So, doesn't an admission of an investigation that was previously denied (which we now know has been in play for two years) sort of undermine the idea that claiming that investigation was "unfounded and baseless".
This really "is" a matter of the media believing that nothing is really true until they report it. If they decide to ignore a story, then they can declare that any claims of said story are unfounded and baseless? How is it that the media now believes that they control reality? Because certain people are prone to follow the "media" without question.
One has to wonder how well this will work, now that they can no longer rely on just claiming it was a Trump claim and having half the country discount it as untrue as a matter of knee jerk involuntary reaction.
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🤣 of course they are with the Election over time to turn this on The Dark Winter Presidency.
The wrath of trump knows no bounds as he tosses another buddy under his fat old white ass!!!!! I am sure the people of Ga will reward trump his due......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
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ATLANTA — Few politicians have been both elevated and diminished by the vicissitudes of President Donald Trump like Brian Kemp, Georgia's Republican governor.
Kemp rocketed from hard-right underdog candidate to the governor’s mansion two years ago on the strength of a surprise endorsement from Trump, and an argument that the president was right about a lot of issues facing the country.
But these days Kemp is facing daily reminders of the perils of deciding that Trump is actually wrong.
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In recent weeks, Kemp has infuriated the president for resisting his demands to help overturn the election results in Georgia, a state Trump lost by roughly 12,000 votes. The president’s outrage has spread to many of his supporters in Georgia as he persists in his extraordinary intervention into the nation’s electoral process.
At a news conference in the state Capitol on Tuesday to discuss the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, Kemp was confronted by Trump loyalists asking why he had refused to call a special session of the legislature, as the president has requested, so that lawmakers can reallocate the state’s 16 electoral votes to Trump. The question crowded the screen of a Facebook live feed of the event. As he departed the event, Kemp was stopped by a small group who presented a bag that they said was filled with 2,000 petitions making the same plea.
“If he doesn’t call a special session, he’s definitely a one-term governor, no doubt about it,” said one of the activists, Erik Christensen, CEO of a moving company, who said he voted for Kemp in 2018.
Hey Lil Schitty....why hasn't trumps legal team introduced that certain statistic anomaly that you said proved there was fraud in the counts!!!! Why is that, Lil Schitty??????? BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!
The Dark Winter Presidency.
Is going to have to hide and cover it up.
Unless, the Socialist are it as a way to get Slow Joe to resign.
The Three Socialist Effeminate's of CHT, said the Hunter Biden investigation was "Fake News" , nope real .
A Day in the Life of Sue Republican
Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.
With her first swallow of coffee, she takes her daily medication. Her medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.
All but $10 of her medications are paid for by her employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Sue gets it too.
She prepares her morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Sue's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
In the shower, Sue reaches for her shampoo. Her bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for her right to know what she was putting on her body and how much it contained.
Sue dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air she breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.
She walks to the subway station for her government-subsidized ride to work. It saves her considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Sue begins her work day. She has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Sue's employer pays these standards because Sue's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.
If Sue is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, she'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think she should lose her home because of her temporary misfortune.
Its noon and Sue needs to make a bank deposit so she can pay some bills. Sue's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Sue's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.
Sue has to pay her Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and her below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Sue and the government would be better off if she was educated and earned more money over her lifetime.
Sue is home from work. She plans to visit her father this evening at his farm home in the country. She gets in her car for the drive. Her car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.
She arrives at her childhood home. Her generation was the third to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.
She is happy to see her father, who is now retired. Her father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Sue wouldn't have to.
Sue gets back in her car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Sue enjoys throughout her day. Sue agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm self-made and believe everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."
Roger, as Trump Literally saved your life, are you at all grateful?
I don't know how this will work out.
But I have a feeling that the President asked the Delaware federal investigation department to initiate the investigation because he wants revenge for his impeachment Muller investigation.
He has a history of revenge.
I have been looking all over the right wing websites and they are thrilled.
It also fits into his response to the election and the failure of his chaotic lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
And just for the hell of it check out this.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/glut-high-stakes-cross-party-cross-administration-investigations
ignore
7:09 is great from start to finish.
THIS IS GREAT TOO:
Trump Loses AGAIN in Wisconsin
December 12, 2020 at 6:44 pm EST
A federal judge in Milwaukee on Saturday tossed out President Trump’s latest effort to overturn the election results in Wisconsin, dismissing the case and ruling that it had failed “as a matter of law and fact,” the New York Times reports.
