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Trump legal team to probe Mich. Dominion voting machines

President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaks during a Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee public hearing Wednesday at the Wyndham Gettysburg Hotel to discuss 2020 election issues and irregularities. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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UPDATED 3:50 PM PT – Sunday, December 5, 2020

A Michigan judge approved a probe into potential voting machine fraud in the Great Lake State.

The Trump legal team is reviewing Dominion voting machines in Michigan after a state judge issued a decision to allow them to. The order was issued on Friday and it permits forensic photos to be taken from the 22 precinct tabulators in Antrim County.

Melissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services, speaks in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan on December 2, 2020. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, praised the decision and said that allowing the forensic review is a “big win for honest elections.”

BIG WIN FOR HONEST ELECTIONS.

Antrim County Judge in Michigan orders forensic examination of 22 Dominion voting machines.

This is where the untrustworthy Dominion machine flipped 6000 votes from Trump to Biden.

Spiking of votes by Dominion happenned all over the state.

— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 5, 2020

On Sunday, Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis spoke on the move. She said the team will spend several hours inspecting the machines and gathering data.

Rudy Giuliani, personal lawyer of US President Donald Trump, looks at documents as he appears before the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan on December 2, 2020. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Local authorities confirmed the machines in question are the same as the ones that were used in the presidential election on November 3.

The machines were originally brought into question by a voter who claimed ballots were damaged during a recent recount of a marijuana proposal vote.

A similar examination recently occurred in Georgia as President Trump has raised concerns of widespread voter fraud, which rigged the elections.

 

AG Barr Now Considering Resigning Early

Attorney General William Barr is weighing an early resignation, sources told The New York Times.

The news comes after a week Barr had denied there was evidence of widespread voter fraud to overturn the election and multiple incidents of President Donald Trump declining to issue a public support of confidence in his one-time lockstep head of the Justice Department.

Three sources told the Times Barr might resign before the end of the year, but he is at least preparing to leave the DOJ by inauguration day, according to the report.

Barr has been weighing how to exit before this week's developments, a source told the Times, potentially a signal the nation's top law enforcement official has been uncomfortable with President Trump's election challenges or the pressure from Republicans to investigation the allegations of election and voter fraud.

Another person told the paper that Barr concluded he completed the work he set out to accomplish at the Justice Department.

There are reports Barr and Trump had a contentious meeting this week and the president remains frustrated there has been no public action in special counsel John Durham's investigation of the Russia investigators.

By the end of the week, the conservative House Freedom Caucus called on the DOJ and AG Barr to issue reports to Congress on progress of investigations into election and voter fraud.

A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment to the Times. The White House had no comment for the Times.

 

 

 

Supreme Court Pushes Up Deadline in Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballot Dispute

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Sunday moved the deadline for Pennsylvania officials to respond to a lawsuit filed by Republicans seeking to flip the state election’s results from Joe Biden to President Donald Trump.

The original date set, Dec. 9, is the day after the “safe harbor” deadline that frees a state from further challenges if it resolves all disputes and certifies its voting results. The new date is Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 9 a.m.

Republicans in Pennsylvania asked the Supreme Court to overturn Act 77, the state’s 2019 law on mail-in voting that allowed any voter to cast a ballot by mail. The effort is being spearheaded by Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Trump ally Sean Parnell.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Kelly and Parnell were too late to claim that no-excuse mail-in voting was unconstitutional.

But Kelly filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, meaning Trump’s challenge is still alive.

“Pennsylvania’s General Assembly exceeded its powers by unconstitutionally allowing no-excuse absentee voting, including for federal offices, in the Election,” Kelly’s attorney wrote to Justice Alito. “The opinion below forecloses any means of remedying Petitioners’ injuries.”

“With respect to elections for federal office, both state legislatures and the Congress have specified roles inscribed in the Constitution as fail-safes for state failures in conducting elections,” their petition also said.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, certified the results of the Nov. 3 election on Nov. 24, giving Biden the state’s 20 electoral votes.

Alito, an appointee of Republican George W. Bush, handles emergency requests that originate in the states that make up the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit of Appeals.

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Georgia Officials Rebuff Trump’s Call to Help Overturn Election

Georgia officials rejected President Donald Trump's effort to pressure them to reverse the state's election result, a day after he repeated claims of voting fraud and berated the Republican governor and secretary of state.

Trump has suggested calling a special session of the Georgia legislature to consider overturning President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state, a move that Gov. Brian Kemp isn't planning to make, Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan said on Sunday.

Calling the special session would be "a solution trying to find a problem," Duncan, also a Republican, said on CNN's "State of the Union." "And we're certainly not going to move the goalposts at this point in the election."

Holding the session would lead the state down the path of "nullifying the will of people," said GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on ABC's "This Week."

The officials spoke out after Trump held a Saturday rally in Valdosta, Georgia, in which he took aim at Kemp and Raffensperger for not doing more to help throw out Biden's victory. The president repeated unsubstantiated and outlandish claims that there was a multistate conspiracy by Democrats to cheat in the Nov. 3 election.

The stated purpose of Trump's rally had been to urge support for two GOP senators facing re-election in contests that will determine control of the upper chamber. But influential Republicans in the state have expressed concern that Trump's relentless attacks on the election could backfire, hurting GOP Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who face Jan. 5 run-offs against Democratic challengers.

