Monday, January 4, 2021
Perdue says Trump call with Georgia secretary of state won’t affect runoff
Perdue, who was a guest on "The Next Revolution," said he was "shocked" that a member of the Republican Party would tape a sitting president and leak it to the media.
"It’s disgusting in my view," he said. "But what the president said is exactly what he’s been saying the last few months."
Perdue said that Trump has been consistent with his claims that there were voter irregularities and said Trump just "wants some answers."
Trump's deranged phone call with Georgia secretary of state reveals a desperate man
The latest turn in loser Donald Trump's campaign to overturn the 2020 election reveals a desperate man willing to say almost anything to get what he wants but instead getting rebuffed by officials who are made of finer stuff. As he pressures them to abandon their duty and come over to the dark side of politics, their refusal makes Trump's corrupt methods all the more obvious.
Concern as virus rages in Israel's yeshivas after Hanukkah
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SJk4FJkCP
Health Ministry memo seen by Ynet says religious seminaries have lost control over outbreak, no longer isolate infected students and allow many to learn with rest of student body; father of one student says no one in authority willing to speak to parents
Trump's Republicans have dumped Lincoln – they're the Confederacy now
On Wednesday, the Republicans’ transition to the party of the Confederacy will be complete. A day after Georgia’s runoff elections, at least a dozen lawmakers in the Senate and more than half of the party’s House membership will seek to overturn the results of the 2020 election and disenfranchise the majority of US voters. A coup attempt in all but name, this is how democracy dies.
President Trump, in Recorded Call, Urged Georgia Election Official to ‘Find’ Votes to Overturn Biden’s Win
https://time.com/5926038/trump-georgia-recorded-call/
President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state’s presidential election, repeatedly citing disproven claims of fraud and raising the prospect of “criminal offense” if officials did not change the vote count, according to a recording of the conversation.
The phone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday was the latest step in an unprecedented effort by a sitting president to pressure a state official to reverse the outcome of a free and fair election that he lost. The president, who has refused to accept his loss to Democratic president-elect Biden, repeatedly argued that Raffensperger could change the certified results.
Trump tells Georgia election official to 'find' votes to overturn Biden win
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55524838
US President Donald Trump has been recorded telling Georgia's top election official to "find" enough votes to overturn the election result.
"I just want to find 11,780 votes," Mr Trump told Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a recording released by the Washington Post.
Mr Raffensperger is heard replying that Georgia's results were correct.
Joe Biden won Georgia alongside other swing states, winning 306 electoral college votes to Mr Trump's 232.
Since the 3 November vote, Mr Trump has been alleging widespread electoral fraud without providing any evidence.
COVID haredi unit head: Enforcement ineffective
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/covid-haredi-unit-head-enforcement-ineffective-654167
The head of the Health Ministry’s coronavirus department for the ultra-Orthodox community, Roni Numa, said on Sunday that there was a lack of coronavirus enforcement in the sector because of its political power and the upcoming elections.
Former US defense secretaries: The time for questioning the election results has passed
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/294222
The 10 living former US defense secretaries on Sunday published an opinion piece in The Washington Post in which they said that the time to question election results has passed, adding there is no role for the military in changing them.
The authors of the op-ed include Trump’s two former defense secretaries, Jim Mattis and Mark Esper, as well as each surviving, Senate-confirmed Pentagon chief dating back to former vice president Dick Cheney, who was defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush.
“Our elections have occurred. Recounts and audits have been conducted. Appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts. Governors have certified the results. And the electoral college has voted,” the former defense secretaries wrote. “The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived.”
A quarter of all new virus cases diagnosed are among ultra-Orthodox
https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-quarter-of-all-new-virus-cases-diagnosed-are-among-ultra-orthodox/
The Health Ministry official overseeing action to counter the coronavirus among Israel’s ultra-Orthodox population revealed Sunday that the community has recently accounted for over a quarter of all the new cases diagnosed, even though it makes up little more than a 10th of the total population.
‘Find 11,780 votes,’ Trump recorded pressing Georgia official to overturn vote
US president heard warning state election chief and lawyer that they could be criminally liable if they fail to find that thousands of ballots were destroyed, despite no evidence
Trump urged Georgia election official to 'find' votes in phone call, insisting he won: report
President Trump insisted that he won the state of Georgia in the 2020 presidential race during a phone call with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger over the weekend, reportedly urging him to "find" enough votes to reverse the state’s results.
"He was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the ‘ballots under table’ scam, ballot destruction, out of state ‘voters’, dead voters, and more," Trump tweeted. "He has no clue!"
Raffensperger replied Sunday morning stating: "Respectfully, President Trump: What you’re saying is not true. The truth will come out."