Reporting from The New York Times.
With his victory in Georgia, President-elect Joe Biden has won a total of 306 electoral votes, flipping five states in the process. The Trump campaign lost a legal challenge to the election results in Michigan and withdrew one in Arizona.
It is now apparent that Donald Trump cannot count. He somehow thinks his 214 Electoral votes is more than Biden’s 290, and thus, makes him the winner. But there may be another reason why Trump wants to hold on to the Oval Office… a prison jumpsuit could be in his near future.
Yahoo News is reporting that when he leaves the White House in January, he will also lose the constitutional protection from prosecution afforded to a sitting president.
After Jan. 20, Trump, who has refused to concede and is fighting to hold onto his office, will be more vulnerable than ever to a pending grand jury investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into the president’s family business and its practices, as well as his taxes.
The two-year inquiry, the only known active criminal investigation of Trump, has been stalled since last fall, when the president sued to block a subpoena for his tax returns and other records, a bitter dispute that for the second time is before the U.S. Supreme Court. A ruling is expected soon.
Trump has contended that the investigation by the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., a Democrat, is a politically motivated fishing expedition. But if the Supreme Court rules that Vance is entitled to the records, and he uncovers possible crimes, Trump could face a reckoning with law enforcement — further inflaming political tensions and raising the startling specter of a criminal conviction, or even prison, for a former president.
“He’ll never have more protection from Vance than he has right now,” said Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas.
In an interview with 60 Minutes, former president, Barack Obama expressed frustration with Republicans who continue kissing up to Trump. Mr. Obama says he’s troubled by this because they “clearly know better.”
“They appear to be motivated, in part, because the president doesn’t like to lose and never admits loss,” Obama responded, adding, “I’m more troubled by the fact that other Republican officials who clearly know better are going along with this, are humoring him in this fashion.”
Obama was interviewed by “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley about his memoir “A Promised Land.” CBS released a short excerpt that dealt with the 2020 election and Trump’s refusal to concede.
The televised interview will air on Sunday.
We can only hope that people are beginning to come to their senses and are finally realizing that Donald Trump is the hoax. In a “Stop the Steal rally outside Fox’s DC headquarters, 4 people showed up to protest on behalf of the loser, Donald Trump.
They’re finally getting it.
A “Stop the Steal” rally outside Fox’s DC headquarters drew a whopping four people, including one with a “Stop the Neal” sign about Neil Caputo. pic.twitter.com/Y1ebS4ibeZ
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 11, 2020
CNN reports that Corey Lewandowski, an adviser to President Donald Trump’s campaign, has tested positive for the coronavirus, he confirmed to CNN on Thursday.
Giving credit where credit is due…
Stacey Abrams, who earlier this year was on a short list of potential vice-presidential candidates, was ultimately not chosen by Joseph R. Biden Jr. But on Friday, as Mr. Biden took a narrow lead in Georgia, it was Ms. Abrams who was celebrated, a sign of her remarkable ascent as a power broker since her failed bid for governor of that state two years ago.
Celebrities, activists and voters across Georgia credited Ms. Abrams with moving past her loss — she came within 55,000 votes of the governor’s mansion — and building a well-funded network of organizations that highlighted voter suppression in the state and inspired an estimated 800,000 residents to register to vote.
“You have to build the infrastructure to organize and motivate your base, and you have to persuade people,” said Jason Carter, a Democrat who was the party’s candidate for governor in 2014. “Stacey built that infrastructure, and Donald Trump’s presidency energized that infrastructure, and it opened up voters to persuasion who were previously not open, particularly in the suburbs.”
Mr. Biden pulled ahead of President Trump in Georgia, a state that has not elected a Democratic presidential candidate in nearly three decades.
The Washington Post reports that the Pennsylvania postal worker whose claims have been cited by top Republicans as potential evidence of widespread voting irregularities, admitted to U.S. Postal Service investigators that he fabricated the allegations, according to three officials briefed on the investigation and a statement from a House congressional committee.
