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June 17, 2021
Watching Biden meet Putin was 'the real moment' Trump realized he wasn't president anymore: NYT's Haberman
If you prefer a written article: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-2653414141/
Watching Biden meet Putin was 'the real moment' Trump realized he wasn't president anymore: Haberman
Watching Biden meet Putin was 'the real moment' Trump realized he wasn't president anymore: NYT's Haberman
If you prefer a written article: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-2653414141/
June 17, 2021
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https://news.yahoo.com/sen-manchin-outlines-policy-demands-190835670.html
Sen. Manchin outlines policy demands on election legislation
Erin Doherty
Wed, June 16, 2021, 3:08 PM·1 min read
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) outlined a list of policy demands on election legislation Wednesday, Politico reports, opening the door for potential compromise with his Democratic colleagues on their expansive election and anti-corruption bill.
Why it matters: Manchin is the only Democratic senator who has not signed on to the voting rights bill, which he has said is too partisan.
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Driving the news: Manchin outlined areas of support and additions to the For the People Act, the Democratic bill passed by the House in March.
The demands include banning partisan gerrymandering; requiring voter identification with new alternatives, such as a utility bill; mandating at least 15 consecutive days of early voting; and making Election Day a public holiday.
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https://news.yahoo.com/sen-manchin-outlines-policy-demands-190835670.html
June 17, 2021
Matt Zapotosky, Rosalind Helderman, Amy Gardner, Karoun Demirjian 16 hrs ago
The Justice Department leaders were losing their patience.
For weeks, President Donald Trump and his allies had been pressing them to use federal law enforcement’s muscle to back his unfounded claims of voter fraud and a stolen election.
They wanted the Justice Department to explore false claims that Dominion Voting Systems machines had been manipulated to alter votes in one county in Michigan. They asked officials about the U.S. government filing a Supreme Court challenge to the results in six states that Joe Biden won. The president’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, even shared with acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen a link to a YouTube video that described an outlandish plot in which the election had been stolen from Trump through the use of military satellites controlled in Italy.
“Pure insanity,” Rosen’s deputy Richard Donoghue wrote to him privately.
In the last weeks of 2020 and the first of 2021, the demands from Trump and his allies pushed the department to the brink of crisis. Though most scoffed at their increasingly far-fetched and desperate claims, one relatively high-ranking Justice Department lawyer seemed to entertain Trump’s requests — pushing internally to have the department assert that fraud in Georgia was cause for that state’s lawmakers to disregard its election results and appoint new electors. Trump contemplated installing him as attorney general, as other Justice Department leaders considered resigning en masse.
more/NO PAYWALL:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/e2-80-98pure-insanity-e2-80-99-how-trump-and-his-allies-pressured-the-justice-department-to-help-overturn-the-election/ar-AAL7rUo
'Pure insanity': How Trump and his allies pressured the Justice Dept. to help overturn the election
‘Pure insanity’: How Trump and his allies pressured the Justice Department to help overturn the electionMatt Zapotosky, Rosalind Helderman, Amy Gardner, Karoun Demirjian 16 hrs ago
The Justice Department leaders were losing their patience.
For weeks, President Donald Trump and his allies had been pressing them to use federal law enforcement’s muscle to back his unfounded claims of voter fraud and a stolen election.
They wanted the Justice Department to explore false claims that Dominion Voting Systems machines had been manipulated to alter votes in one county in Michigan. They asked officials about the U.S. government filing a Supreme Court challenge to the results in six states that Joe Biden won. The president’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, even shared with acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen a link to a YouTube video that described an outlandish plot in which the election had been stolen from Trump through the use of military satellites controlled in Italy.
“Pure insanity,” Rosen’s deputy Richard Donoghue wrote to him privately.
