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President Trump: GOP senators getting cold feet over ending Section 230

 

President Donald Trump. (Photo by Erin Schaff – Pool/Getty Images)

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UPDATED 7:20 PM PT – Thursday, December 3, 2020

President Trump called out GOP senators who seem to be backing off the fight against Section 230.

The President took to Twitter on Thursday to slam the senators and to emphasize that the termination must be put in the Defense Bill.

On Tuesday, President Trump called for the end of Section 230. Section 230 gives companies like Facebook and Twitter the protection of neutral forums rather than publishers.

…..Therefore, if the very dangerous & unfair Section 230 is not completely terminated as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), I will be forced to unequivocally VETO the Bill when sent to the very beautiful Resolute desk. Take back America NOW. Thank you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2020

Critics pointed out these platforms, however, often pick and choose what content they host, which means they act as editors rather than true neutral hosts.

President Trump warned if this “dangerous and unfair” law is not completely terminated as part of the ‘National Defense Authorization Act,’ he would veto the bill.

The President has long spoken out against Section 230. Back in May, he signed an executive order to protect the free speech of all Americans.

“My executive order calls for new regulations, under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, to make it so that social media companies that engage in censoring any political conduct will not be able to keep their liability shield,” President Trump stated. “They have a shield; they can do what they want. They’re not going to have that shield.”

Some senators have called for more discussion over Section 230. They said the Defense Bill isn’t the place to pressure for change.

Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany assured the military would get proper funding, but the President is serious about the concerns surrounding the law.

“The President will always defend our military and make sure that we get adequate defense funding as he’s gotten $2.9 trillion so far,” McEnany said. “But he is going to put the pressure on Congress to step up on this.”

On Thursday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy noted the NDAA will get done, but also pointed to the need to do away with Section 230.

“We know that we will get an NDAA done as we’ve done for the last 60 years, but we also know that Section 230…needs to be repealed,” McCarthy stated. “These technology companies are not acting in the manner of why 230 was created to give them protections that they want to pick and choose what goes on.”

McCarthy emphasized that Big Tech doesn’t need the protection any longer.

The renewed push to change Section 230 came earlier this year when platforms refused to host a ‘New York Post‘ article, which detailed a hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden. The hard drive linked his business dealings to his father, Joe Biden.

In October, the FCC announced it had the legal authority to interpret Section 230 and would move forward with rule-making to clarify its meaning, which was part of the President’s May executive order.

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McCarthy: Democrats voted against COVID relief at least 40 times

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) answers questions during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on January 09, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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UPDATED 6:30 PM PT – Thursday, December 3, 2020

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) continues to hammer Democrats over their inaction of coronavirus relief. During his weekly press conference on Thursday, McCarthy said Democrats have voted against virus relief at least 40 times.

This week, your House Democrat majority is tackling the tough issues by holding a vote on legalizing pot and banning tiger ownership.

Nothing for small businesses.
Nothing for re-opening schools.
Nothing on battling the pandemic.

Just cannabis and cats.

— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) November 30, 2020

He also signaled Republicans are against a new bipartisan compromise bill that would provide $900 billion in funding as a starting point for future relief talks.

Instead, McCarthy supports Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to tie relief funding to Congress’s year-end budget bill.

The American people need more help now. Congress should deliver more COVID relief this year.

Even House and Senate Democrats are publicly saying that Speaker Pelosi's and Leader Schumer's all-or-nothing obstruction needs to stop.

— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) November 30, 2020

“Working with President Trump, with Mnuchin and with McConnell, I feel we’ve got a better opportunity now than at any time,” McCarthy said. “I think those members on the Democratic side who said they would sign a discharge petition. If they would sign that discharge petition, I bet you would get a COVID bill that day.”

You’d think after losing dozens of campaigns, Pelosi would get the picture: Americans demand action on issues that matter. Instead—Democrats are voting this week to ban tiger king & decriminalize pot. https://t.co/h9s1amR073

— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) December 3, 2020

Part of that bill would include securing at least $300 billion in loans or grants to keep small businesses afloat.

 

Detroit Vote Counter Claims Harassment After Refusing to Backdate Ballots

A Detroit ballot processor testified before a Michigan legislative hearing on Thursday that she was intimidated and harassed by supervisors after she refused to backdate absentee ballots and accept others that violated state law on Election Night.

Jessy Jacob, a 34-year Detroit city worker, told a hearing of the state’s Senate Oversight Committee that she was instructed by election officials on the morning of Nov. 4 to enter ballots as received by Nov. 2 knowing they had been received after the 9 p.m. deadline on Nov. 3, Election Day. Her refusal drew reprisals, she said.

''They treated me like a criminal, humiliated me, harassed me,'' Jacob said in her witness statement sitting beside Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, campaign lawyers for President Donald Trump. ''It was so bad.''

The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits contesting election results in several states and is lobbying state legislatures to invoke their authority to select electors to the Electoral College.

At one point, Jacob said she was told by a representative from the Michigan Department of State’s Bureau of Elections, ''I don’t need you here. I don’t need any of your help. Get out of here.

''I couldn’t do anything, because when I am entering the ballot, I couldn’t lie about the date,'' Jacob said.

Jacob said that she was processing opened absentee ballots, some of which had no postage stamp and no signature match. Other issues included that some absentee ballots were issued on Nov. 3. The state manual for ballot processors says ballots are invalid if they are issued after 4 p.m. on Nov. 2.

''So it was issued on Nov. 3, Election Day,'' she said. ''It was issued, received, everything, on Nov. 3. Then I checked whether that voter is newly registered. No, he was not registered on Nov. 3. He was registered sometime in 2010 — 10 years ago. You are not supposed to issue absentee ballots on election day to already registered voters.''