These investigations come in two basic flavors, both illustrated by the younger Biden’s case. The first occurs when the Justice Department of one political party investigates a prominent person in another party in a context that raises questions about political motivation. Not much is public about the origins of or basis for the Hunter Biden investigation, except that the one in Delaware concerns his taxes and began in late 2018. But the sometimes-unhinged (though sometimes not) accusations made by President Trump and the Republican Party about Hunter Biden, in the context of the election, raise a credible question about whether the investigation is a politically motivated effort to harm a political opponent. (The fact that the investigation did not leak before the election is modest evidence against this conclusion.)
The second arises when the Justice Department investigates a prominent senior executive branch official in its own party, or someone close to that official. This will be the situation with the Hunter Biden investigation the moment Joe Biden becomes president. The danger is that the department will not pursue the investigation vigorously in order to protect the president’s son. This problem will bedevil the next attorney general. Should he or she allow the prosecution to continue in the District of Delaware, and with the same prosecutor? Or should he or she appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter? A special counsel would be warranted. But the counsel would have to be chosen carefully—even with the independence protections for special counsel, there is a serious possibility that the appointee will be seen as less legitimate in pursuing the matter than the current U.S. attorney in Delaware. (Compare the ongoing Southern District of New York’s investigation related to Trump, and imagine if Barr replaced that with a special counsel appointment of his choosing.)
These kinds of cases—which I will call cross-party investigations, and intraparty investigations, for short—have always presented challenges to the appearance and reality of even-handed, nonpoliticized Justice Department law enforcement. The challenges have grown worse in recent years, along three dimensions.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/glut-high-stakes-cross-party-cross-administration-investigations
Big Tech is being rewarded by The Dark Winter Presidency, He is filling his Administration with them.
Roger and James will take the Vaccines made Possible by Pres. Trump. Literally saving their lives.
Will they be grateful?
Actual Accomplishment
"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Sarah Fuller became the first woman to score in a Power Five conference football game by kicking an extra point for Vanderbilt on Saturday."
Outstanding.
Um. When the black lives matter demonstrations turned violent, Thecoldheartedtruth went ballistic.
WASHINGTON — Incensed by a Supreme Court ruling that further dashed President Trump’s hopes of invalidating his November electoral defeat, thousands of his supporters marched in Washington and several state capitals on Saturday to protest what they contended, against all evidence, was a stolen election.
In some places, angry confrontations between protesters and counterprotesters escalated into violence. There were a number of scuffles in the national capital, and the police declared a riot in Olympia, Wash., where one person was shot
In videos of a clash in Olympia that were posted on social media, a single gunshot can be heard as black-clad counterprotesters move toward members of the pro-Trump group, including one person waving a large Trump flag. After the gunshot, one of the counterprotesters is seen falling to the ground, and others call for help. In one video, a man with a gun can be seen running from the scene and putting on a red hat.
Chris Loftis, a spokesman for the Washington State Patrol, said that one person was in custody in connection with the episode but that specific details about the shooting were not yet clear, including the condition of the person who was shot.
As Bids to Overturn Vote Fail, Pro-Trump Demonstrators Stick With Him
https://nyti.ms/2Khir44
A federal judge in Milwaukee on Saturday tossed out President Trump’s latest effort to overturn the election results in Wisconsin, dismissing the case and ruling that it had failed “as a matter of law and fact.”
In a strongly worded decision, Judge Brett H. Ludwig, a Trump appointee who took his post only three months ago, shot down one of the president’s last remaining attempts to alter the results of a statewide race. The decision came just one day after the Supreme Court denied an audacious move by the state of Texas to contest the election outcomes in Wisconsin and three other battleground states.
Judge Ludwig’s ruling was especially significant because after the Supreme Court’s terse decision Friday night, Mr. Trump complained that courts around the country have thrown out dozens of his lawsuits based on technicalities, and have not given him a chance to fully present his legal arguments.
Judge Ludwig, however, held a daylong hearing on Thursday and still found that Mr. Trump’s claims were lacking. He dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning Mr. Trump cannot refile it in the same court.
Email: Hunter Biden Did Not Disclose $400,000 from Burisma on 2014 Taxes"
The Dark Winter President is "very proud of my Son".
The Media Knew before the Election, the choose sides, they are not impartial.
