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In the early evening of last November 5, two days after the election when mail-in votes were in the process of being counted and the tide seemed to be turning in Joe Biden’s favor, Donald Trump took to the airwaves to throw a tantrum, baselessly wah-wah-ing about election fraud like an infant upset simply because he was not getting his way.
Newly elected House Republicans were taken to the White House, but Trump didn't come down from the residence and greet them.
Maskless Trump supporters were seen heckling and chase a reporter at Saturday's MAGA march in Washington D.C.
Trump supporters marched to the Supreme Court and chanted Fox News sucks as the way less than a Million MAGA March gets ugly.
The MAGA march in D.C. shows that Trump and his mostly maskless supporters aren't even close to accepting the results of the election.
A crowd that is estimated to be in the thousands was inflated to a million by White House Press Secretary Kaleigh McEnany.
The wave of Trump supporters, white supremacists, and extremists that were supposed to be marching to support Trump looks like thousands not millions.
Donald Trump's new conspiracy theory about the presidential election could be his most desperate (and hilarious) yet.
There is clearly bad blood between the family’s of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It wasn’t always that way, though. Bill and Hillary Clinton famously attended the wedding between Trump and Melania Knaus.
And growing up as teenagers in the spotlight, Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump had formed a friendship. The friendship, however, did not survive through the 2016 election.
Clinton told Bravo host Andy Cohen earlier this year, “I’ve not spoken to her since 2016, and Andy, I have no interest in being friends with someone who is not only complicit but actively taking part in this administration’s every day collision of cruelty and incompetence.”
And now Clinton isn’t holding back her feelings on the Trump family and how they’ve treated the secret service agents tasked with protecting them.
The former first daughter shared a Washington Post article about more than 130 secret service agents who have either contracted COVID-19 or were in quarantine due their their contact with the Trumps.
Clinton wrote, “Shame on you, Donald Trump, and your family. You put those sworn to protect you at risk with your reckless, dangerous choices. Hope every Secret Service agent and their family members receive the same care you did if they get sick from COVID-19.”
Shame on you, @realDonaldTrump and your family. You put those sworn to protect you at risk with your reckless, dangerous choices. Hope every Secret Service agent and their family members receive the same care you did if they get sick from #covid19. https://t.co/XJqDCzSRrK
Trump finally showed his face in public after losing the election, but he ran off and took no questions from reporters.
There are people on Fox News that are seen as hyper-partisan. Among them, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Pirro, Laura Ingraham. Then there are the more straight news reporters like Chris Wallace, Martha McCallum and Bret Baier.
For most of his career, John Roberts has been seen as one of those more straight news, down the line reporters. But he has not exactly seemed to be non-partisan in the last week. This continued on Friday when he said that even if Trump is losing, it seems like he’s winning.
During a spot with Chris Wallace today, Roberts claimed, “I imagine the first questions would be about where he is in terms of if he is going to continue to fight this battle to try to unearth new votes that could turn around the current vote count or if he will concede. The president does seem though in a way, Chris, to be winning, even as he is losing in the current vote count because for his diehard fans, he is trying to make the case that he didn’t really lose the election, that it was taken from him. “
Fox's John Roberts: "The president does seem though in a way, Chris to be winning even as he is losing in the current vote count" pic.twitter.com/i6KCg6BCLj
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) November 13, 2020
This is the second time Roberts has faced controversy over a report this week. Earlier this week, he said on air, “The anger out there in these red states is so deep and palpabale that GOP legislators may have a difficult time seating Biden electors.”
"The anger out there in these red states is so deep and palpabale that GOP legislators may have a difficult time seating Biden electors,” Fox News’ John Roberts casually says on air
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) responded to Trump’s false claim that he won’t be rolling out a COVID vaccination quickly by calling Trump a liar and pointing out he’s being investigated for tax fraud.