In the last weeks of 2020 and the first of 2021, the demands from Trump and his allies pushed the department to the brink of crisis. Though most scoffed at their increasingly far-fetched and desperate claims, one relatively high-ranking Justice Department lawyer seemed to entertain Trump’s requests — pushing internally to have the department assert that fraud in Georgia was cause for that state’s lawmakers to disregard its election results and appoint new electors. Trump contemplated installing him as attorney general, as other Justice Department leaders considered resigning en masse.
more/NO PAYWALL:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/e2-80-98pure-insanity-e2-80-99-how-trump-and-his-allies-pressured-the-justice-department-to-help-overturn-the-election/ar-AAL7rUo
June 16, 2021
CNN supercut busts 'Back the Blue' Republicans who voted against medals for Capitol cops
June 16, 2021
Matthew Chapman
June 16, 2021
A local Fox 26 host in Houston, Texas named Ivory Hecker attracted national attention earlier this week when she announced on air that the right-wing activist group Project Veritas was about to expose how her network had "muzzled" her — a stunt for which she was swiftly fired.
But the actual report revealed that the network had stopped her from promoting unsubstantiated claims about hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, an anti-malarial drug backed by an infamous doctor who believes people are being sickened by sex with demons.
Even the conservative network Newsmax, after inviting her on, appeared to be doubtful about Hecker's exposé.
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https://www.rawstory.com/ivory-hecker-2653401970/
Newsmax host asks fired Fox reporter if she just killed her career: 'It wasn't the bombshell report
Matthew Chapman
June 16, 2021
A local Fox 26 host in Houston, Texas named Ivory Hecker attracted national attention earlier this week when she announced on air that the right-wing activist group Project Veritas was about to expose how her network had "muzzled" her — a stunt for which she was swiftly fired.
But the actual report revealed that the network had stopped her from promoting unsubstantiated claims about hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, an anti-malarial drug backed by an infamous doctor who believes people are being sickened by sex with demons.
Even the conservative network Newsmax, after inviting her on, appeared to be doubtful about Hecker's exposé.
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more
https://www.rawstory.com/ivory-hecker-2653401970/
June 16, 2021
Opinion by the Editorial Board
June 15, 2021 at 5:37 p.m. EDT
MANY REPUBLICANS want the nation to ignore and forget President Donald Trump’s poisonous final months in office — the most dangerous moment in modern presidential history, orchestrated by the man to whom the GOP still swears allegiance. Yet the country must not forget how close it came to a full-blown constitutional crisis, or worse. Tuesday brought another reminder that, but for the principled resistance of some key officials, the consequences could have been disastrous.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Tuesday released emails showing that the White House waged a behind-the-scenes effort to enlist the Justice Department in its crusade to advance Mr. Trump’s baseless allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. On Dec. 14, 10 days before Jeffrey Rosen took over as acting attorney general, Mr. Trump’s assistant emailed Mr. Rosen, asserting that Dominion Voting Systems machines in Michigan were intentionally fixed and pointing to a debunked analysis showing what “the machines can and did do to move votes.” The email declared, “We believe it has happened everywhere.”
Later that month, Mr. Trump’s assistant sent Mr. Rosen a brief that the president apparently wanted the Justice Department to submit to the Supreme Court. The draft mirrored the empty arguments that the state of Texas made to the court before the justices dismissed the state’s lawsuit. Piling on the pressure, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows also dispatched an email asking Mr. Rosen to examine allegations of voter fraud in Georgia. A day later, Mr. Meadows apparently forwarded Mr. Rosen a video alleging that Italians used satellites to manipulate voting equipment. These were just some of the preposterous White House emails claiming fraud in arguably the most secure presidential election ever.
