1. For the first time, Department of Homeland Security agents, including those from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, are poised for deployment in Washington in the event of Election Day unrest. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
2. NBC News reports that DHS “is regularly tasked with providing additional security around the nation’s capital on inauguration days, but has never stepped in to quell unrest on Election Day.” mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
3. ICE, CPB and the Federal Protective Service are part of the “Protecting American Communities Task Force” that President Trump created in June in response to “anarchists and left-wing extremists” he said were seeking to damage federal property. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
4. NBC News noted that Trump’s “task force was met with backlash in Portland this summer, where agents protecting the federal courthouse clashed with protesters for more than two months.” mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
5. “An ICE official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that ICE agents were ready to secure federal buildings and work with local police.” (NBC News) mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
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1. The Independent’s Washington Bureau Chief John T. Bennett imagined on Friday a scenario in which President Trump is met with immediate legal trouble as he returns to civilian life upon Joe Biden’s inauguration. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
2. Bennett wondered: “Does such a scenario seem too dramatic, too much the stuff of political thriller novels or B-rate films? Possibly. But this is the Trump era. And that means nothing is too outlandish or even off-limits.” mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
3. “There are at least 12 federal and state investigations into Trump, his 2016 campaign and his business dealings, according to a list compiled by the New York Times,” Bennett wrote. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
1. U.S. border authorities have been expelling unaccompanied children from other countries into Mexico, violating a diplomatic agreement with Mexico and also in violation of U.S. policy. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
2. “The expulsions…have taken place under an aggressive border closure policy the Trump administration has said is necessary to prevent the coronavirus from spreading into the United States.” (New York Times) mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
3. However, Mexico agreed that Mexican children and others who had adult supervision could be sent back into Mexico after trying to cross the border — not unaccompanied children from other countries. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
1. In 2018, eight Republican senators spent the Fourth of July in Moscow, despite Russia’s denials of interfering in the 2016 presidential election. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
2. The Senators included Richard Shelby (AL), Steve Daines (MT), John Hoeven (ND), Ron Johnson (WI), John Kennedy (LA), Jerry Moran (KS), John Thune (SD), and Kay Granger (TX). mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
3. They claimed that Russian meddling was atop their list of talking points as they met with their counterparts in the Duma. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
1. Documents obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee reveal that the Trump administration’s $250 million ad campaign for rebranding the coronavirus pandemic was meant in part to help President Trump’s reelection campaign. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
2. Michael Caputo, the former Department of Health and Human Services’ top spokesperson, reportedly “sought to frame the taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a way to boost the president’s chances of reelection,” CNN’s Jake Tapper reported. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
3. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said the Trump administration “tried to use $250 million of taxpayer money that was otherwise dedicated at the CDC for education related purposes to deal with the COVID pandemic” to help Trump’s campaign. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
1. A federal appeals panel ruled Thursday that Minnesota must set aside ballots received after Election Day in case those ballots are invalidated, upending the state’s plans to keep counting ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 for another week. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
2. “The decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit said a Republican lawmaker and GOP activist could challenge the state’s plans to keep counting ballots after the election.” (The Washington Post) mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
3. The judges also predicted a strong likelihood that Republicans would succeed in having ballots received after Election Day invalidated. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
1. Two of President Donald Trump’s evangelical advisers are engaged in a nasty legal battle over an alleged Holocaust survivor scam involving millions of dollars, according to The Washington Post. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
2. “Mike Evans, a Texas author and Christian Zionist activist, this summer filed a federal lawsuit against Jentezen Franklin, a Georgia megachurch pastor who has been featured at Trump campaign events.” (WaPo) mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
3. In 2017, the two evangelical leaders began a fundraising effort that raised millions to benefit Holocaust survivors in Israel, but Evans alleges that Franklin withheld more than $3.3 million of the money he raised. mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…