President Donald Trump convened a heated meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, including lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, two people familiar with the matter said, describing a session that began as an impromptu gathering but devolved and eventually broke out into screaming matches at certain points as some of Trump's aides pushed back on Powell and Flynn's more outrageous suggestions about overturning the election.
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of special counsel, martial law as Trump advisers clash
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Trump downplays cyberattack on U.S., breaks with Pompeo on Russia's role
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/19/pompeo-russia-behind-cyberhack-of-us-agencies-448625
President Donald Trump on Saturday publicly broke with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over Russia's involvement in a massive cyberattack on the U.S. government.
Trump, in his first public comment since reports of the wide-scale breach surfaced last week, downplayed the attack in a series of tweets, suggesting without evidence that China may have been responsible and hacks on U.S. voting systems might have occurred as well.
Trump raised $200m from false election claims. What happens to the money now?
The battle is lost. The supreme court and electoral college have spoken. Even the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, so adept at remaking the rules for political advantage, has acknowledged that Donald Trump will not be the next president.
But the money flowing into Trump’s political coffers suggests that defeat will not drive the soon-to-be-former president into the political shadows.
Trump has been on a fundraising drive since the election, rapidly bringing in an astonishing $200m or more on the back of his false claims that the vote was rigged.
His campaign bombarded supporters
with emails and text messages – as many as 30 a day – pleading for
donations to a fighting fund to challenge the result. But with the
election settled, that is not where the money is going.
The Price of Good Intentions By Yonoson Rosenblum | December 16, 2020 or why slavery and discrimination were really good and helping is bad
Try substituting Jew for the word black in this attempt to rationalize discrimination, Better yet this could justify discrimination against chareidim and Kollel by chilonim. After all Chareidim are also beneficiaries of the same good intentions section 8 foodstamps and antidiscriminaton laws as blacks
https://mishpacha.com/the-price-of-good-intentions/
Friday, December 18, 2020
Trump will leave office with a historically bad economic record
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/13/politics/trump-economy-record/index.html
"Trump's economic record ranks near or at the bottom compared with other presidents," concludes Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi, who compared the economic results of all presidents from the last 70 years. "The economy under his watch has performed very poorly."
Wisconsin judges denounced Trump lawsuit, antisemitic harassment follows
“What you want is for us to overturn this election so that your king can stay in power,” Karofsky said, according to The Associated Press. “I do not know how you can come before this court and possibly ask for a remedy that is unheard of in U.S. history.”
Trump fights for a job that he's not doing as coronavirus rages
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/18/politics/donald-trump-absent-covid-stimulus-vaccine/index.html
When the history of the pandemic is written, one of the great mysteries will be what President Donald Trump was doing in the waning days of his presidency as the number of Covid-19 deaths in the US soared past 3,000 each day, the virus spread unchecked and Congress dithered over the details of an emergency relief package that could be the difference between people being able to eat and being forced to sleep on the streets this holiday season.
Putting 'politics in front of lives': DeSantis faces criticism over Florida's Covid-19 response
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/17/us/desantis-covid-florida-invs/index.html
The Florida health department's social media feeds have barely mentioned Covid-19 in months, breaking the silence only this week to celebrate the arrival of the first vaccines. DeSantis has consistently downplayed the severity of the pandemic, following President Donald Trump's lead in denouncing mask mandates and restrictions on businesses. The governor has blocked local governments from enforcing their own measures to protect residents from coronavirus, and sidelined health experts even as he promoted questionable science, according to CNN interviews with more than a dozen Florida officials and experts.