To his credit, Mr. Rosen rebuffed the White House’s entreaties to deploy the Justice Department’s vast powers on behalf of Mr. Trump’s lie, adding his name to the roster of honorable state and federal officials who showed fidelity to truth and duty at that crucial moment. Some have paid with their jobs. Republicans committed to the “big lie” are gunning to replace others, including those with vote-counting responsibilities. If Mr. Trump or another candidate again presses false fraud claims, many Republican officials may find it more difficult to resist the pressure to back the lie — or, indeed, may eagerly participate in advancing it.
more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-nation-cannot-forget-donald-trumps-betrayal-of-his-oath/2021/06/15/c4a7790e-ce0a-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html
News article about the editorial:
'Trump betrayed his oath': WaPo editorial sounds alarm about new DOJ bombshells
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-2653399678/
A trove of preposterous emails...: How can Republicans still be loyal to this man? --WaPo Edit Board
Opinion by the Editorial Board
June 15, 2021 at 5:37 p.m. EDT
MANY REPUBLICANS want the nation to ignore and forget President Donald Trump’s poisonous final months in office — the most dangerous moment in modern presidential history, orchestrated by the man to whom the GOP still swears allegiance. Yet the country must not forget how close it came to a full-blown constitutional crisis, or worse. Tuesday brought another reminder that, but for the principled resistance of some key officials, the consequences could have been disastrous.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Tuesday released emails showing that the White House waged a behind-the-scenes effort to enlist the Justice Department in its crusade to advance Mr. Trump’s baseless allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. On Dec. 14, 10 days before Jeffrey Rosen took over as acting attorney general, Mr. Trump’s assistant emailed Mr. Rosen, asserting that Dominion Voting Systems machines in Michigan were intentionally fixed and pointing to a debunked analysis showing what “the machines can and did do to move votes.” The email declared, “We believe it has happened everywhere.”
Later that month, Mr. Trump’s assistant sent Mr. Rosen a brief that the president apparently wanted the Justice Department to submit to the Supreme Court. The draft mirrored the empty arguments that the state of Texas made to the court before the justices dismissed the state’s lawsuit. Piling on the pressure, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows also dispatched an email asking Mr. Rosen to examine allegations of voter fraud in Georgia. A day later, Mr. Meadows apparently forwarded Mr. Rosen a video alleging that Italians used satellites to manipulate voting equipment. These were just some of the preposterous White House emails claiming fraud in arguably the most secure presidential election ever.
To his credit, Mr. Rosen rebuffed the White House’s entreaties to deploy the Justice Department’s vast powers on behalf of Mr. Trump’s lie, adding his name to the roster of honorable state and federal officials who showed fidelity to truth and duty at that crucial moment. Some have paid with their jobs. Republicans committed to the “big lie” are gunning to replace others, including those with vote-counting responsibilities. If Mr. Trump or another candidate again presses false fraud claims, many Republican officials may find it more difficult to resist the pressure to back the lie — or, indeed, may eagerly participate in advancing it.
more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-nation-cannot-forget-donald-trumps-betrayal-of-his-oath/2021/06/15/c4a7790e-ce0a-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html
News article about the editorial:
'Trump betrayed his oath': WaPo editorial sounds alarm about new DOJ bombshells
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-2653399678/
June 16, 2021
Philip Bump 33 mins ago
Nearly 3 million people tuned in to Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show on the evening of June 2, a number equivalent to nearly 1 percent of the country. Among the things those viewers heard from Carlson that night was a staggering accusation of duplicity if not illegality on the part of the country’s top infectious-disease expert, Anthony S. Fauci.
Carlson accused Fauci of lying under oath, of lying during a news conference and of being somehow implicated in criminal activity based on the contents of a number of emails released publicly under a Freedom of Information Act request. Those emails included a heavy dose of redacted sections — one such section itself prompted Carlson’s speculation about criminality — but included enough Lego pieces for Carlson to build what he wanted to build.
What evidence was there, for example, for Carlson to imply that Fauci believed that the coronavirus had been created in a Chinese lab and, further, that it was a product of “gain of function” research, something Fauci denied during a Senate hearing? It centered on a Feb. 1, 2020, call among a number of researchers. The evening before the call, a scientist named Kristian Andersen emailed Fauci, saying in part that “some of the features [of the coronavirus] (potentially) look engineered.”
