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Trump protesters warned not to carry guns as Washington DC calls up National Guard
Jan 06, 2021 14:42The US capital has mobilized the National Guard ahead of planned protests by Donald Trump supporters in the lead-up to the congressional vote affirming Joe Biden’s election victory. Trump’s supporters are planning to rally on Tuesday and Wednesday, seeking to bolster the president’s unproven claims of widespread voter fraud.
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Trump loyalists sue Mike Pence to give him power to overturn election results
Jan 05, 2021 09:52US Vice President Mike Pence has come under heavy pressure from President Trump to back an unconstitutional scheme to overturn his election defeat in a joint session of Congress.
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Pence welcomes futile bid by G.O.P. lawmakers to overturn election
Jan 03, 2021 17:57Vice President Mike Pence signaled support for a futile Republican bid to overturn the election in Congress next week, after 11 Republican senators and senators-elect said that they would vote to reject President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory when the House and Senate meet to formally certify it.
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The humiliation of Mike Pence
Jan 02, 2021 15:20US Representative Louie Gohmert became the latest Republican to file a long-shot lawsuit attempting to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s victory — this time by suing Vice President Mike Pence. The last-ditch legal effort, filed recently, came from Gohmert, an eight-term congressman from Texas, along with 11 Arizona residents who had been nominated by that state’s Republican Party to serve as electors.
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Trump’s wrecking ball of a transition
Dec 30, 2020 14:47US President Donald Trump’s 11th hour decision to blow up the stimulus negotiations has also jeopardized much needed financial relief for millions of Americans. Rather than showing a genuine effort to pressure Republicans to agree to legislation House Democrats passed in May, which would have provided $1,200 checks for individuals and up to $6,000 per household, Trump decided to intervene only after Congress finally agreed on individual payments of $600 – saying he wanted $2,000 checks instead.
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Trump is destroying his own party on the way out the door
Dec 28, 2020 15:25This holiday season, President Donald Trump has wreaked havoc on US Congress, its so-called democracy and its judicial system by pardoning political associates and convicted murderers.
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William Barr steps down as Trump's attorney general
Dec 17, 2020 13:47The US attorney general, William Barr, one of Donald Trump’s staunchest allies, has resigned just weeks after he contradicted the president by saying the justice department had uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election.
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Trump's bullying campaign is working, this lawsuit is trying to fight back
Dec 16, 2020 16:02As President Donald Trump continues his vain attempt to overturn his election defeat, Republicans who refuse to go along are being hit with a coordinated campaign of intimidation, retaliation and threats. That's what fired Trump appointee Chris Krebs alleged in his recent lawsuit.
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Biden hails democracy and rebukes Trump after electoral college victory
Dec 16, 2020 15:58Joe Biden delivered a sharp repudiation of Donald Trump and declared that the “will of the people had prevailed” in a speech that came shortly after the Electoral College officially confirmed his victory.
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Supreme Court rejects Trump-backed Texas lawsuit aiming to overturn election results
Dec 13, 2020 11:14The US Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a baseless lawsuit filed by Texas seeking to overturn the presidential election result, dealing the biggest blow yet to Donald Trump’s assault on democracy.