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Anchors on cable news networks make an awful lot of money. CNN’s Anderson Cooper makes a reported $12 million each year. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow also does quite well, pulling in $7 million a year.
Donald Trump Jr. is in isolation after being the latest Republican to get coronavirus for his father's superspreader events.
The COVID-19 pandemic is rampaging throughout the country. The disease has also made its way through the White House with Donald, Melania and Barron Trump all contracting the virus.
And in the months that have followed, the disease has continued to spread throughout the Republican party. As many have noted on Twitter, more Republican senators have contracted COVID-19 than have publicly acknowledged Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) told the press that he will follow the law and certify Joe Biden's win in his state.
Trump walked away from reporters and went back into hiding as he failed to answer a single question since losing to Joe Biden.
Trump was supposed to be announcing new rules on drug prices, but he claimed that Big Pharma and the media conspired against him in the election.
Michigan state Republican lawmakers are meeting with Trump in the White House where they will reject his coup to overturn the election.
Andrew Giuliani, a White House staffer and the son of President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Giuliani announced the news via Twitter.
“This morning, I tested positive for COVID-19,” he wrote. “I am experiencing mild symptoms, and am following all appropriate protocols, including being in quarantine and conducting contact tracing.”
More than 40 officials, including former Cabinet secretaries and civic leaders, have participated in a $2 million ad by the bipartisan National Council on Election Integrity calling for President Donald Trump and his allies to accept the results of the 2020 general election and cooperate with the Biden-Harris transition.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) condemned President Donald Trump and his administration for not cooperating with the Biden-Harris transition team and urged for the transition to proceed for the sake of the country.
House Democrats have demanded that General Services Administration (GSA) chief Emily Murphy cooperate with the Biden-Harris transition. Murphy has made headlines in recent weeks for refusing to sign a letter of “ascertainment” confirming that President-elect Joe Biden won the election, a step that would allow Biden to meet with government officials and access the more than $6 million in federal funds allocated for the transition.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced that he is ending emergency lending programs before Biden takes office in a bid to start an economic crisis.
The New York Times reported:
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he does not plan to extend several key emergency lending programs beyond the end of the year and asked the Federal Reserve to return the money supporting them, a decision that could hinder President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s ability to use the central bank’s vast powers to cushion the economic fallout from the virus.
During an appearance on “Fox and Friends,” commentator Geraldo Rivera said the United States should honor President Donald Trump by naming the Covid-19 vaccine after him.
“I have an idea. You know, with the world so divided, and everybody telling him he’s got to give up and ‘time to leave’ and ‘time to transition’ and all the rest of it,” Rivera said. “Why not name the vaccine ‘The Trump’? Like, ‘Have you got your Trump yet?'”
Trump's insistence that Biden's victory not be recognized has caused a civil war among Georgia Republicans that could cost the GOP the Senate.
Maddow said that Trump's choice to put Giuliani in charge could be an indication that the end is near for the president's legal challenges.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson called out the president's campaign lawyers for pushing baseless conspiracy theories about the election.
Earlier in the day, Giuliani held a press conference in which he spewed nonsensical conspiracy theories about the election.
Donald Trump didn't work much before he lost the election to Joe Biden earlier this month – but now he's not even pretending.
Georgia has finished the recount and found that Biden won, while Trump lost a federal case in the state to go 1-32 in election lawsuits.
Brad Raffensperger said on Thursday that there is no doubt in his mind that Joe Biden will win the state and its 16 electoral votes.