On the morning of the call, Fauci emailed his deputy about wanting to check in, including an attachment titled, “Baric, Shi, et al - Nature medicine - SARS gain of function.pdf.” And then there was the call itself, a discussion that Carlson claimed was declared to be “top secret.”
more/NO PAYWALL
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/two-weeks-later-tucker-carlson-e2-80-99s-attack-on-fauci-has-quietly-collapsed/ar-AAL6KZ3
Two weeks later, Tucker Carlson's attack on Fauci has quietly collapsed
Philip Bump 33 mins ago
Nearly 3 million people tuned in to Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show on the evening of June 2, a number equivalent to nearly 1 percent of the country. Among the things those viewers heard from Carlson that night was a staggering accusation of duplicity if not illegality on the part of the country’s top infectious-disease expert, Anthony S. Fauci.
Carlson accused Fauci of lying under oath, of lying during a news conference and of being somehow implicated in criminal activity based on the contents of a number of emails released publicly under a Freedom of Information Act request. Those emails included a heavy dose of redacted sections — one such section itself prompted Carlson’s speculation about criminality — but included enough Lego pieces for Carlson to build what he wanted to build.
What evidence was there, for example, for Carlson to imply that Fauci believed that the coronavirus had been created in a Chinese lab and, further, that it was a product of “gain of function” research, something Fauci denied during a Senate hearing? It centered on a Feb. 1, 2020, call among a number of researchers. The evening before the call, a scientist named Kristian Andersen emailed Fauci, saying in part that “some of the features [of the coronavirus] (potentially) look engineered.”
On the morning of the call, Fauci emailed his deputy about wanting to check in, including an attachment titled, “Baric, Shi, et al - Nature medicine - SARS gain of function.pdf.” And then there was the call itself, a discussion that Carlson claimed was declared to be “top secret.”
more/NO PAYWALL
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/two-weeks-later-tucker-carlson-e2-80-99s-attack-on-fauci-has-quietly-collapsed/ar-AAL6KZ3
June 16, 2021
June 16, 2021 at 10:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds a 51% of Republicans think “audits” of the 2020 presidential election will change its outcome, including 29% who “definitely” think it will change the outcome and 22% who think it “probably” will change the results.
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https://politicalwire.com/2021/06/16/most-republicans-thinks-audits-will-change-election-outcome/
Most Republicans Think 'Audits' Will Change Outcome
June 16, 2021 at 10:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds a 51% of Republicans think “audits” of the 2020 presidential election will change its outcome, including 29% who “definitely” think it will change the outcome and 22% who think it “probably” will change the results.
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https://politicalwire.com/2021/06/16/most-republicans-thinks-audits-will-change-election-outcome/
June 16, 2021
Biden’s Approval on Handling the Presidency Overall, the Pandemic, and the Economy All Remain Positive
Biden’s job approval ratings are at +8 overall, +27 on the pandemic, and +4 on the economy.
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Biden and Democrats More Trusted Than Congressional Republicans on Pandemic, Health Care, and Economy
Among independents, Biden and Democrats are more trusted by double digits on the pandemic (+25) and health care (+19), while their lead is narrower on rebuilding the economy (+2).
much more
https://navigatorresearch.org/nearing-five-months-in-office-majorities-support-biden-and-his-agenda/
Nearing Five Months in Office, Majorities Support Biden and His Agenda
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
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Key takeaways from the survey
Majorities are hearing positive things about Biden this week, including pandemic handling, vaccines, and the G7 Summit.
More than seven in ten say the “worst is over” in the pandemic.
Support remains high for the “American Rescue Plan” and the “American Jobs Plan” as optimism grows on the state of the economy overall.
Biden’s Approval on Handling the Presidency Overall, the Pandemic, and the Economy All Remain Positive
Biden’s job approval ratings are at +8 overall, +27 on the pandemic, and +4 on the economy.
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Biden and Democrats More Trusted Than Congressional Republicans on Pandemic, Health Care, and Economy
Among independents, Biden and Democrats are more trusted by double digits on the pandemic (+25) and health care (+19), while their lead is narrower on rebuilding the economy (+2).
much more
https://navigatorresearch.org/nearing-five-months-in-office-majorities-support-biden-and-his-agenda/
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