Bill Barr says Trump is a ‘deposed king ranting’ after president ‘raised prospect of firing him’ The president described his attorney general as a ‘big disappointment’ on Twitter this weekend Gino Spocchia December 13, 2020 Bill Barr says Trump is a ‘deposed king ranting’ after president ‘raised prospect of firing him’
Trump appoints flurry of allies as presidency winds down excerpt: "WASHINGTON (AP) — His time in the White House rapidly ending, President Donald Trump is rewarding some supporters and like-minded allies with the perks and prestige that come with serving on federal advisory boards and commissions. On Thursday, Trump announced his intention to nominate two authors who wrote books that flattered him to a board that makes recommendations on education research. Another author who helped write a favorable book about the president was chosen for the same board a few days earlier. On Wednesday, the Department of Defense announced that China hawk Michael Pillsbury would become the chair of a board that gives Pentagon leadership advice on how to enhance national security. Pillsbury has served as an outside adviser to the president on China. And on Tuesday, Trump said he would appoint his former counselor and 2016 campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, to serve on the board of visitors to the U.S. Air Force Academy. Going to the same board will be Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller. She served as a White House liaison at the Justice Department and was told to vacate the building when top department officials learned of her efforts to collect inside information about ongoing cases and the department’s work on election fraud."
Paper apologizes for endorsing congressman backing overturn excerpt: "ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida newspaper apologized Friday for endorsing the reelection of a Republican congressman who supported a lawsuit that tried to have the Supreme Court overthrow the will of the voters in the presidential election. The Orlando Sentinel in an editorial said “to its horror,” U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz was one of 126 Republican representatives who supported a Texas lawsuit filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that wants to deprive President-elect Joe Biden of his victory in last month’s election and give a second term to President Donald Trump. The Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit Friday night. The Sentinel’s editorial board had endorsed its local congressman’s successful bid for a second term. “We had no idea, had no way of knowing at the time, that Waltz was not committed to democracy,” the paper wrote Friday. Nine other Florida representatives also signed on to the lawsuit. The lawsuit claimed Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin’s voting laws created “unconstitutional irregularities” that have “cast doubt” on the 2020 outcome and “the integrity of the American system of elections.” A majority of voters in the four states chose Biden, flipping their results from 2016 and giving him his margin of victory in Monday’s upcoming Electoral College vote. Texas had wanted those results discarded."
Odd those words should be coming from the mouth of William Barr, I thought he was one of Donald Trump’s Fiddlers Three...lol...
What the Electoral College vote means for Trump and Biden excerpt: "Can electors change their votes? Some can, but it rarely happens. Since 1948, there have only been 16 "faithless electors" — although there were seven in 2016. Five switched their votes from Hillary Clinton to other people and two changed their votes from Trump to others. Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring the electors to vote for the candidate they've pledged to vote for and, of those, 15 have penalties for electors who don't. The Supreme Court earlier this year upheld states' rights to penalize faithless electors."
What the Electoral College vote means for Trump and Biden excerpt: "Can Congress block the Jan. 6 count? Technically yes, but realistically no. Under an 1887 law, a congressman and a senator together can submit written objections to a state's vote count. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., has already announced his intention to do so Monday, though no senator has yet said they would join him. If Brooks is successful in finding a partner, the count would stop and the Senate and the House would separately debate the objection on the disputed state's vote for up to two hours. Then the House and the Senate would vote on whether to sustain the objections. "Both houses must vote separately to agree to the objection. Otherwise, the objection fails," the Congressional Research Service noted. With the House under Democratic control and Republicans having only a slim majority in the Senate, the odds of that happening are zero."
Similarly, Trump recently installed his 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and deputy campaign manager David Bossie on the Pentagon's Defense Business Board after firing nine members without warning. White House fires Pentagon advisory board members, installs loyalists
Trump loses in Georgia. Georgia high court rejects latest Trump election appeal AP December 13, 2020 Georgia high court rejects latest Trump election appeal excerpt: "ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump has lost his latest legal challenge seeking to overturn Georgia’s election results, with the state Supreme Court’s rejection late Saturday of a case from Trump’s campaign and Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer. The suit - similar to other Trump team legal challenges, which made baseless allegations of widespread fraud in Georgia’s presidential election - was initially filed Dec. 4, then rejected by the Fulton County Superior Court because the paperwork was improperly completed and it lacked the appropriate filing fees. The case was subsequently appealed directly to the state Supreme Court, asking justices to consider the case before Monday’s meeting of the Electoral College. In a brief order, justices wrote that “petitioners have not shown that this is one of those extremely rare cases that would invoke our original jurisdiction.”"
Trump has threatened to veto the military spending bill because of the high-trending #DiaperDon on Twitter. He thinks Section 230 should be terminated. He is also upset that the bill would permit removal of Confederate names from military entities. His latest objection concerns China. Trump raises China concerns as reason to veto defense bill
Sidney Powell, Trump's lawyer, has filed papers with the courts which falsely claimed a witness was a military intelligence officer when in fact he was an auto mechanic in a transport outfit. In Michigan Powell gave paperwork which claimed voter fraud happened in Edison County when in fact there is no such place. Her motions in court have often been full of spelling errors and she tends to breath heavily when is close proximity to Trump or to Giuliani's malodorous excess gas.