Video of Cuomo on MSNBC:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls Trump a liar and points out that Trump is being investigated for tax fraud in New York in response to Trump's false claims about New York and a COVID vaccine. pic.twitter.com/7GYlkXH8cu
In a sign that the election is over, the Pennsylvania Secretary of State will not order a recount or recanvass of the state‘s results.
NBC News reported:
NBC News: PA Secretary of State Boockvar will NOT order a recount or recanvass of election returns across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) November 13, 2020
By Trump's own definition, Joe Biden has beaten him in a landslide electoral college victory as Trump finishes with 232 electoral college votes.
Peter Navarro's first gaggle with the press since the election didn't go well as he walked out on reporters when asked about Biden's win.
The White House Press Secretary told Fox Business that Trump will be attending the presidential inauguration because it will be for his own second term.
President Donald Trump contradicted himself in a statement he made about the nation’s election security over Twitter.
“For years the Dems have been preaching how unsafe and rigged our elections have been,” the president wrote, a reference to Democrats‘ calls to ramp up election security in the wake of cyberattacks from foreign adversaries.
“Now they are saying what a wonderful job the Trump Administration did in making 2020 the most secure election ever,” he continued. “Actually this is true, except for what the Democrats did. Rigged Election!”
For years the Dems have been preaching how unsafe and rigged our elections have been. Now they are saying what a wonderful job the Trump Administration did in making 2020 the most secure election ever. Actually this is true, except for what the Democrats did. Rigged Election!
Former President Barack Obama condemned the actions of Republicans who have echoed President Donald Trump‘s false (and debunked) claims that election fraud helped President-elect Joe Biden win the general election last week. Obama made the comments in an interview with “60 Minutes” that will air in full over the weekend.
“There’s damage to this,” Obama said. “Because what happens is that the peaceful transfer of power — the notion that any of us who attain an elected office, whether it’s dog catcher or president, are servants of the people, it’s a temporary job, we’re not above the rules, we’re not above the law — that’s the essence of our democracy.”
Addressing the president’s allegations of fraud, Obama said Republicans “
obviously didn’t think there was any fraud going on, because they didn’t say anything about it for the first two days” after Election
In an interview with NPR that aired today, President Donald Trump‘s former national security adviser John Bolton urged Republicans to “acknowledge the reality” that President Donald Trump lost the general election and that Joe Biden is the president-elect.
Bolton said that “the country deserves to give” Biden “the preparation he needs” despite Republican opposition. He also said, in reference to President Trump, that “A gracious president who kept the country’s interests first would acknowledge that.”
“All I’m saying is that showing disagreement with the president is not fatal to your political future. I’m not asking anybody to climb Mount Suribachi and plant the American flag on top of it,” Bolton said.
Jonathan Turley, a professor of constitutional law at the George Washington University and legal analyst, appeared on “Fox and Friends” this morning and appeared to lend credence to a conspiracy theory about voting systems that has already been debunked.
“In Michigan, you had thousands of vote that went to [President-elect Joe] Biden that belonged to [President Donald] Trump,” Turley said. “Now that doesn’t mean that there’s a nefarious purpose. This is a new software that’s apparently vulnerable to human error. And it was used, it was rather ubiquitous, it was used in a great number of states, about half the districts in Michigan.”
“And it’s one of the reasons some of us are saying ‘Let’s take a look at this, let’s open it up to make sure that software systems like that function correctly,'” he continued, adding that “human error” can “go on to affect lots of votes.”
“Fox and Friends” co-host Steve Doocy went on to stress that voting machines maintained by Dominion Voting Systems, a voting software company used in 28 states, were vulnerable.
You can watch the exchange below.
Jonathan Turley falsely claims Dominion voting machines in Michigan switched "thousands" of Trump votes to Biden votes. Dominion machines were only used in one MI county that had problems, all of which were human error, and none of which affected results. https://t.co/qXLuifcfM6 pic.twitter.com/Xz7A6O5Ct9