ratify Joe Biden’s election as president. As a result, Miller said, …

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Giuliani Dismisses Mask Wearing, Calls COVID “Curable”

ABC News reports: Rudy Giuliani called into his own WABC Radio show on Tuesday to update listeners on his Covid-19 diagnosis. Giuliani revealed that he has received a mixture of Remdesivir and Dexamethasone, along with other drugs, while hospitalized at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. “I think you can overdo the mask. You can overdo almost anything. Everything done in moderation …

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Trump Campaign To Ignore “Safe Harbor” Deadline

Via press release from the Trump campaign: “The ‘Safe Harbor Deadline’ is a statutory timeline that generally denotes the last day for states to certify election results. However, it is not unprecedented for election contests to last well beyond December 8. “Justice Ginsburg recognized in Bush v. Gore that the date of ‘ultimate significance’ is January 6, when Congress counts …

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Axios: Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis Has Tested COVID+

Axios reports: President Trump’s lawyer Jenna Ellis has informed associates she tested positive for the coronavirus, multiple sources tell Axios, stirring West Wing fears after she attended a senior staff Christmas party on Friday. Driving the news: There are concerns about the potential for another White House superspreader event, though it was unclear whether Ellis posed a risk when she …

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Former Cybersecurity Official Chris Krebs Sues Trump Campaign And Lawyer Joe diGenova For Defamation

The Washington Post reports: The former top U.S. cybersecurity official responsible for securing November’s presidential election sued the Trump campaign and one of its lawyers for defamation Tuesday, asserting that they conspired to falsely claim the election was stolen, attack dissenting Republicans and fraudulently reap political donations. Christopher Krebs, who was fired Nov. 17 by President Trump after he refuted …

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Trump Team Hits Electoral “Safe Harbor” Deadline

The Washington Post reports: Trump’s efforts to reverse the election results run into a new hurdle Tuesday, known as “safe harbor” day under federal law. The 1887 law sets a deadline of six days before the convening of the electoral college for states to certify their election results. While the deadline is not mandatory, the law prohibits Congress from undoing …

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1500 Lawyers Demand Sanctions For Trump’s Lawyers

The New York Times reports: Arguing that “a license to practice law is not a license to lie,” nearly 1,500 lawyers issued a letter on Monday calling on bar associations across the country to investigate and, if needed, penalize the members of President Trump’s legal team, including the architect of his post-election strategy, Rudolph W. Giuliani. “It is indefensible for …

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Trump: Giuliani Doing Well And Has “No Temperature”

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who has tested positive for COVID-19, is doing well in the hospital and does not have a fever, the president said on Monday at the White House. “Rudy’s doing well,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “No temperature, and he actually called me earlier this morning. Was the first call …

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Trump’s Election Lawsuits May Be Nearing Their End

CNN reports: There is a sense developing within Donald Trump’s legal team and what remains of his campaign staff that their efforts to overturn or delay the results of the election are coming to an end, multiple sources tell CNN, despite what the President has said publicly. Trump said in a 46-minute video released last week that they would continue …

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BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani Admitted To DC Hospital

The New York Times reports: Mr. Giuliani was at Georgetown University Medical Center, according to a person who was aware of his condition but not authorized to speak publicly. Mr. Giuliani has repeatedly been exposed to the virus through contact with infected people, including during Mr. Trump’s preparation for his first debate against President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. in September, …

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Trump: Rudy Giuliani Has Tested Positive For COVID

Reuters reports: Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, has tested positive for coronavirus, according to US President Donald Trump. Mr Giuliani has been at the forefront of Trump’s efforts to discredit the results of the presidential election which was won by Joe Biden. He is now a close aide of the outgoing president and has been spreading unfounded …

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Giuliani Proclaims “BIG WIN” In Michigan Case (Court’s Ruling Involves Unrelated Local Marijuana Proposal)

The Detroit Free Press reports: A judge issued a preliminary order Friday requiring Antrim County to preserve its election records and allow forensic photos to be taken from 22 county precinct tabulators used in the Nov. 3 election, but the case is not related to the disputed presidential contest. Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, claimed on Twitter Friday …

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SNL Takes On Giuliani’s Star Totally Not Drunk Witness

Mediaite reports: The spoof was focused around Melissa Carone, a contractor for Dominion, who used a Michigan hearing on Wednesday as a platform to make outlandish claims of voter fraud in a back-and-forth with a GOP lawmaker. Immediately, social media users compared the viral clip to an SNL skit and it was only Wednesday. Saturday’s skit had an array of …

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Giuliani Pushes State Legislatures To Overturn Results: The Simple Fact Is That We Don’t Need Courts [VIDEO]

“The reason I went to the state legislatures, Sean, is because I saw what the courts were doing and I wanted to go around them so the facts could get out. Georgia court wouldn’t have allowed us to put those witnesses on. “The legislature did, in Michigan the same thing. We had two Democrat judges and they weren’t allowing us …

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Court Nixes Trump’s Bid To Take NV Electoral Votes

The Nevada Independent reports: President Donald Trump’s legal effort to overturn presidential results in Nevada has fallen short after a Carson City District Court judge rejected his team’s request to award the state’s six electoral votes to the incumbent. Judge James Russell ruled Friday against the Trump campaign’s unprecedented request to either block certification of the state’s presidential election results …

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