"The New York Times ran a report sounding the alarm about "Russian disinformation."
Oppsie.
Scott, it just got more interesting.
Attorney General William Barr knew about two contemporaneous federal investigations into Hunter Biden for months — and worked to keep them from the public ahead of the election, according to a new report.
The nation’s top law enforcement official avoided providing information about the probes to Republicans in Congress without explanation, a person familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal.
One of the investigations was made public this week, when the 50-year-old son of President-elect Joe Biden disclosed on Wednesday that he was being probed for possible tax fraud.
Hunter Biden is also implicated in a broader international financial investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, two people familiar with the case told the Journal. That probe has been going on for at least a year. Hunter Biden, however, was never a specific target for criminal prosecution, according to the Journal.
Barr didn't do anything before the election.
Now this just happened from a different prosecutor.
Hmmmmmmm
Mr. Barr’s announcement that the Justice Department hadn’t found evidence of widespread election fraud that would reverse Mr. Biden’s victory infuriated the president, the aides said, and Mr. Trump has openly accused the Justice Department of being involved in the election fraud he has alleged. A federal agency in charge of election security and organizations representing top election officials around the country have also deemed the election free from tampering.
Mr. Trump, in a meeting Friday, fumed about a Wall Street Journal report that Mr. Barr knew of an existing federal investigation into Hunter Biden before the election but worked to keep it from being publicly disclosed, a person familiar with the conversation said. In the meeting, Mr. Trump contemplated firing Mr. Barr, people familiar with the conversation said, adding that it is not clear whether Mr. Trump intends to follow through.
Aides and allies have for months urged the president not to fire Mr. Barr. For his part, the attorney general has told associates that he intends to stay on the job unless he is dismissed.
Under Justice Department regulations, the appointment of a special counsel would have to be made by the attorney general. A special counsel is appointed to pursue investigations with a level of independence not subject to day-to-day supervision by agency officials and is only removed by the attorney general for misconduct or a conflict of interest.
Newly-Elected Lawmaker Calls Pandemic ‘Phony’
9:42 pm
Rep.-elect Bob Good (R-VA) called COVID-19 a “phony pandemic” at a rally Saturday.
Said Good: “This looks like a group of people that gets it. This is a phony pandemic. It’s a serious virus, but it’s a virus. It’s not a pandemic.”
No ICU Beds Left In Mississippi
8:47 pm
The surge of COVID-19 cases in Mississippi has left no intensive care unit beds available across the state and prompted the need for restrictions, the Jackson Clarion Ledger reports.
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Sure sounds like it's really a true pandemic to me.
Hunter Biden disclosed earlier this week that he had learned of a federal investigation into his tax affairs. He said he has acted legally and appropriately.
On Friday, Mr. Biden responded to questions shouted by reporters, saying: “I’m proud of my son.”
Adding to pressure on Mr. Barr, more than two dozen Republican lawmakers earlier this week signed a letter to Mr. Trump, calling on him to direct the attorney general to appoint a special counsel to investigate “irregularities in the 2020 election.” The effort was led by Rep. Lance Gooden (R., Texas), who said a special counsel is the “best option to bring to light to whatever happened in the 2020 election.”
Mr. Gooden hasn’t discussed his proposal directly with Mr. Trump, a spokesman for the congressman said. The Justice Department didn’t respond to the letter, a person familiar with the matter said.
The president on Thursday retweeted several tweets about the letter, calling the effort “great.”
The Hunter Biden investigation is being handled by the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware, which is led by David Weiss. Mr. Weiss was a prosecutor for years in that office and a supervisor there for much of the Obama administration. His nomination by Mr. Trump to the top job in 2017 was supported by his home state’s Democratic senators, according to local media reports at the time.
Barr refused to release information about Hunter Biden, probably didn't have any dirt
Barr didn't want to be accused of using the FBI to influence the election against Biden, as happened with Hillary. There has been a long tradition in the FBI of avoiding actions that might influence elections, especially just before the election.
Of course, Trump was and is furious. He believes in winning any way you can.
Trump's desperate gambit to stay in office alarms Europeans, who know about coups
Yahoo News
Melissa Rossi
December 11, 2020, 6:35 PM
BARCELONA — Last month, when Sweden’s TV4, the largest broadcast network in Scandinavia, sent political correspondent Ann Tiberg to cover the U.S. election, her producers were so afraid of the possible mayhem awaiting her that they insisted she pack a bulletproof vest, helmet and gas mask.
