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Michigan Appeals Court Tosses Yet Another Trump Suit

The Detroit Free Press reports: The Michigan Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal from the Trump presidential campaign challenging Michigan’s election results, in the latest in a series of court defeats for the president. The 2-1 decision, the court chastised the campaign for dragging its feet on the appeal, said the certification of Michigan’s election results by the Board …

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Trump Campaign Sues To “Nullify” Georgia Election

Reuters reports: The campaign of President Donald Trump says it has filed a lawsuit in Georgia state court seeking to invalidate the presidential election results there – the latest in a series of legal challenges intended to reverse his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. In a statement, the Trump administration has said that the lawsuit would include sworn statements from …

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MN Supreme Court Boots Bid To Delay Certification

The Minnesota Lawyer reports: About two hours before the State Canvassing Board met Tuesday, a group of petitioners led by GOP congressional Tyler Kistner filed suit to block the board from certifying the 2020 election results. The suit, which includes sitting Republican legislators Rich Draheim, Steve Drazkowski, Jeremy Munson, Tim Miller and Cal Bahr among its plaintiffs, failed in that …

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Trump Campaign Still Spending Big At Trump Properties

The Washington Post reports: President Trump’s campaign and its affiliated committees spent more than $1.1 million at Trump’s own properties in the last weeks of the 2020 campaign — continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in which Trump has converted $6.7 million from his campaign donors into revenue for his businesses since taking office, new campaign finance filings show. The filings …

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Jenna Ellis Spreads Debunked “Suitcases” Claim On Fox

Mediaite reports: Jenna Ellis visited Fox Business to push a voter fraud conspiracy which has already been rejected by Republican election officials. Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo brought Ellis in, on Friday morning, with a video showing Georgia election workers moving suitcases from underneath a table. “You see individuals going to this table, and underneath the table there are suitcases, …

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Hannity Consoles Giuliani For “Just For Men” Streaks

Yahoo News reports: President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani appeared on Hannity Thursday night where he continued making allegations of widespread voter fraud without providing evidence, a strategy Trump’s legal team has lost in nearly every court battle disputing the results of the presidential election. But at one point in the interview, out of nowhere, Sean Hannity felt the need …

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Trump And RNC Have Grifted $207M Since Election Day

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee have raised $207.5 million since Election Day, according to a statement on Thursday, gathering donations to pay for challenges to Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the Nov. 3 poll. The post-election fundraising haul brought the combined fundraising of Trump committees between Oct. 15 and Nov. 23 to $495 million, …

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Tosses Trump Campaign Suit

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: The Wisconsin Supreme Court threw out President Donald Trump’s election lawsuit Thursday, two days after he asked the justices to revoke the certification of a contest he lost by nearly 21,000 votes. In the 4-3 decision, the justices said they would not accept the case he filed directly with them. The president can try to …

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Giuliani’s MI Witness Says “All Chinese Look Alike”

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 …

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Trump Campaign Turns On Cultist Lawyer Lin Wood

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 …

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Parscale Blames Trump’s Loss On Lack Of Empathy For COVID Victims, Says Trump No Longer Speaks To Him

The New York Times reports: Brad Parscale, the former Trump campaign manager who was demoted in July, claimed in a Fox News interview on Tuesday night that President Trump would have handily won the election if he had expressed more empathy about the coronavirus pandemic. “We lost suburban families,” Mr. Parscale said. “I think that goes to one thing: the …

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DOJ Investigates Potential Money-For-Pardon Scheme

CNN reports: The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House or related political committee in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to court records unsealed Tuesday in federal court. The case is the latest legal twist in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s administration after several of his top advisers have …

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Trump’s Lawyers Hit Back: “With All Due Respect” To Him, AG Bill Barr Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About

Via press release from the Trump campaign: With all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation.  We have gathered ample evidence of illegal voting in at least six states, which they have not examined. We have many witnesses swearing under oath they saw crimes being committed in connection with voter …

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Ex-Cyber Chief May Sue Over Trump Lawyer’s Threat

The Daily Beast reports: Christopher Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, suggested on Tuesday morning that he will pursue legal action against Trump campaign lawyer Joe diGenova for remarking that Krebs should be “taken out at dawn and shot.” While interviewing Krebs on NBC’s Today Show, anchor Savannah Guthrie asked the ex-DHS official on Tuesday …

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NYT: Giuliani Asked Trump About Pardon For Himself

The New York Times reports: Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer who has led the most extensive efforts to damage his client’s political rivals and undermine the election results, discussed with the president as recently as last week the possibility of receiving a pre-emptive pardon before Mr. Trump leaves office, according to two people told of the discussion. It was …

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Trump Campaign To Sue Over WI Absentee Ballots

Fox News reports: The Trump campaign is filing a lawsuit to the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday — alleging abuse around the process of absentee voting in the state, which they say affected approximately 220,000 ballots. The lawsuit is expected to be filed Tuesday morning and comes after Wisconsin completed its partial recount — which maintained that Joe Biden won the …

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The Kraken Shares Call For Coup To Stop Inauguration

Media Matters reports: Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell retweeted a call for military tribunals and a coup to suspend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, as well as to suspend the scheduled Senate runoffs in Georgia. Earlier on November 30, Powell appeared on Sean Hannity’s radio show where she said that there was a CIA plot to steal the election from Trump, …

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Trump Has Raised Over $150 Million Since Election Day

The Washington Post reports: President Trump’s political operation has raised more than $150 million since Election Day, using a blizzard of misleading appeals about the election to shatter fundraising records set during the campaign, according to people with knowledge of the contributions. The influx of political donations is one reason Trump and some allies are inclined to continue a legal …

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Trump Lawyer Calls For Executing Former Cyber Chief

CNN reports: An attorney for the Trump campaign on Monday issued a call for violence against Chris Krebs, a former cybersecurity official who was unceremoniously ousted from his post by President Donald Trump after he rejected the President’s unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud. Joe diGenova, an attorney for Trump’s campaign, said during an appearance on “The Howie Carr Show”: …

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Brad Parscale To Break Silence With Fox News Interview

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale announced on Friday he will break months of silence to partake in a 30-minute Fox News interview with Martha MacCallum. Back in September, Parscale announced he was stepping away from his post at the Trump campaign citing “overwhelming stress,” which followed him being tackled by police at his Fort Lauderdale …

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