Richard Hopkins’s claim that a postmaster in Erie, Pa., instructed postal workers to backdate ballots mailed after Election Day was cited by Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) in a letter to the Justice Department calling for a federal investigation. Attorney General William P. Barr subsequently authorized federal prosecutors to open probes into credible allegations of voting irregularities and fraud, a reversal of long-standing Justice Department policy.
But on Monday, Hopkins, 32, told investigators from the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General that the allegations were not true, and he signed an affidavit recanting his claims, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee tweeted late Tuesday that the “whistleblower completely RECANTED.”
The cause of death is not yet known, but Bishop Harry Jackson Jr’s death was announced by the Hope christian Church today.
Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., an influential Maryland pastor and evangelical adviser to President Trump, died Monday at the age of 66, according to his church.
“It is with a heavy heart that we notify you that our beloved Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr. has transitioned to be with the Lord on November 9, 2020,” officials with Hope Christian Church said in a statement.
Jackson, whose cause of death remains unclear, was invited to the White House for multiple events over the last few years, including a Good Friday prayer that he led at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
He also attended Trump’s closing speech at the Republican National Convention in August and recently joined a Rose Garden event where the president nominated now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Religious News Service reported.
Trump’s HUD Secretary, Ben Carson has tested positive for Coronavirus.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson has tested positive for coronavirus, a spokesperson and a longtime adviser confirmed on Monday.
“Spoke with my brother Dr. Carson earlier and he is doing extraordinarily well. He is so grateful to have access to powerful therapeutics. We also pray for the millions who celebrated over the weekend and may have exposed themselves to COVID19,” tweeted Armstrong Williams, who advised Carson’s presidential campaign.
A HUD spokesperson also confirmed the diagnosis.
Carson is the latest high-ranking Trump administration official to contract the virus.
Not all Republicans got the memo. While most of Trump’s Minions are going around trying to convince Americans that Trump won the election, Georgia Lt. Governor, Geoff Duncan went on CNN today and denied any validity to Trump’s “rigged election” talking point.
Asked multiple times about any irregularities in Georgia’s presidential election, Duncan continuously slapped down Trump’s fraud claims.
“My office has been in close communication with the secretary of state’s office, and the attorney general‘s office and made sure that if there’s any sort of systemic examples of fraud or voter disenfranchisement across the voting base to let us know. We’ve not had any sort of credible incidents raised to our level yet, and so we’ll continue to make sure that the opportunity to make sure every legal ballot is counted is there, but at this point, we’ve not seen any sort of credible examples.”
Georgia's Republican Lt. Governor was asked three times if he has seen any evidence of voter fraud in his state, and he said no. pic.twitter.com/oP4pU1T1b1
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) November 9, 2020
If proven to be true, this is huge!
“This could be the greatest medical advance in 100 years,” said Pfizer chairman and CEO Dr. Albert Bourla of his company’s blockbuster announcement that its COVID-19 vaccine is showing a 90 per cent efficacy. The announcement has made headlines around the world and has sent stock markets soaring in optimism.
To be clear, what 90 per cent efficacy means is that out of the nearly 44,000 people of diverse backgrounds not previously exposed to the disease enrolled in Phase 3 of the study when Pfizer looked at the infected and non-infected patients, 90 per cent of those infected were shown to have received the placebo, while only 10 per cent of the infected had received the actual vaccine. Thus, 90 per cent efficacy.
This is great news because scientists have long indicated that a vaccine with a 50 per cent efficacy would go a long way to controlling the spread of the pandemic.
This is where Religion is today in America, where televangelists are now stand at the pulpit preaching their political beliefs instead of the Gospel. I can’t remember seeing a passage in the Bible that says to preach only to Republicans, and laugh at the Democrats. Way to win souls Copeland, that’s how you do it!
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland laughs at the media for declaring that Joe Biden has won the election and will become president. pic.twitter.com/ARHqmsEbo7
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 8, 2020