Understandably: The United States had often appeared out of control in previous months, and not just due to COVID-19. The president had urged his followers to vote twice and cryptically told the militia group the Proud Boys to “stand by”; peaceful protests sometimes turned ugly, devolving into looting and the occasional fatal shooting; showdowns between armed groups were widely predicted for Election Day.
Happily, Tiberg didn’t need the combat gear. “There was no violence, and not a lot of cheating — the system worked. And people showed up in numbers never seen before. I thought that was so impressive. That’s what I brought back to my viewers: The U.S. pulled it off.”
Citizens across the Atlantic cheered the election results. “Europeans were overwhelmingly happy that Trump lost and Biden won,” says Jon Henley, political reporter for the London-based Guardian. But now, “they’re looking on in shock, horror and disbelief — saying this is not right and this is dangerous.”
After being cast aside by Trump as irrelevant and viewing the administration over the last four years from an icy distance — and preoccupied with the pandemic, Brexit, economic meltdowns, terror attacks and violence-ridden demonstrations against police brutality in France, among other crises — Europeans were bewildered at first by the chaos unleashed by Trump’s desperate efforts to stay in power.
But they are paying attention now. “People are deeply dismayed by what they’re seeing unfold,” says Dave Keating, a Connecticut-born politics reporter now working for French, German and British media from Brussels. “Particularly damaging is that the last few weeks have called into question the rule of law and political stability in the U.S.” And at least some political analysts are worried that the violence expected during election week may instead take place when the Electoral College votes are finalized in January and Trump’s fantasies of overturning the results have become moot.
American presidential elections are, naturally, always big news everywhere in the world, but media coverage in Europe is now awash with stories about Trump’s cries of stolen and illegal votes as well as his mad legal/political dash to overturn the election, competing with news of Joe Biden’s Cabinet nominations and his plans to return to the Paris climate agreement and his pledge to revive the transatlantic bond. Some European media outlets, as well as American, have even called Trump’s machinations an attempted coup, although Europeans who have lived through actual coups tend to have a high bar for use of the word. “We usually think of coups as armed, rapid and decisive,” Henley noted. “This, for the moment, is not armed, and it’s certainly not rapid or decisive. But if you look at its intent, and where it might end up, then we probably should consider this a coup attempt.”
Brussels-based political scientist Roland Freudenstein, director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, sees the glass of democracy half-full, as well as half-empty. “On the one hand, the U.S. democracy redeemed itself in the eyes of Europe because the madman was not reelected. On the other hand, there’s a huge discrediting of the U.S. democracy by the incumbent who is basically hollowing out the democratic process from the inside.” Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the election is not just weakening American democracy, Freudenstein says, but also democratic governments all over the world. “We always expected he would cause trouble and mischief, but even moderate Republicans thought this would stop after 10 days or two weeks — but it’s not stopping.”
For Marius Dragomir, Director of the Center for Media, Data and Society in Budapest, who grew up in Romania where his family once huddled around the radio listening to Radio Free Europe with the volume low and the drapes closed, Trump’s recent attacks on the electoral process along with his actions over the past four years are heartbreaking. “America was the model and the dream for Eastern Europe, especially after 1990. But it’s not anymore,” he says, “especially after Trump.”
Seeing Trump place family and friends in positions of power while continuing to make money from official visits to his hotels and resorts was reminiscent to Dragomir of the kleptocracies that emerged after the breakup of the Soviet Union. His colleagues kept asking, “‘Is it really possible for the American president to do whatever he wants and to mix his business interests with the position he has, to do bad things with impunity?’ We are used to that in Eastern Europe — but to see it in America was strange,” he says. “People lost the appreciation they once had for America” — all the more over the past month when Trump went after anyone who failed to bend to his insistence that he’d won. The difference, says Dragomir, is that somewhere like Romania or Bulgaria, Trump probably would have prevailed.
“When people lose faith in the electoral process, they’re losing the most important part of democracy,” Dragomir says, and Trump’s defiance of the results sent a bad signal to fledgling democracies everywhere.
Trump’s latest actions have branded him “a saboteur” in France, says English-born historian and author Andrew Hussey, a professor now based in Paris. “He’s regarded as trying to subvert the democratic process” — a big deal in France, where the republic is rooted in that very ideal, which is regarded quite seriously.
