https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/10/politics/trump-election-loss-setback/index.html
Until now, life has taught Trump one overriding lesson. One way or another -- with lawyers and lies, family money and shameless bluster -- he has always found a way to skate past trouble.
https://www.thewrap.com/ben-shapiro-trump-election/
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said Wednesday it was “deeply irresponsible” for President Donald Trump to falsely and prematurely claim a re-election victory.
“No, Trump has not already won the election, and it is deeply
irresponsible for him to say he has,” Shapiro tweeted early Wednesday
morning as votes were still being counted in a handful of crucial swing
states.
The Trump administration has formally informed the United States Congress of its intention to sell dozens of F-35 advanced fighter jets and other military hardware to the United Arab Emirates, the Washington Post reported Monday.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/290938
Following close on the heels of Pfizer’s announcement came warnings from public health officials in several countries that a “campaign of misinformation” would likely follow, promoted by anti-vaxxers eager to dampen the public’s enthusiasm in the vaccine. Nonetheless, many of the reservations put forward by experts in the last few days are well-founded and scientifically based, and cannot be easily dismissed.
Speaking at a webinar to the Board of Trustees of the University of
Haifa this week, Professor Richard Horton, editor of the prestigious
medical journal the Lancet, admitted that “there are question marks surrounding the vaccine.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SkZVEjUFP
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/10/politics/donald-trump-transition-joe-biden-presidency/index.html
The question is not whether President Donald Trump is leaving. It's how much destruction, revenge and chaos he will wreak on the way out the door.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/mike-pence-pfizer-vaccine
As you’ve probably heard by now, over the weekend Donald Trump was projected as having lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, in part due to his disgraceful response to the COVID-19 pandemic, wherein he effectively just let the virus spiral out of control, leading to the deaths of nearly 238,000 in the U.S. Because he’s mortifyingly delusional, though, he believes that (1) he still has a chance at being reelected, hence the refusal to concede, and (2) the news that Pfizer’s vaccine is more than 90% effective in early trials and may be available by the end of the year is somehow a credit to him.
And because virtually everything out of this administration’s
collective mouth is a lie, and an entire cottage industry of
fact-checking has necessarily cropped up around it, Pence’s statement
was immediately debunked—by Pfizer itself. Speaking to the New York Times, Dr. Kathrin Jansen, a senior vice president and the head of vaccine research and development at the company, said,
“We were never part of the Warp Speed,” referring to the government’s
effort to rapidly develop a vaccine. “We have never taken any money from
the U.S. government, or from anyone.” As the Washington Post notes,
back in July, the drugmaker agreed to partner with the government to
distribute a vaccine, “leveraging what will be a massive, complicated
effort run by the federal government to ensure that as many people as
possible can be immunized.” But the actual developmental efforts had
nothing to do with the Trump administration.
We found no connection between isolated vote-counting errors and a former Pelosi staffer.
In Michigan, a clerk’s error led to an incorrect early tally that was corrected within two days and was never an official result. In Georgia, early morning voting halted temporarily in two counties when individual machines malfunctioned.
Trump won by large margins in all three counties, and there is no evidence of any broad lapse.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday blasted President Trump for firing Defense Secretary Mark Esper just two days after Joe Biden was projected as the winner of the presidential election.
“The abrupt firing of Secretary Esper is disturbing evidence that President Trump is intent on using his final days in office to sow chaos in our American Democracy and around the world," Pelosi said in a statement.
"Continuity
and stability are always important during a presidential transition;
they are absolutely imperative at this moment, as this historically
erratic Administration prepares for its departure," she added.
The CEO of Pfizer dismissed any suggestions that his company waited until the presidential election was decided before announcing the promising results of its COVID-19 vaccine trials.
Albert Bourla, the chairman and CEO of Pfizer, completely rejected these suggestions in a Monday interview with CNN. "We announced it the moment we learned about it," Bourla said. "I said multiple times that the election for us is an artificial timeline."
https://time.com/5909532/donald-trump-joe-biden-administration-transition/
The General Services Administration is the federal government’s de
facto real-estate firm. It provides incoming administrations with the
basics — like office space and computers — to make the transition
between election results and Inauguration Day as easy as possible. But
the current head
of the GSA, a former senior aide on Capitol Hill who was appointed by
Trump, has said she has not seen any certification outside of the media
that Biden won, thus she has no obligation to contradict her boss, who
says he has. GSA aides say they are merely following precedent set in
2000, when there was a dispute and a recount.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/290911
Fox News on Monday cut away from a Trump campaign press conference outlining its allegations of election fraud in the presidential election.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany began her press conference by saying Democrats were the only party opposing voter ID, verifying signatures, citizenship, residency, eligibility, and trying to keep observers out of the count room.
“You take these positions because you are welcoming fraud and you are
welcoming illegal voting,” she said just before Fox News cut away.
Parts of Brooklyn that had high COVID test positivity rates in early October, including some with large Orthodox Jewish communities, will face fewer restrictions after seeing the rates fall.
US President Donald Trump on Monday falsely accused the US Food and Drug Administration, drugmaker Pfizer and the Democrats of apparently conspiring to delay an announcement of progress on a coronavirus vaccine until after last week’s elections.