At the rally, Trump called on his supporters to vote for the two GOP senators even while insisting the Nov. 3 election was corrupt. He even told them to request absentee ballots, a form of voting the president has repeatedly said corrupted the result of his contest with Biden.

'Mixed Messaging'

Gabriel Sterling, a Republican who's the state's voting system manager, said he's concerned that Trump's stance could cost Loeffler and Perdue their Senate seats.

"It's mixed messaging," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "It's confusing and if you're telling people don't trust the election system, why would they bother to show up?"

Trump was undeterred on Saturday night, repeatedly turned the Saturday rally into a wide-ranging assault on his political foes, especially Democrats. He itemized what he described as his accomplishments, including a wall on the southern border, tax cuts and appointing conservative judges. He also lit into Georgia's own Republican state leaders.

"Your governor should be ashamed of himself," Trump said of Kemp, whom the president claimed had been cowed by the "radical left" into refusing to overturn Biden's victory in Georgia. "He's got to get a lot tougher."

The president told his supporters that they must make sure Raffensperger, who has stood by the election results, "knows what the hell he's doing."

Few Masks

The Valdosta event -- with supporters packed shoulder-to-shoulder and few wearing masks to avoid spreading the coronavirus -- took on the flavor of the signature rallies the president held before the election.

Trump openly mused about running for president again in 2024, while saying he didn't want to because he hoped to be inaugurated again in January.

But at another point, Trump appeared to acknowledge defeat when he lamented Iran would have rushed to make a deal with his administration "if I won." But he quickly added, "perhaps I still will."

While failing to make legal headway, Trump's persistent claims of election fraud have also helped his fundraising, directing much of the proceeds to his political action committee.

Courts around the country have thrown out claims made by Trump and his allies that the election should be overturned due to irregularities. And the results of a second recount in Georgia are expected to reaffirm Biden's win, according to state officials.

Trump's fraud claims have been criticized by Democrats and some GOP officials. Attorney General William Barr said the Department of Justice has seen no evidence of widespread fraud in the election.

Trump's assertions on Saturday also contrasted with remarks by Vice President Mike Pence a day earlier at a rally in Georgia. Pence said all legal votes need to be counted but stopped short of alleging conspiracies and widespread fraud.

Trump called on his supporters to back Perdue and Loeffler to prevent Democrats from gaining control of the Senate. But he spent far more time talking about how the presidential election was "stolen" and "rigged" than he did endorsing the candidates.

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President Trump wins court ruling to redirect military funds to border wall | One America News Network

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A federal appeals court ruled in favor of the Trump administration to allow them to move forward with the border wall.

On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted two-to-one that the President could divert more than $3.6 billion from military construction projects to fund the border wall in El Paso County, Texas.

The two judges who ruled in favor of the administration said opponents of the plan could not prove the move would harm them.

President Trump has consistently argued that the construction of the wall is necessary to mitigate the threat posed by illegal immigration.

CALEXICO, CA – DECEMBER 01: A plaque commemorating President Donald Trump hangs on the United States-Mexico border wall on December 1, 2020 in Calexico, California. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)

“It is a tremendous national emergency,” the President said. “Last month, more than 76,000 illegal migrants arrived at our border.”

He added that the U.S. is on track for a million illegal aliens to rush our borders.

“People hate the word invasion, but that’s what it is,” President Trump stated. “It’s an invasion of drugs, criminals and people we have no idea who they are, but we capture them because border security is so good.”

 

222 Republican Congressmen Won't Say Biden President-Elect

The Democrat's new President, Wow what a pick 😝

An overwhelming majority of congressional Republicans won't acknowledge Joe Biden as the President-Elect, according to a Washington Post survey. 

The survey was taken the morning after President Donald Trump posted a 46-minute video claiming he'd won the election and alleged "corrupt forces" were trying to steal his victory. Just 25 out of 222 Republicans acknowledged Biden's win. 

Ninety percent of Senate and House GOP members have yet to say who the winner is. The Post survey asked lawmakers three questions: Who won the presidential contest, do you support or oppose Trump's continuing efforts to claim victory, and if they will accept Biden as the legitimately elected president if he wins the electoral college majority.

Only 8 Republicans said they support Trump's claim of victory. 

The survey also found that 11 of 52 Senate Republicans acknowledge Biden's win. Out of 14 House Republicans who recognized Biden as the winner, six will be retiring from politics later this month and two others represent districts that Biden won. 

GOP Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., who worked with Biden on the "Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot” proposal, called Biden the president-elect and promised to work with the new administration shortly after the election was called by most news outlets on Nov. 7. 

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., did not acknowledge the win until Nov. 21, after a federal judge rebuked the president's legal team's challenges in Pennsylvania. After that, he congratulated Biden and declared that he'd won. 

Meanwhile, GOP Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama are the only members of their party to publicly insist Trump won the race. 

The non-response to the survey contrasts with Democrats in 2016, when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on the day after the election was called for Trump, took a call from him and shortly after issued a statement congratulating him as the president-elect, notes The Post.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday said that the "future will take care of itself" and would not comment on the president's claims of voter fraud. 

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Thursday said "let's wait" to see who is sworn in before answering questions about executive orders Biden could issue in his first days in the Oval Office. 

The Post said the non-reactions mirror how there have been just a few critics of Trump over the past four years, and said the silence leaves them standing alone while other federal, state, and local party members are rejecting the president's claims.