Amid unhinged attacks from Donald Trump last year, Gabriel Sterling, a top Republican election official in Georgia, was forced to have police protection at his home. Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, also received threats, as did his wife. But what really got Sterling’s blood pressure up—the “straw that […]
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He heeded Trump’s call to fight. Now a Georgia teen awaits the consequences
ATLANTA — Long before he stormed the U.S. Capitol, Bruno Joseph Cua flashed warning signs he was headed for serious trouble in his hometown of Milton, Georgia. Perched behind the wheel of his Toyota pickup with a Trump 2020 flag streaming from the truck bed, the 18-year-old harassed drivers whose […]
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Trump’s role in Jan. 6 siege looms over business of Washington: The Note
The TAKE with Rick Klein The first of what will be many congressional hearings on the Capitol siege revealed how much is still not known about what happened Jan. 6 — even after an impeachment trial, evidence unearthed in scores of prosecutions and countless hours of videos of the attack […]
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Judge: Trump’s lifting of mining ban in US West was wrong
FILE – In this April 22, 2015, file photo, a male sage grouse struts in the early morning hours outside Baggs, Wyo. A federal judge has overturned a Trump administration action that would have allowed mining and other development in parts of areas spanning six western states that are considered […]
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Joe Biden Removed Trump’s Diet Coke Button, Twitter Bubbled Up With Jokes
With a new president comes a new design for the Oval Office, and alongside a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. and a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, President Joe Biden has made one other crucial change. He’s ditched a little red button that Trump used to call forth a White […]
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Attorney Roberta Kaplan is about to make Trump’s life extremely difficult
But already pending for the soon-to-be South Florida retiree is a trio of lawsuits that allege defamation, fraud and more fraud — all of which are helmed by one attorney. “I became the go-to person to sue the president,” says Kaplan, 54, with considerable relish. She is in many ways […]
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Inside Trump’s Final Days: Aides Struggle To Contain An Angry, Isolated President
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – “We are going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue,” President Donald Trump exhorted his screaming supporters before they marched on the U.S. Capitol last week, saying he’d go with them. He did not – and what unfolded was a deadly breach of the citadel of American democracy that […]
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Days After The Riot, It’s Business As Usual At Trump’s Environment Agencies
As White House staff and other Cabinet chiefs quit in protest of President Donald Trump’s incitement of a violent mob at the U.S. Capitol last week, it’s business as usual for his environment-related agency heads. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt tweeted Monday not to address the rioting at a pro-Trump event […]
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Trump’s longtime banker at Deutsche Bank resigns
FINANCE Trump’s longtime banker at Deutsche Bank resigns President Trump’s longtime banker at Deutsche Bank, who arranged for the German lender to make hundreds of millions of dollars of loans to his company, is stepping down from the bank. Rosemary Vrablic, a managing director and senior banker in Deutsche Bank’s […]
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What Trump’s new ‘death to asylum’ rule actually says
The Trump administration has published a final rule on new procedures for processing asylum applications that will be effective on Jan. 11, 2021. The administration says that its objective is to “more effectively separate baseless claims from meritorious ones,” which “will better ensure groundless claims do not delay or divert […]
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Trump’s Market-Shaking Tweet – The Atlantic
Of course, the president gets a peek in advance, through a briefing the day before. But they traditionally say nothing until the data becomes public; there’s even a federal rule barring employees of the executive branch from commenting on leading economic indicators, including the monthly jobs report, until an hour […]
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Trump’s Parting Gift To Biden: An Even Worse Catastrophe In Yemen
Video credit: Skye Fitzgerald, director, Spin Film As one of its final foreign policy acts in office, the Trump administration could take a step that would push millions of people in Yemen into starvation and prolong that country’s civil war. And President-elect Joe Biden would find it extremely difficult to […]
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Trump’s Cruel And Unusual Parting Gift: A Spree Of Federal Executions
When Yusuf Ahmed Nur, a professor at the University of Indiana, was asked to administer last rites to federal death row inmate Orlando Hall last month, he knew that there was a chance he would contract the coronavirus. Prisons are known hot spots for the virus as they’re often crowded, have […]
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Biden needs to rollback Trump’s environmental rollbacks on energy, Bears Ears National Monument
In early 2017, not long after President Donald J. Trump moved into the White House, his chief advisor, Steve Bannon, said that the administration’s aim was the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” A charitable listener might have heard a run-of-the-mill libertarian goal, to downsize the bloated government in order to […]
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Joe Biden’s ‘We just did’ baseball hat is being compared to Trump’s ‘MAGA’ caps, and fans of the president-elect want their own
People online suspect that a hat worn by President-elect Joe Biden was a subtle dig at President Donald Trump’s “MAGA” baseball caps. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images; BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images On Saturday, Jill Biden tweeted a picture that showed President-elect Joe Biden wearing a hat embroidered with “We just did.” […]
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Twitter and Facebook labels on Trump’s posts won’t save democracy
Facebook joined in, flagging Trump posts with the line: “Ballot counting will continue for days or weeks.” Were the labels a win for democracy? They were a win for Twitter and Facebook public relations, which got to look just responsive enough to avoid being blamed for botching another election. But […]
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Trump’s Cybersecurity Agency Dispels Voter Fraud Conspiracies
A voter fills out their ballot at Mitchel Community Center on November 3, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York City.Photo: David Dee Delgado (Getty Images) Despite the president’s near-constant bellyaching about a supposed scourge of voter fraud and secret ballot dumps shaping this year’s election results, his own […]
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Women Have Spent Trump’s Time In Office Building Political Power
Three days after Election Day in 2016, I got a message on Twitter from a new friend. She was having a handful of people over, mostly women, to sit and talk and process and — most importantly — make some plans to “try to stop the human rights apocalypse.” Did […]
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What Trump’s decision to ‘delist’ gray wolves means for CA
The Trump administration’s announcement Thursday that it was removing gray wolves from U.S. Endangered Species Act protections will have significant impacts in California — including its ability to track the species as its population grows and criminally charge people who kill the wild animals. In California, wolves were protected under […]
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John Oliver Nails The Really Sad Part Of Trump’s Final Debate Performance
John Oliver said the reaction to last week’s final debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden shows just how low the bar’s been set for Trump. Oliver played a clip of TV analysts praising the debate for being relatively normal, including CNN’s Becky Anderson who noted that “no […]