“France is now looking at the United States with a mixture of glee and disgust,” he says — with even right-wing parties, like Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, now distancing themselves from the current White House occupant whom they once cheered. Then again, admits Hussey, France “always has a love-hate relationship with America. They love American pop culture. But they look at the arrogance of someone like Trump and wonder how a so-called republic could allow one individual to wreck it — and sabotage its foreign and domestic policies.” Recent editorials in French papers are quick to condemn Congress for not reining him in long ago — all the more given these past weeks of attacks on the American election results.
The GOP’s complicity and outright support of Trump’s attacks is perhaps what most galls European thinkers. “That over 200 Republicans haven’t stood up and said anything is absolutely ridiculous,” says political scientist Freudenstein. “It beggars belief that grown-up politicians can act like this.”
Worse than handing Biden a nation where tens of millions now apparently believe Trump’s false claims that the election was unfairly stolen from him, Europeans believe, are the increasing divisions in American society, some of which Trump helped to stoke. But the growing schism can’t be blamed on Trump alone. Noting that Republicans won more congressional seats than predicted, Freudenstein believes it’s because “Americans are genuinely scared of violence from the radical left.” He is worried about the rise of antifa and the looting that accompanied some Black Lives Matter protests. “I’m not repeating the rhetoric of Trump and his people. But I don’t think [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.] and radical slogans like ‘Defund the Police’ are helping Biden — quite the contrary.” He’s equally wary of the rise of armed militias — whether the Boogaloo Boys or the Proud Boys or the kinds of unorganized terrorists that allegedly plotted to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in October.
He believes that while they may persist for another five or 10 years, such divisions cannot last, and ultimately a new consensus will emerge from new movements “when people see that this polarization actually destroys the country.”
Except for Hungary, Poland and Slovenia, where the pro-Trump leaders keep fanning the flames that the recent elections were rigged, the theme that echoes across the Continent is that even though it creaked and shuddered, the American system weathered these most recent attacks from the current White House occupant — thanks to its courts, where even Republican judges and Trump appointees have tossed flimsy lawsuits back in his face. “It’s heartening,” says Henley, “that the U.S. judicial system is holding up.”
For Berlin-based Judy Dempsey, a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of the Strategic Europe blog, there are two fundamental takeaways from what’s been happening in the United States during this very rocky presidential transition. “First, you can’t take democracy and rule of law for granted; you have to protect it — especially the courts,” she says. “Secondly, we must find ways to keep the center ground and to maintain a dialogue” between disparate factions.
With 40 days to go, Europeans have joined the countdown to the Biden inauguration, when such issues as climate change, migration, trade and cohesive policies between Europe and the United States on how to approach countries like China and Iran are expected to come to the forefront. “European governments,” says Henley, “will be delighted to talk with somebody who makes sense again.”
Somebody who makes sense again.
A welcome relief.
The Wall Street Journal. They have been very straightforward about the President.
Mr. Trump is running out of ways to steal the election.
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Mr. Trump, in a meeting Friday, fumed about a Wall Street Journal report that Mr. Barr knew of an existing federal investigation into Hunter Biden before the election but worked to keep it from being publicly disclosed, a person familiar with the conversation said. In the meeting, Mr. Trump contemplated firing Mr. Barr, people familiar with the conversation said, adding that it is not clear whether Mr. Trump intends to follow through.
Aides and allies have for months urged the president not to fire Mr. Barr. For his part, the attorney general has told associates that he intends to stay on the job unless he is dismissed.
Under Justice Department regulations, the appointment of a special counsel would have to be made by the attorney general. A special counsel is appointed to pursue investigations with a level of independence not subject to day-to-day supervision by agency officials and is only removed by the attorney general for misconduct or a conflict of interest.
If Barr appointed a special counsel, Biden would not be able to fire him.
On Monday the electoral college will elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
What bothers me is the possibility of violence. If it happens, I won't hold my breath until Scott condemns them.
"America under Trump became less free, less equal, more divided, more alone, deeper in debt, swampier, dirtier, meaner, sicker, and deader. It also became more delusional. No number from Trump’s years in power will be more lastingly destructive than his 25,000 false or misleading statements. Super-spread by social media and cable news, they contaminated the minds of tens of millions of people. Trump’s lies will linger for years, poisoning the atmosphere like radioactive dust."
what is 12:01 a quote from?
Alky stole it from The Atlantic
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