But when she took her concerns to supervisors, she learned no one else at the facility where she was working was following the process to accept legal ballots.

While expressing her concerns, she was told by Chris Thomas, a contractor for the Detroit City Clerk’s Office and overseeing operations: ''She’s right, but why should we punish voters for a processor’s mistake?''

''I never expected this kind of treatment,'' Jacob said. ''It was really, really bad. I had to go through this, so inhumane.''

 

Video Alleged to Show Ga. Ballots Counted After Poll Watchers Were Ousted

Video footage presented by attorneys for the Trump campaign is alleged to show Georgia's Fulton County poll workers counting ballots without monitors present, attorney Jacki Pick said Thursday on Newsmax TV.

A private security firm inside Atlanta's State Farm Arena provided the surveillance video to Trump campaign lawyers at 1 a.m. ET on Thursday, Pick told Thursday's "Stinchfield."

"We just got it at 1 a.m., a big team watched it, and we were shocked at what we saw," Pick, a volunteer attorney in Georgia who presented the evidence to the state Senate earlier Thursday, told host Grant Stinchfield.

The video confirms what the campaign's witnesses have sworn to in affidavits, Pick contended.

"Yes, people were sent home, told to stop working, stop counting, but some people stayed behind: Sure enough, just as our poll watchers – well, our monitors – had said," Pick said, saying the video shows suitcases being pulled from under a table covered by a black cloth -- purportedly holding thousands of ballots.

The Epoch Times tweeted the full surveillance video Thursday afternoon:

"WATCH: Footage of State Farm Arena in #Atlanta shows that after poll monitors and media were told counting was done, four workers stayed behind to count #ballots, at times pulling out suitcases containing ballots from underneath desks. Watch full video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=keANzinHWUA"

In presenting the evidence to the Georgia state Senate, Pick rejected an official's claim that allegations of no poll monitor being present has been debunked, saying the video was just received Thursday and could not have already been debunked.

"Obviously, that's not true," Pick continued. "Whoever said that – I believe it was the Secretary of State [Brad Raffensperger] clearly wasn't present: Check. Or hasn't seen this video: Check.

"So, who do you believe? The secretary of state or the video?"

Trump tweeted about the evidence, too, even as it was conspicuously slapped with an unsubstantiated Twitter "disputed" tag:

"Wow! Blockbuster testimony taking place right now in Georgia. Ballot stuffing by Dems when Republicans were forced to leave the large counting room. Plenty more coming, but this alone leads to an easy win of the State!"

Trump added hours later:

"People in Georgia got caught cold bringing in massive numbers of ballots and putting them in “voting” machines. Great job @BrianKempGA!"

Pick said the next step in the gathering of evidence is to subpoena the election counting logs during that time frame.

Pick said the evidence shown in the video contains more than enough votes being counted without a monitor to surpass the margin of victory for Biden. She added that a number of other voter fraud allegations are in the 64-page complaint being presented in Georgia.

"The president has more than one way to meet his burden to contest the election," Pick said. "But certainly this evidence we have now in this video is quite strong to cast doubt. Because no matter what those ballots said, he does not have to show how they voted or would have voted had they not been questionable.​

"It doesn't matter. They broke Georgia law here by not permitting our Republican poll watchers and press to be present. That's required by statute."

The poll counters in the video might face scrutiny, but Pick said the legal team's priority is to show the unlawful counting of votes in the presidential election first.

"The plot will likely thicken," Pick concluded.

A spokesperson for Fulton County said to Epoch, "Any credible report of such activity will be investigated and addressed as provided by Georgia law."

 

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Gov. Abbott: Private businesses always welcome in Texas

Texas Governor Greg Abbott. (Photo by Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool/Getty Images)

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UPDATED 4:20 PM PT – Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said his state is welcoming all private-sector enterprises that move out of Democrat-controlled states.

“We don’t see any change in the approach by these other states,” Abbott said. “And to the contrary, the approach of the state of Texas is we partner up with all these businesses.”

In an interview Wednesday, the governor said his administration creates a business-friendly environment in Texas, while Democrat-run areas are not business-friendly.

This came after ‘Hewlett-Packard’ became the latest company to move its headquarters from California to Texas. Abbott said that the decision tells you a lot about doing business in this country.

“My goal is to call them, to reach out to them and explain how I can help,” the Texas governor stated. “Whereas these other states are looking to use these businesses to tap into them in a leaching type way where they are bleeding them dry of their tax revenue.”

Abbott added he always talks to business leaders to see how he can help them prosper, as opposed to slapping new regulations and restrictions on the private sector.

 

Sidney Powell's Dominion Quest in Georgia Gets Expedited Appeal

Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell’s attempt to force Georgia officials to allow a forensic examination of voting machines that she claims are central to a vast election fraud conspiracy will get an expedited review from the federal appeals court in Atlanta.

Powell appealed after a judge declined to immediately grant her request for a temporary restraining order forcing audits of Georgia’s Dominion Voting Systems Inc. machines, which she claims have ties to “communist money” and the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. The court on Wednesday granted her emergency motion to expedite briefings on whether it will even hear the case at such an early stage.

Powell’s request, filed earlier on Wednesday on behalf of about a dozen Trump voters, said the stakes “could not be higher” because “massive election fraud has occurred throughout the Georgia in this past November in the context of voting machines using Dominion software.”

A hearing that was set for Friday in federal court on Powell’s underlying motion to decertify Georgia’s election result was delayed by the appeal. Joe Biden won the state’s 16 electoral votes by more than 12,600 ballots.